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Monday May 5, 2014

cinco de mayo

Started President Presentations:

                              Dwight Eisenhower

  • Background: born October 1890 in Denison Texas; tiny house near railroad tracks; father=david, Mother=Ida; West Point in free attendance, graduated top of cla
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May 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19 2014

Starting Presentations

Truman

  • Background
    • Born May 8, 1884
    • Born to a poor family 
    • Had poor eyesight
    • Never got a college degree
    • Wanted to attend the US military academy at West Point, but was unable to due to eyesight
    • Sent to France during WWI for the National
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Monday May 5

Spanish-American war:

1898
3 months
not a lot of deaths
got a lot of land(Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines)
won
We became an empire


WW1

1914-1918
trenches
were were in it 1917-1918
Over colonies in Africa, Japan, Asia
Winner gets land

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Monday May 5th-Tuesday May 20th

Truman-

Was the 33rd President of the United states and was great in school but his parents couldn’t afford to send him to collage. Opponent in 1948 election was Dewey, had a 90% popularity in the beginning but it had slowly dropped to 22-23% and aver

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Monday May 5th

Harry Truman

33rd president, from Missouri, baptist

nickname "give em hell harry"

became president after roosevelt died

poor eyesight 

very smart, piano, reader, parents couldnt afford college

lost popularity because of korean war, mccarther firing, inflat

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May 5

Presidential Presentations began today! Took notes on Microsoft Word....

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Monday 5/5/2014

We started presenting president projects. My group presented Truman

Dwight Eisenhower-

born in 1890

grew up in abilene kansas

married mamie geneva doud

had two kids; doud and john

general in WWII

assumed command over NATO

desegregated the army and schools

NAS

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Monday May 5th

We began presentations.

Harry Truman 

  • poor eyesight,
  • one election in 1948,
  • unpopular because of bad economy, firing McArther, scandal going on
  • dropped atomic bombs
  • started stopping of communism
  • stopped segregation in war
  • started CIA
  • Fair Deal - domestic polic
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Monday, May 5th

Harry Truman

  • Born May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri 
  • Died December 26, 1972
  • Became President after FDR died 
  • Thomas E Dewey ran against him in 48
  • Was not very popular

Eisenhower

  • Brown vs. Bored of education Topeka Kansas
  • Interstate System
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Monday May 5

Truman

  • was the 33rd president of the United States
  • he was only in one election
  • he didn't run again because he couldn't serve more than 10 years
  • he was a senator before being president
  • he was an unpopular president because at one point
  • last president to not
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May 5th may 6th may 7th may 8th may 12th

Harry Truman

Harry was the 33rd president of the us he was born on May 8th 1884 Lamar Mo he was Baptist was marred June 28th 1919 to Elizabeth Bess his nickname was give em hell harry he died December 26th 1972 in Kansas city mo he became president on

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5/5/14

Went over Truman

Truman

Fair Deal- his domestic policy kind of like the new deal. alot didnt get passed because of politics

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Beat stevenson for president and served two terms

Desegregated army and schools (Brown vs Board of education)

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