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•  Policy of Containment: U.S. used military, economy, and international relations to slow down the spread of communism
• Domino Effect: When several countries turn communist, under the pressure of the countries around them.

• Marshall

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

Cold War

The Detente

-french for relaxation

-policy was ment to make internation affairs cease or relax permenatly

-reasons: china-didnt want to be isolatied, fearful of US because of what happened in Vietnam, china had small stockpile of weapons, didnt

Finishing presentations this week. got like 5 people left. then bruns will take half of wednesday and thursday to talk about other stuff up-to-date (persian gulf wars and war on terror). and semester tests are on friday and monday.

semester test blog

For the first part of class we went over some semester test details.

1970 Peace Attempts

Detente-relaxation, meant to make international affairs cease, all sides feared nuclear war, china didn't want to be isolated, Sovets had bad relations with china,

talked about semester test questions, then continued with presentations.

1970's peace attempts

the detent-french for relaxation

reasons for detente

china-didn't want to be isolated, fearful of US, small amount of weapons, didn't want to make relations w

Power Point Presentations! My semester test time is on Friday, May 20th at 11:05-11:15: Rachel Pauley(4).

OSAMA BIN LADEN died! U.S. helicopters approached a high-walled compound in Pakistan on a mission to capture or kill one of the world's most noto

Semester test on Monday at like 11:35. Today in class we finished doing presentations on the Cold War.

1. Causes of the Cold War-

America had a democracy and the Soviet Union was communist..Americans feared a communist attack..Both countries feared th

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 the best, but were allies during the war
-Argued about the

Today begins the last full week of school. Hooray!

After my A++ presentation conrad Presented his powerpoint on Nixon's Visit to China. Apparently Nixon went to China. Warsaw, Poland sucks. ...open comunications, had summer with President of Pakistan. Operation Marco Polo owned. Kissenger went first.

one word-tony

test time - 10:45-55.

During the !960's blacks and open-minded whites were really pushing for black civil rights. Along with with Women and Native Americans.

Blacks ended up fighting hard and several black civil rights activist ended up getting things past so they were equ

Today we went over the semester test. We will be given four questions, and the Cold War will definately be one of them. If we haven't finished our semester test blogs yet we need to get that done soon. We need to pick the most important things becaus

NUMBER 14 THEY USE GARRILA WAR FARE WE SENT MONEY TO ALKIDA 15 SDI IT WAS ALSO CALLED STAR WARS IT WAS USED TO PROTECT US IT IS SSTILL IN PLACE TODAY IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TODAY  UMBER 17 YHER FALL OF COUNUSIM THE IRO WAS ABOUNDRY HE HAD OPENNESS IN H

eisenhowers accomplishments..

-dominated by the cold war-containment policy..

-used CIA to do covert-ops to disrupt communist gov't abroad..

-opened relations with Spain..

-ended korean conflict and promised in his 1952 election campaign..

-defensive alli

Today, we did some more Cold War projects...

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. Stud