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Assigned Cold War Projects

China becoming Communists- Mao

Topics that Bruns wants me to cover

Mao- background

Civil war Mao and chingkaishek

Cultural revolution in china

Mao was born on december 26 1893

I read the wikipedia article on Mao Zedong. He is kind

Finally today is Friday. Grad parties are starting up and I plan on going to mark’s tonight. But first I have to get this done. Today we have a work day to help us get started on our cold war project. My subject is the Berlin blockade and air lift. T

today we had a free work day and worked on are cold war projests.

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
• Was made in 1938
• Investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and thos

Work day for cold war projects. I have the Berlin Wall--going up and coming down.

Why it was built:

--http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/history/why-the-berlinwall-was-built.htm

--http://www.berlinermauer.se/BerlinWall/bygg.htm

Construction:

--http://use

Nixon's visit to china happened in 1972, the visit made China and the US's relationship a little bit more normal then it originally was. The visit was the very first time any US leader had gone to China, otherwise known as the peoples republic of Chi

Food stamps were now being used productively. Everyone received a stamp book, whether they were 2 months old or 70 years old and a family coulduse every book from the family. Once the family used up their stampsfor the week, they were on their own un

This week i was assigned the topic of the 1964 election. The nominees for the 1964 elections were Democrate Lyndon B. Johnson (who was running for re-election) and Republican Barry Goldwater. The election of 1964 is unlike most in the way that it was

Today we kicked off the class with more of the Planet in Peril video.

The Carteret Islands

• The Carteret islands, located near New Guine are sinking as the water level rises and begins to cover more and more of the land
• Many of the people there die from

The last 2 groups still haven't presented and we looked over Mr. Bruns' "Home Front"

Role of Women

Waves- Women Navy-women was part in the army. They tested things.

Wasp- Women Air Force-They tested aircrafts or planes.

"Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri- She made

First we talked about free speech and the rights that students have at school after someone brought up the topic about one of our fellow students who decided to where a tutu to school today and got sent to the office for it. Chelsea told us about her

in some places if the y dont have fish from the sea then they dont eat and they starve for a few days and now they are living off of coconuts and the fish that they catch form the sea the island has a huge area of the sea around the ialand has coral

We went right into the Planet in Peril video.

Carteretts

-This island is sinking due to rising sea levels

-the reef around it is bleaching

-thier food supply is depleading because of the dieing coral

Lake Chad

-90% has dissapeared

-population by the lake is

Today, we continued to watch planet in peril

went to an island that is sinking and is only 5 feet above sea level at its highest points

cargarets islands

many people are forced to move to another island but many don't want to because the island they wou