Week 14 Reflection

What I learned about this week post was a lot. This week is about the Vietnam war now of course in high school we learned about this but to keep it real I really forgot all about it. Like I remember the basic of the war. For instance I knew that congress considers the Vietnam Era to be “The period beginning on Feb. 28, 1961 and ending on May 7, 1975 … in the case of a veteran who served in the Republic of Vietnam during that period,” and “beginning on Aug. 5, 1964 and ending on May 7, 1975. And also I remember  Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. But the new things I learned was that the Vietnam War cost the United States 58,000 lives and 350,000 casualties. It also resulted in between one and two million Vietnamese deaths. Congress enacted the War Powers Act in 1973, requiring the president to receive explicit Congressional approval before committing American forces overseas. What I also seen when reading over some things about the Vietnam war was some cause A parallel increase in support to the North from both China and the Soviet Union

An insurgency of communist Vietnamese (known as the Viet Cong) against the South Vietnam Army beginning in the late 1950s that grew into an ongoing guerilla campaign. Attacks on two U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 5, 1964, which greatly escalated U.S. military involvement in the region and led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving the U.S. president new authority to wage war. Increasing financial and military aid from the U.S. to South Vietnam in an attempt to limit the spread of communism in the area. Also the outcomes were Economic downturn and political isolation for Vietnam, which was only supported by the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe. In contrast to the fears of the U.S. government before the war, the creation of a unified, communist Vietnam did not start a "domino effect" of spreading communism throughout the countries of the region. The collapse of the South Vietnamese government in the spring of 1975, resulting in a unified communist government in the country. The deaths of as many as 2 million Vietnamese civilians, 1.1 million North Vietnamese soldiers, 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers, and 58,000 U.S. servicemen.

Reflection, Week 13

How I feel about the topic on feminism is more toward the word of enlightened. Being raised around strong females and also my mother teaching me about the movement. Reading about it just basically gave me more knowledge on it with the whole civil movement. What was new to me about the topic  was that In December 1961, President John F. Kennedy placed the issue of women's rights on the national political agenda. Eager to fulfill a debt to women voters--he had not named a single woman to a policymaking position--Kennedy established a President's Commission on the Status of Women, the first presidential panel ever to examine the status of American women. Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the commission issued its report in 1963, the year that Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique. The report's recommendations included a call for an end to all legal restrictions on married women's right to own property, to enter into business, and to make contracts; equal opportunity in employment; and greater availability of child-care services.

Also one the topics was radical feminism this topic was crazy to me. I read that new ideas from women's liberation leader, Ti-Grace Atkinson, denounced marriage as "slavery," "legalized rape," and "unpaid labor." Meanwhile, a host of new words and phrases entered the language, such as "consciousness raising," "Ms.," "bra burning," "sexism," "male chauvinist pig." An for some for situations I can agree with these labels because women was looked at like property for years and still in some countries today. But August 26, 1970, the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the women's liberation movement dramatically demonstrated its growing strength by mounting a massive march called Strike for Equality. In New York City, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue; in Boston, 2,000 marched; in Chicago, 3,000. Members of virtually all feminist groups joined together in a display of unity and strength. Yes like I knew about this topic but just didn’t realize there so much history behind it.

"Week 11 Reflection"

how i feel about this week post is sad. it is crazy how they just got placed in the camps like they was not human. For more than 30 years, few faces in Juneau, Alaska, were as familiar as that of Shonosuke Tanaka. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the hungry miners, longshoremen and fishermen of the frontier town piled into the greasy spoon owned by Tanaka—who had arrived in the Territory of Alaska’s capital in 1907—to chow down on everything from sourdough pancakes to sweet ands sour spareribs. seeing things like that it makes me wonder how they sleep at night. also The U.S. internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. The living conditions of Japanese American internment camps were very hard for the Japanese because of housing, food, and the daily experiences Japanese went through. Japanese citizens were give approximately 48 hours to evacuate their homes, and they were only allowed to take few possessions. The Japanese where treated as if they where animals if not worse. Families where torn apart and lives where ruined for years to come. Not to mention the mental illnesses it causes being ripped away from your home and community, it caused severe ptsd, depression, and anxiety. It further perpetrated the racism Asians faced in America and is still instilled into some minds of Americans today. Many Japanese people came to America for the freedom and to provide a better future for their offspring and families back home to be treated in such a atrocious way in the “land of the free” is very hypocritical in my option. The reparations which included 20,000 for each camp survivor is nothing for what  the Japanese had to deal with in  The United States. 

Week 10 Reflection

So this week post is about the Great Depression and why the Depression lasted as long as it did. Also why It devoted particular attention to the impact on African Americans, the elderly, Mexican Americans, labor, and women. With the addition to assessing the ideas that informed the New Deal policies, this section examines the critics and evaluates the impact of the New Deal. How I really feel about this week is really scared for a lot of people. The big reason being do this pandemic it forced a lot of people into being jobless, business owner closing, and putting kids in a hard spot. On the people filling for unemployment is through the roof times like this could cause us to go through another Great Depression. Like for instance stock market crash of October 1929 brought the economic prosperity of the 1920s to a symbolic end. For the next ten years, the United States was mired in a deep economic depression. By 1933, unemployment had soared to 25 percent, up from just 3.2 percent in 1929. Industrial production declined by 50 percent. In 1929 before the crash, investment in the U.S. economy totaled $16 billion. By 1933, the figure had fallen to $340 million--a decrease of 98 percent. And how its going right I feel like it going to go down in a similar way. The sweeping Democratic electoral victory in 1936 was followed by a deep economic relapse known as the "Roosevelt Recession." In just a few months, industrial production fell by 40 percent; unemployment rose by 4 million; stock prices plunged 48 percent. Several factors contributed to the "little depression." Reassured by good economic news in 1936, Roosevelt slashed government spending the following year. The budget cuts knocked the economy into a tailspin. Roosevelt's virulent attacks on "economic royalists" also undermined business confidence. Like after just seeing all that looking like we gonna go back into it, hopefully not though.

Week 8 Reflection

This week we speak on the 1920s era of for America. In my reading this week I seen how progressive and modern were the 1920s was in the U.S . The early 20th century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. They also tried to make big business more responsible through regulations of various kinds. They wanted to clean up the corrupt city government. This way it can improve working conditions in factories. Another thing was to also better the living conditions for those who lived in slum areas. 

Next lets talk about conservative or traditional in the 1920s. Around this time it was big battle over this topic. This battle was epitomized in religion, which is where much of the attempt to make society more moralistic stemmed from. There was a fierce battle raging during the decade between the traditionalists and the modernists in religion, with questions over how the Bible should be interpreted. This battle in religious issues spilled over into just about everything else, with the forces of conservatism attempting to preserve tradition and what they believed to be morality, and other forces seeking a more liberalized, free society. The conservative forces certainly won the war of ideas.

In the 1920 is wasn’t to nice for women till the end of the decade things got better. politics of feminism seemed less important to the “flapper generation”, this was partly because young women were taking the struggle for freedom into their personal lives. a significant number of women were beginning to claim the same licence as men. There were small steps of encouragement, too, with divorce made easier by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 and contraception made more readily available by the Marie Stopes mail-order service. The flapper generation may have been comparatively apolitical and self-absorbed, but, as they puzzled out what freedom meant and tested their personal limits. You can just say basically coming to the end of the decade, some feminists would say that women’s great achievements in the 20s was learning to value their individuality.

Lets also talked about my favorite part of the 20s The Harlem Renaissance. IT was a golden age for African American artists, writers and musicians. It gave these artists pride in and control over how the black experience was represented in American culture and set the stage for the civil rights movement. The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s. Im actually from New York so hearing about this growing learning about it always been my thing.

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/progress/

http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2014/2/9/the-roaring-twenties-but-were-the-1920s-a-liberal-or-conservative-period-in-the-usa#.XmLa2C9OmhA=

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/feb/05/the-1920s-young-women-took-the-struggle-for-freedom-into-their-personal-lives

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/harlem-renaissance

Reflection, Week 6

This weeks wanted to talk about the discussion part of World War 1 that America had end up being involved in. This week I feel indifferent about the topics of this week. I look at this week more of a learning experience for me, something’s in the reading that I forgot about from high school so it was like a refresher for me seeing the information. 

So the words that stuck out to me was one imperialism, nationalism, militarism, and aliance. The definition for imperialism is when one country extends its control over the territory, political system, or economic life of another country, most likely involves the establishment of colonies. Also the word nationalism is devotion to the interests in one’s nation, great feelings of pride in one’s nation. Then you have militarism which is a glorification of armed strength, nations competing to develop military strength to discourage aggression & protect colonies. Next we have Alliances which is basically like a connection of equal understanding of having each other backs among European nations.

All the previous words were important because it played into the reading of WWI in someway. Previously reading into WWI it was a deadly war economically and body cont wise. For example  The Great Depression, the Cold War, and the collapse of European colonialism can also be traced, at least indirectly, to the First World War. World War I killed more people (more than 9 million soldiers, sailors, and flyers and more than 5 million civilians), involved more countries (28 nations), and cost more money ($186 billion in direct costs and another $151 billion in indirect costs), than any previous war in history. It was the first war to use airplanes, tanks, long-range artillery, submarines, and poison gas. It left at least 7 million men permanently disabled. 

This war was just a crazy event for something wasn’t supposed to be apart of.

week 4

My reflection for this week was the fact people are just ver contradicting they treat people like horrible, but is that not the reason they all left to America a long time ago just crazy.

In the 1800’s the western wasn’t really busy. As I read on, there wasn’t a lot of people living in the states like North Dakota and South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Not even in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Utah were barely touched. Until the Gold Rush of 1849. The rush sent literally hundreds and hundreds  of people to the west to search for gold and get rich. This Gold Rush came in with some innovation and also migration, with the creation of more railroads, and more creations of windmills, and more things that ranchers and farmers use for their lifestyle. With all of that it came to the fact that over 250,000 Natives were forced to leave their homes and converted to a new place. This happened after 30 years of war. This war also came with a lame roll over of old treaties. I’m talking about one of the most toughest times in the Native history because they was here first. White people came over because they were tired of being treated badly. Yet, they come to America to treat people bad, like it so contradicting.

For example “Kill the Indian and Save the Man”. This happened in 1879, when Richard H. Pratt used education to uplift and assimilate into the mainstream of American culture. That year, 50 Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Pawnee arrived at his school. Pratt trimmed their hair, required them to speak English, and prohibited any displays of tribal traditions, such as Indian clothing, dancing, or religious ceremonies. Pratt's motto was "kill the Indian and save the man." For this there was a big fall in Indian population and much of the Indian land quickly fell into the hands of the white peoples.

Another example In 1877, during a meeting under a flag of truce in Fort Robinson, Nebraska, an American soldier killed Crazy Horse by stabbing him with a bayonet. This was after “The Battle of the Little Big Horn”.

Like I was saying previously they were and still are just so contradicting.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3501

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3505