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Friday, May 21

Porjects. again.

New Map of Europe
--Yugoslavia breaks up after war
--velvet revolution: Czechoslovakia, downfall of communism
--baltic states: singing revolution to gain independence from soviets
--CIS (commonwealth of independent states), still in effec
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

1. Define the Cold War and it's causes- Political, Stratigic, and ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.-rivalry between Communist USSR and non-communist USA. After alliance was broke from WWII they but heads a lot.-Spli

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May 20

I finished my presentation-China become communist

Ben's presentation

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization signed on April 4, 1949

you agree to a mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party

the headequarters was in Brussels, Belgium

Tre

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Semester Blog

1. Watergate
2. Persian Gulf War(1990-91)
3. 9-11 and the War on Terror- invasion of Afghanistan
4. Invasion of Iraq-2003

Watergate

On June 16, 1972, a security guard at the Watergate Hotel in Washington found a piece of tape on the lock of the door leadi

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Wednesday May 19, 2010

Today i finished my Cold war project on NATO, de-stalinization, and Peaceful Coexistance. Then we went on down the line.

China Becoming Communist.

Mao Zedong was the person who made China a Communist country. There was a civil war going on at the time

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Tuesday May 18, 2010

We continued with the Cold War presentations

Nuclear Arms Race

It was a weapons build up between United States and the Soviet Union. We had the first atomic bomb then the Soviets tested there first bomb in 1949. Massive Retalliation is when some attack

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Today we started watching Hotel Rwanda. It's actually a pretty good movie so far. Some parts I was confused on at first but later on I figured it out and went back on enjoying the movie.
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mayy 20 thursdayyyy

okayy so we watched rwanda todayy, im actually likingg itt. we did our presentaion on this so i am getting it down pretty good.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Today we began watching Hotel Rwanda. I think that it is a pretty good movie but it would be very confusing to someone who didn't know about the main conflict prior to watching it. The main thing going on right now is about a Hutu man named Paul who
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Thursday May 20, 2010

Today in class we started watching Hotel Rowanda. It's a pretty good movie, about the Hutus nd Tutsis. The main character is a Hutu who doesn't like to discriminate aginst the Tusis. When the big genocide starts to happen, his main goal is to keep hi
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Semester Test Blog

  1. ) The first type of political system is an Absolute Monarchy and a Constitutional Monarchy. An Absolute Monarchy is a government that is ruled by a king or queen that has absolute control over the government and makes all the laws. A Constitutional M
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assisgned blog final one

failing states in this case is that the world is coming to crap and people can seee that but the Government does not care like now people in bangladish is over populated and the city looks like crap.

people have to stay in alighthouse to stay cool fro

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Thursday May 20, 2010

Thursday May 20, 2010

Cold War Test Topics

1. Define the Cold War and it's causes
2. Policy of Containment -domino effect, mutual deterrence, massive retaliation, Truman Doctine, Marshall Plan, NATO
3. Both Berlin Crises
4. The Red Scare--McCarthyism and
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thursday 5/20/10

presentations today

Berlin Blockade

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

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

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  • Attempted to block allied access to Berlin
  • Soviet union failed
  • Stalin wanted all of Berlin

B

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May 20

According to Kelseys power poin,,,,We helped get the afghanistan get power and it invovled the soviet and the mujahedeen found other support from the US and UK and saudi arabia and other muslim nations, and it all started in the arabian thing, he tal

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May 20, 2010

Soviets invaded Afghanistan

They depended on the soviets

They Asked them, to help out there government

They wanted to become Islamic

The soviets wanted them to become there communists

We helped the Afghans become powerful

They thought we were trying to tak

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