Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank represents people in hiding during the Halocaust. Her family was a jewish family who was living normally until Hitler took over. Annes family left Germany to go to the Netherlands during WW2 because of the risk of being prosecuted by the Nazis. Later then, Germany invades the Netherlands which forced their family into hiding. They then moved into the a secret Annex of their friends house that was hidden behind a book case. The family then has to live in silecne for the majority of the day because of the risk of being found by Nazis. Anne frequently writes about her feeling of lonelyness and isolation, she is starting to notice how her relationship between her family is crumbiling and how she is being critizised by the owners of the house. Throughout the story, the family makes estimates of when the war will be over and when they will be able to come out of hiding but they realize that there is no way to predict what Hitler will do.
   Throughout the story she questions why the Jews are being Persecuted by the Nazis and is questioning if the problem will ever end. Her family has to deal with everyday struggles of having the lack of food and having to be quiet for multiple hours of the day, the family also has to deal with the owners of the house that get more and more tired of them living inside their house everyday. Throughout the two years of them being in hiding, they see how much the Netherlands were destroyed by the Germans, Annes entries describe the horrors of the war and how it Affected the people who lived there. Although Anne still considers her being German, she feels that the Netherlands is her home and is where she feels like she is most home because of seeing the terrors of the Germans and how the Netherlands couldn't really defend themselves much at all.
    At the end of the story it is going on like most days of the story until the one of the pages is left blank which is when her family gets found by the Nazis. Her family was not ready or did not expect the Nazis finding them at all. Her diary represents families in hiding during WW2 and is one of the most popular books in the world.

A Fierce Green Fire Summary (Earth Day)

In the movie "A Fierce Green Fire" it shows the change of the environment from the 1950's to now. The biggest point of the movie was showing how before all of the health and safety regulations the world was a more unhealthy and unsafe place. The movie shows how much pollution was going up into the air which was creating a huge amount of smog and how the government really wasn't doing much to regulate it until President Nixon signed agreements to keep national parks, create smog regulations, and save endangered species. The movie focused on the people of the Greenpeace group who were trying to save whales and other marine life, it showed that a small group can turn into a big organization in no time by publicity and a very bold statement. The Greenpeace group has succeded in stopping whaling in many countries and has saved the life of many whales. The main point in the movie was to show the progress on us protecting the environment and showing the effects on global warming.
Citations:
 "Watch Film: A Fierce Green Fire." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014.
   http://www.earthday.org/
   http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/pollution-overview/

NORAD

NORAD is the North American Aerospace Defense Command  that was created in 1957 to provide a air defense system for North America.  NORAD was created to protect the U.S. and Canada during the Cold War from any nuclear threats from the Soviet Union.  NORAD is still in operation and its main headquarters is at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The reason for NORAD was to protect North America from nuclear missles and bombs during the cold war. It was proposed by  Joint Canada - U.S. Military Group in 1956 and was accepted by the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1957.NORAD was created during a time when the Soviet Union was creating many dangerous nuclear weapons that the U.S. have never heard of or didn't know about, so just to be safe, the U.S. approved the idea of creating an air defense system that protected the U.S. and Canada from nuclear weapons and air strikes. The Government thought NORAD was a good idea because it gives people a warning before a bomb/missle actually hits the U.S. or Canada.
Although the NORAD never has prevented us from ever being bombed, it still kept the U.S. safe during cold war and many other occasions. The Systems of NORAD creates a warning if a nuclear bomb/missles come into site near North America. The Defense system will also launch nuclear defense missles if any nuclear weapons show up on the radar/sensors. The system will also set off a alarm to warn the public to get to shelter if we were ever being bombed or attacked.
There are three main NORAD regions which are Alaska, Canada, and The Continental United States.
The Alaska Region NORAD is active 24 hours and 7 days a week which is capable to detect and warn of any threat that comes into the airspace. The main headquarters is located at the Elmendorf Air Force Base. The Canadian Region NORAD is responsible to detect any threats in the Canadian Airspace. The two main headquarters in Canada are located at the Canadian Force Base Winnipeg and at the Canadian Force Base in North Bay Ontario.  The United States Region  is responsible to detect any threats inside the Continental U.S. Airspace. its response system headquarters is located at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida.
NORAD is one of the only positive things that came out of the Cold War and it has kept the U.S. safe from ever being bombed or attacked from the air.
Fun Fact: NORAD is used to track santa each year.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Aerospace_Defense_Command
              http://www.norad.mil/
              http://www.norad.mil/AboutNORAD/CanadianNORADRegion.aspx
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Notes

Fdr goal: to create world peace

Soviet goal: to make Germay communist.

Key to world peace: trading with other countries. 

Decleration of liberated Europe: people have the right to choose what government they live in. 

Germany controlled: break Germany up in four zones and The U.S., Great Britan, Soviet Union, and France would each control one zone. 

Trumans View: that they needed to stand up to the Russians. 

Satelitte Nation: Communist countries in Eastern Europe. 

Iron Curtain: Seperation between communist Europe and non communist Europe.

Notes

Pearl Harbor: bombing on the U.S on December 7^th, 1941

The Draft: Drafting men to join the army

Rosie The Riviter: A symbol that represented independent women during the war

The Halocaust: The mass killing of anyone not the “Arian Race”

Stalin: Russian leader during WW2.

Hiroshima: The Atomic bomb we dropped on Japan to end the war

Nagaskai: The second atomic bomb we dropped on japan to end the war. 

Script

Ryan: Now to sports, it is May 1st 1924 and The New York Yankees are playing against the Detroit Tigers in the newly built yankee stadium. The Yankees are ahead 4-1 and the game is about to end. It was one of the best games we have seen played by Babe Ruth. Ruth scored 3 of those 4 points and a home run was hit by Everett Scott. The yankees have had a very great season and one of the main reasons why is because of Babe Ruth. After 40 games he has already had 14 home runs! If he keeps this rate going, he will have over 40 home runs by the end of the season. Although the season is only a quarter of the way through, i believe that the yankees will be a part of the world series this year. The yankees next game will be on May 4th playing the Boston Redsox in the Yankees Stadium.
Nick: There use to be a old cowboy that went by the name old yeller he lived happily with his dog sam one day him and his dog sam went on a hike but little did the cowboy know there was a crazy mountain lion that stood at 6 feet tall and shredded anyone to pieces. Sam the dog knew that something wasn’t right he tried to warn his owner but his owner didn’t listen so they kept going for miles until they reached the lions den the lion knew someone was out so he decided to look the cowboy was frightened he locked up struck with fear tried to run but stumbled on a root  however sam the dog was right beside old yeller sam barked and barked slowly frightening the lion away finally the lion went away his owner still frightened pat sam on the back and they walked home like nothing ever happend.

Enola Gay

Enola Gay was a boeing b-29 Superfortress bomber flown by Paul Tibbets during WW2. Enola Gay was picked out by Paul Tibbets in May 1945 while it was still on the assembly line. The plane is most famous for dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and being the first plane to drop an atomic bomb. Right before the Hiroshima mission began Tibbets named the plane Enola Gay after his mom Enola Gay Tibbets, "Enola Gay" was later painted on the nose of the plane right before he took off for the Hiroshima mission. The plane flew from Titian to Hiroshima (a six hour flight) on August 6 1945 planning to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and having Kokura and Nagasaki as backup plans. The bombing went just as planned and dropped the bomb from 31,000 ft on Hiroshima at 8:15. After, Paul Tibbets flew back to the base in Tinian and ended the flight safely. Around 75,000 people were killed by the bomb while 70,000 were injured and 70% of Hiroshimas buildings were completely destroyed. Enola Gay also participated in the bombing of Nagasaki following the bombing of Hiroshima. Although Enola and Paul didn't carry the bomb on the mission, he was the weather rennisance for the mission and first saw that it was not safe to bomb Kokura and insisted to wait until the smoke from the bombing of Yawata cleared out. Paul Tibbets passed away on November 1st, 2007 at the age of 92. Enola Gay restoration started in 1984 and was fully completed in 200. Enola Gay is currently in Washington Dulles International  Airport in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.   

sources: http://www.japanfocus.org/data/tibbets.enola.jpg
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay
              http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/EnolaGay/EnolaGay.html
              http://gtrebekah.edublogs.org/files/2012/02/bombing-1m98zjr.jpg
           

Test Outline

I Intro (Leave Blank for now)

The GDP effected most of America. People were homeless, poor, and had no jobs. Everything changed when FDR was elected, he created the new deal which created job programs, put regulations on the stock market, created a safety net for people who were unemployed.Although many didn't like the new deal, it did get the US out of the GDP and created many good things for people in America.

II Causes (The causes of the great depression were ________, _______, ________)

A overspeculation (Define, how important)

people bowering money from banks to invest in the stock market expecting that they will gain money, made banks loss a lot of money during the GDP.  

B Govt Policy
The government should only do things with approval of congress and the supreme court. 

C Unstable Econ

The economy at the time was unstable because of the amount of war debt we had and how many people were buying things with loans from banks, put companies and banks in debt and out of business. 

1 uneven prosperity

people like blacks, immigrants, and farmers faced hard times during the GDP. Farmers were not as needed as they were during the war, Blacks were segregated in many communities, and immigrants had a tough time finding jobs. 

2 overproduction

Companies produced more products than ever because they believed that they would make all of the money back when people would start buying them, the companies would lose a ton of money once people didn't buy the products that they were producing. 

3 worker issues / farm issues

Workers were not payed as much as they would've liked because of the rate of inflation and farmers faced things like the Dust Bowl when all of there crops were wiped away by dust storms multiple years in a row. 

III Effects

A Poverty

many people lost there jobs which made them poor. 

B Society

people had less nice things and many people were homeless and created "Hoover Towns" (homeless camps).

C World

In general the world was progressing except the US when the GDP hit. 

IV Solutions

A Hoover

Ran the country during the begging of the GDP.

1 Volunteerism

jobs that people did for no cash benefit that helped build things that made money. 

2 Public Works

jobs that built things such as bridges, buildings, and roads. it created jobs during the GDP. 

3 Hawley Smoot

Raising tariffs on imported goods witch created jobs by companies begging in the US creating goods and made more money on imported goods. 

4 RFC

gave 2 billion dollars to states and the government that funded companies to create more jobs.  

B Roosevelt

FDR created the new deal which got us out of the GDP. 

1 new deal

when FDR created things that got the US out of the GDP. 

a alphabet soup

            example

AAA, agriculture adjustment Act, gave money to half of farmers to not farm which made prices rise for there crops. 

            example

CCC, the new deal program that provided jobs to unemployed unmarried men building natural resources in rural areas. 

            example

NIRA, set restrictions on jobs that regulated wages, set minimum wage, and created safety regulations. 

            example

SEC, regulated the purchase on stock margin. 

b Criticsim?

Some people believed that the new deal was a bad idea because the country would go to far in debt and that we should've waited it out and while others wanted FDR to do more.  

2 2nd new deal

a Social security act, gave money to the elderly and the unemployed. 

b National labor relations act, let workers join into trade unions, and organized labor rights.  

c Work progress administration, Put unemployed people to work in public work projects around the world. 

V Criticicism

Believed that FDR was going to put our country into a big amount of debt. 

B Political Criticism (ex. Came from both the _republicans___________ and _______democrats_______)

A Conservatives

Believed that FDR was going to far and was going to put our country into a serious amount of debt. 

B Liberals (ex: criticised the new deal also. They....)

Believed that FDR needed to do more to get our country out of the GDP. 

Ex Wanted FDR to bring more projects into the new deal.  

ex Wanted more things that created jobs, helped people in debt, and helped the elderly. 

VI Effectiveness

Many people got jobs, people had more money to spend, Workers had more rights. 

A Changes in US

The country got out of the GDP, people had jobs, many people got out of debt. 

B Unions

Worker had more rights and worked in a less dangerous environment than they had during the GDP. 

C Culture

Many people were more happy because they had jobs, more people had money to spend, and it was easier to get a job. 

VII Conclusion
In the end the country turned into a better place, people got jobs, workers had more rights, more jobs were created by the new deal, the country got out of the GDP, and many new things were built. The country mostly got out of the GDP because of FDR because he created the new deal and many people believed that thats what really got us out off the GDP. Even though conservative people believed that FDR shouldn't spend too much money on the new deal because it would get us in debt, the new deal got us out of the GDP and we have no debt on the new deal anymore. 

KKK in the 20's

The KKK was found in 1866 and had a small amount of members that were mostly southerners and ex soldiers from the confederate army. The KKK ( Ku Klux Klan ) is a group of people who believe in extreme white supremacy, anti immigration, and white nationalism. The klan died out in the late 1960's because of reformation. The KKK reformed in the early 1920's and members recruited people by making movies about how much more safe the world would be without blacks, jews, and other racial groups. They also recruited people by revealing the "real truth" of the racial groups immigrating into the U.S. The KKK claimed that they were "truly american", which meant they enforced prohibition, joined politics, and claimed they were making America a safer place.
    The KKK was big in places like Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, and Indiana. Majority of the members in the KKK were poor/middle class men that were trying to protect there houses and jobs from the huge amount of immigrants coming in from eastern Europe looking for jobs. The klan got so big in Detroit and Chicago they started to spread out to the midwest and the south. The Klan was at its peak during the mid 1920s but many members left soon because, they were not getting of what they signed up for.
    The klan had a big political role in society also, the klan members were both democrat and republican and supported the same goals. The KKK strongly believed in these things in the political world:

-Enforce prohibiton                                                                        

-No immigration into the U.S.
-Catholicism is bad.

- Blacks do not have the rights that whites have.
     They had a tough time being elected in some situations when the opposing candidate was Catholic and had a catholic following.
    The Klan fell apart in the late 1920's when the NAACP went on a public education campaign warning people of what activities the KKK was participating in. The klan also fell apart because many members saw the klan as something totally different as what the recruiters told them when they were joining.

Citations:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/flood-klan/
http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/1920s/Eugenics/Klan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Kla
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/imm_kkk/kkk%20pages/kkk-page2.htm
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3386

KKK march in Washington DC: 

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Letter home

Dear family, i have been put into the job place of being a ambulance driver. The job goes on all day with no breaks expect for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and for time to sleep. The job has gotten harder in the past few months with the amount of soldiers getting injured and dying. I got put into the position of a ambulance driver because, the amount of soldiers dying has gone up witch means that they needed more drivers and i got picked as one of them. Even though its a tough job, there is a less chance of me dying than being a soldier. I am not sure when i will be going back home, i am hoping its soon but nobody has gone home for about 1 year. I sent you guys a picture of me in front of the ambulance that i drive majority of the time

Main causes of WW1

Militarism: The opinions that a country should use its military power to reach the countries goals. Many people and politicians believed that Militarism is the easiest and fastest way to gain control of countries and to achieve its goals which linked to a big cause of WW1.
Alliances: Countries who group up for mutual benefit, pretty much making two or more countries friends. During WW1 some allies were, Austria - Hungary, France - russia, and Triple Alliance -Germany.
Imperialism: When a country takes over a smaller country for more land, power, and control. During WW1 either the country wanted to take over more countries or you would want to leave the control of the bigger country.
Nationalism: Being proud of the country you live in, and is often with the belief that the country is more important that others. Serbs who wanted to greater establish serbia were one of the reasons why WW1 started.

The spark of the war was when Franz Ferdinand and his wife was assassinated by a Serb nationalist in Austro - Hungary in 1914. This sparked the war because, it was viewed as a great excuse to attack Serbia.

Events In Order:
Lusitana - May 7th, 1915: British ocean liner that was sunk by a torpedo shot off by a german U boat.
Sussex Pledge - March 26th, 1916: A promise made by Germany to not to sink merchant ships without assuring the passengers safety.
unrestricted submarine warfare - January 9th, 1917: Sinking ships like tankers and freighters without any warning.
Zimmermann Telegram - January 16th, 1917: A proposal from Germany to Mexico to join the central powers, the telegram was in code.

General Victoriano Huerta

General Victoriano Huerta was the president of mexico from 1913 - 1914. He was an alcoholic, brutal fighter, and also a lier. During his presidency he fought against many rebels including Pancho Villa and  Felix Diaz. He was killed in 1916, in prison from cirrhosis, while some people believe that he was poisoned by Americans.
His life as a child was tough, he grew up in a poor family in the state of Jalisco. When he was in his teens he joined the army. He was quickly liked by Dictator Porfirio Diaz for his ruthless fighting and being a worthy leader, he was quickly ranked up to General. Diaz then gave his duties to fight the Yaquis and the suppression of Indian uprisings. Huerta later signed up to serve under Francisco Madero and had him take on many tasks including going to the north to fight with Pascual Orozco and the south to deal with Emiliano Zapata fighting with Pancho villa, which lead to Villa thinking Huerta was a drunk who shouldn't run a army.
 Huerta later rose to power, he arrested Madero and forced him to sign a resignation. which later than lead to Madero and vice president Pino Suarez were killed for supposably escaping prison, which was false and Huerta most likely planned the killings of Madero and Vice President Pino Suarez. Huerta then became president of Mexico and attempted to be a Dictator trying to be like his role model Porfirio Diaz. While in power his military went downhill, he got defeated by Pancho Villa at the battle of Zacatecas which then lead into him going into exile. While Huerta was in exile he moved around in a lot of different countries like Italy, Spain, and the United States. In 1915 Huerta planned his return as leader of mexico, he was later found in New Mexico and was put into prison. Huerta then died in prison in 1916 from cirrhosis. But some believe he was poisoned by Americans.

 Citations: www.biografica.info
                http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/presidentsofmexico/a/vhuerta_2.htm
                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoriano_Huerta