As they left Selma, the marchers were attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by white law enforcement with batons and tear gas.
What a horrible thing to happen. It makes me thing that someone started something just to try and stop the progress of the civil rights
However, no scandal did more to destroy public trust than Watergate. On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested inside the offices of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate Hotel Complex in downtown Washington, D.C.
What a weird event in American history. Watergate opened up the floodgates to more horrible things Nixon did during his term
NAACP and the Urban League criticized Malcolm X for what they called racial demagoguery.
I always knew that Malcolm X had different ideologies compared to King, however I never knew that they were criticized by people who were advocating for the same thing.
Ho Chi Minh issued a Declaration of Independence for the region that had been known as French Indochina, based on the American Declaration of 1776.
to me it seems like he respected America to some degree because of how he model Vietnam's declaration of independence. Its unfortunate that the US and Ho Chi Minh couldn't see eye to eye
an invasion force of Cuban counterrevolutionaries landed at the Bay of Pigs
I find it interesting that all of these invasions or plans were so invested in, that Kennedy just had to go through with them
Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as U.S. President aboard Air Force One, Love Field, Dallas. Jacqueline (right), still in her blood-soaked clothes (not visible in picture), looks on.
I find it crazy how she still came. She knew the urgency of a new president being sworn in after an assassination of the previous president was
Map of the interstate highway system, built during the 1950s
I get that they are called interstate highways, but it amazes me how far some of these really go, for I-35 goes all the way from Duluth Minnesota to Laredo Texas by the border
Why was redlining a problem?
Redlining was a problem because not only did it deny access to financial assistance for certain areas, but it also ostracized minority families.
Although Roosevelt was skeptical of Stalin, he always held out hope that the Soviets could be brought into the “Free World.”
I feel like Roosevelt would've had the ability to keep the opposing ideologies from getting blown out of proportion.
“World communism is like a malignant parasite which feeds only on diseased tissue,” he wrote, and “the steady advance of uneasy Russian nationalism . . . is more dangerous and insidious than ever before.”
I find it interesting that the US had a person who had first hand experience in the USSR, but replaced him with someone who fit the US ideals
In the first year, the new law turned away over 50,000 immigrants from Germany
The American government knew first hand what was going on in Germany and yet they still turned away German immigrants
on August 29, the “loss of China,” the world’s most populous country, contributed to a sense of panic among American foreign policy makers, whose attention began to shift from Europe to Asia.
I find it interesting how both sides of the cold war viewed the countries they were helping as territories
It is all of one pattern.
He kind of summarizes the events leading up to the declaration of war and the other countries doings. This is something that would not have to be done with congress because they would've been well informed of the tensions going on in the east.
Powerful and resourceful gangsters have banded together to make war upon the whole human race.
His tone here is not respectful like the other speech. By painting the Japanese as gangsters, he can convey the message to the people that they should deserve the respect that other people should have.
Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
Again, his terminology when addressing congress is formal, with the idea to send a serious message that could change the US
Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy
His manner of speech here emphasizes the importance of what he his addressing
When it ended, the United States stood alone as the world’s superpower.
despite the US as a nation being way younger than the other countries involved, they became a super power and I am confused as to how specifically they rose to the top.
But while the United States denounced Japanese aggression, it took no action.
I find it interesting how much the US didn't like what was going on in the east, but never fully stepped in until later, when the damage from the Japanese had been enormous
Beginning on September 7, 1940, the city was bombed every night for 56 days,
I find this strategy was very smart from the point of subduing the British, however I find that British moral never broke even more interesting. It was a unique and brutal strategy from the Germans that seemed to not work.
international Jewish conspiracy.
I had always thought that Hitler felt the need to put the blame on a group of people for the fall of Germany during world war one and the state of Germany after the war.
Sympathy for migrants, however, accelerated late in the Depression when Hollywood made a movie of The Grapes of Wrath.
I wonder what the difference from before and after the making of the movie was towards the sympathy for migrants. Was it the increased awareness of their struggles or the similarities between their struggles and US citizen's struggles of the time?
Other countries retaliated and tariff walls rose across the globe
Seems kind of obvious that other countries would want to retaliate if the US was charging so much for imports, while not having to pay nearly as much in exports.
They were unemployed and homeless war veterans, but Hoover called the remaining protesters “insurrectionists” and ordered them to leave.
This is such a horrible response to those in need. The veterans worked for the US to help it cause, and they're just being tossed aside.
That meant a speculator could buy $1,000 in shares for $50 or $100.
I'm confused on how this wasn't seen as a problem. To me, it seems like people are getting a large sum of money from just a small buy in. How did 1000 dollars worth of shares come from just 50 to 100 dollars?
The people of the United States have not failed. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action.
Roosevelt seems to value the idea of unity and the people of the US. He brings it up many times but this quote is where I think he really addresses the need for unity.
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
I find this quote very powerful from president Roosevelt. He's saying to embrace hope and the actions that are going to be taken to help fix the problem currently going on. This hope from the people of the US can help the recovery.
there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments, so that there will be an end to speculation with other people's money; and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
These are very good ways to control the banks. By constantly monitoring where the money comes and goes to, bankers can't take advantage of the access to the vast amount of money in the bank, as well as balancing economic recovery and long-term stability.
The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
To me he seems to be criticizing the bankers and those in charge of handling money for the current problems going on. Hoover's solution is to use social values instead of monetary gain for how money is handled.
It was then that I issued the proclamation providing for the nation-wide bank holiday, and this was the first step in the Government's reconstruction of our financial and economic fabric.
This is a smart move in my opinion. Controlling the damage before it can worsen will keep make it easier to come up with possible fixes for the banking systems.
This was of course not true in the vast majority of our banks but it was true in enough of them to shock the people for a time into a sense of insecurity and to put them into a frame of mind where they did not differentiate
I find it interesting that if it was only a few banks out of all the banks in the US, how big of a problem the dishonest handling of money on their part caused the whole US.
Remember that the essential accomplishment of the new legislation is that it makes it possible for banks more readily to convert their assets into cash than was the case before.
How did the new legislation make it easier to convert their assets into cash than from before, was there a new system to help back make sure cash from the assets is valued at its actual worth?
I want to tell you what has been done in the last few days, why it was done, and what the next steps are going to be.
I find it interesting how Roosevelt used his platform as president to help teach people understand the banking system and how the process works.
the second national Klan was composed largely of middle-class members.
what made the second Klan largely composed of middle-class members? Did their ideologies evolve to appeal more to middle class people?
We wish to escape
A century later, the idea of wanting to escape still hasn't changed. Its crazy to think of how some ideas change vastly from past to present, while others barley change or don't even change at all.
By 1925, Ford’s factories were turning out a Model-T every ten seconds.
This is nuts and shows just how effective Ford's assembly belts really were. The ability to make so many products in one day at the time, makes the amount of products that are churned out today even crazier with the technological advancements today.
A number of eyewitness accounts described private aircraft being used to shoot into black crowds and drop turpentine firebombs onto black-owned buildings, suggesting the well-organized attack might have been planned in advance.
I find this very weird. To have access to private aircraft at the time is unheard of unless you were part of the very top of the economic classes. On top of that they had turpentine fire bombs? Not only did this have to planned in advance, people would have to spend tons and tons of money just for the set up to this plan, so to me it feels like either super rich people or tons of people grouped money together just for this.
But the Russian-led Communist International (Comintern) had no interest in semi-independent groups like the ABB with their Afro-Marxist ideas.
Crazy that during this time people would rather turn away those who had similar ideologies to themselves because of the color of their skin, rather than gaining more supporters to make their cause known.
Though allegedly established for the benefit of the Middle Eastern people, the mandate system was essentially a reimagined form of nineteenth-century imperialism. France received Syria; Britain took control of Iraq, Palestine, and Transjordan (Jordan).
It amazes me that the middle east is still feeling the affects of this decision today, it really shows how 3rd parties making decisions for a country without any consideration to the people living there can really hinder the countries.
The new draft law required all men between the ages of 18 and 30 to register; the following year the top age was raised to 45. Facing the potential of being drafted, 2 million American men volunteered.
I find this very interesting just how many people ended up enlisting by themselves because of this law. It makes me feel that the men were scared of being of the fact of being forced into an area of battle.
Trenches extended from the Swiss border in the south to the North Sea coast in Belgium, becoming a symbol of the futility of the war.
I knew that trench warfare was the main way of fighting for the first world war, but I did not know the trenches extended so far. It amazes me just how many battles would've taken place with so many trenches.
The doors of the factory had been chained shut to prevent women employees from taking unauthorized breaks.
Its nuts that they were acquitted! Their extreme solution to make sure work was being done the whole time, ended up getting so many people hurt or killed
Addams decided to start her own in Chicago. She returned home and opened Hull House in 1889
Its amazing to me that, despite her status and wealth, she saw past that and began to help the poor and work hard at that instead of being like her rich peers and just letting it be.
41,000 people per square mile in 1880, but in the city’s poorer, more crowded areas, well over 150,000 people were crowded onto each square mile of land.
This a very crazy comparison. It really shows just how many poor people were cramped into these areas because they had no other option.
The story was a joke, of course, but Thomas Edison nevertheless received inquiries from readers wondering when the new food machine would be ready for the market and where they could get one.
I find this situation interesting. Yes it was meant as a joke, but I feel like it also showed peoples eagerness for the to take advantage of the new technologies being developed at the time, no matter how ridiculous
In 1907, entry of Japanese laborers was suspended when the American and Japanese governments reached the so-called Gentlemen’s Agreement, under which Japan would stop issuing passports to working-class emigrants.
Was it only Japan that did something like this, or did other countries do something similarly related to limiting emigration?
Harvard in 1895, became the first black American to receive a PhD there.
This is an amazing accomplishment for the time period. Other than facing discrimination among other things, would there have been more things Du Bois would've had to do in order to get his PhD or would all students have the same requirements, regardless of skin color?
Many victims were not simply hanged: they were terrorized, tortured, mutilated, burned alive, and shot.
I am speechless at the fact that people felt proud of doing this, and it gained support. To me it feels like a theres a lack of care for another human beings life. The difference for why people did this to others was just based on the color of their skin, thats crazy.
Roosevelt’s policy justified police actions in “dysfunctional” Caribbean and Latin American countries by U.S. Marines and naval forces that included the founding of a naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
What made the Caribbean and Latin America "dysfunctional"? was it the fact that another country had power over them at one point, or was it seen as inferior in the eyes of Roosevelt?
The United States removed Native groups to ever-shrinking reservations, incorporated the West first as territories and then as states, and before the end of the century, controlled the entire land between the two oceans.
This was such a horrible thing to happen, because of the way the Americans treated the natives, by essentially kicking them to the curb and trying to squeeze out every piece of land from them.
Party membership was open to all regardless of race, gender, class, ethnicity, or religion
For the time, this feels like a very smart decision to gain support and influence from various different groups of people who share the same problems, wants and needs.
“the fruits of the toil of millions [had been] boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few.”
This quote is very straight forward with its message, yet it is so powerful at the same time, and really puts into perspective of how many farmers were affected. It seems to convey how the farmers feel about the industrialization and how they feel they have been stolen from.
organized the first Farmers’ Alliance to try to regain some economic power as they negotiated with railroads, merchants, and bankers. Farmers reasoned that if they banded together, they might gain economic leverage similar to that of big business. They could share machinery, bargain collectively with both suppliers and wholesalers, to negotiate higher prices for their crops.
I find it interesting how similar yet different the farmers and the workers organized amongst each other, to try and gain economic leverage to help better themselves. Both had the idea of banding together with others, but the farmers seemed to try and gain more support from other industries.
The workers would complete their individual tasks more quickly and with greater precision, since their attention would be focused. Such a shift would not only make workers as interchangeable as the parts they were using, it would also dramatically speed up the process of production.
This confuses me. I feel as though the skills of the worker would determine the rate at which things are produced rather than the amount of workers that can be replaced.
An 1886 advertisement for Magic Washer detergent declared “The Chinese Must Go”. Many Chinese people ran laundries that competed with the company’s detergent and washing machines.
The statement in the top corner of this illustration confuses me. Is it stating that the Chinese aren't getting the clothes as clean, or are the Chinese somehow making the clothes more dirty?
Police opened fire on the crowd, killing four and wounding up to seventy protestors. An anonymous police official later told a Chicago Tribune reporter that “A very large number of the police were wounded by each other’s revolvers…[they] emptied their revolvers, mostly into each other.”
I find the fact that the strikes get so violent to the point of there being a risk of getting caught in cross fire, that only a small portion of the couple thousand workers as well as the police, there aren't more casualties or injuries very interesting
had begun to challenge the social, political, and religious beliefs of many Americans. One of Darwin’s most influential popularizers, the British sociologist and biologist Herbert Spencer, applied Darwin’s theory to society and popularized the phrase survival of the fittest.
I find Darwin's theory very interesting because of how it challenged so many beliefs and ideas, as well as being utilized to make assumptions of human society.