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5/3/2011

Gerald Ford. Only VP and President never to be elected. His claim to fame.

 

Right after he got into office he pardoned Nixon, leading people to believe that there was a corrupt bargain in place. He offered conditional amnesty program for Vietnam war d

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Tuesday May 3rd

Cold War Presentations:

 

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 t

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Tuesday, May 3rd

We talked about our next assigned blog. Mine is Reagan's attempted assassination. Then we continued our president blog discussion.

 

Harry Truman- vice president for only a few months and came in when FDR died, few months before WWII ended. reelected i

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Tues., May 3, 2011

blog discussions:

 

Ford:

nixon's vice president

took over when nixon resigned

had 2 assassination attempts in 3 weeks

 was never elected by the american ppl

pardoned nixon

offered a conditional amnesty program for vietnam war draft dodgers who had fled to c

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Tuesday 3, 2011

The first thing we did was a blog discussion on Ford. Then we talked about the powerpoint.

 

Gerald Ford

-the first thing he did was pardon for Richard Nixon

-Offered conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War draft dodgers who had fled to countries suc

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Tuesday May 3, 2011

Today in class we finished our Nixon Blog, and started on Gerald Ford.

 

Gerald Ford-

-Nixon's Vice President

-took over after Nixon Ressigned.

-Real name Leslie Lynchburg.

-But he didnt like his dad so he changed his name to Gerald Ford.

-continued with th

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Tuesday, May 3

President Gerald Ford (R) 38th President 1974-1977

Nixon's vice president

took over when Nixon resigned

Only vice president and president never to be elected

had two assassination attemps within three weeks

restored public faith

 

Accomplishments

Pardoned Ni

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Tuesday, May 3rd

Gerald Ford

 

38th president of the United States

Nixon's VIce President

Took over when Nixon resigned

Only VIce President and President to never be elected

Had two assassination attempts within three weeks

Continued detente with the USSR

Ford wanted to help

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Tuesday May 3rd

Today we FINALLY finished presidiential blog dicussions!! We also started our cold war projects presentations..

 

Truman:

He came into office after FDR died. He came into office just before the WWII ended. Truman was re-elected in 1948. He ran up agains

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Tuesday, May 3

 

Today we continued the Presidential Blogs

Gerald Ford-

   Took over when Nixon resigned. Only Vice President and President to never be elected. Had two assasination attempts within three weeks.

   He didn't serve for very long.

   He pardoned Nixon (say

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Key Term List

Civil Rights for African-Americans: African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) outlawed racial discrimination against them. They were given freedom and a right to vote. Many leaders pushed for the freedom of African-Americans inculding people

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Monday, May 2

We got our assigned blog for this week, Darfur, we talked about Osama Bin Laden, and Kayla told us about how her cousin got shot in Afghanistan and she sent around a card that we can sign for him. Then we watched a video on global warming again.
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Monday May 2

today we were handed the new blog assignment and then chatted about osama bin ladin and stuff

 

On to Richard Nixon...

War on Drugs - 1971.
Supplemental Security Income - provided $$ to low-income people who were aged, blind or disabled.
Saw large scal

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Monday, May 2nd

Today, Bruns assigned our final blog.  I have the Vietnam War protests and counterculture, so basically hippie stuff.  We then talked about Nixon and how he was the first Green President.  That was followed by all this: National Environmental Policy
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Monday, May 2

Happy May!! It's the last month of the year!!!!!! HOORAY!!!  ok that was cheesy.

i thought that the Darfur assigned blog was due last night, but apparently it's due next sunday. Not a bad thing that i got it done, but i just didn't know i had an extra

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Monday May 2nd

Today we started the topic off with the guy dieing and his life and happy he is dead. Then going to talk about my cousin and stuff. Mr. Brun's saying we have to make sure that we do our homework and stuff for this class. Now watching videos about the

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Monday, May 2

osama is dead

born in sadia arabia

somalia number 1 failed state for quite a long time

watched part of obamas speach about osama

navi seals in helicopters

shot in the head after resistin g the asult

he was in a compund when he was killed

on friday made the

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