Fall of the Soviet Union Dec. 3

Bellwrite #38: How well are you accomplishing your goals for your spelling/vocabulary proposal? Are you actually improving? What adjustments do you need to make to how you are implementing your proposal?

Class B took a small history quiz. I presented key events of the Cold War:

Division of Germany/Berlin at the end of WWII
Marshall Plan
Formation of NATO
Arms Race
MAD
Sputnik (Space Race)
Korean War
Khrushchev
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam
life in the 1970s-80s in the Soviet Union

1. pollution
2. grain shortages
3. shrinking economy
4. low quality consumer goods and inefficient distribution
5. housing and quality of life
6. censorship and misinformation

Afghan-Soviet War
Gorbachev's attempted reforms (glasnost and perestroika)
Satellite revolutions of 1989
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Homework:

• Read the article "The LDS Church and the Berlin Wall" by tomorrow.
• Full Jacob 5 memorization due Friday
• Spelling/vocab check on Friday
• Short story, scene 1 due on Friday