Blogs

After WWII Korea was split in two, Soviet Union control some part. We with draw out troops. Unit the country in Communism. They invade North invade the south. South part of Korea. UN got involved. General Douglas MacArthur. China invades. Armisist wa

Today we finished video projects

1. Korean War (nicknamed the forgotten war): After WW2 Korea was split in two, the north was controlled by soviet union at first and we were in the south. We pulled troops out and then North decided to invade. Back and fo

Space Race: NASA- space organization

• soviets led early
• Sputnik:used to spy
• made us feel vulnerable
• made us feel weak in education(science and math)
• every 20 years there is a push for science and math people
• Yuri Gagatin-USSR-first explorer
• 1960-moonshot-JFK

Today, we finished the song projects on the Cold War, and we talked about the last assigned blog of the year. I have Barack Obama, and I have to talk about the accomplishments.

-Korean Conflict:

• War between the north and south
• North Korea, China Versus

my topic for my assigned blog is war in Afghanistan for George w bush

Finished Cold War projects (notes on Monday, April 22nd's blog). Assigned blog topic: Obama. (background)

Semester Tests:

Driving Ideas for Semester Two:

1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

2. What impact d

Jimmy Carter- accomplishments during presidency

Berlin Blockade

• separated into 4 zones (West Berlin, East Berlin, East Germany, West Germany)
• the Soviets didn't like that we had west Berlin, because it was in their sector and they wanted all of it
• We dro

Today we finished up songs. I have election results and scandals of Jimmy Carter.

Bay of Pigs - Fidel Castro overthrew the previous leader. They tried to overthrow Castro. 
Cuban Missile Crisis - 13 day stand off.
Red Scare/McCarthyism - This was all a

Bill Clinton Topics = assassination attemps, major accomplishments, netscape internet thing

Berlin Blockade

• Germany was still split from WW2 agreement; Berlin was the captial located in East Germany (Soviets) and it was also split east and west Berlin
• W

today we talked about the keroen war and we watched my video

We also talked about assigned blog #7....(Bill Clinton) background and major accomplishments.

We continued with the song projects.

Berlin Blockade- first Berlin crisis, East Germany and west Germany were split and it stopped because they eventually bot

Today we are finished assigning out the final assigned blog. I have the assassination attempts and scandals against Ronald Reagan. We then finished the Cold War songs.

Bay of Pigs - Fidel Castro overthrew the previous leader. They tried to overthrow C

Today we watched more music videos.
>>>>i have the accomplishments and assassination attempts!
Berlin Blockade
east and west Germany were split up
then berlin was split up east and west

North Korea
North Korea
china          vs UN,UK,US, france
UN security

My topic for assigned blog is George HW Bush and i have to research -Persian Gulf War-1990Also need to finish the semester test blog.

Now we are going to watch the 2 music videos we have left then get into president blog discussion.

We talked more about our assigned blogs, I had Ronald Regan- and his background. Now we're fininshing videos

Berlin Block aid

Korean conflict

• War between North Korea and China and South Korea and US.
• North invaded South
• After WWII, Japan didn't have total

Space Race:

• Sputnik was the soviets satellite! we were always behind the Soviets.
• had a huge impact on education.
• moon landing-1969. Louis Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin.
• Sally Ride was the first females in space.
• 1985 Challenger exploded.

Bay of Pigs Invasion:

• Fi

presented today.

today we got our presidents and i have jimmy carters background and then we listened to peoples songs.

i was absent

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Scandals - Obama