Book Review (Band of Brothers)

The book Band Of Brothers was a very interesting book following the men on the 101^st airborne division through their trials in WWII. The story starts out with the men in their training in America fresh out of boot camp and learning to become a Para-trooper. The story comes then to when they are getting ready to be sent to war. The men are scared but eager to fight. The reason these men were so glorified is because of all their problems they encountered during their time in battle. Especially their time in Normandy Where this book is taken place.

The men of the 101^st jump into hostile Germany a day before the troops land on the beaches of Normandy. From there almost anything that can go wrong, goes wrong. The men are split up, supplies were dropped in the wrong place and to top all of it the Germans still want to kill them all. Once all the men have re-grouped and are armed and ready for battle the whole land invasion has started and Operation Overlord is well on its way. Later in the story and after many battles the men are hardened and in the middle of this whole war.

As the story progresses some of our favorite characters die off and the surviving men are starting to get sick and tired of this war. Then their main battle, the one that could turn the tide of the war happens. The battle of the budge happens when all the torn down men are cold in a forest with make shift shelters and ill-prepared. Soon enough the Germans start their attack and push back the Americans. With the men of the 101^st battered and beaten they decide to start to kick some serious German ass. In which they do and push back the Germans.

With the victory of the battle of the budge it basically defeats the Germans winning the war for the Americans. The importance of this book was very present. These men of the 101^st battled extreme things to just survive the war and this book only scrapes the top of how heroic and brave these men were. This book to me was very touching because it showed me the trial and tribulations that the men back then had to go through to fight for their country and how glorious of a war it was back then.

Super Bowl I

The first ever Superbowl happened on January 16, 1967 in the Las Angeles Memorial Coliseum. between the Green Bay Packers and the AFL Chiefs. With the Packers defeating the Chiefs and history being made with it. The NFL started back in 1869 with a few princeton boys playing a game of soccer when on of the decided to start throwing it instead of kicking. The game quickly grew popularity and the game of Football exploded.
Coming into the 60's the NFL had a huge rival, the AFL or American football league. Although previously the NFL came against rival leagues coming to the AFL was different. The AFL took the best players from old NFL teams and recruited them. Soon the NFL and AFL found themselves is a big league war.
Many memorable moment were made in that game, there were plenty of huge passes and amazing running touch downs. Definitely an exciting game to watch at the time or any time at that.
 Super Bowl I was the final battle between the AFl and the NFL, with the Chiefs on the AFL and the Packers on the NFL. The final score came out to 10 to 35 with the Packers winning. From then on the NFL was the one and only football league.
With the Packers winning the game there was an obvious pay-day in line. Each player was given a $15,000 Bonus for the win. Huge amounts of money that times standards. The Chiefs even though loosing come out with a money bonus with each player getting around $7,500 for that one game.

Over 60 million people tuned in either on the televisions or actually at the game to find out the outcome of this game, an absurd amount in that days standards. The Packers and the Chiefs were in a close game in the first half but come the second quarter the Packers broke the suspense and drove forward making a few 50 plus yard touch downs.

There have been a total of 48 superbowls since the first one. Each carrying a piece of history with it and each marking a new point in NFL history. The first superbowl is still to this day the most important and one of the best moments in NFL history.

Sources-
"Packers beat Chiefs in first Super Bowl." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 22 May 2014. <http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/packers-beat-chiefs-in-first-super-bowl>.

"Remembering Super Bowl I: Who Played, Who Won and Other Details."About.com Football. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2014. <http://football.about.com/cs/superbowl/a/bl_superbowl1.htm>

"NFL History by Decade." NFL History by Decade. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2014. <http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1869-1910>.

Cold War Questions

What was the goal for Roosevelt after the war?  What were Soviet goals about Germany-
 Roosevelt had a his idea of what Europe should be. First, they wanted to destroy their  rival, Nazi Germany. Then, they wanted to explain their Soviet Communist system to control as many people and resources as possible.

What did FDR think was 'key' to world peace-
The economy growth in 1945 was when president Roosevelt and his advisers wanted to think that the key to world at peace.

What was 'declaration of liberated Europe, and how successful was it-
The Declaration of Liberated Europe is "issued by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin and declared [the right of all people to choose the satallite the form of government under which they will live]".

How was Germany to be controlled-
Germany invited many couties, therefor they brought almost half a million Jews under German Control.

What was Truman's view about how to deal with USSR-
Truman's view about how to deal with the USSR was: He first gave a simple warning that was clear and right to the point made to the USSR. This was shared throughout many countries. The United Sates would "intervene to support any nation that as being threatened by a takeover by an armed minority."

What is a satellite nation-
A satellite Nation is: a nation that is controlled politically by another. This is otherwise called the Soviet Union.

What is an 'iron curtain-
This is a national barrier between the Soviet and the West. This event happened in ester Euprope in 1989.
What is the goal of containment?
The goal was to choke communism through militaristic and political.

How is GREECE the first battlefront in the cold war?
Because that's where some meeting were held and sparks arose in Greece which started the beginning of the Cold War.

What is the Marshall plan?
The Marshall plan was the Americans invited Europe  and the United States gave the economy support to help rebuild Europe's economy aft the end of World War II.

What is the Berlin Airlift?
The Berlin Airlift was in 1949, the Soviet blockade all of the West Berlin. The West Berlin rejected many of the allies in the West, and also didn't prevent the creation of a "of a unified West German state."

What is NATO?
Many things were happening around the world. And an alliance group was formed so if one nation was in a war that war them their alliances would be in on the war also

What happened in China?
They are building the way people are trying to escape. If you escape you would just be in East Germany. Many people wanted to get out for more freedom, therefore they would not get speed on. Someone swam 40 miles across the balmy Sea. Hundreds of people got shot.

Make a 5 step timeline in Korean War.
1. Korea is divided into two countries (1945)
2. North Korea invades South Korea (1950)
3.  United States join the war (1950)
4.   Peace talks begin (1951)
5.  Talks at Geneva fail to unite Korea (1954)

Earth day

This video was a summary of earth day and how it started. It started when a bunch of people started to become more aware of the horrible acts that were happening to wild life and our environment. People decided there was something that needed to be done. So a group of people started to try to stop the whalers and save the environment. As time went on more and more people joined in on this movement. The presence of saving the world was become more and more present. Many actions were taken place but all were either denied or couldn't get through congress. Even today earth day is a big deal for people all around the world and saving the environment is still a big deal to many.

In the Article "How Much Gas Does America Consume it describes the statistics of Americas gas consumption and how if we keep going on this path, eventually we will run out of fuel for our cars and have to start using natural fuels like electricity to power our cars and other things. I believe that if America and the world keeps going down this path than an epidemic will happen later on and it will be a bad time for America and the world.

In the second article i choose it talks about Global Warming and how it is quickly becoming a big problem for the world. If global warming keeps going at the pace it is going the it will only be within time that the world will not be able to survive anymore. this article discusses the key issues that represent global warming and address the issues at hand. this article also provides good information on how us as humans could help stop global warming.

All of my articles were very compelling. to address these issues i would first need to understand the key issues. For the first article i would say the everyone should be limited to a annual fuel consumption and if you go over that you will be charged heavily. for the global warming one, if everyone contributes and stops treating the environment as they are then we will see global warming going down solving the issue.





Sources
A Fierce Green Fire." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014.

"Data." Highlights. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2014. <http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2013/highlights38>.

"Global Warming." Facts, Causes and Effects of Climate Change. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June 2014. <http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/>.

Violette Szabo

Violette Szabo

Violette Szabo was born in 1922 to a taxi fleet owner and French mother. She was raised in Britian and she married at a young age. Her husband died while fighting the Germans, leaving behind a moarning wife and a young daughter.
Szabo was a skilled marksman with a rifle and was fluent in French. She was considered a exceptional candidate to work with the French underground. but her superiors didnt want her to risk her life in a suicidal manner.

She flew through her training with merit. Soon she was dropped into France and assigned the mission to determine how much resistance was in place. She established communication to underground leaders and British Intelligence. She was arrested twice during her ordeal but was able to talk her way out of trouble. Violette was a well educated woman who was an officer in the french army.

On her second mission she was dropped behind enemy lines again to find intelligence on the landings coming up on D-Day. Szabo and her college Liewer were driving in a car when some SS officers came into sight, they opened fire and a small gun fight broke out. Her and he friends sped away but she later broke her ankle and ran out of ammo so she couldn't continue the fight. She was captured on June 10, 1944. Szabo was transferred from a German SS unit to a SD unit. For four days she went by the name of "Vicky Taylor"she was then brought from a prison in Paris to the Gestapo headquarters.

Violette was taken from place to place by train not knowing if she was being sent somewhere good or being sent to her ultimate death. But on February 5, 1945 she was executed by an SS officer in the presence of a SS commander who sentenced her to her death. She was killed at age 23 but her legacy and stories have carried on for generation. Violette was arguably one of the best spies during WWII, her quick thinking and fearlessness made her a great spy and great woman.

Sources-
http://www.spymuseum.com/pages/agent-szabo-violette.html

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/violette_szabo.htm

Great Depression causes and effects.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      I Intro

In this outline I am going to discuss the Causes and Effects of the Great Depression and some of the various solutions. There will be parts angled towards the criticisms that people expressed for the New Deal, and details behind it.

II Causes (The causes of the great depression were: High Tariffs, Unequal Distribution of Wealth, and Stock Market)

A overspeculation (Define, how important)

A overspeculation (Define, how important): Over speculation occurs when an investor purchases stock on the future earnings of the stock he already owns. It lead to risky financial transactions and the Wall Street Crash.

B Govt Policy

The Government Policy was about loans, any people wanted loans to help them buy something they could not afford at that very second.

C Unstable Econ

A overspeculation (Define, how important): Over speculation occurs when an investor purchases stock on the future earnings of the stock he already owns. It lead to risky financial transactions and the Wall Street Crash.

1 uneven prosperity

A overspeculation (Define, how important): Over speculation occurs when an investor purchases stock on the future earnings of the stock he already owns. It lead to risky financial transactions and the Wall Street Crash.

2 overproduction

A overspeculation (Define, how important): Over speculation occurs when an investor purchases stock on the future earnings of the stock he already owns. It lead to risky financial transactions and the Wall Street Crash.

3 worker issues / farm issues-

the farmers crops weren't going as good as they used to, people weren't buying as much and they weren't making as much money, things were especially hard for the people in the dustbowl because all their crops vanished.

III Effects

A Poverty-Unemployment, this reached a record high and  25 percent of people  lost their jobs.

B Society

People went to soup kitchens because they were so starving and could not afford other food.  

C World-

the governments all around the world were effected, shortly after wwII started which shook the whole world.

IV Solutions

A Hoover-Elected in 1928, Hoover held a strong belief in American individualism and free enterprise fused with public service.

1 Volunteerism- Elected in 1928, Hoover held a strong belief in American individualism and free enterprise

2 Public Works

Created thousands of jobs b authorizing the building of roads, bridges, and dams.  

3 Hawley Smoot

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was created to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the US and to protect American labor.

4 RFC

Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Put in place to aid state and local governments. Made loans to banks, railroads and other businesses.  

B Roosevelt

1 new deal:

Some important government programs included in the FDR’s First New Deal during the Great Depression is; FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), SEC (Securities and Exchange Commision), NRA (National Recovery Administration), and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps).

a alphabet soup

             example: SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission was created to serve as a watchdog on the stock market.

           example: FHA - Federal Housing Authority was created to provide low interest loans for new home construction.

           example: HOLC - Home Owners Loan Corporation allowed homeowners to refinance mortgages to prevent foreclosure or to make home improvements.

example: USHA - United States Housing Authority initiated the idea of government-owned low-income housing projects.

b Criticsim?

2 2nd new deal

a Social Security; for the elderly, unemployment, disabled, widowed, or injured on the job.

b National Labo Relationship; Outlawed unfair practices and gave workers the right to organize unions.

c Works Progress Administration; created jobs by improving highways, rivers, and harbors.

V Criticicism

B Political Criticism (ex. Came from both the _right_ and _left_)

A Conservatives

-conservaties seek to conserve things the way they are and do not like change. the conservatives didnt like the change that was taking place because of the new deal.

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

for the liberals the new deal did not propose enough chance and thats is why it got critisism from the liberals also.

VI Effectiveness

A Changes in US- many changes happened because of the depression on of which was the instalment of the FDIC which protects your money in the bank. so banks cant go spend all your money.

B Unions- the labor unions would a lot of the times go on strike for getting better working conditions or even more jobs. In the long run their efforts payed off because the working conditions got better and more jobs were introduced.

C Culture- the culture of the united states changed a lot. because of the depression it changed they way people looked at life. everyone was a lot more thankful for having a job or even just having a house.

VII Conclusion- in total the great depression took a huge hit on the United States. Unemployment rates went up to the most they have ever been and people encountered a hardship like nothing seen before. From the efforts of the labor unions to the new deal trying to fix everything, nothing seemed to go right. But with the start of a  new war and more jobs coming to America we slowly go out of the great depression.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg was born the son of Swedish Immigrants. He worked all his young life, quiting school right after his eight grade graduation in 1891. Sandburg spent a decade working odd jobs from delivering milk to shinning shoes. Then he spent time traveling as a hobo.

His experiences traveling and working influenced his writing and political views. When the Spanish-American war broke out, Sandburg volunteered for service and at the age of 20 he was sent to Puerto Rico. The only battles he fought was against the heat and mosquitoes. After his return he entered College and supported himself as a on call fireman.

Sandburg spent two years of his life writing poety before his first book of verse in "In Reckless Ecstasy" was printed on Wrights basement press in 1904, Wright printed two more volumes for Sandburg "Incidentials" (1907) and "The Plaint of a Rose" (1908). Sandburg met Lillian Steichen, who he married in 1908. The responsibilities of marriage and Family made him change his carrerr. He soon became a Journalists. For several years he worked as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News.

In 1914 a group of his poems appeared in "Poetry Magazine". Two years later his book "Chicago Poems" was published and the 38 year old author found himself on the brink of a great career.

Dear Honey

Dear Honey,

When i left you 6 months ago i was excited and egger to fight in war. I soon found out that war wasn't all i thought it was. The smell of rotting corpses is very prominent and death is surrounding us. During our free time we sit around and play cards, occasionally we get some coffee. But the reality off all this is that good men are dying each day. Just the other day my regiment and I conducted a charge on the German lines. George from college was shot in the leg, I tried to help him get medical attention but another bullet rang through his head. Times are getting real though, my hands and feet are starting to rot, any socks or anything you have to send over would be great!

Honey, I should come home sometime next year. I'll keep sending photos of me and the boys! Any candy or clothing you could send would be the best. Ill try to write you every week. Keep safe and take care of the boys. I love you sweetie.

- Captain Colvin

WW1 Causes

Militarism- contributed to the start of the war because countries were building up their military which was scaring other nations.
Alliances- played part to WW1 because countries would side with other countries and that was basically setting the stage for a war to start.
Imperialism- was the idea of one big country owning smaller countries called colonies and those colonies would make war material for the country that ruled them. This helped the cause of WW1 because some countries didn't want countries to  be able to rule other countries and some nations wanted more of these colonies to take away from other nations.
Nationalism -was the idea of thinking your country was the best, many countries joined in on WW1 because they simply thought they were the best and they would win.

The spark that started WW1 was the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. This happened on June 28, 1914 and WW1 started a little later that year.



Lusitania- The lusitania was a cruise ship that was sunk why a German U-Boat on May, 7 1915. It caused America to join in on the war because the ship was carrying a few hundred american civilians.
Sussex Pledge- The Sussex Pledge was a promise made by the Germans to the Americans in 1916. The pledge restricted submarines to torpedo cruise ships but could torpedo merchant ships at will, but on march 24, 1916 a french ferry was torpedoed and sunk.
Zimmermann note- The Zimmermann note was a telegraph the Germans sent to Mexico in 1917 asking Mexico to join the Central powers but the british intercepted the note and decoded it. The note spread opnion through America and it helped America declare war on Germany later that year.
Sub Warfare- Sub Warfare started in late 1917. The submarines were mainly German U-Boats hunting and sinking British transport ships. Depth Charges were invented to help the shits have a fighting chance agains a U-Boat, a depth charge would be dropped into the ocean and the explosion, if close enough to the sub would cause the submarine to tear apart. depth charges were a very effective method to fight against submarines

Sinking of Lusitania

         On May 7, 1915, a British ocean cruise liner Lusitania which carried people and materials across the Atlantic ocean was hunted and shot by a German U-Boat. The Lusitania sunk within 18 minutes of being shot. The death toll was tremendous, of the 1,959 people on board 1,198 died, 128 of which were Americans. The sinking and killing of the Americans on board enraged the Americans and led to the U.S. entering World War 1. 

         Because of the outbreak of WW1 ocean travel had become very dangerous. German Submarines called U-Boats were prowling the ocean sinking almost every ship they suspected of carrying soldiers or war materials. The Germans has suspected the Lusitania of carrying war munitions and at 1:40 p.m. German U-Boat, U-20 launched a torpedo. The torpedo struck the ship starboard side and rocked the ship. Shortly after the torpedo hit and second explosion occurred. Many people believe the second explosion occurred from ammunition hidden in the cargo hold and other say it was from coal dust that ignited. The Lusitania sank within 18 minutes of the initial explosion

128 civilians dying in a war that they were neutral in outraged America. Sinking a ship not known to be carrying war material was an international war protocol that U-20 did not follow. The sinking of the Lusitania escalated the tension between U.S. and Germany and it was a major cause for America joining the war.

sources-http://history1900s.about.com/cs/worldwari/p/lusitania.htm