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Monday, April 25

Absent due to State History Day. These are Kara's notes.

The Cold War (continued) 

• Brinkmanship
  • 1950's-1960's
  • The US went to the brink without going to war, hoping that USSR would back down 
  • Had to act tough
• Massive Retaliation/Mutual Deter

Monday-

Today we continued on watching the video for the whole hour.

Tuesday-

We are going over the Latin American map and reading an article about religious freedom bill

Wednesday-

We went over the Latin American map and continued on reading the article

Monday- talk about recent forum posts. Continue notes on the Cold War. Notes on bottom.

Tuesday- Continue Cold War notes. 

Wednesday- Continue/finish Cold War notes.

Thursday-Work day

Friday-Work day

The Cold war 1945 - 1990
US vs Union of Soviet Socialis

Monday- The Cold War Continued 

CIA Vs KGB 

• Central Intelligence Agency-1947-Present 
• Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
  •  Committee fro State Security
  • 1954-1991 
• Nikita Khrushchev-1953-1963  
• De-Stalinization -After 1953
• Detente- 1970's 
  • easing the tension

Monday: Forum posts and Cold War Notes

Tuesday: Cold War Notes

Wednesday: Cold War Notes

Thursday: Decades project work day

Friday: Decades project work day

Cold War Notes:

• NATO
  • In 1949 the Western nations formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to co

Monday- Video

Tuesday- Finished the video on Heroine that we started last Friday then watched a couple more about it. Take away- no drugs. topic transition to religious freedom. watching a video on religious liberty bills. 

Wednesday- we read more on t

Monday - continued with the Cold War

Tuesday- continued with the Cold War 

Wednesday - continued with the Cold War

Thursday - work day on presentations  

Friday- work day on presentations 

-Brinkmanship 1950’s – 1960’s – Brink- on the edge.  We wanted to

Monday:

Brinkmanship--1950's-1960's:

• We didn't want to totally get into war

Massive Retaliation/Mutual Deterrence/Mutual Assured Destruction:

• Massive Retaliation---someone launches bombs on us, we will fight back
  • that brings out Mutual Deterrence
    • and that

Monday- Discussed forum posts and cold war

NATO-

• In 1949 the Western nations formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to coordinate their defense against Russia
• NATO was a defensive alliance
• This was the first peacetime alliance in US history
• It cons

Monday- 

The Cold War (continued) 

• Brinkmanship
  • 1950's-1960's
  • US policy 
  • The US went to the brink without going to war, hoping that USSR would back down 
  • Had to act tough
• Massive Retaliation/Mutual Deterrence/Mutual Assured Destruction 
  • Massive retaliation:

MON:

Cold war 

POst WWII/cold war goals for US

- Stop the spread of communism 

  - policy of containment 

- promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa

- wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression

Goa

Monday- 

Cold War continued-

NATO-

• In 1949, the Western nations formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to coordinate their defense against Russia
• NATO was a defensive alliance
• This was the first peacetime alliance in US History
• It consisted of Ameri

Monday- went over the new forum post leaders topics, we continued taking notes on the cold war. Notes

Tuesday- We continued taking notes on the cold war, Notes

Wednesday- We continued taking notes if you didn't have to take the impact concussion test.N

Monday-  Cold war notes

Tuesday- Cold war notes

Wednesday- Cold war notes

Thursday- Project work day

Friday- Project work day

Notes:

Cold War

• post WWII/Cold war goals for the US
  • stop spread of communism
    • policy of containment
  • promote democracy throughout the wo

Monday: Talked about the new Forum Posts. Then we talked about the cold war. 

What are the goals for US in the Cold War?

• Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression. 
• Promote democracy throughout the world, especially in As

Monday: notes

• The "West"
• The "East"
• Goals of the US 
  • Policy of Containment (Stop the spread of Communism)
  • Promote Democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa
  • Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression
• Goals o

• Started talking about the cold war 

• • Truman Doctrine

    • In 1947, the British were helping the Greek government fight against communist guerillas

    • They appealed to AMerica for aid and we responded with the Truman Doctrine

    • Greece received large amounts of arms

Monday -

Tuesday - 

Wednesday- finish taking test

Soviet Union Cold War

• US based on democracy, capitalism, and freedom
• USSR is based on dictatorship, communism and control
• Red Scare 1919
• Both thought their system was better and distrusted the other intentio

Mon- Today we get the new forum post leaders and then we go over and takes notes on the Cold War - communism. 

Tues- Today we continue taking notes over the Cold War. 

Wed- Today we continue taking notes on the Cold War. (Remember to work on some extra

Monday- (do notes later)

Tuesday- NATO- In 1949 the western nations formed the North American Treaty Organization to Coordinate their defense against Russia. NATO was a defensive alliance.

Warsaw Pact 1955-1991

NATO is still around today

Central Intellig