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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today we continued presentations. . .
The Cold War: The Fall of Communism
Gorbechev
