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Today we did more presentations. 

Red scare=fear of communism taking over the united states

-senator Joe McCarthy=fueled the red scare, he gave a speech that stated he knew 3 people who were in gov that were communist, he had hearings and would questio

Test Friday

Berlin Blockade

• June 1948- May 1949
• the west wanted the east to rejoin, but Stalin feared it would hurt the soviet security
• In June 1948, Stalin decided to try to gain control of West Berlin which was deep inside the eastern sector
• He cut road

we are discussing the projects you guys went over yesterday and then we will continue with the rest of the projects today. 

Red scare=fear of communism taking over the united states

-senator Joe McCarthy=fueled the red scare, he gave a speech that stat

Today we took a test then went over the map of South America.

Revolutionary War- 1775-1783- we fought the British for independence

Articles of Confederation-1751-1789 

Gone

Work days

Started our History presentations:

Berlin Blockade

Bay of Pigs

Started our History presentations:

Berlin Blockade

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile crisis

• Cuban missiles could reach basically anywhere in the US
• US wouldn't allow any new ships into Cuba to prevent more nuclear weapons
• we were on the brink of world for 13
• We had missiles in Turkey to strike Russia and Russia had missiles

i was absent

Began discussions! I copied Mr. Bruns' daily blog in here just to get caught up on things. 

Driving Ideas:

1. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?

2. What were some of the major events that took place during the Cold War?

-Berlin Blockade/

Watched more videos. 

We worked on songs and took notes

Here

Today we began discussing the cuban missile crisis.

A spy plane discovered that Cuba had missiles that could hit any part of the US.

So we quarantined Cuba. We didnt allow any Soviets into Cuba.

Compromised to not invade Cuba and Soviets remove missiles

More groups presented also my group recorded and presented.

Went over maps, took test on views on politics and started unit on Revolutionary War and our government.

take test/essay. go over maps again test is soon.

Revolutionary war- 1775- 1883 we fought the british for our independence. 

Take political test, go over maps

Revolutionary war 1775-1783 Colonist vs British 

Articles of Confederation 1751-1759 

Took political essay test. Studied maps. Starting new topic, on Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War-

• From 1775- 1783
• Articles of Incorporation, 1781-1789
• US Constitution, 1789- present