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The Water Gate Scandal:

The watergate scandal was a political scandal that happened in the 1970's. This is one of the reasons that people believe that Nixon resigned from his position. The scandal was caused by suspects breaking into the Democratic Na

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Today we finished watching Hotel Rwanda. During the video, we took our Asia map tests. I got 100%. Tomorrow we will review for the semester test.

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Semester Test Blog

1. Students will understand the impact the Great Depression and New Deal had on the US.
Some of the causes of the Great Depression included: bank failures, savings and bank runs, business bankruptcy, unemployment, uneven distribution of wealth, indust

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The Watergate Scandal

The Watergate Scandal was a series of political scandals that took place in the 1970's. These scandals happened at The Democratic National Headquarters. The Democratic National Headquarters are located in Washinton D.C at the Wat

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Semester Test Blog!

Semester Test Blog - Spring 2010

1.
“Students will understand the main political and economic systems of the world” -
*Representative Democracy is a form of democracy where people elect representatives to make decisions for them. Examples of countries

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May 21, 2010

Yugoslavia breaks up after war
Czechoslovakia, downfall of communism
singing revolution to gain independence from soviets
--CIS (commonwealth of independent states), still in effect, russia still wanted buffer
--countries that broke out: armenia, czhech

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May 19, 2010

Economic restructuring

Freedom by Gorbachev in the 1980’s

Beginning Hostilities

North Korea invaded South Korea

Hours after SK retaliated UN condemned North Koreas attack

Korea was divided into two parts

Northern half communist and backed by the soviets

Sov

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Persian Gulf War Assigned Blog

The Persian Gulf War occured from August 2nd, 1990 to February 28th, 1991. It's commonly referred to as the Gulf War. The general area were the war occured was in, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The war was to expel Iraqi forces from the Kuwait area

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Today I first presented. Lucas went after me. His topic was Reagans Strategic Defensive Initiative. It was created March 23, 1983. If the Soviet Union launches a misslie towards us. It used space-based and ground-based. The SDI was more focused on th

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5-24-10

Today in history class we finished presentations.

Ronald Reagan's- Strategic Defense Inicitive

What is it? Organization created by president Reagan

SDI more focused on defensive strategy then the previous offensive doctrine M.A.D

X-Ray lasers

they were on

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its the twenty-fourth of may today...

Welll, technically this is not graded so I dont really have to do a good job cause it's just my notes. We dont have to do any more daily blogs. Mr. Bruns just said that we dont have to do questions 7 and 8 for our semester blog. I should probably sta

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5/24/10

Shelbie did her presentation on the fall of communism.

Gorbachev - became leader in 1985

tried to make soviet union more like a democracy.

he had two words he stuck to

perestrokia- restructuring

glasnost- openess.

economic reforms:

1987- new law gave busine

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Monday May 24, 2010

Today I worked on my Semester blog.

Shelbie, Luke, and Brandon Presented

New Map of Europe

SDI

Semester Blog..so far!

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

The Great Depression and Stock Market Crash

From wh

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5/24/10

fall of communism, Gorbachev as leader in 1985 and wanted to change the government to more democratic, but couldn't change the economy without changing political and social structure of the communist nation, did reforms in Russia changing the governm
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Mon. 5/24/10

The Fall of Communism presented by Shelby

Lenin first overthrew Russian Provisonal Government and turned it Communist

Gorbachev

Became a leader in 1985

tried to make it more like a democracy.

Reforms because Russian economy not growing

Glasnost

dependable f

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monday 24/10



Berlin Blockade


• June 24 1948- begin
• Ends may 12 1949
• What caused it

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o Cold war
o Usa and ussr had different aims on what to do to Germany
• What was it

•

o Attempted to block allied access to Berlin
o Soviet union failed
o Stalin wanted all of Berli
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monday, may 24th...

The Cold War: The Fall of Communism… Shelbie Jacobsen

Lenin first overthrew Russian Provisional Government, changing Russia to communist. Soviet Union has the world’s largest communist organization. Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Today we continued presentations. . .

The Cold War: The Fall of Communism

Gorbechev

  • became the leader in 1985.
  • He tried to make more like a democracy.
  • He couldnt fix economy without changing political and social structure of communist nation.
  • He reforms be
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