Social Studies

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Social Studies

• Chapter 9
• By Ashlie Armstrong
• ForMs.Fetter

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Lesson 1 Voc.

• Superpowers-the most powerful
• nations.
• Airlift-a system of bringing in supplies by
  airplane.
• Missile-a rocket that can carry a bomb for long
  distances.
• Arms Race-when one country builds weapons to
  protect itself against another country.

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Lesson 1 notes!

• The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Soviet
  missiles in Cuba made Americans nervous during
  Cold War.
• The East German government built a concrete wall
  to divide Berlin to keep East Berliners from
  escaping to freedom in West Berlin .
• The Korean War occurred when North Korea tried to
  make all Korea a communist nation.
• The first big rock and roll star of the 1950s
  was ELVIS PRESLEY.

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IMPORTANT DATES!!

• 1948Berlin Blockade and
• airlift.
• 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1969Apollo mission to the moon.

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Lesson 3 Voc.

• 1. Nonviolence- peaceful ways (without
  fighting)
• 2. Integration- the bringing together of all
  races of people in education,jobs,and housing.

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Lesson 3 NOTES!

• 1.The Civil Rights Act that Congress passed in
  1964 made segregation in public places illegal in
  the United States.
• 2.Other groups following the lead of African
  Americans in seeking equal rights in the 1960s
  and 70s included Native Americans and women.
• 3.Two African American leaders who were
  assassinated in the 1960s were Martin Luther
  King Jr., and Malcom X.

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Acts of MArtin Luther King Jr.

• Ways that Martin acted as a responsible
  citizen to fight injustice are listed below
• fought against segregation
• fought for integration and rights
• led a boycott
• led protest marches
• made speeches

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Ways to be a responsible citizen!

• Keep your neighborhood clean
• Mow the lawn for an elder
• Recycle old newspapers and cans/bottles
• Collect can goods for the needy
• Donate your spare time to a hospital by doing
  volunteer work there.
• Visit the elderly at nursing homes

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Lesson 4 Voc.

• Inflation-when more and more money is needed to
  buy the same goods and services.(prices go up)
• Public opinion-what people thought
• Hawks-people who supported the war
• Doves-people who wanted the war to end
• Scandal-an action that brings disgrace
• Cease fire-when shooting and bombing end/stop

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Lesson 4 Notes!

• gtPresident Lyndon Johnsons plan to make life
  better for all Americans in the 1960s was called
  the Great Society.
• gtThe Vietnam War caused
• inflation
• President Johnson to decide not to seek
  reelection
• communist to try to take over South
  Vietnams government
• gtPresident Richard Nixon resigned during the
  Watergate scandal.
• gtPresident Nixon brought the Vietnam War to an
  end in 1975.

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Lesson 5 Voc.

• 1. Arms control-limits the number of
  weapons that nations may have.
• 2. Detente-an easing of tensions between
  countries.
• 3.hostage-prisoners that are held by force
  until the other persons demands are met.

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Lesson 5 NOTES!

• 1.The easing of tensions between the u.s. and the
  Soviet Union was called detente.
• 2.when President George Bush predicted a new
  world order after the Soviet Union collapsed,he
  meant that a world without the conflicts and
  alliances of the past would dev.
• 3.After the Cold War ended, serious trouble spots
  remained in Yugoslavia and the Middle East.

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Easing the Cold War tensions!

• Richard Nixon did many things to ease the Cold
  War tensions between China and the Soviet Union
  such as
• visiting both countries
• increasing trade with both countries
  
• increasing scientific and cultural
  cooperation w/both
• negotiating arms control agreements
  with the Soviet Union

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THE END!!!!