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Friday May 10, 2013 (President Notes)

President Jimmy Carter (continued)

Problems:

  • Iran Hostage Crisis- Between the U.S. and Iran; on November 4, 1979 the Iran took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
  • Before this in 1977, there was an Iran Revolution; they over threw the pro-US government an
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Friday May 10, 2013

Continue with presidents blog discussions!

Jimmy Carter - He is the only U.S. President to receive the Nobel Peace Prize after leaving office. He was a one term president, and he was not a popular president. He had been a peanut farmer and governor of

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Friday May 10th, 2013

President Blog Discussion:

Jimmy Carter:

  • only US president to have received the Nobel Peace prize after leaving office.
  • had been a peanut farmer and governor or Georgia before being President.
  • strongly emphasized human rights as President. has been a ver
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Friday, May 10, 2013

Today is our last Friday! Okay, we have the semester tests next Friday, but this is the last class day!! Today we continued discussing the last assigned blog over the U.S. Presidents.

Jimmy Carter - He is the only U.S. President to receive the Nobel P

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Friday, May 10th, 2013

NOTES:

Definition of the Cold War:

A political strategic and ideological struggle between the US and the Soviet Union. Spread throughout the world: Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin-America.

Causes of the Cold War:

-Different political systems: US is based

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Ronald Reagan>>Achievements

Ronald Reagan Achievements

Ronald Reagan accomplished many things in his presidency, some were failures, and some were achievements that people praised him for. He was born in Tampico, Illinois and raised in Dixon. He began his political career as a D

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Group Test (7-11) - And Semester Test

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

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

-Berlin Blockade/airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Red Scare/McCarthyism, Space Race, Ba

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Assigned Blog #7 George H.W Bush

George H.W Bush: Persian Gulf War


This war was also known as the Gulf War. This war started in 1990 on August 2 with the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. In 1990, Iraq invaded the country of Kuwait. They had control of 20% of not only Kuwait land, but Kuw

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President Reagan's First Term

          One of the first major events of Reagan's first term as president was the air traffic controllers' strike. There was a law that disallowed government works to go on strike, but in the summer of 1981 the union of federal air traffic controll

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Assigned Blog-Carter Background

James Earl Carter, Jr., thrirty-ninth president of the United States, was born October 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia. At the age of four, Carter and his family moved to Archery, a town approximately two miles from Plains. It w

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Wednesday May, 8 2013

We went over map test. Then looked at semester test times. Then we talked about our next blog topic countries.  Bruns said that most goals will be meet only by developed countries.

End Poverty and Hungry.

Problem goals/  End poverty or get it to be not

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Assigned Blog - Ronald Reagan

Reagan particularly wanted to redefine national policy toward the Soviet Union. Along with most other national leaders, he had supported the fundamental policy of containing the Soviet Union that President Harry Truman adopted in 1947 and was subsequ

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Assigned blog 7: Universal Education

Universal Education

A major goal in the world today is that every kid everywhere has the ability to attend a primary school. This is the level at which kids learn the most because brain is most active at this time and adapts to learning new things.  I

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