20th Century Blog

General William Westmoreland

Author: DakotaK /

William Westmoreland was born on March 26, 1914, William C. Westmoreland was the son of a Spartanburg, SC textile manufacturer. Joining the Boy Scouts as a youth, he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout before entering the Citadel in 1931. after one year in school, he transferred to West Point. During his time at the academy he proved to be an exceptional cadet and by graduation had become the corps' first captain. In addition, he received the Pershing Sword which was given to the most outstanding cadet in the class.
After graduation, Westmoreland was assigned to the artillery. He had a very successful military career and in 1964 was sent to Vietnam by President Johnson as a deputy commander. While only serving in this position for a few months, he was promoted to the rank of full general. Gen. Westmoreland took command in Vietnam in June 1964 replacing Gen. Paul Harkins. Westmoreland continuously requested for an increase in manpower in Vietnam and President Johnson, who had his own troubles at home, refused to send more troops and finally recalled Westmoreland after he successfully stopped the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968.
Gen. William Westmoreland sued CBS over a TV show showing him in an unfavorable way. He withdrew his libel suit against CBS, but the questions behind the suit are very important, and many of them are still hotly disputed. William Westmoreland died of natural causes at Bishop Gadsden retirement home on 18th July, 2005.
William Childs Westmoreland
March 26, 1914(1914-03-26) – July 18, 2005 (aged 91)

Nickname
Westy
Place of birth
Saxon, South Carolina
Place of death
Charleston, South Carolina
Place of burial
West Point Cemetery
Allegiance
United States of America
Service/branch
United States Army
Years of service
1936 - 1972
Rank
General
Commands held
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment 187th Regimental Combat Team
Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy XVIII Airborne Corps Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Chief of Staff of the United States Army
Battles/wars
World War II Korean War Vietnam War
Awards
Distinguished Service Medal (3)Legion of Merit (3)Bronze Star (2)Air Medal (10)

The life and death of Robert Kennedy

Author: Shawn J /

RFK was a US senator and attorney general for the presidential administration for his brother. Just like his brother he was a popular political figure and had a high education. He graduated from Milton Academy but before he got the chance to complete his Harvard career world war two broke out and his brother Joseph Kennedy was killed in combat. Robert joined the navy and was assigned as a lieutenant to the destroyer which was named after his brother. In 1946 he returned to Harvard and graduated two years later. He went on to study law at the university of Virginia law school and then was admitted to the Massachusetts bar which is an association for lawyers in 1951.

He went on to run his brothers’ presidential campaign his inclusion in his brother’s cabinet gave rise to charge of nepotism but he still succeeded and proved to be a good attorney general especially in prosecuting civil rights cases. He was also his brothers closest advisor after the assassination of his brother john he continued to serve for a time In Lyndon b Johnson’s cabinet. He resigned from Johnson’s cabinet in 1964 then he ran for senator of new York despite the criticism of him being a carpetbagger he continued to succeed in the senate and was a vigorous advocate of social reform and was identified as a spokesman for the rights of minority’s.
Robert became increasingly critical of President Johnson’s escalation of the Vietnam war witch urged him to run for democratic president. Eugene McCarthy’s showing at the democratic primary in New Hampshire convinced Kennedy that a challenge to Johnson could be successful and he announced his candidacy on March 16, 1968. Kennedy conducted an energetic campaign and won a series of primary victories culminating in California on June forth at the end of the day he gave a victory speech in the ambassador hotel in LA while leaving he was shot and he died the next day.

1950s TV and movies

Author: get some /

John Reid was one of a posse of six Texas rangers. He helped track a gang of desperadoes. Five of his men that was in his posse got killed when they come up
On the gang members that had a ambush. John was left for dead. He was found and
Saved by some one named Tono. Tono was a friendly Indian. The first broadcast happened on September 15,1949. The last broadcast was on June 6,1957. the TV station ABC was the only station to play the long ranger. The show only lasted 5 seasons. It had 221 episodes.

The 1950 is known for ten top movies. They say that it is a birthplace for Teen films. The most famous themes were leather jackets; motorcycles, Rock an roll and rebellious youths Elvis Presley and James Dean were two of the most famous stars. On television, the most popular thing to watch during the 1950s was comedy TV shows. Several popular shows were “I Love Lucy”, “The Red Skelton how” and “Make Room For Daddy”.

1968 Democratic National Convention

Author: Gadiel /

August 28, 1968 came to be known as the day a “police riot” took place. The title of “police riot” came out of the Walker Report, which amassed a great deal of information and eyewitness accounts to determine what happened in Chicago. At approximately 3:30 p.m., a young boy lowered the American flag at a legal rally taking place at Grant Park. The demonstration was made up of 10,000 protestors. The police broke through the crowd and began beating the boy, while the crowd pelted the police with food, rocks, bags of urine, and chunks of concern.
Conventions help to open up the political process to millions of people. The violence between police and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the streets and parks of Chicago gave the city a black-eye from which it has yet to completely recover. Some confrontations were planned. Some were spontaneous. This one was planned, but nothing happened the way it was supposed to. Many months before the Chicago convention, experienced movement activists decided that it would be an ideal place to confront "the system" and demand an end to the Viet Nam war. They invited one hundred thousand people to come and demonstrate. The City of Chicago responded by refusing to grant permits for any marches and for only one rally.

Around 3:30 pm, a young boy lowered the American flag at a legal rally taking place at Grant Park. The demonstration was made up of 10,000 protestors. They police broke through the crowd and began beating the boy, while the crowd pelted the police with food, rocks, bags of urine, and chunks of concrete. Police fought with the protestors and vice versa. The chants of the protestors shifted from ‘Hell no, we won’t go” to “Pigs are whores.” The gas is going to be used, let that gas come down all over Chicago. . . . If we are going to be disrupted and violated, let this whole stinking city be disrupted and violated."

Kent State Massacre

Author: MichaelA /

The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. President Richard Nixon's announcement of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the need to draft more soldiers for an expansion of the Vietnam War effort provoked massive protests on campuses throughout the country. At Kent State University, demonstrators occupied buildings and destroyed the ROTC offices. In response, the governor of Ohio dispatched hundreds of National Guardsmen to the campus. On May 4, the guardsmen open fire on a crowd of protesters, killing four students and wounding nine others. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.

Two men who were present related what they saw:

Unidentified speaker 1: "Suddenly, they turned around, got underneath, as if they were ordered to, they did it all together, aimed. And personally, I was standing there saying, they're not going to shoot, they can't do that. If they are going to shoot, it's going to be blank."

Unidentified speaker 2: "The shots were definitely coming my way, because when a bullet passes your head, it makes a crack. I hit the ground behind the curve, looking over. I saw a student hit. He stumbled and fell, to where he was running towards the car. Another student tried to pull him behind the car; bullets were coming through the windows of the car.

"As this student fell behind the car, I saw another student go down, next to the curb, on the far side of the automobile, maybe 25 or 30 yards from where I was lying. It was maybe 25, 30, 35 seconds of sporadic firing.

"The firing stopped. I lay there maybe 10 or 15 seconds. I got up, I saw four or five students lying around the lot. By this time, it was like mass hysteria. Students were crying, they were screaming for ambulances. I heard some girl screaming, 'They didn't have blank, they didn't have blank,' no, they didn't."

Killed (and approximate distance from the National Guard):

· Jeffrey Glenn Miller; 20, 265 ft (81 m) shot through the mouth - killed instantly
· Allison B. Krause; 19, 343 ft (105 m) fatal left chest wound - died later that day
· William Knox Schroeder; 19, 382 ft (116 m) fatal chest wound - died almost an hour later in hospital while waiting for surgery
· Sandra Lee Scheuer; 20, 390 ft (120 m) fatal neck wound - died a few minutes later from loss of blood

Wounded (and approximate distance from the National Guard):

· Joseph Lewis Jr. 71 ft (22 m); hit twice in the right abdomen and left lower leg
· John R. Cleary 110 ft (34 m); upper left chest wound
· Thomas Mark Grace 225 ft (69 m); struck in left ankle
· Alan Michael Canfora 225 ft (69 m); hit in his right wrist
· Dean R. Kahler 300 ft (91 m); back wound fracturing the vertebrae - permanently paralyzed from the chest down
· Douglas Alan Wrentmore 329 ft (100 m); hit in his right knee
· James Dennis Russell 375 ft (114 m); hit in his right thigh from a bullet and in the right forehead by birdshot - both wounds minor (died 2007)
· Robert Follis Stamps 495 ft (151 m); hit in his right buttock (died June 11, 2008)
· Donald Scott Mackenzie 750 ft (230 m); neck wound

POW/MIA

Author: TylerC /

Vietnam POW/MIAs the POW stands for prisoners of war. They were captured by the North Vietnamese Army. MIA stands for missing in action. This is talking about people who were killed in war or lost and even found. So they made this group to show that they will even be for gotten in the eyes of Americans. This was just one of the ways we showed that we cared about our troops in the Vietnam War.

This is a picture of Pow/Mia bracelets. They were made for people who wanted to show that they cared about the people in the war. They had the name of a missing or captured person in the war. This was popular with the younger crowd. For example kids in middle and high school would have them because they thought it was cool. But that’s not the only reason they got them some got them to show that they didn’t want the war to be happing but they do still care for the troops.

There are people who still have no idea if there son is alive, living in Vietnam or if they are dead but most likely they are not alive anymore. There were cases of people who thought they were not going to make it there and just quit in the war to live in South Vietnam with the locals. There may still be former soldiers over there just living their life. They would do this because they didn’t think they could take the war anymore so they would simply leave the military and go off to live there. Others couldn’t handle the pressure of the war so they used of drugs, beer and other stuff. That’s what the war can do to you.

50s rock n roll

Author: rhettk /

Rock n roll is a mix of country and jazz and blues. This music became very popular. There where a lot of artist who made the music popular. They were starting to have concert and everyone wanted to come. On March 21, 1952, the first rock and roll concert was held at the Cleveland Arena. This first show caused a riot as 30,000 people tried to sit in an arena that could only seat 10,000 people. Still 15,000 people waited on the streets outside.

Top Hit
Number
1. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
2. Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
3. Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
4. Tutti-Frutti - Little Richard
5. Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis
6. What'd I Say - Ray Charles
7. Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
8. Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
9. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
10. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly & the Crickets
11. Maybellene - Chuck Berry
12. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
13. Shake, Rattle and Roll - Joe Turner
14. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
15. Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley

Born January 8, 1935 at 4:35 AM in a two room house in Tupelo, Mississippi. The family moves to Memphis in 1948. It is estimated that Elvis Presley has sold over one billion record units worldwide, more than anyone in record industry history. Elvis received 14 Grammy nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). His three wins were for gospel recordings - the album How Great Thou Art (1967), the album He Touched Me (1972) and his live Memphis concert recording of the song How Great Thou Art (1974). In 1971, NARAS also recognized him with their Lifetime Achievement Award (known then as the Bing Crosby Award in honor of its first recipient). Elvis was 36 years old at the time. Prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at the age of 42.

assassination of JFK

Author: Frank /

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he traveled in an open top car in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. On November 22, 1963, Texas Governor John Connally was also injured. Within two hours Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of a Dallas policeman and by that evening, he was arraigned on a charge of murder in the death of officer J. D. Tippit. At 1:35 the following morning, Oswald was arraigned on the charge of murdering the President. On November 24, 1963, while being transferred from the Dallas Police Department to the county jail, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that there was no persuasive evidence that Oswald was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate the President, and stated it was their belief that he acted alone. Critics, even before the publication of the official government conclusions, suggested a conspiracy was behind the assassination.

In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald assassinated Kennedy, but found both the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. The HSCA also concluded that there were at least four shots fired, that there was a "high probability" that two gunmen fired at the President, and that it was probable that a conspiracy existed. The HSCA also stated that “the Warren Commission failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President.”

Polls have indicated that large numbers of Americans believe there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. These same polls also show that there is no agreement on who else may have been involved. A 2003 ABC News poll found that 70% of respondents suspected there was an assassination plot involving more than one person. A 2004 Fox News poll found that 66% of Americans thought there had been a conspiracy while 74% thought there had been a cover-up.

On May 4, 1970 the National Guard fired at a crowed of students at Kent State University in Ohio. The shooting was very dramatic, killing four and wounded nine students. The shootings began symbolize the political and social division that divided the country during the Vietnam era. General Canterbury of the National Guard is the one who made the decision to order the demonstrators to disperse. The students of the university soon found them self trapped on the football field.

The guardsmen fire into a crowed of unharmed collage students. The guardsmen fired in self defense and that shooting was justified but they also were not in immediate danger and therefore the shooting at Kent State University was unjustified. The families of the wounded and the killed students were provided money by the state and not by the guardsmen’s. The guards were viewed by the “declaration of regret” but it’s not an apology or admission for doing wrong.

After the shooting of Kent State University the debate still remains on whether the guardsmen were in danger and that’s why they opened fire. The 13 seconds that ended in four deaths and nine wounded and it could have ended in an even a more tragic and bloody confrontation. Kent state university was ordered to close by its first president Robert White and then by portage county prosecutor Ronald Kane. Classes did not resume until the summer of 1970. The faculty engaged in wide Variety of activity and through the mall of off campus meeting for the students to finish the semester.

The Holocaust

Author: toni b /

It’s 1943, it’s dark and gloomy. I’m in a room that isn’t big at all. My wife and 9 year old son are behind me sleeping, the others are dead. From what? I don’t know. It could be from not eating because we have no food. It could be from diseases. The food we do get we share. We barely get by but we try to make it work.

I don’t know how many days we’ve been in here. I don’t know how many days we can stay alive either. We might have to eat what’s left of the ones who passed away just to stay alive. We used to be a happy family that lived in a nice home with heat and cold when we needed it. But not anymore, NO! not anymore. We have nothing now, not even air. We have to ask to breathe too. Oh no, I have to go; I think I hear a guard coming.

Holocaust

Author: Anonymous /

The train ride was horrifying. We were packed in and hot and the unlucky ones just died right in front of me, but surprisingly I was only frightened because I didn’t know where I was being taken. When I was forced off the train car I was lead towards a line with mostly men who were healthy looking people and the others were sent to another line. After being stripped of my clothing I was sent to a shower. After we left the shower, a guard handed us a set of clothing. Then we were sent to another line where our identification numbers were tattooed on our forearms. From that point on we were only known as our numbers, but not our birth given names.

We were woken up early morning to work. It was brutal forced labor working outside in high heat and below freezing temperatures in the winter. Beatings were frequent for no reason at all. I was only beaten once, but my new friends were not as lucky. Every few months a German guard would come in to our barracks and choose them at random to be beaten. I was horrified when I started seeing the only 5 friends I had just start disappearing and dying one by one. Three were brutally beaten to death and two were sent to the gas chambers. Being the only one left I still have hope, but I don’t know if tonight will be my last night. I might be next.

Holocaust

Author: Ethan /

The German army dropped me off at this camp about 3 months ago. Every day there are new people at this camp. This is sad to say but people die in this camp every day. The Germans kill us in different ways; it’s horrible. They don’t really give us any space to sleep mainly because the camp is so overpopulated. I am also very depressed about not seeing my wife and kid’s. They separated all the men, women, and children.
I do get fed in the camp, but it is not that good. There are not great amounts of food to be passed to all of us. That makes it very hard on me especially because I am old, and have to work very hard. Everybody in the camp is very skinny except for the people who are new. Even though this camp is killing me I want to make it through the day. The reason why is so that one day I can see my wife and Children.

Holocaust

Author: rhettk /

Hi I’m the tall man in the picture. I have been here for a long time. Life is hard on me. I have to work and I get beat up a lot. I get to eat maybe once a week. I barely get anything to drink. The place around here smells like dead carcass. People have a bunch of diseases. If I don’t do what I’m told I will get killed? I will be whipped.
Some of my family was killed for not doing they were told what to do. Some of my family is still here. I have not seen any of my family for a year or so. I have been in trouble a lot but I’m a hard worker.

The Holocaust

Author: TylerP /

(Man on the bottom left hand corner perspective)

I do not know how long I have been here. It feels likes years. My muscles have grown frail and weak from lack of food and rest. The toxic air that is made from the fallen poisons our bodies further, allowing us to join them sooner and sooner. They cramp us so closely together it’s amazing that any body is still alive, let alone me. I have not seen my family since I’ve arrived. I do not know what has befallen them. Were they able to somehow to escape from those demons in human skin the people calls Nazis? Or were they suffering the same fate as me?
Dear god, how I long to see my little girl, my little boy, and my beautiful wife. My body is starting to eat itself, inside out. Could they really be going through what I am? Could the Devil who rules that army of demons possible be the ruler of Hell himself!? Such a cold hearted man who laughs in secret as we are being pressed further and further into Hell by his unfathomable hands, stained red with the bloody cries of those who have fallen?
What can we do? As we speak, I myself am hardly able to stay alive. I do not know what to do. I apologize if my paper is damp for the tears of those who have lost so much and are poor, as well as gods tears as the rain leaks through the cracks on the roof. Somehow, I cannot help but smile. In these times, my body is near its death, my bones are aching and my muscles are eating themselves. But as the tears of god pours down on us, I know he has not forsaken us. I think about the souls of those who have fallen, the cries of the children, and the sorrow of those who wish us well. If only that was enough though.
It looks like this will by my last sight. My body is starting to end. As we speak, it is taking everything I have left to finish this letter. To those who may read it in the future, even though I am burning with pain and almost to weak to move. I cannot help but smile. My time in Hell is finally done. I can finally be at peace, with the ones I care about. So as I write this last sentence, I bid you farewell. To those who have died here, please allow me to join you. For I shall be able to see my family once again. Do not forget those who have fallen.

Holocaust

Author: TylerC /

This is me on the right I have been here for about 6 months. The person next to me is a kid I knew a long time ago but we meet back up here at this concentration camp. He has only been here for 3 months but he is younger than me. It is being really hard on him as it is for all of us. We don’t really know what is going on here. The Germans brought us here saying it was a work camp. They took all of our stuff that had any value. Then they put us in these little rooms and we have just been staying here ever since they don’t tell us anything. I see someone die just about everyday now this place is a horror story. Its like something you would read in a book. I have seen some of the nicest and older people I know just be killing for nothing I have seen little kids starving to death. People are going crazy in here. People try to get out but we are all to weak to do anything. They give us some food and drinks. Just look at me and you can tell how little they have giving me to eat. All I want to do is get out of here and go see my wife and my two little girls. I have not seen them in over a year I don’t really remember what they look like. Its starting to get really hard for me to get up in the morning but I do because think I am going to get out of here one day I don’t really know if I will ever get out of here or if to day is going to be the day the pick me to kill. As each day goes bye it gets harder and harder every night I stay up crying just think is tonight my last night but hope I get one more day in me.

Holocaust

Author: Frank /

These are just some of the people we had to kill during the holocaust. I was part of the Nazis with Hitler and the crew because if I didn’t join I would have died. I had to do a lot of work during the war. I had to kill a lot of innocent people. During the holocaust I tortured people it was part of joining the army with Hitler.

I killed a lot of innocent people during the holocaust. I didn’t enjoy killing all of them but I had no choice. If I didn’t I would have died along with them and I don’t want that. This was one of the concentration camps I worked at. It was called Trzebnia. It hurt me a lot when I killed all those poor people. I also lit people on fire sometimes when we were told to burn them to death. This was one of the most crazy jobs I have ever had to do.

The Holocaust

Author: shantelr /

My name is Annelies Marie Frank. I was one of the million Jewish children who died in the holocaust and this is my story. I lived with my parents and my older sister Margot. We lived in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt. In 1934, my father Otto Frank left us to go to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. My father had business connections. Mom and sister followed my father but I stayed with my grandparents in Aachen. I arrived to be with my family in February 1934.

It was the first half of July when my family and I went into hiding. We had a secret room that was located behind a book shelf. Four Dutch Jews were in that room, there names were Hermann, Auguste, and Peter Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer. For two long years we lived in this secret attic. In my spare time I wrote in my diary like ever girl does. I wrote about everything that was going on and how my day went. A friend of ours would get clothes and food for us. That was a huge risk for everybody. Suddenly on August 4, 1944 the Gestapo (German Secret State police) had discovered the hiding place, Some anonymous Dutch caller gave us up.

Holocaust

Author: get some /

The holocaust was the systematic state sponsored persecution and murder around six million Jews by the Nazis regime and its collaborators. The Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire”. In 1933 the Nazis who took power in Germany believed Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews deemed “inferior” were an alien threat to the so called German racial community.

The final few months of the war the SS guards migrated camp inmates by train or with forced marches, also called “death marches” in the attempt to prevent the Allies liberation of large numbers of prisoners. They did not stop the marched until May 7 1945.

Holocaust

Author: Elliot /

The year is 1944. The war in Germany was very intense. I am an American soldier. We have seen thousands of horrible things. We have seen stuff that we didn’t expect to see. American soldiers fought in Germany for about two years before the war began coming to an end. We moved from town to town clearing homes and the streets of German Nazis. About 300,000 German soldiers surrendered and were captured.

After years of fighting and the war coming to an end, we were just sent on patrol duty to scout the land for things we missed. As you see in the picture above we missed stuff like this the first time around. In this picture there are a bunch of captured Jews that didn’t make through the of war. We were on patrol we came across these camps. These camps are being called German concentration camps which held the Jews. The people were starved and weak with no hope of living; it is just sickening. As American soldiers we did what we could to help these prisoners by giving them food, water and clothing. After stumbling across something like this we knew that fighting this war was right.

Holocaust

Author: BrendanP /

I am a Army soldier from the U.S. . One day on patrol we came across a work camp. There were no soldiers in the camp. There were a lot of Jews still there. They were slowly dying from starvation.
We went to help and to look around. I went in this building it was dark and had a odor to it. I stumbled into a room with an oven. The oven door was slightly ajar so I opened it. To my horror, there was a body in there. The smell was unbearably. I looked as if they were burning the bodies because there were too many to bury. That is how I got this picture.

Interviewing Elie Wiesel

Author: MichaelA /

Interviewing Eliezer ‘Elie’ Wiesel, a living holocaust survivor from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, and understanding the misery he went through.

Can you tell us about yourself?

Elie said he is a Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Mr. Wiesel established The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity soon after he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace. The Foundation's mission, rooted in the memory of the Holocaust, is to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice through international dialogue and youth-focused programs that promote acceptance, understanding and equality.

Can you tell us about your time during World War II?

In 1944 Elie, his family and the rest of the town were placed in one of the two ghettos in Sighet. Elie and his family lived in the larger of the two, on Serpent Street. On May 16, 1944, the Hungarian authorities allowed the German army to deport the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz Birkenau. While at Auschwitz, his inmate number, "A-7713", was tattooed onto his left arm. Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister Tzipora, who are presumed to have died at Auschwitz. Wiesel and his father were sent to the attached work camp Buna-Werke, a sub camp of Auschwitz III Monowitz. He managed to remain with his father for over eight months as they were forced to work under appalling conditions and shuffled between three concentration camps in the closing days of the war. On January 29, 1945, just a few weeks after the two were marched to Buchenwald; Wiesel's father died from dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion, and was later sent to the crematorium, only months before the camp was liberated by the American Third Army on April 11. His total time spent in concentration camps was less than eleven months..

Holocaust

Author: Roberto C /

I am the one lying down on the second shelf. And I am the one on the right the way to the right. My head is so heavy I have to prop it up. When I got here I was 17 years old and I was with my dad and my uncle. Over the years I have seen a lot of brutal things at the camp. I have seen people die out in the fields and I still have that image in my head. Then when I go to bed I just think of all the people that are dying0 and worry about my dad and my uncle. I have not seen them in several months. I have no idea where my mom and my brother are at.
The image in my head is just brutal. I lost all of my friends that I use to bunk with and they died in the bunk. I had my friend in my hands while he was dying. In the morning I wake up and see less people in camp.. People are dying every which way one day I tried to find them but I heard the guards grabbed them. I thought for a while that they were died and one day I found out that they both had died. Since I am now alone, no family and not much to live for, I will never act the same. You might ask about my dad and my uncle.

New Deal

Author: rhettk /

The WPA was around in the 1930. They helped find job for a lot of people. There was 10, 0000 unemployed people. They started to pay those people. They were paid about 50.00 a month for the work that they did. There was some rough time back in the day. They had to live on very low amount of money. They built a lot of stuff back in the day.

They built a bunch of trails. They built 1634 news school. They got paid very little for the work that they did. They build 105 new airports. They build 3000 new tennis courts. They build 3300 new storage dams for the people. They also build 103 new golf courses. And they also build 5800 mobile libraries. They built a lot of stuff that we still have today.

By Ethan

The civilian conservation corps is a program for young men to have jobs. It is designed to help out the unemployment in the United States. Franklin D Roosevelt was the president who came up with the idea. The CCC became one of the more popular new Deal programs. Although the CCC was never considered a permanent program; it can still be used for emergencies. In 1942 they stopped the CCC program because jobs have gotten better.
Before President Roosevelt was elected more than 25% of the population was unemployed, and hungry. CCC is known as the greatest conservation program in America. The CCC also helped redeveloped the forest it as part of the working program. Roosevelt was a president who came up with a good work program. CCC helped America get out of the depression.

THE NEW DEAL

Author: Shawn J /

In 1943 newly elected president Franklin D. Roosevelt first new deal initiatives was the Establishment of the emergency conservation work act or the (ECW) better known as the (CCC) civilian conservation corps. This relief and conservation program was made to provide jobs for the unemployed young men and veterans to provide income to support their family’s. At the same time this program also focused on improving the nations open spaces and recreational resources. Were it not for the CCC many of the natural and cultural resources in America probably would have been lost. Seventy five years later the work of the CCC still forms the cornerstone of the system that includes roads, trails, ponds, forest plantations and recreational facility’s built by the CCC. these can be found in every region of the united states.

The Massachusetts (CCC) branch was sometimes called “Roosevelt’s tree army”. They planted over 12,000,000 trees and improved existing forest stands by selective thinning and pruning. The men also cut trails and built bridges and dug up ponds. They also laid out picnic and camp grounds. From 1933-1942 was concerned with improvement and development with state park resources. During this period about 68 camps enrolled nearly 1000,000 men. The men that took a part in the CCC left a lasting legacy of forest improvements and recreational resources all around the state.

NEW DEAL

Author: TylerC /

The civilian conservation corps or the CCC was something the government came up with for unemployed people. Most of the workers were younger men. Most of them were 18 to 20 years old. They had to take a test to see if they were wanted as a worker there. They had to work for at least 6 months. They would make $30 a month but $22 to $25 would be sent back to their family.

One of the jobs the CCC offered was planning trees. They did this so were wouldn’t be another dust bowl. The dust bowl was a time when the earths soil was so used up that it was just dust. Every time there was some wind it would make a storm of dust. The government way to fight this was to plant trees so the soil would redevelop itself and there would not be no more dust bowls.

New Deal

Author: TylerP /

ABOUT THE PWA
The Public Works Administration (or PWA for short) was created in 1933 due to the Depression. Its purpose was to focus on employment. In order to do this they had to budgeted several billion dollars to be used on constructions of public work projects.
It would be killing two birds with one stone. People would be able to find jobs during and after the project. Those who were not qualified for the construction would later have a better chance of the new jobs made from the new building. Unfortunately, even after raising $6 billion, the plan was unsuccessful in returning the industry level to that of the pre-depression. It also did not reduce the number of unemployment or even jump start a world wide chain of small businesses.

THE INSIDE SCOOP
The PWA was formed due to the National Industry Recovery act on June 16, 1933. It was headed by Harold L. Ikes. His plans on the project were worded to be ‘spending BIG bucks on BIG projects’. Unfortunately, the President’s, who was FRD at the time, had opposed to deficit spending, the PWA only made it half of its possible success. About eight years later, Roosevelt moved towards war production, chose to abandon his detestation of deficit spending. However, on 1941, the PWA was seen as irrelevant and was there for abolished in June of that year.

In 1933 America was in the grip of the great depression. There are more than twenty-five percent of people that were unemployed and hungry also they had lost hope. One of the programs was called the New Deal. Franklin Delano Roosevelt created it after he was elected. CCC stands for civilian conservation corps. CCC was run by the U.S Army; they had “three million young men and adult working on building roads, trails, building campgrounds, and fixing up historic buildings”. CCC was one of the most popular New Deal programs.

One controversial topic within the CCC was In July, 1935 these camps were disbanded. Have been disband, and 150 all black companies were set up. The CCC law contained a clause discrimination based on race. The CCC Director Robert Fechner government had said “segregation is not discrimination” but many others in FDR’s have disagreed but, the CCC camps stood their grounds. By 1941 it was disband, the CCC had employed about 3.5 million men. The biggest legacy of the CCC has been the hop it provided both the young men and their families.

New Deal

Author: Anonymous /

The Public Works Administration was a New Deal agency lead by Harold L. Ickes and was created in June 1933 during the Great Depression. It allowed billions of dollars to be spent on construction to provide employment, improve public welfare, and contribute to a new American Industry. In his presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to include the PWA in his New Deal reforms.

Between July 1933 and March 1939, the PWA helped with the construction of more than 34,000 projects that includes airports, electricity-generating dams, and aircraft carriers. Between 1933 and 1939, 70% of the new schools and 1/3 of the hospitals were built during that time period with the help of the PWA. During its time, the PWA provided the federal government with its first network for the distribution of funds. Unfortunately, when Roosevelt moved industry to war production, the Public Works Administration was abolished in June 1941.

New Deal

Author: BrendanP /

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Public Works Administration. He started it in April 8, 1935. It took people out of work and put them to work. It was
the largest New Deal agency. It employed 4,880,000,000 people. These work projects were highways, building construction, slum clearance, reforestation and rural rehabilitation.

One of the things they did was a lodge at Mount Hood. The Timberline Lodge was built in the late 1930 through the efforts of the WPA and the CCC. Workers used large timbers and local stone and carved decorative throughout the building. FDR dedicated it on September 28, 1937which was before it opened to the public five months later.

New Deal

Author: Roberto C /

The Civilian Conservation Corp was in effect from (1933-1941) Roosevelt was trying to create jobs for the people. Roosevelt recruited thousands of young men to work and also enlisted them and peacetime army.[ FDR's inauguration on March 4, 1933, to inauguration on march 4, 1933 to the inducting of the fast CCC enrollees, only 37 days had elapsed.] The young men planted new trees into the ground. So they would not suffer in the dust bowl again. It kill all of there crops.

This picture shows are the young men working in the fields. There were a lot of young men working in the CCC. In June 1933, the ECW decided that men that were in CCC camps could be given the opportunity of vocational training and additional education. Job included there go like planting new trees in the ground in area affected by the bust bowl. Conservation Corps was one of the most successful New Deal programs of the Great Depression Approximately 55% of enrollees were from rural communities, a majority of which were non-farm; 45% came from urban area.

New Deal

Author: MichaelA /

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program for unemployed men, providing vocational training through the performance of useful work related to conservation and development of natural resources in the United States. America was in the grip of the Great Depression when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated in March of 1933. More than twenty-five percent of the population was unemployed, hungry, and without hope. The New Deal programs instituted bold changes in the federal government that energized the economy and created an equilibrium that helped to bolster the needs of citizens.
The CCC became one of the more popular New Deal programs among the general public, providing economic relief, rehabilitation and training for a total of 3 million men. The CCC also provided a comprehensive work program that combined conservation, renewal, awareness and appreciation of the nation's natural resources.

In this picture, CCC boys work on an example of a project building an adobe house at Mission La Purisima Concepcion de Maria Santisima near Lompoc, Calif., Sept. 23, 1938. The boys go shirtless in the afternoon heat even though Army officers in charge of the camp say it's against regulations.

Public Works Administration

Author: Gadiel /

In May 17, 1939 men work on an Arkansas river flood control project. Working on a river flood project was a lot of work. It takes forever just to get everything organized and everything in older. Basically in order to get money and feed my family I would have to work so hard and do everything right so I can earn the money with out any problem. By joining the team for the river project I have to work twice as hard. I tell you working hard is a difficult thing to do. But I’m doing it for my family so is all worth it.
When I started working on the river flood control project it took us about 3weeks or more to get everything right. There were about 14 to 20 people working on this river project. Basically all we did was work in the hot sun and dig up the dirt and taking it somewhere so that they Cando something with it. In 1939 finding a job was difficult for me but I’m happy to join the team in Arkansas, even when I didn’t feel like working outside all day and digging up dirt. Working in the hot sun was a really hard thing to do even for the other people but I my family & providing for them is the reason I don’t give up.

New Deal

Author: DakotaK /

Timberline Lodge is the showplace for the Works Progress Administration projects in Oregon. Its construction was financed with nearly a million dollars from the WPA and additional funding from the Federal Art Project for furnishings and art. Workers came primarily from the WPA, but some jobs—including excavation, road building, and laying the terraces—were performed by the younger men in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The WPA workers lived at Summit Meadow and CCC workers came from Camp Zigzag. The construction was supervised by Lorenz Brothers. When Timberline Lodge Mt. Hood was first opened to the public, the main way up the mountain for skiers was a rope tow, and in 1939 an electric chairlift was installed. Although these additions to the Mt. Hood Timberline Ski Resort Oregon were popular, the lodge did not at first see widespread success, and in the 1950's Timberline Lodge Mt. Hood was all but falling apart. Richard Kohnstamm, whose family still operates the lodge and ski area, is credited with saving the resort from bankruptcy and bringing it to its current status as a successful ski resort. Timberline Lodge Oregon is now privately owned, rather than being a government owned property. The lodge has also made an appearance in a number of films, including, The Shining, Hear No Evil, Bend of the River, and All the young Men.

WRIGHT BROTHERS

The Wright Brothers were two of seven siblings. Orville and Wilbur were their names. Orville was always in mischief, and he got expelled in elementary school. Orville and Wilbur were very close to each other; they were only four years apart. They loved playing with toys. Their favorite was a helicopter. The brothers played with that toy until it broke. From playing with the helicopter, it gave them inspiration to build their own helicopter.
They are mainly known for building the first airplane. It took the brothers a long time to get it down. The brothers got their experience from working in a shop building bikes and motors. The two brothers always worked together with everything. They also did not get their high school diplomas. Many believe that the Wright brothers were the best inventors. That is amazing especially since they did not graduate from high school.
The brothers studied many birds to help them build their plane. The brothers made plenty of planes. It took them awhile to get to the perfect plane. The two young men had come up wit a plan to succeed and that was to make a aircraft and get it off the ground. The brothers tried more then a hundred times to get an aircraft up and running but they had many failures, but that is just the way it was. Once they fixed everything there was a happy ending. That was the spark for new and more aircrafts in the U.S and all over the world.

Immigration

Author: Gadiel /

When I got off the boat to meet with the people to see if I’m am allowed to go to into America. I was really afraid because I was not even sure what kind of question they were going to ask me. So when I walk in the door and I sit down waiting for them to call me up next. So when they did I was like so nervous to walk in the door but I was ready for anything. So we did the handshake and he said welcome and good morning and when he said that I said good morning sir. so we sit down and started talking he was asking me so much question I didn’t know some of the answer but I did make a eyes on eyes contact I was being 100% honest about my answer I was being careful about my answer just in case I don’t say anything wrong.
So when he told me I was going to sign some paper to they can approve me to go to angel island I was really happy because I was sure I answer my question right. so when I sign the paper they told me I was approve to go to angel island. I was so proud of myself and my life just going to start fresh and new and I also have to follow the rules at Angel Island so I won’t get in so much trouble there. So my life has just started.

Wright Brothers

Author: Ethan /

The Wright Brothers are two of seven siblings. Orville and Wilbur were their names. Orville was always in mischief, and he got expelled in elementary school. Orville and Wilbur were very close to each other, they were only for years apart. They loved playing with toys there favorite was a helicopter. The brothers played with that toy Intel it broke. From playing with the helicopter gave them inspiration to build there own helicopter.
They were mainly known for building the first air plane. It took the brothers along time to get it down. The brothers got there experience from working in a shop building bikes in motors. The two brothers always worked together with every thing. They also did not get there high school diploma.
The brothers studied many birds to help them build this plane. The brothers made plenty of planes. It took them awhile to get down the perfect plane. The Wright brothers go down as the best inventors. The funny thing about it is that neither of them did not graduate.

Model T

Author: Malik /

The model T was found by Henry Ford in 1908 in the Ford Motor Company. The model T was made for people who couldn’t afford a car and it was cheap. This car was made in Detroit Michigan. The Ford Motor Company had one of the assembly lines to make cars. The Model T was the first automobile mass produced on assembly lines with completely interchangeable parts, marketed to the middle class. The needed factory worker knowledge and skills were reduced to one of 84 areas.

The Ford Model T was the first automobile built by various countries simultaneously since they were being produced in Walkersville, Canada and in Manchester, England starting in 1911 and were later assembled in Germany, Argentina, France, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan. Henry Ford had many different types of model of cars like A, N, S but the model T was one of the greatest one ever made. Since the Model T we have many different great cars from Ford like Ford Fusion and the Mustang. I think without Henry Ford making the Model T, we wouldn’t have so great cars in this world to day.

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