I Intro (Leave Blank for now)
The Great Depression involved many people and businesses going bankrupt. The stock market and banks had a big part to do with it. Many people liked to blame Roosevelt for these acts even though he tried to fix them. People kept losing money because of overspeculation and using money that wasn't theirs. This made the stock market crash because there were t priced right, leading to a crash. The march from Portland to Washington left many homeless and without jobs.

II Causes (The causes of the great depression were bank closings, stocks failing, and prices going down.)
A overspeculation (Define, how important)
People who bought stocks that they were very confident in. the stocks weren't really the best stocks and weren't that profitable. The stocks became over priced and caused the market to crash. People thinking the market would do much better than it really does, thinking it would keep rising.

B Govt Policy
A declaration of the governments political activities and plans. The Government didn't do much when Hoover was in presidency.

C Unstable Econ
The economy was unstable due to people taking their money out of banks causing them to go bankrupt and close.

1 uneven prosperity
Not everybody was gaining money. In most places only the rich got richer and the poor either stayed the same or got poorer.

2 overproduction
People produced too much of a product than people bought. The products never got sold and caused them to lose a lot of money.

3 worker issues / farm issues
The farmers got new machinery that helped the efficiency of working. Things got so efficient that it was hard to make a profit. They were making more product than they could sell.

III Effects

A Poverty
The economy still kept going down in the 20s. The farms and stock market crash didn't help much to add to the economic disaster we already had. People couldn't even sustain themselves.

B Society
After the great depression many men and women were left without jobs. they struggled to find a job
because a lot of businesses were going out of business. Banks had failed and a lot of farmers couldn't make a profit anymore. The economy overall wasn't doing well.

C World
after the great depression the economy went into a dark hole. it was already at a low point before he depression but the bank failures and stock market made it even worse. Lots of people were left without jobs. there was anger towards our leaders after the depression which allowed people like Hitler to rise to power.

IV Solutions
Roosevelt tried implementing a new deal and broadening his powers. The new deal was a series of laws tat were a response to the great depression

A Hoover
At the start of Hoovers presidency the stock market crashed. He promised people of a new deal of
government interventions which helped the recovery of the depression. Hoover didnt do much for us besides a few public works projects.

1 Volunteerism
Hoover tried using volunteerism by not reducing their work hours or wages. Volunteerism was used to try and help the economy.

2 Public Works
Hoover tried using public works to help boost the economy. Government funded projects.

3 Hawley Smoot
raising the price of the average tariff

4 RFC
The RFC was a public work that tried to help the banks come out of bankruptcy. They were given $2 billion to make loans to banks. The reconstruction Finance Company

B Roosevelt
Beter President, did more to help during the Depression

1 new deal
Programs in response of the great depression, focusing on reforming and recovery.

a alphabet soup
         
CCC provided relief for unemployed workers
WPA provided unemployment relief
CWA provided unemployment relief
           
b Criticsim?
Roosevelt recieved a lot of criticism on his New Deal, people believed it did too much or didnt do enough.

2 2nd new deal
The second New Deal were acts passed to help give us security like social security
a Social Security
b National Labor Relations Act
c Conservative Coalition
V Criticicism
B Political Criticism (ex. Came from both the left and right)
A Conservatives
The conservatives thought the New Deal didnt go with the way America was founded. It made the Government have too much involvement in business affairs and the personal money of citizens.
B Liberals (ex: criticised the new deal also. They....)
Thought it didnt do enough
Wanted more government involvement
VI Effectiveness
A Changes in US
The US worked its way out of the depression through their relief programs and social security.
B Unions
Unions were formed as workers began to do sit down strikes. The Government tried to break up the unions.
C Culture
The US changed the way it worked, businesses changed the way they worked and the Government changed their focuses.
VII Conclusion

Hoover didnt do much in the Depression, leaving a lot of work for Roosevelt which he eventually brought us out of. There were many causes of the Depression that I think we could solve very easily today, having experience of how to handle certain things like this.

Operation Fortitude

Operation Fortitude was a code name for the deception operations used by the allied forces. The overall codename for this operation is "Bodyguard." It had a connection with the Normandy landing which was also called "Operation Overlord." This operation was divided into Fortitude North and Fortitude South. By doing this the Germans thought the main attack in France would happen in Pas de Calais rather than Normandy. Germany then was mislead of the location the major battle would be in. Operation was one of the most successful deceptions in the war and possibly the most important.

The Allies had a lot of tricks up their sleeve to make it seem like they were following through the original plans they told them. They would have false radio traffic that they knew would be intercepted by the Germans making them think the First US Army Group was active. Another trick they would do is take their tanks and trucks for a ride down the road to make tracks in the field,making them think that they have moved and that the army was on foot.

Fortitude North was made to mislead the Germans to Norway and make them think the major invasion would be held there. Fortitude South had a similar job to the North but its job was to create a deception in Pas de Calais making them think the invasion was there. By doing this the Germans had their troops stationed at a place where an invasion never happened, giving the Allied a head start. Operation Fortitude was such a great success that people started considering using it in their own invasions. Hitler noticed how well the operation went and said he will start implementing these tactics into his attacks.

Operation Fortitude had great success because they made people believe they would attack in a certain area, causing them to defend that place heavily. Since they brought all of their troops to that one area they had a lot of open spaces around it. They had so much focus on one area that the Allied simply went a different way where there was no support. By the time the Germans realized their counter attack they had already taken control of a big portion of the continent, making it hard for the Germans to fight them off.

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In the streets of Harlem a fight broke out between two men who were heavily intoxicated around 10:00pm next to what looked like a general store. The cops rushed to the scene and came to the conclusion that the store was a speakeasy, somewhere you can buy illegal alcohol. The cops busted the speakeasy and arrested the owner of the store. Alcohol has recently been banned due to Prohibition. Prohibition has continued to cause trouble within the streets of Harlem. There have been over 10 arrests involving alcohol in the past week.

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Mickey Mouse 1920's

In 1928 one of Walt Disney's distributors stole his character he thought up, Oswald The Lucky Rabbit. Walt Disney made up a new character on the way back from a business meeting called Mickey Mouse. This character has two big round ears, with black and white colors. He was first shown to the public when the cartoon Steamboat Willie aired. When sound first started coming into cartoons Walt Disney made his voice as Mickey Mouse. Ever since Mickey's first debut in Steamboat Willie he has become the star of cartoons. He was seen later in many shorts including Plane Crazy which predated Steamboat Willie. Mickey is seen as the face of Disney and some people say he is what made them popular. Everybody loves Mickey as an icon because Disney movies and cartoons often deal with happiness and how he brings happiness to everyone else. Kids often say that Mickey is one of their favorite cartoon characters. The original name of Mickey was going to be "Mortifer" until his wife suggested in naming it Mickey. Walt then decided to give Mickey a lifetime girlfriend named Minnie Mouse along with their dog named Pluto. By 1937 Mickey really took off with Disney producing more than 12 shorts a year. Years later is when Mickey got his first theme park and newspaper comic strip. Mickey has evolved to be more than a Disney character and is seen as much more to people. I wonder what would have happened if the distributor never stole his first character, making Mickey non-existent.

Sources -http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/Mickey-Mouse.htm
http://farrells.people.cofc.edu/Farrell/Mickey%20Mouse%20Analysis/MickeyMouseAnalysis.html#history

WWI Letter Home

      Dear Mother,
This doesn't ever seem like this is going to end. Every day it seems like our patients double, constantly making me work extra hours. I have never seen so many people in one hospital. It makes me scared for the people that i know that are fighting in the war. Seeing all these horrible injuries makes me sick to my stomach. When i finally have a break from work all I can see outside is smoke, reminding me that people have died because of those bombs.
Every time i hear gunfire I can't help but to think about Grandpa. He has constantly been on my mind the whole time i have been here. All the patients i take care of have no hope at all. There has been one patient who i will always remember. His name was Jake, I met him before the war in one of the training camps. We became pretty good friends. When we went off to war he would always come talk to me when he had the chance to. It became an ordinary thing for him to do. Every day i would look forward to seeing him. Everything was fine until one evening he didn't come. I felt like everything was fine and he might just be later than usual. A couple hours had passed and i started to worry. At about 11p.m. i heard a group of voices coming through the hospitals doors. Jake was being carried in by two other soldiers. He had massive burns on his skin, i couldn't even tell it was him anymore. The pain coming from his screams were heartbreaking. I tried to help him as much as i could but there was only a certain amount i could do. I spent the last couple minutes he had with him and i could barely handle myself. When he passed i felt like i had nothing to live for.
Ever since Jake's passed the days have gone a lot slower. I have had no motivation lately and it feels like this war will never end. I miss you a lot mom and i wish you could be here with me.
    - Marissa

WWI Causes

Alliances - Alliances caused more than one country to be at war. Lets say that Germany went to war, that means Austria-Hungary would also be at war because they were their allies.

Militarism - At this point everybody tried to have the best Army and Navy. Countries were constantly upgrading these two to prepare them for war.

Imperialism - Countries fought over power by trying to control other countries and gain allies. Constantly countries were arguing over colonies which caused war.

Nationalism - Having extreme love and passion for ones country. People would go out of their way to keep their country safe, some cases were extreme like murders which caused war.

Spark of War - The Spark of the War was the assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand.

Lusitania - 1915, A ship that was sunken by the Germans because it had ammunition on their boat.  Sussex pledge - 1916, no longer sinking merchant ships without warning
Unrestricted Sub Warfare - 1917, sinking a ship without warning
Zimmerman Note - 1917, Germany told Mexico to stop the Americans from being sent to Europe.

WWI - Red Baron

Red Baron -

During World War I many soldiers would be involved in battle in the sky. They would use fighter planes to shoot each other down. There was one soldier who was known as a hero, his name was Manfred von Richthofen. He flew his signature blazing red airplane all around the world shooting down plane after plane. The "Red Baron" has 80 credited victories and has become a legend in the air. Richthofen was 22 when the war first started and fought on Germany's side. 

In 1915 Richthofen switched over from the Germany army to the Imperial Air Service. Once 1916 came around he was up in the air doing mass amounts of damage. In one year he shot down 15 planes, bypassing all of the previous records set by previous pilots. Richthofen flew a Fokker triplane that was painted entirely red in tribute of his cavalry regiment, this is how he got the nickname "The Red Baron".

On April 21, 1918, Richthofen was in the territory of the Allied. Up in the sky leading his squad he saw an enemy plane and followed it. The Red Baron followed the plane too far into enemy territory and too close to the ground that he received machine gun fire from Captain Arthur Roy Brown in a plane following him. One of the bullets hit him in the torso, he was able to land his plane but the Australian troops didn't get there in time. Captain Arthur Roy Brown often gets the credit for shooting down the Red Baron, but some claim it was an Australian gunner on the ground. Still today people discuss who actually shot down the Red Baron. He died at the age of 25 and was buried by the Allies at a cemetery in France. Manfred Von Richthofen was one of the most recognizable pilot during his era. 

Sources - http://history1900s.about.com/od/1910s/a/redbaron.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/red-baron-killed