You know you're in TS1

When “qui aime bien châtie bien” is your motto.
When fire drills replace our Tuesday philosophy classes.
Quand la pipette d’Eric est bonne pour tout le monde et quand on touche sa gicle.
Quand Patrick doit faire un p’tit coup de pipi.
Quand Johanna se prend la lampe.
When Aneyn comes in class late with coffee and says “Vous avez reçu mon mail?” and there’s a dead silence.
When Lea refuses to buy a Ti-89 because her Casio is better.
When Marie is always asking to turn the AC off because she’s cold.
When Francesco is.
When you are actually surprised that Jonas showed up to class.
When Romain’s class notes are artwork.
When Antoine’s hair coming alive is a daily event.
When Hakan understands jokes three hours after everyone else.
When you think Ann-Sophie is the only one that understands Mr. Leylavergne’s humor.
When Nicolas says: “Coucou coquine! Chaud bouillant? La base, arrête de faire la meuf… Non j’rigole.”
When Rebecca’s hair manages to block the board and be your trousse.
When Margaux gets caught with gum, throws it away, and is chewing once again five minutes later.
When Mr. Lawson and Mr. Yvelin insult each other… through us.
When seeing “YES” written at the end of a hard math exercise makes you happy even though you know it’s nerdy.
When hair comes up in every single conversation.

History-Cold War in US Part II

Aim: America in the 1950s: Politics, Cold War at Home & Suburbanization

1. KQ: Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
2. What are some examples of the conservatism of his presidency?
3. Why was conservatism valued in those years?

1. War Hero ⇒ immensely popular
2. Architect of D-Day invasion
3. Calm/serene leader
4. Courted by both parties in 1945
5. 1951 – declares candidacy as Republican
6. Vice President Nixon ⇒ attacking Alger Hiss in 1946 for treason
7. K1C2 = campaign slogan against Adlai Stevenson
-Victory and end to Korean War
-Communism and corruption must be ended

2. Eisenhower’s Governing:
-Moderate Republican: cabinet included corporate leaders
-Conservative economic ideas ⇒laissez-faire, keep government out of economy
-Pro-business ⇒ submerged Land Act
$40 billion worth of land opened to oil drilling
-Cabinet included corporate CEOs. Close to GM
-Appointments to FTC sympathetic to corporate/big business interests

Eisenhower also supported some “liberal” programs:
-Expanded social security
-Expanded unemployment benefits
-Increased minimum wage
-National Defense Education Act (1957) ⇒ Sputnik reaction
Goal: to improve science programs
-Reluctant to initiate tax cuts

Critiques of Eisenhower:
1. Economic growth = 2,5% (stagnant, too little)
2. Failure to address civil rights questions
(Exception = Little Rock, 1957)



Aim:
1) Suburbanization
2) Consumerism
3) Postwar Cultural Shirts

Suburbanization: move out of cities to surrounding areas, in search of better quality of life
-4 room homes, plot of ground
-By 1960: 25% of Americans lived in suburbs
-Marriage doubled= need for living space, raising children: Baby Boom
-Grilling space
-Government encouraged home building and purchase VA and FHA: provided loans
-Highway ACT (1956)
-1950-1960: 11 million homes built in suburbs
18 million people moved to suburbs

Consumerism: when individuals are considered economically as consumers.
-Mass consumption: home appliances, cars, TVs, lawnmowers, fridge, knives, grills, clothing, electronics, radios, durable appliances (washing machine), supermarket groceries, conspicuous consumption.
-Advertising encourages consumption to demonstrate social mobility and represent an “American Dream” come true
-Family vacations

sorry Johanna (it's all in good fun)

Dance dance revolution:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1341040210574&oid=133355134071&comments

History-Cold War in US

Cold War in the US

December 7, 2010

Aim: 1) The Failure of Truman’s Liberal program, 145-1946

KQ: What happened to FDR’s liberal programs during the Truman Administration?

1. Liberal program:

FDR= New Deal 1933-1935

-Social Security, welfare state, housing, employment, satisfying labor demands (raising wages) protecting jobs

-Program if Democratic Party

-FDR’s legacy

2. FDR’s programs:

-Cut short by war

-War created jobs, which replaced New Deal employment programs

-WPA+NYA+ were abandoned

3. Truman’s liberal legislative program (1945):

-Full employment

-Higher wages

-National housing legislation

4. Result in Congress

- Truman lacks a liberal majority in Congress

-Amendments to bill: substituted “full employment” with “maximum employment” which accepted 5-6% unemployment

-Failed to increase minimum wage

-Did not extend SS

-$4 billion to aid business industry

5. Why did the liberal programs fail?

Chafe, p. 75

-Government negative response to social activism (trade union protest) because the politics of anti-communism stigmatized liberals and liberal programs as sympathetic to Communism. “Red Scare”

-Postwar changes in housing, prosperity and consumerism were positive for many Americans, thus the American people’s demand and need for state-sponsored liberal programs receded.

*NB: Not all Americans shared in the postwar prosperity

6. Consequences:

- 1946 Legislative elections won by Republicans

- Elections of Senator McCarthy and Nixon

-Rise of politics of anticommunism

- Protests by labor unions (anti-government)

HAWK ON

hello everyone,

Hakan will kindly be posting his history notes in the onglet Hawk On for OIB from now. I've sent invitations to you all to make you authors so hopefully you'll be able to post stuff no probably. There's an email alert but I could only add 10 people (sorry bout that, I assumed :followers" of the blog already get email updates)
Anyways, best wishes to you Hakan, fingers crossed.
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