Interview

1. How old were you during Vietnam?
21….

2. What did you know about the experiences of other vets?
Everyone was different. We mostly did not sit around talking about it.

3. What do you remember about the media cover during the war?
The media was mostly left-wing biased and presented a very slanted anti-American view of the war.

4.do you think most people knew why you were over there?
Yes, but the antiwar rhetoric confused a lot of people.

5. What were vets like after the war?
Most Vietnam vets came home, went to college and/or got a job, got married, had kids, bought a house, raised their kids, and are now enjoying their grand kids. The antiwar myth that all Vietnam vets are homeless drug addicts living under the freeway and suffering from PTSD and the after effects of exposure to Agent Orange are a bunch of lies the biased media is still trying to maintain to demonize the Vietnam vets. In the 70s they spit on us. Today they pretend to be all caring while tell the public lies to justify their old antiwar position back in the 60s.

Differences between how the media covers the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - with how they covered Vietnam.

During the Vietnam war the media would cover everything that is happening. Like if there was a picture of a solider or another ally or enemy doing gruesome things the American Public would be able to view it. This is one of the reasons people did not like the war in Vietnam. But during the war on Iraq and Afghanistan the media did not show all of what was done in them to prevent things to be similar to Vietnam. but wiki leaks showed some of the things and the public did not like it.

Twitter account for President John F. Kennedy.

JFKatthehouse:
Hello Castro, welcome to power and a friendship.
1/10/1959 3:58 P.M.

JFKatthehouse:
Guess I was wrong about you Castro.
1/15/1961 3:06 P.M.

JFKatthehouse:
We won't fight you for now.
4/10/1961 7:43P.M.

JFKatthehouse:
You can't rebel against us, with what we taught you.
4/13/1961 8:12 P.M.

JFKatthehouse:
Castro, you have no power without the Soviets.
7/24/1962 12:29 P.M.

JFKatthehouse:
Spy plans have spotted missiles in Cuba. Bad!!!!
10/20/1962 12:01 A.M.

JFKatthehouse:
We need a way to fix this problem.
10/21/1962 3:13 P.M.

JFKatthehouse:
Let us start to try to negotiate with the Soviets.
10/23/1962 6:36 P.M.

JFKatthehouse:
They are not responding..... wait we have contact with them for negotiation.
10/25/1962 4:49 A.M.

JFKatthehouse:
What we are going to do is remove missiles from turkey so that they remove the missiles from Cuba.
10/29/1962 5:41 P.M.

Topic 12 Study Guide

Truman Doctrine: Said that we have to give aid to countries that are being influenced by communism.
Containment policy: Was the Truman Doctrine, NATO Nd the Marshal plan.
Bay of pigs invasion similar in panama: We went in to take away power from dictator.
U.S. Foreign Policy with regards to Korea and Vietnam: Truman Doctrine
Intervention:
Cold War development: The Cold War started when Russia became U.S. enemy when they developed and used nuclear weapons.
War Powers Act: Congress is the only one that can declare war, but can grant the US president the use of the army if the US or its territories are attacked.
WWII Foreign Policy vs Post WWII Foreign Policy:
Limited War: A war in which there are restrictions on weapons, soldiers, or territory and with an objective smaller than total destruction of the enemy.
Containment in Europe: Containment Policy; Used Marshall Plan to 16 European countries by giving $12B in financial aid.
Division of Germany Main Points: west is free and the east is communist.
Douglass MacArthur dismissal: MacArthur was the General during the Vietnam war and was dismissed, because he was mentally unable to handle powers he had.
Korean War and Persian Gulf War similarities:
Nuclear Test Ban: 1963 Treaty was signed by the U.S., Britain, & Soviet Union to stop all nuclear weapon testing, but no one really did until the 1998.
Long Term Effect of Vietnam: it makes us think twice before we get involved with a country.
Peace Corps: Are people that spread the good side of the United States of America, through humanitarian acts and the helping of developing nations.
End of Cold War: The fall of the Berlin Wall ended the Cold War
Domino Theory:
Nixon's Détente: Easing of tensions between the Soviets & U.S.

Meritocracy

I don't agree becausein you are not detimind and if yo care about what people say you will become it with time.

Jena and Little Rock

I could not believe that there is stil people that wouldbe so low, that they would send people to jail because of race and because there was not enogh investigation for the case. This is similar ro Little Rock because they were rejected from the tree spot because they were black. Just like they did in the schools.

I am Poem

I am an African-American student
I wonder why white people hate me so much
I hear mobs yelling at me
I see one hundred army soldiers
I want society to be normal
I am an African-American student

I pretend I am in a happier place
I feel like I'm taking a strand for my race
I need people to understand me
I worry about the mob
I cry because my people are dying
I am an African-American

I understand why people hate me
I believe our nation can be equal
I dream of a place where color doesn't matter
I try to get an education
I hope for a better nation
I am an African-American

Topic 11 Concepts

MLK and Civil Disobedience: This is talking about the non-violent protests that African-Americans had with MLK as its leader.

Power of the "Mob": It is basically the more people you have the stronger you are.

Plessy v. Ferguson vs. Brown v.Board of Education: Separate but equal than in the brown it became unconstitutional.

Civil Rights Goals: They were to obtain equality for all races.

Eisenhower's Role in Little Rock: He sent the one hundred and first to protect the African-Americans students that were attending white schools.

Rights of the Accused: The accused had to be read their rights so that they won't be released even though they are guilty.

Chavez and the United Farm Workers: he helped get rights for Mexican-American get rights so that they can get equal pay and same things that African-American wanted.

FHA and ADA: Fair house act band people from denying to sell or rent under racism thoughts. and the Americans with Disability act made sure that everything is equal for people with disabilities.

Filibusters: Was to lengthen the period for debating new laws so that they would not be passed.

Sit-Ins and other Protests: They were there to show that we will fight for our freedom.

Media

http://bunow.bloomu.edu/3047-the-effects-of-reality-television-on-our-society

Yes, teenagers are influenced by the media. Because the media provides the push for teeagers to do things that they never would. Also they would give people that we look up to, so that once we see them doing something new and we like it we would also do it. Just like in the 1950's when we started buying things just because we saw an advertisment promosing it will get the job done.

sexism

This picture demonstrates sexism because it is showing that only woman clean the house and teach their daughters how to clean and use wax to shin the floor and anything else that is wood. Women doing the work and staying at the house presents women as the weak and can only do house work with help of store bought items.

Short Story

A young boy was playing out side, and he accidental makes a fool of himself. He runs inside and finds himself looking at paintings of his ancestors that served in all the wars that the US was in. When he looked up at the pictures he thought to himself, "i bet these heroes didn't care if they did the wrong thing because they are now heroes". So then the young boy decided to become one of those heroes. He even imagined his picture on the wall of fame and books that told stories about his courageous adventures. Left outside play as if nothing happened that man lived on to be the great William Gills.

Topic.10 study guid

McCarthyism impact on society:House Committee of UnAmerican Activities. McCarthy accused Department of State of harboring Communists. people just wanted to get what they want through revenge or blaming people that had nothing to with communism.

Communist "witch hunt" and impact on those accused:was supported by anti-Communist groups. The impact was that it imprisoned hundreds,and thousand lost their jobs.

Space Race impact on government policies:It began the cold war, and had the government in vest in the education system more.

Cold War mindset for the US government and public: the US was not happy that we lost the technology race to space. Also people stared to fear communism.

Relationship of suburbs, automobiles, and roads: buying automobiles lead people to live out in the suburbs, so than they needed fast roads to get them to the cities, so the Highway Act was passed.

Baby Boom: it happened because of the twenty years of depression and war time. so people began to have many kids and have more items. the baby boom is giving us problems now because of social security.

Urban-Suburban pattern: it went like this Business District, inner City = low income families, suburbs = middle income families, further suburbs = high income families

GI Bill:it helped returning solders to get money for education.

Expansion of the middle class (why things were affordable):was because of the baby boom, affordable homes and credit cards.

Casablanca

In Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular bar in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine gets two valuable letters of transit. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo. Rick was suprised to see that Lazslo arrived with Ilsa, Rick's one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan but then at the air port Rick tells Lazslo to go with her and explains what she did in order for them to recieve the letters of transit, and lets them go on the plain to America.

Topic.09 Concept Guide

Job of women during WWI: nursing, took jobs of men that were in the war.
Cause and effect of use of the Atomic Bomb: the cause is that Japan did not want to surrender. the effect is that two cities were destroyed and radiation made that area unlivable.
U.S Foreign policy before, during, and after WWII: before we were isolation/neutrality then during the war we became internationalist.
Effects of WWII of Europe: it was destroyed and the took money from the US to rebuild.
Effect of Pearl Harbor: the US entered WWII
Japanese Interment: the US took Japanese-Americans and moved them to camps, because they feared spies.
Neutrality laws: they were put in 1937 and 1939 they made US war ships disarm all their weapons.
Purpose of Propaganda: is to drive people to help do the right thing to help people at war.
Rationing: the US people were put on rationing so that the military would have enough resources to make weapons for the war.
Results of WWII: the allies won and European cities were destroyed.

Timeline

1939
1.Hitler invades Poland on 1 September. Britain and France declare war on Germany two days later.
1940
2.German 'Blitzkrieg' overwhelms Belgium, Holland and France.
3.Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
4.British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans.
1941
5.President Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Act.
6.Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of Russia.
7.Allies take Tobruk in North Africa, and resist German attacks.
8.Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and the US enters the war.
1942
9.Germany suffers setbacks at Stalingrad and El Alamein.
10.Singapore falls to the Japanese in February - around 25,000 prisoners taken.
11.American naval victory at Battle of Midway, in June, marks turning point in Pacific War.
12.Mass murder of Jewish people at Auschwitz begins.
1943
13.Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany's first major defeat.
14.Allied victory in North Africa enables invasion of Italy to be launched.
1944
15.Allies land at Anzio and bomb monastery at Monte Cassino.
16.Soviet offensive gathers pace in Eastern Europe.
17.D Day: The Allied invasion of France. Paris is liberated in August.
1945
18.Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops.
19.Russians reach Berlin: Hitler commits suicide and Germany surrenders on 7 May.
20.Truman becomes President of the US on Roosevelt's death, and Attlee replaces Churchill.
21.After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrenders on 14 August.

Holocaust surviver Abreham Bergman

1. Did you or any of your friends tell anyone that you and your friends were being harassed by classmates after school?
2. In the camps that you were taken to did you ever see the Nazi's killing people for fun?
3. In the camps did you make friends that helped you n the future? and if so how?
4. When you were among the thirty people with the three S.S. officers did you feel that they were going to kill everyone there?
5. When you came to the new countries did you have someone to help you and get you started in your new life?

Show and Tell

This is a gas mask. this was used to prevent gas that is produced by chemical weapons from entering the human body.

To get an idea for which regions of the world are currently threatened by genocide, check out the United States Holocaust Museum's "Who's at Risk?"

The U.S should get involved with regions that are threatened by genocide for many reasons. One reason is that if one entire race or religion is lost, we lose a culture and things that may benefit us in the future. For example we may lose herbs or medicine which may be the cure diseases that are fatal now. Also if a lot of people get killed, one of the people that died might have grown up to be a scientist that developed a way to cure hereditary diseases. So those kids that got killed in the Holocaust could have been the saviors of many lives.

After we discuss the Rape of Nanking in class, check out the BBC article about the Japanese denial of this atrocity. Too often in classrooms around

We should be able to learn about all of history, and it should not be censored. because when the war or massacre happened it was not censored to the people that committed it. Also we are mature and smart enough to handle topics such as the Rape of Nanking. because if we were not then we would not be considered high school students.

Cinderella Man Outline

Starting Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti. Cinderella Man

The movie talks about how a washed up boxer makes it in the depression. It starts by showing one of his fights before the depression. Then it shows how hard it was for him and his family to get money, stay healthy, and keep his kids from being spread out to relatives that can take care of them. Even if he has to use Public Relief. Then his old manager comes by and says he has a fight for him with the number one contender that is going to fight the heavy wight champion. He wins the fight and the crowed starts to demand his fights. His manager begs Jimmy to give him fights, he gets the fights. As Braddock keeps winning his fights with his determination, he is declared to be the number one contender to fight the heavy wieght champion Max Bear. Even though his wife did not want him to fight Max Bear, because Max has killed 2 men in the ring, he takes the fight any way. On fight day the curch is filled with people that want him to win. In the end he beats Max and becomes the heavy wight champion even thogh he is a light wight boxer.

Alcatraz

Alcatraz is inescapable literary because it is an island that is surrounded by very cold water that is hard to swim in without freezing. It is inescapable figurativly because the climate can change quickly making it hard for the prisoner to comprehend what is going on and what season it is.

acrostic poem

People came over
Rounding up the boos
Ooh no the popo are
Here run
Into the harbor
But don't forget
I was never Here
Tonight we go out
Into the town center we go
On to the world where
No police are there

Rolling with my friends
Out in the town
Alerting the flappers
Ruling the streets
In the town
No one stopping us
Going to the fun house

Tonight
We live it up
Entertainment is the key
No one is going to stop us
Tonight
Into the zone we
Escape for no one is
Eurrounding us tonight

Topic.07 Concept Guide

The Scopes Trial: is a case when religion and science went up against each other in court.
Prohibition: is when the 18th amendment was past, prohibiting sale and manufacture of alcohol.
Flappers: were women that cut their hair short and wore short close that showed their legs.
Economic Issues: credit available to consumer, low interest rates, installment plan
Dust Bowl: is when new machine were used to harvest which made farmers over use the land and when the wind blew it lifted the land and went for miles.
Agricultural Issues: the lad was over used making it unusable to farm.
Immigration Policies: on 2% of the amount of the people in the U.S from a country can be admitted.
Nativism: the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
significant literary works: how the other half lives, jungle, unsafe at any speed.
The great migration: is when African Americans moved from the south to the north.
Harlem Renaissance: is when African Americans embarrassed their music, culture, and dance.
Sacco and Vanzetti: they were anarchist charged with a crime.
Labor Issues: there was a lot of people but not enough jobs.
the red scare: is when people were afraid of communism.
schneck v. the united states: espionage and sedition acts were declared constitutional by the supreme court.

Write a reflection on what you learned from the organized crime small group presentations.

During the organized crimes presentations I learned that the reason that the gangsters in the past succeeded. One reason is that the bosses had a well thought out plans that would be simple to accomplish by their workers. Another reason is that the cops and other legal Federal agents would be bought off. Also the system back then did not have good procedures, but that changed after the gangster era.