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1. Causes of the Cold War-

America had a democracy and the Soviet Union was communist..Americans feared a communist attack..Both countries feared the other's government

-Democracy-freedom..people have the power

-Communism-government controls everything

Revolutions of 1989

Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia got rid of communism. Peaceful resolutions.

i forgot to do my last blog.... totally forgot about it.... and totally forgot forum stuff too. so... pretty sad. I also need to do my semester blog by friday.

My computer had domain issues.

So i played a lot of pinball and got some pretty good scores in the millions.

But i was paying attention, i swear i was.

Some of the presentations were about the united states bettering relations with china, etc. yeah.

Last day of History.

1. Causes of the Cold War-

America had a democracy and the Soviet Union was communist..Americans feared a communist attack..Both countries feared the other's government

-Democracy-freedom..people have the power

-Communism-government

 "The Forgotten War"

The Korean Conflict:

Communism vs Democracy. Trying to unite North and South Korea.

After muchos fight-os and the involvement of the united nations, we pushed up the border to north korea, who had just become communist. china gets w

Part 1 Define the Cold War/Causes;

• Causes/How it started--Democracy vs Communism Global Supremecy
• What was Cold War: Political Struggle, No deaths, no gunfire, Soviets vs US

Part 2 Major Incidents;

• Cuban Missle Crisis
• Detente
• Berlin Wall
• Salt 1
• Salt 2
• Bay of

Today, we did more presentations

Essentials for US History--Semester 2

7. Students will understand the causes and effects of the Great Depression.

1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.

2. Students will un

The Fall of Communism and the End of the Cold War

-The fall of communism were the revolutions that overthrew the Soviet style communist states eastern bloc European Countries. The cold war was to dominate international affairs for decades and many ma

Detente- The easing of strained relations, especially in political situations. Used to describe the easing of relations between the US and Soviet Union in the 1970's in the Cold War. Was an alternative strategy for Russia.

-Salt 1- Treaty to limit eac

Today we are done to the last presenter. Then it's on to Mr. Bruns.

13. Peace Attempts -

• It is the easing of strained relations, especially in political situations.
• Described relations between Soviet Union and US.
• Nixon started this detant thing.
• Salt

Today we finished our presentations! YAY!

PRESENTATIONS:

1. Causes of the Cold War-
-America was afraid of the Soviet Union attacking us, and vice versa (Democracy/Communist)
-Democracy = Freedom. Communism = Control
-Truman and Stalin didn't get along th

another day of presentations. actually, last one! whooop whooop!

now korea

a little video thingyy about it.

the korean conflict-the forgotten war.

korea was split into two. north and south.

north invaded the south.

back and forth war to unite the country

Causes of the Cold War:

The Cold war happened in 1945 and 1990

-United States v. Soviet Union

-Democrats v. Communists

-Major causes were the differences in Governments. We were democratic and the soviet union was communist.

Free trade was an issue. Rival

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Detent (sp?) 

It is the easing of strained relations. Salt I, Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon.

Salt I and II led to START, which is the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Consisted of Start I- 1991 agreement between the US, Russia, and

Why we won the Cold war

-glastnost

      -means openess

-parastroika

      -private buisness, ending price controll by the governmet

-gorbachev coming into power

-Soviets invaded afghanistan

-Reagan and Gorbechev meetings

     -they reduced nuclear arsenals