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Today Mr. Bruns finished his presentation.

-The Philippines were a U.S. controlled island. The Japanese were trying to take it away from us. After about six months we surrendered. The army was put on a death march from point A to point B. It was calle

Today Mr. Bruns finished his presentations.

-The Battle of the Atlantic was basically are we going to be able to get ships with supplies across the Atlantic or were they going to be sunk? The Axis powers had radio and that is how they talked with thei

Today is a work day.

Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan

Impacted

December 1979

Union launched an invasion on Afghanistan To support the pro-Communist Government

In failed

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan

Topics:

1. Causes of the Cold War-Michyla-3rd, Zach K.-4th

2. Policy of Containment: domino effect, Iron Curtain Speech, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine-Andrea-3rd, Riley F-4th

3. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-Alyssa-3rd, Nate O-4th

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Today we had a work day and i did some more research on the cuban missile crisis.

This was a confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and the United States during the cold war. During this time Cuba started building bases for ballistic n

today is a workday, my topic is peace law things. detente. salt1. salt 2

The talks took place in two phases: SALT I ran from 1969 to 1972 and resulted in the anti-ballistic Missle treaty and the "Interim Agreement Between the United States of America

<-- comic book cover from 1947

first red scare (1917-1920)

helped lead to mccarthyism.

bunch of trials... like the salem witch trials..

get background of mccarthyism,

what happened

his fame

his fall

his death

test thingss

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 HUAC
5. Fidel Castro, Bay of

Today in class we had our second Cold War Project work day. I have Reagan’s Defense Initiative and I started by reading his speech about it.

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He starts out by saying that we have prevented nuclear attacks by balancing defensive and offensive forces as

Today we worked on our projects.

I have the Causes of the Cold War.

After wwii the alliance between the United States, Britian, and the USSR had ended. After this an intense rivarily had came about between the non communists party and the communist par

Today is wed. a very scary wed that is. Mr bruns is threatening us with failure. I need to get rolling on my presentation. But I believe it’ll come around. Today is thankfully a work day. And I’m hoping to get a lot done. .

http://history.sandiego.edu/cdr2/USPics/europe1949.GIF - picture before cold war

http://www.explorecrete.com/crete-maps/images/europe.gif - after

CIS- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States

fight in Yugoslavia- http://en.wikiped