Today Mr. Bruns went over his PowerPoint. Okinawa was a battle that got us very close to Japan. Alamagordo is where they tested the nuclear bomb. Hirsoshima got the bomb little boy dropped on them. At the Yalta conference Stalin promised to free eles
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Stalin wanted us to openly invade Europe to get the Germans out of Soviet Union but we went to North Africa instead. Stalin wasn't very happy. There was a lot of Vichy French troops in North Africa and they were on the Axis side. They sl
taxes
raised to pay for war
economy,
controls on prices and wages.
labor;
employment rate went down, women got jobs.
farmers were affected. people moved into city to work in factories.
students got out o
Finishing Mr. Bruns' power point.
Battle of Leyte Gulf--back towards Phillipines, destroyed Japanese navy, kamikaze: suicide bombing, used when they were starting to lose
Okinawa--very close to Japan
Gen. Leslie Groves--in charge of Manhatten Project
Opp
Rober Oppenheimer- Communist project leader
Enola Gay-Plane built to drop atomic bomb on hiroshima
Bockscar-Plane built to drop atomic bomb on Nagasaki
Nagasaki bomb twice as powerfull as Hiro
The Japanese began to use Kamikaze tactics when they realized that they were slowly starting to lose the war. It was their last ditch ffort to kill as many Americans as thy could to keep from being driven back from the islands that they had captured.
In the Great Society many acts were passed that effected education. One of the main acts passed was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act which was passed in 1965. This act help end a long debt in politics about provideing more finical aid for p
Navajo Code talkers-
Doolittle's Raid,
Coral Sea- We Won, they didnt move into australia a naval battle faught by airplains
Nimitz- Head guy in the navy
Battle of Midway- We knew the attack was coming with the use of Magic, and we did massive distruction
The Peace Corp was created by John F. Kennedy and it was created to encourage similar understanding between Americans and other cultures of the world. It was created in 1961 and approved by congress as a US federal agency that was within the State De
Today Mr. Bruns had to leave early for a boy’s tennis meet. He got some of the tests in though and I was one of them. I studied before hand and then I was really slow at taking the test so I missed more than I thought I would. The rest of the time I
First we went over the new project we would have to do over africa. Then I went second for the Europe map test.
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Today Mr. Bruns introduced us to our new projects which will be about Africa. Chelsea, Ana, and I picked the topic of Darfur and Sudan. The rest of class, people took their Europe map test. I got 100%! Then the people who weren't taking the test stud
Today we continued with the Planet in Peril video.
More about the Amazon:
- The Crawhoe indians live in Brazil's Amazon Rain forest.
- They are doing their best to protect their land from disappearing as a result of illegal logging
- About 1500 square miles of
