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**// This is the 8th grade exit project. It is about wrestling and war. The decade chosen was the 1960s. //** // In 1960 wrestling was the first Olympic game on TV. Wrestling go’s even farther back so let’s start there. Wrestling started in Rome with Zeus and coronus when they wrestled for the universe and Zeus out wrestled coronus so they threw a big event called the pentathion. When The Romans fought said a prayer to the gods to help them wrestle and when one person wins he thinks he has been blessed by the gods but this was nothing new Sumerian cove drawings were found in Mesopotamia indicating that wrestling has been around for more than 7,000 years. The gods had one final event of the pentaion but wrestling went on. Over 5,000 athletes competed and represented 83 countries. // // In 1961 Gracie won three of the first wrestling tournaments and lost the next 4 and also made this device called the knee pad the knee pad helps you get a better shot on the person you are wrestling and take them down easier and you wont hurt your nee as bad and you will be more mobile. There is a move called the double leg take down and it is one of the most highly utilized wrestling moves the act of stopping this opponents strike is usually with a arm or other limbs also used for blocking purposes. // // `In 1962 Pope John X111 was called up for service in world war 1. later latter in 1962 pope john x111 was representative in turkey and Greece there he acted as mediator between the conservative church man .In 1953 he was elected pope on Oct, 28 1958.as pope he put reforms into practice. He laid stress on his own pastoral duties as well as those of other bishops. He was active in promoting social for workers and the poor including the orphans and the outcast. He advanced cooperation with other religions. Among his innumerable visitors were many protestant leders. He forbade Roman Catholics to vote for parties supporting communism. A vigorous social document issued July14 1961 just 30 years after pius X1 outrages imoanno advocated social reform pope john X111 almost doubled the number of cardinals making the college the largest in history to that point. The convening of the council on Oct, 11 1962 was the high point of his reign. // // In 1963 more than 70 million people died because of the famine. 1963 India and Bangladesh inapperently eradicating mass mortality food. The paper also examines the evolving discourse around famine causation during the century. If famine is to be completely eradicated during the century this requires not just technical aid but food production and distribution. Tens of millions of people died from lack of food. Famine mortality is often exaggerated it should be noted that morality does not capture the full demographic impact of famine according to contemporary estimates 3,135,000 deaths from the famine in Tanzania alone. Famine is not a matter for historians it has yet to be defeated. Ethiopian died in the 1980 famine that represents 2.28 of the population of 46 million. There have been attempts to explain why famines occurs go back much further than Malthus in the late 1700s. A second source of confusion arises from the difficulty of disentangling trigger factors 2.35% of the population died. // // In 1965 all U.S army personnel are combat trained troops Specialize in branches for specific combat or training jobs. The troops had to go to boot camp for basic combat infantryman’s training. The combat arms branch armor (tanks) artillery (cannons) the infantry branch (formerly fighting men / foot soldiers. In 1990 the U.S army may have added to the combat arms system. The combat arms of the U.S army are the conventional fighting branches of the U.S army (or was during the Vietnam War days)The U.S combat troops along with specialized troops were deployed to South Vietnam in 1955 conventional forces (those combat arms men previously discussed above were actually deployed in 1965 after that general khanh seizes full control of south Vietnams government. The operation rolling thunder begins as over 100 American fighter bombers attack targets in north Vietnam rolling thunder was scheduled to last eight weeks but instead operation rolling thunder went on for 3 years during the entire war the U.S dropped nearly 8million tons of bombs. // // In 1966 the Vietnam veterans memorial was established by the Vietnam veterans memorial fund a nonprofit charitable organization started on April 27 1979 how ever by March 31 1981 the deadline for entries half of these original registrants had only been submitted. Only 245 men were awarded the Medal of Honor. They say that the Vietnam veterans memorial wall is so long it stretches one mile long. The black granet is so you when you look at it you will see your self and its meant so that your reflection is reflecting off the black granet wall and its so you will feel apart of what they fought for and what they did for this country. The Vietnam veteran’s memorial is in a place of public commemoration so people young and old can remember the loss and devastation that occurred during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam veteran’s wall has 58,132 names of men and women who died in the war. The creators had a fight over what order to put the names in so they put them in alphabetical order. Each of the walls are comprised of 70 separate panels with the inscribed names of the 58,132 killed during the war the names are listed in alphabetical order. // // In 1967 western people said it will take the Chinese several years to build the delivery system but in 1960 the soviet military disrupted the peak program but that didn’t stop china from blowing up there first hydrogen bomb it had the force of 20,000 sticks of TNT. Communiqué stated that it was successfully blown up. It was blown up at 3:00pm eastern time after that china became the worlds 5th nuclear nation. Some states doubted that china could have first class military power but the real advantage occurring immediately is psychological. // // In 1968 it was mid – afternoon when the rumble of Russian tanks broke the silence of the streets in Prague Czechoslovakia of august20th 1968 people standing in the way of the tanks people had to step out the way of the tanks just before they would get ran over but since early in the year the Czech government had been aggravating the Russians reports from Prague throughout the siege made constant references to the courageous defiance to the Russian military by the Czech people especially the young Czechs the old people would argue but unlike the young ones like about the ages ten to twelve would instigate. A Russian soldier was shot from the top of a bank and there were bullet holes all in the bank but it ended 2 days latter and 300 people killed. // // In 1969 A bloody fighting between the red Chinese and soviet troops. Soviet troops erupted on a tiny island and each side the red Chinese and soviet troops accused each other of starting a fight so the red Chinese declared a new fight. The fight was continuing and expanding but then the Moscow and Peking charged each other with armed provocation they were warned of the possible consequences the scene of action was a disputed island on the Ussuri River it was 206 miles north of Vladivostok. The Russians call the island damansky the Russians claim it as there territory the Chinese call it chenpao and they insist it is indisputably. Moscow claimed 31 soldiers and they also claimed that those same 31 soldiers were killed in a clash with the red Chinese on March 2nd 1969 and there body’s were never found and they were never heard from again. //
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