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What is the goal of containment?

- To keep communism within its present territory through the use of diplomatic, economic, and military actions.

How is GREECE the first battlefront in the cold war?

- The US could no longer afford to help Greece.

What is the Marshall plan?

- Giving European nations aid to help to rebuild their economics.

What is the Berlin Airlisft?

- Cargo planes would deliver food, medicine, and other supplies to Berlin.

What is NATO?

- the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

What happened in China?

- the US. Attacked china to prevent a communist revolution which made them flee to Taiwan.

Make a 5 step timeline in Korean War.

1. MacArthur lands his troops behind enemy lines

2. The Chinese saw the UN as a threat and drove them back to the 38th parallel

3. The Chinese were taken by the UN in Pyongyang 

4. The Chinese showed their counter offense on the UN

5. An armistice line was made to have peace

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Comprehension questions, Chapter 13-1
Write on paper, or on blog.

What was the goal for Roosevelt after the war?  What were Soviet goals about Germany?

- Roosevelt was hoping for a more peaceful world with a better economy. The soviets became concerned about the security. The Soviets wanted to keep Germany weak and make sure that the countries between Germany and the Soviet Union were under their control.

What did FDR think was 'key' to world peace?

- FDR thought that economic growth was the key to world peace. They wanted to do that by increasing world trade.

What was 'declaration of liberated europe, and how successful was it?'

- It gave the right to the people to choose the form of government under which they will live. The declaration of liberated Europe was successful.

How was Germany to be controlled?

- by being divided into four zones. Great Britain, the US, soviets, and France each controlled one zone.

What was Truman's view about how to deal with USSR?

- Truman told Stalin that he he needed to hold free elections like he promised.

What is a satellite nation?

- The communist countries of Eastern Europe. 

What is an 'iron curtain'

- The wall separating the east and west of Europe. On one side there is the communist nation and on the other is the non-communist nation.

Earth Day

Movie Summary - 

"A Fierce Green Fire" is a movie about the huge environmental movement during the 20th century. During this time people started realizing the impact of what they were doing had on the earth and  realized they needed to change what they were doing. The movie gets an in depth looks at activism, and people doing everything in their power to make progress towards a happier and healthier world. The movie looks at many previously unknown environmental hazards, like the Love Canal, and how many people worked together in order to save their lives. "Watch Film: A Fierce Green Fire." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014.

Pollution -

A study done in Mongolia found a large relation of the use of coal- burning stoves, and chance of a miscarriage. This data, brings up the idea that coal is one of the many things that is polluting our air system, and leading to major problems like miscarriages.  Researchers say that the evidence is "alarmingly strong," that coal fumes are bad to be inhaling while pregnant, so it makes you wonder what other impacts coal fumes have on people. If humans as a whole can try to prevent pollution the world would become a much better place, causing less diseases and other impacts on people.

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. "Pollutants from coal-burning stoves strongly associated with miscarriages in Mongolia." SienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 April 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140423142830.htm>.

How what we eat effects the world around us - 

This article discusses a new report about how harmful mass consumption of dairy and meet is. Those two food categories are staples in many peoples diets, which is not very good. It takes so much energy, especially nitrogen, to produce that food and get it on your dinner table, that nitrogen pollutants are becoming a bigger and bigger deal. Another problem with the massive dairy and meet consummation, is that the animals who provide the food for us, take up lots of space. There will be a point when our society runs out of farmland, and our food production will reach a plateau. I guess we will cross this bridge when we come to it.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. "Nitrogen pollution, climate and land use: Why what we eat matters." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 April 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140425093605.htm>.

My Opinion - 

If we want to change any of theses things it will mostly depend on what we do in our everyday life. If it is either not littering that one piece of trash or not eating that one meal that would be harmful. For something to happen we need to take action as a whole, doing one small thing at a time as a community.