Dec.+5th-+9th

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December 5, 2011 Christine Crimmins 1950's known for: __**Youthful Rebellion**__ Rock N' Roll music: Beatnik Generation:
 * __Baby Boomers!__**
 * rise in technology and medicine
 * comfort and security
 * suburbs (Levittowns)
 * cool cars
 * conveniences (McDonald's)
 * television
 * shopping malls
 * commercialisms
 * mixture of country and jazz
 * appealed to both black and white teens
 * sexual in nature
 * rejected the commercialism of time
 * promoted sex and drugs
 * authored books about unconventional experiences
 * example: Jack Keruac
 * __The Boiling Pot of Civil Rights__**
 * 1) liberal politicians/leaders
 * 2) rise of civil right leaders: MLK, Rosa Parks
 * 3) Brown vs. Board of Education
 * 4) Rock N' Roll
 * 5) Youth
 * 6) ???? Mr. Kyle forgets ?????

December 6, 2011 Logan TeBeau

First we discussed the homework worksheet (front side only) and went over the answers on the board


 * __Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)__**
 * separate but equal ruling


 * __Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)__**
 * in Topika, Kansas
 * 9-0 ruling in the case for it not being separate but equal
 * ends the separate but equal law created by the Plessy vs. Ferguson case


 * Next we watched a Youtube about the Little Rock Nine.
 * Then we learned about the Race Roits of 1969 in York City
 * Finally we read articles with a partner to create a venn diagram comparing Malcolm X and Martin Luther King

P.S. Andro and I switched notes days due to my absence on Nov. 30th. He posted them late because we switched and I took his day.

December 7, 2011 Austin Beck Four site testing December 9, 2011 Bekah Quickel


 * __Paper Writting-__**
 * Always write in past tense
 * No contractions - can't, won't
 * NO first person words
 * No cheesy openings

**//__1960's__//** __**John F. Kennedy**__- (1960-1963)
 * Elected by a narrow margin in 1960
 * Elected because he looked good
 * Promised to represent American youth
 * First Catholic president
 * Democratic


 * __Bay of Pigs Invasion-__**
 * Cuba falls to Communism in 1959
 * New leader is Fidel Castro
 * CIA makes plans to overthrow Castro
 * Provided Cuban rebels weapons to overthrow Castro in 1961
 * Results: Failure, Castro's military crushed rebels and Kennedy looks like a fool


 * __Cuban Missile Crisis-__**
 * Soviets put nuculear missile in Cuba-
 * America gets nervous- cuba is 90 miles away
 * Stand off between U.S. (Kennedy) and Soviets (Khrushchev)
 * Options-
 * Generals- Bomb Cuba
 * Liberals- Make a deal, we take nukes out of Asia if they take nukes out of Cuba
 * Plan of compromise
 * The Decision-
 * Navel blockade around Cuba
 * Soviets sent attack ships
 * Kennedy said he would attack if Soviets attacked us first
 * World stops for fear of nuculear war and the beginning of WWIII
 * Ending-
 * Soviets turn around
 * Nukes taken out of Asia and Cuba
 * Kennedy is a hero!
 * Closest the world has ever gotten to a nuculear war