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Today in class we did presentations and we did ours first over the Pacific Front. The Pacific War was basically the US island hopping campaign to get to the mainland of Japan. We then did a little more on the Italian Frontin the last couple minutes o

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Monday April 26th, 2010

Philippines second attack

the natives to the country were enslaved by the japanese

they urged the US to retake the philippines

they invaded and pushed them back to manila where they laid siege

native militia helped to eliminate pockets of japanese , last

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monday april twenty sixth

more presentations

US Home Front; going on in the us to help win the war.
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 facto
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Monday April 26, 2010

African Front

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

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Monday, April 26

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Projects again today

Pacific Fron continued...

--Phillipines second attack-urged US to take back, invaded and pushed back to Manila

--Midway-Yamamoto wanted to bring in Pacific fleet, US broke

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Monday April 26

today the group for the pacific front presented and the talked about most of the major battles. dajsa presented her part for the italian front today and i dont think were gonna have time to get our power point started so were gonna do that tomorrow.
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Monday, April 26th

Today Austin and Matt presented their presentation.

Japan for the first time didn't win, so it was a win for us.

The Japanese had a unigue way of fighting. They had suicide bombers and the families of the bombers were highly acknowlegded. Thirty years

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April 26th, 2010

Coral Sea-U.S. attacked Shoho, a carrier, and destroyed it. each side had many losses-it was first time japan lost a major offensive in war.

Saipan- bombardment began june 13 1944- crews on ships were inexperienced and had to attack from a distance d
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The Great Society- Consumer Advocacy

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1966- National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act

This act was meant to provide the federal government with more power to set new safety standards for motor vehicles and road trafic safety. This act also helped create the National Highway Safety Bur

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Week 16 Blog

My blog was too long it said.

Week 16 Blog

In the first 4 pages senator talks about the “Little Ice Age”. This happened during medieval times, right after the medieval warming period. Senator says that in these times humans could have influenced some,

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Eisenhower election

In the election of the 1956 the democratic party was Adlai Stevenson from Illinois. His running mate was Estes Kefauver. For the republicans was Dwight Eisenhower for New York. Hiis running mate was Richard Nixion. Eisenhower won 457 electoral votes

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friday april 23

Cody lumpy and austimus prime are still on their presentation after the third day of just them presenting. And I’m sorry if this blog isn’t that long, I’m just ready for the darn weekend.

The Ardense offense was a german offensive attack in the Ardens

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Thur april 22

We started off our day with the ited practice. It was about posters that were made about a specific time depicting what was happening. D-Day was on June 6, 1944. D-Day is said to be a successful operation. D-Day was also written in books as operation

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monday april 19

Back to another week at Harlan community high school. Weekends aren’t as long as they really should be. Today we are going over our topics for semester test. A lot of people are gone so we can’t get to full presentations. I chose to do my weekly over

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Great Societies- Cities Blog

This Big Blog of mine is about the Great Societies- Cities. Here it is:

Here are the acts that involved the Cities:

1. The Omnibus Housing Act- this act provided money for low income housing.

2. Department of Housing and Urban Development- formed to adm

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Assigned Blog 16

John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was born on 29 May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. JFK was the 35th president and was assassinated in 1963. He went to Brookline Edward Devotion School in kindergarten until the 3rd grade. In his high school years he attended
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The New Frontier

The New Frontier

The New Frontier was John F. Kennedy’s plan. He mentioned this New Frontier in his acceptance speech. Kennedys plan, or his goals of The New Frontier were to boost the economy and get them out of the economic slump they were in. In Ke

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Hot & Cold Media Cycle Summary

For the last 100 years the media has been warning us about global warming and global cooling. All this started in 1895. First the media warned us about an up coming ice age. This lasted from 1895 until the 1930’s. Then from the late 1920’s to the 196

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Blog Assignment #16


The Great Society-Environment

The Great Society was a summed up vision that Johnson had announced on May 1964.

Its main goal was to eliminate the social poverty and the racial unfairness. It mainly resembled the New Deal by Roosevelt.


The Environment--

W

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