Classwork 5/31

3) Cold war- A series of conflicts that led to an almost childish media war where both sides would mainly point fingers while shouting out accusations and threats.

2) The soviets would follow the freedom from fear and freedom from want, but would think that the freedom of speech is unimportant.

2) The most important thing to tackle would be hunger, poverty and rebuilding.

3) They both affected american supporting politicians and one was suspected of being murdered.

2) I think that the Marshal plan is criticized in all of the sources basically saying that it would be taking way too much money from the U.S.A

3) No they dont because they are just drawings they don't give any real facts about Marshall plan, they only criticize it while giving very little information on the matter.

Focus) President Truman has been lending countries all over Europe Billions of dollars in the hopes of preventing another "worldwide slump". He is allowing countries to rebuild and gain power once again. While he is doing this he is constantly spreading word of how communism must be stopped. The Truman Doctrine could cause some serious problems for us for an example the Doctrine could cause problems for us obtaining new allies.

optimists and pessimists

1. signs that progress has been made

♦In 1954 southern schools were integrated.

♦In 1956 after the bus boycott Montgomery's bus laws became illegal.

♦In Nashville (1960) the town became desegregated.

2. signs that progress hasn't been made

♦people were still just as violent if not more towards black people especially towards protesters.

♦protesters were getting expelled from their colleges.

♦racism was still a major problem whether or not black people could ride the bus's or be served at a restaurant.

3.

I think that there is more progression then regression because there has been racism problems in the U.S. for hundreds of years and in about 50 years the way people saw black people was changing quickly. Black people could be served in restaurants, ride the buses and over 60% were registered to vote. Even though the changes seemed small compared to how much still needed to be changed, the fact that so many changes were made in such a short period of time is enough to say that there is some major progression.

Article

If i were to write an article of the containment camps during the war i would feel obligated to write about the positive things in the camps. If people are already fighting a war outside the country it would just be another problem to add the the pile because it could start a political/media war and people in the country might turn on the Government and be less likely to support the war effort which includes enlisting, investing and donating supplies for war crafts, guns and supplies.

One Historian said....

I agree to some extant with the statement "Without the new automobile industry,the prosperity of the 1920's would scarcely been possible." Without automobiles, transportation would still have been very hard for the average citizen and the billboard advertisement on the side of roads wouldn't have been possible. But trains were still used and billboards could have just as easily been set up down train tracks. I feel that even if the bike industry took off in the 1920's other businesses would have found a way to make money off of it. I feel that it is a little too bias to say that it was the automobiles that made the U.S. what it is today because honestly it could have been anything, the automobile was just first.

20 words on the boom. question 3

The big boom was focusing more on industrialization, cities and transport. Skyscrapers were being build along with cars and roads.

Organized Labor. Pro or Con?

Based on all 5 documents it is pretty easy to say that the working conditions were not getting much better. When ever the Labor Union, or Knights of Labor tried to make the working conditions better, it just ended with conflict, violence and in many cases death. Based on Document D, when unions tried to make working conditions better the business would just cut back on employees to save money. Based on document F all of the different forms of government and unions are just fighting over who says what and Document G just shows that fighting/striking for better working conditions just ended with deaths of the strikers and even just people who were watching the fights. To conclude I feel that organized labor was a short term failure and a long term victory, because Document A shows that over a period of about 20 years the pay went up and the hours went down for workers.

Anti- Mubarak protesters and Pro- Mubarak protesters

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12345656

^ video of the violence between the Anti- Mubarak protesters and the pro- Mubarak protesters^

Based on a video on the BBC website, the pro Mubarak protesters are being extremely violent towards the anti- Mubarak protesters. The pro Mubarak protesters are attacking the other protesters on sight, chasing them down on horse back, bringing weapons and throwing stones and sticks at them. So far to what i have seen alone without much information on Mubarak, i would have to side with the anti- Mubarak protesters because if the pro-Mubarak are the type of people that agree with Mubarak and like what he is doing, then they should not be running a country. Especially a country with such close ties to the USA should allow its civilians the right to say what they think is right.