today we talked McCarthy and the red scare
we talked about the Cuban missile crises
and the bay of pigs
next was the Berlin wall
it was put up to stop the migration of Germans away from Communism
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Cuban missle crisis-
- A cuban plane was flying over and taking pictures and they thought cuba had nuclear missles
- Nuke age
Red scare and McCarthyism-
- Everyone was afraid that theyre boss, neighbor, or friend was a communist
- (Post world war two)
- People were
Conspiracy Theories
- Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives
Who might have killed JFK?
- The Cuban's(x2)
- The KGB(USSR)
- The US Mafia
- The CIA(US Government)
- The Zero Game- Any President that ended in a 0 either dies
started presenting our projects today.
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 Challe
Cuban Missle Crisis
- It started because United States had missles in Turkey pointing at the the Soviets; the soviets then put missles in Cuba pointing at us
- 13 day standoff
- Compromise- The Resolution = the soviets would pull their missles out of Cuba and
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 about the fear of Communism. People were falsely accused of being Communist and tr
Bay of Pigs invasion-
- Fidel Castro came to power and established a communist government. The United Stated CIA trained Cuban Exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro.
- The exiles were hoping that Cuban citizens would help them and they did not
- Th
Bay of Pigs- there were Cubans and Cuban exiles. Castro comes to power and overthrows the leader. Castro develops communism. So the Cuban exiles who fled Cuba when Castro came to power were going to come back and overthrow Castro. The CIA trained the
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KEY PLAYERS
SANTA ANNA: was a Mexican political leader, general, and 11 time president
MARTIN PERFECTO DE COS: was a Mexican General who was involved in all of the major conflicts of the Texas Revolution. He was a brother in law to Santa Anna, an
General R. Ford and his major accomplishments.
General R. Ford took office on August 9th 1974. He stayed in office for 896 days. He was our 38th president of the United States. Ford was also in the US navy before his presidency. There were good accomp
we took our europe map test, i was nervous to take it because i wasnt really ready, i couldnt remember the names of countries and capitals. they were hard to pronounce. then i worked on other homework and listened to music.
We showed our video about the Space Race
John F Kennedy was born on May 29th, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the grandson of Irish immigrants and parents were Joe and Rose Kennedy. In June, 1940, he graduated cum laude with a bachelor of science degree at Harvard. In July, 1940,
Response to Annexation of Texas
In doing so this, the US inherited TExas border dispute with mexico
this eventually led to start of the mexican american war
during the war the US captured additional territroy
there continued to be territory disputes with
KNOW THE BATLLE OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO
Battles of the Texan Revolution
- Battle of the Alamo (Mexico vs. Republic of Texas)
- Location: Modern-Day San Antonio, Texas.
- Commanders and leaders:
- –Mexico: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
- -Republic of Texas : William Travi
Today we had the Europe test. After everyone was done with that we worked on our Europe test.
Today we took the Europe map test, and thankfully I get to go tomorrow.
Failed European map test
Big test today. waaaaaah. Well I tried my best. Then we worked on project.
