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The Vietnam war was the first televised war.
Vietnam was under the Ho Chie Men rule.
America was paying 80102140f the cost in the war.
The end for the Fremch lost at Dien Bien Fu and surrendered. It has the same effect on ths French as the Tet offensive did on the American.
August 16, 1964-Matix was destroyed- Tonkin Resolution...the ship ended up being a spy ship.
Johnson ordered a round the clock bombing of Vietnam. The bombed area was only about 70 miles From the Dong Bien Yung Airbase.
Saigon only had an upper and lower economix classrs ...no middle class.
During the 1967's almost half of all the soldiers that fought were brought in.
The vietcong were violent.
6 CBS Employes were beaten after they had been captured.
The boldest Vietcong move was at Huey City.
Chemical gas was used for defence at the embassy.
Vietnam oboe has 1 main road to Huey City.
Khe Sahn-Was supplied by air which ended up buy
45,000 were killed by the Viet Cong during the war.
Vietnam Video Section 2
Nixon called the Cambodian _________the most successful move in the war
Many American soldiers were becoming rebels and would even get high by smoking marijuana through a shotgun.
Well over 50& of the soldiers in Vietnam used marijuana.
The combats trrops had more insight into the war than anybody else.
The North Vietnamese were generally more successful because they were braver and stronger than the South Vietnamese.
There was great question as to if the Americans should go back and risk trying to help the prisoners escape.
“Men who are close to death, are close to each other”
The Americans were forced to attack areas with women and children that lived in the area.
More than 7 million tons of bombs were dropped on Indo-China during the Vietnam war. It was more than all of the bombs in World War 1.
More than 10,000 citizens were wounded or hospitalized during the first 3 months.
An estimated 100,000 Vietnams citizens were wounded during the war.
The Vietnamese had many people willing to kill themselves for the war.
1,300 Americans went missing.
Many prisoners were released.
Vietnamese president “CHU” abandoned his country. Many Vietnamese wanted to board the American helicopters. American soldiers were left as they were able to to get off a plane to help other up, but not ablt to get back on due to maximum occupancy. People rode on the wheels, ladders, and cargo spaces of the plane. There were an additional 208 people inside th plane.
Over 1,500 people lines up outside of the embassy.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Vietnam Video
The Century 1970
In the 70's America expected everything to go smooth.
The previous generarion becanse known as Generation X and the next known as the babyboomer generation.
Kenedy had just had the top removed from the car that otherwise would have protected him...Not a conspiracy
People from the opposing party cheered at the assassinatioj if Kenedy and were attacked.
Los Angeles riots
6,000 soldiers in Arlington memorial
LBK declared war on poverty
Martin Luther King speeches
Blacks could register to vote on certain days with help of the approval from a white person.
Blackpanthers were somewhat violent.
Malcon X Seperatist
Martin Luther King was effective with confronting the enemy, Malcom X did not make any progress.
Black Panthers were formed in Oakland, CA.
1965 Watts Riots
1965 Rolling Stones Came In
San Francisco was the carefree city.
Women were given more control with birth control pills.
Airline attendants were dismissed on their 30th birthday.
The Century 1970
The police would beat people during the riots and protest.
Injuries and beatings werenxommon among the protest.
Most of the upper class did not fight in the war.
Johnson decides not to run in 1968.
April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King I'd assassinated.
Kennedy gets elected in 1960 after he announced the death of Martin Luther King at Annapolis.
The Assassination of Kennedy was the first incident of terror by Islam.
Sirhan Sirhan
1968 Hosted a violent Democratic National Convention
The democratic party attacked itself.
Nixon won his election by 48 states.
Richard Millhouse Nixon
The Simpsons got "Millhouse" from Nixon.
During the Eisenhower administration Kennedy was the guy who could attack the other party.
Buzz
600,000,000 people are watching.
1/5 of the population.
In 1969, there were still many riots.
People walked around the presidential ignaturation with communist flags from Vietnam, China, and Cuba
November of 1969; 700,000 people were opposed to the war.
When America goes into Cambodia, protest across 350 college campuses are attacked or rioted.
58102140f Americans agreed that during the riots, National Guards had the right to fire when attacked or the crown could not be controlled.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
German War Notes
Germany began in 1871
First War withpoison gas tanks and full weaponry...
The War to End All Wars
1915 Boat Sunk by German U Boat
128 Americans on Board
Ford popularized cars
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WW1 Notes
1914 Ferdinand Killed
Heads to Sarajevo on a special train.
Sickly child: TB
Sophie - Wife
Not Royal
Constantly Travel
Hate Austrian Government
Queen Victoria was the grandmother of Kaiser II
Nicholas II- Russian Cousin killed due to terrible leadership.
Possible surviving children Nicholi and Anastesia
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Atomic Bomb Movie
Atomic Bomb Movie
Pushed Tritium bomb (George)
Edward Teller is the father of the modern nuclear bomb.
Wet bomb-hydrogen bomb
IvyMike first full scale thermonuclear 10 megaton bomb.
500 Miles off the San Diego coast. Detonated 2000 miles underwater
(Wigwam) (1956)
Cherokee 3.5 Megatons
Test Reneir
First Controlled Underground Test
Teke is the first bomb to show signs of EMP damage from 3.5 Megaton
explosion 50 miles above the surface of the earth.
Pulse Wave
Electromagnetic Wave
Monster Bomb
57Megatons
Reduced from 100 Megatons
Deliverable by plane.
1963 Kenedy signs a treaty with Russia...limited test bomb treaty.
Between 1945 and 1962, there were 331 atmospheric bombs detonated.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The Century 1960
4/16/2008
The Century 1960
Simply sitting down at the counter made an activist stand for the
Greenboro stand.
In the early 1960's most activist were young.
The cold war last from 1945-1989.
Nixon and Kenedey pushes for anti-comunism. Nixon seems to work harder.
In 1960 the first ever Presidential debate is held between Kenedy and
Nexon. It is produced by Don Juett of 60 minutes, and brodcasted on tv.
Nixon was the first President to appeae on tv for Bay of Pigs invasion.
In 1960 the Soviet built the Berlin wall.
October 13, 1962 Kenedy gives a speech on how low the minimum wage
income is. At the same time America begins the 13 days of the Cuban
Missle Crisis. The President the decides to blockade Cuba.
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5/27/2008
The Century 1960 (2)
George Wallace:
Segtegstion now, segregation later, segregation forever.
Bull Conner was running the law enforcement in Birmingham
Bull was notorious for using firehouse and dogs on people.
Ngodimdiem
NO-JIM-DIM
Vietcong were considered insurgents
President Diem (Catholic) allowed his people to set themselves on fire.
The President and his family were assassinated without any replacement.
Ford teaches driving courses in Vietnam to prevent accidents by future Ford owners.
In 1963 Kenedy and Kruschaw decided to stop testing nuclear weapons above ground.
1964 fair was the premier of the mustang....famous globe
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Century 1950
The Century 1950
Returning from Korea
Statement "Don't get involved if North Korea attacks South
Korea"....they attack.
Eisenhower campaigned that Aneroca would win on the Korean War.
54th ladder
Eisenhower (Republican) was relaxed.
97% of all men were married by age 18.
The beging of track housing.
There were many couples.
It was an open neighborhood.
The begining of outdoor malls.
The TV tube.
Most shows were filmed live.
The shows were not very good.
In 1950 75% of Americans had a tube,
Band Stand was a dancing show that Elvis sang on and Bunny Gibson
danced on.
Ed Sullivan considered Elvis to be "Down and Vulgar". He thm booked
Elvis for his show in the Ed Sullivan Theatre. Modern day David
Letterman
1945 Rosa Parks staged the Birmingham bus boycot.
Her pastor Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged this among the community.
381 days later on November 13, 1956 the city ended the bus segregation.
Central High, Little Rock, Arkansas
Elizabeth Etfors
Anne Thompson
21st Airborn sent from Georgia to escort 9 blacks into the school. The
group was sent by Eisenhower.
1956 Federal Highway System
All of the bridges were built at least 15 feet high so they could
carry nuclear missles.
1945-1961
Over 300 above bombs were dropped.
The San Diego test flips over a battleship.
October 4, 1957
The Russians beat America into space with the Sputnic. It can
physically be seen in the sky as the ultrasonic beep can be heard from
above.
July 25, 1959
The America. Convention in Russia (Soviet)
Nixon mentions that they have better rocket thrusters but America has
color tv and decidees to invite the Russian leader to America.
For the first time, Americas realizes television had a bad side.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Just to say, this is probably the first blog ever to have any post directly from my iPhone notes. Someone tried claiming this AFTER I had post through blogger from by iPhone, but this is iPhone only. So I have as far as I know made both the first post ever from Iphone Notes on my other blog (link coming later). I am not sure that anybody has ever really thought of using the iPhone Notes Email feature combined with Bloggers Email to post feature...username.blogaddress@blogger.com
Just to say, this is probably the first blog ever to have any post
directly from my iPhone notes. Someone tried claiming this AFTER I had
post through blogger from by iPhone, but this is iPhone only. So I
have as far as I know made both the first post ever from iPhone Notes
on my blog. I am not sure that anybody has ever really thought of
using the iPhone Notes Email feature combined with Bloggers Email to
post feature...username.blogaddress@blogger.com
Monday, February 11, 2008
1914 Ferdinand Killed
1914 Ferdinand Killed
Heads to Sarajevo on a special train.
Sickly child: TB
Sophie - Wife
Not Royal
Constantly Travel
Hate Austrian Government
Queen Victoria was the grandmother of Kaiser II
Nicholas II- Russian Cousin killed due to terrible leadership.
Possible surviving children Nicholi and Anastesia
Monday, January 28, 2008
iPhone notes
I am going to be posting notes here. These notes are coming right off
my iPhone so they are not perfect. They will be cleaned be and
reposted later.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Emancipation Proclamation is said to have:
a) Made slavery illegal. 1. Did the Emancipation Proclamation really set all of the salves free? 2. Why was Theodore Roosevelt able to reduce crime better than others? 3. Why did the construction of the canal prove to be so deadly? 4. How many estimated deaths were there during the construction of the 5. What essentially caused WW1? 6. Who was blamed for the war? 7. Was it really necessary to build "The White City" 8. Why was the key element of the 1918 Pandemic that made it so deadly? 9. What country did the pandemic start in? 10. What was it that caused the United States to attack Saddam and Iraq? 11. Why was it so difficult to prove Saddam had weapons? 12. If not Chicago, who would most likely have hosted the world fair? 13. Who hosted the previous world fair? Where? 14. Why was the world expositon so important to the inovation of 15. What was the main goal or purpose of building the Ferris wheel 1. No, only if the states that were just joining or were to rejoin the 2. He was able to reduce the amount of crime because he went out 3. The South American forest was full of Malaria and other diseases 4. An estimated 15,000 not including the French. 5. The assination of Arch Duke Frans Ferdinand. 6. Germany 7. Yes it was necessary because much of Jackson Park was all swamp 8. The virus was very quickly spread but was bot very deadly. 9. Spain 10. The invasion of Kuwait, and attack on Iraq at Halabja. 12. New York 13. France; Paris 14. It brought all of the latest inovation from around the world 15. To outstand the Eifel Tour
b) Set all the slaves free.
c) Freed slaves in new states joining the Union.
d) Made slavery illegal in all states.
Panama Canal?
America?
from the fairs perspective?
Union were not to have slaves. It just made slaverly illegal.
himself and saw what needed to be done.
that were carried by insects and bugs.
before the exposition.
together and allowed average Americans to see and be inspired by it.
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