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We started the presentations again. The first one we did today was on Communism, the richer people got more money with less work and the poor people get less money and work harder. Soviet Union was the first communist country and China is another big

Today we looked at the presentation. Communism= theory state plans and controls the economy so that all people get goods equally. Karl Marx created communism. Soviet Union was the largest communist power ever. Current ones are Vietnam, China, North K

Communism: a society where private ownership is abolished.

Practice: a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian part holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in

Today more groups presented their presentations.

Communism
- no private ownership; government run
- equality - everyone "shares"
- Practice - what it is supposed to be: a system of government in which a single authoritarian party (dictator) has power and

Went over presentations and learned about Democracy- Anarchy-Communism- And dictatorship.

Communism- A society where their is no private ownership. The community shares the business.

Practice- Government owns everything. It is the type of government that they have.

Theory- never really happened.

The soviet union was the biggest communist cou

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We looked at a video on how are money is distributed. The richest 20% have 50% of our stocks. Then we looked at the Asian map.

Took Europe map test.

worked on presentations.

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went over some assigned blogs and notes for test.

Farm Loan Act

The Farm Loan act of 1916 was made to increase credit to rural farmers in that area. This act was made to give family farms more credit so they can get more loans and enlarge their farms

We continued our blog discussion, and my topic is how america gained control of the panama canal.

•Imperialism-Why do countries colonize?- bigger countries taking smaller ones

•Militarism- that your country has to have a strong military to defend their nation

•Nationalism- like having strong pride in your country

•Diplomacy- international relations,

We talked about the results of the European map test from yesterday. Not a lot of people did very well on it. 

Now we're starting the Asian map. We discussed the issues between China and Japan.
We learned that Taiwan isn't an independent country, and i