Eisenhower and Civil Rights

President Eisenhower wasn't to involved when it came to the Blacks trying to reach equality. The President majority of the time would just study and investigate their grievances, and if he wasn't doing that he was playing golf with business men in the south. For instance, Raplh Bunche recieved an award for being a distinguished African American diplomat. The award was proceeded by a dinner with the President and to Eisenhower, enjoying dinner with a Black man sitting next to you at the same dinner table was foreign. The president was blind to racial intolerance and didn't even publicly endorse desegregation in school after the Brown v Board case. President Eisenhower believed the prospect of the black would be hurt and southern hearts of the white man would harden if integration was forced. Eisenhower didnt serve the country well when it  came to problems of race and racism, the man took a more "sit back and watch" posistion.

McCarthyism

A) One thing the author said that I think is important is when he said to Harry S. Truman, "you named hundreds that are listed as dangerous to the nation." A second thing he said that I think is important is, "we have been able to compile a list of 57 communists in the state department." A third thing he said that I think is important is, "failure on your part will label the democratic party of being the bed-fellow of inter-national communism."

B) I think this document was written to confront and address the fear, problem, and investigation of communist members working in our government. Also, to help Joe McCarthy to gain supporters.

C) Evidence from the document includes Joe McCarthy saying "we have been able to compile a list of 57 communists in the state department." Also confronting President Truman that he knows that he is aware of more communists in the government by saying, "you named hundreds that are listed as dangerous to the nation" because of communist connections. Also McCarthy had said, "one group approximately 300 certified to the secretary for discharge and only discharged approximately 80."

D) One thing the document tells me about life in the United States at this time is the people were terrified of our country's government turning communist. Another thing is even though people of the United States were watching our governments decisions, we didn't really know if we could trust them or not.

E) Why did President Truman ban state departments giving congress any information in regard to disloyalty or communistic connections of anyone in that department when Alger Hiss was exposed?

F) February 11, 1950

G) Senator Josepg McCarthy

H) Address President Truman about the concerns of communist advocates working in the government, particularly in the state department.

WWII

Soldiers day:
          I'm not sure what today's date is or what day of the week it is either. After a while, the days just begin to blur together one after the other. I always wondered how I would feel after my first kill and to be honest, you don't think to much about until the adrenaline dies down and you find yourself unwinding on either a cot or 2-3 foot deep hole reading family letters acting as an antidote to slip you back down into reality. I haven't slept in almost 3 days knowing this time of rest I'm spending on writing this letter could turn into another sleepless night if there are any signs of the enemy. Our location as of now resides somewhere in German territory. Yesterday, my platoon came across a sight words can't describe and my mind won't ever forget. Behind 16 foot fences of barbed wire was an evacuated 20 plus acre area of dead bodies everywhere. They were either burned, dismantled, poisoned in what seemed to be a chamber or starved to death. After reporting everything and reaching the limit of what our own eyes could take we quickly and steadily marched south and slipped into enemy lines battling for a solid 2 hours of war. We lost 7 of our men and won the battle but are still pushing to win the war.

Character in detail:
          One character in the movie that is probably written about the most is Captain  John H Miller. He didn't just wear the clothes on his back and his supplies but he carried and fought for his country and all the men he lead in battle. In the very beginning of the movie, he was probably the most nervous soldier the camera showed but knew what had to be done. His soldiers had all odds against them but even after the hundreds of men they lost he continued to push on. Captain John H Miller even said that after every kill he had, the further away from home he felt. Someone who was just an elementary school teacher with a wife back home found himself fighting to save a Private he didn't even know resulting in his own life being taken.

What would I have done:
          Honestly, I don't think anyone can truly respond to this section truthfully because know matter how much of the enemy we say we would kill and how brave we say we would be we will never know unless we are really in the war. It's easy to watch people die on a screen in front of you and get all hyped up but until a screenplay of reenactment turns into reality and that man beside you who just was shot dead and is your best friend, situations become real. Since I've obviously never been to war the best I can say is that I hope I would be one of the best soldiers when it came to getting the job do when it needed to be done. And when it then came time for war, a switch that only gunfire can trigger would change my mentality and I would enter a zone that I could only find myself in as entered the battle zone.

WWI Political Cartoon

The Political cartoon represents how all of the other nations and world powers were trying to take down the United Sates. Also it shows how everything was tied up with the United States and the League of Nations in general. Reasons for World War I included nationalism of rising European nations, multiple newly put together alliances with the European nations (Austria-Hungary &Germany, Britain & Russia, Franco- Russian alliance etc..), and imperialism with Germany, Britain, and France. Also, militarism between Germany and Britain, and nationalism with majority of participating nations were additional reasons for WWI.

            The United States wanted to remain neutral but began to get nervous from the rising monarchy in Germany. Unfortunately the red, white, and blue got dragged into the war for several reasons; particularly the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat that carried 120 Americans. Also 7 of the United States merchant ships were sunk and even though we were ‘neutral’ we were supplying materials to our allies. Woodrow Wilson had enough, to war we went.

American Imperialism

1.       The political cartoon is showing how reality isn’t everything we see on television, advertisements, and media.  Also, even though America is the land of the free, we are still fighting somewhere out there to keep it that way whether its verbally in our country or violently somewhere else.

2.       Renew American Spirit

             Spread Christianity
             More Ports and Trade
             Conflicts with Spain and the Spanish War
             Expansion Overseas/Cheap Labor
             Economic Benefits
             Military Control

New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)

1.       The principal searched TLO’s purse and belongings without any permission from TLO. Just because he was suspicious doesn’t provide a reasonable situation for him to go through her belongings because the fourth amendment allows the person to be secure of their belongings.

2.       The Principal had every right to search TLO’s purse because the fourth amendment states that searches can’t be done under unreasonable situations, but the principal clearly had a reasonable situation to search her belongings after walking into her and her friend in the bathroom including evidence of selling marijuana and using it as well.

3.       By all means yes, searches are not to be allowed under unreasonable circumstances but this situation was clearly reasonable and all the evidence supported the search.

4.       I think the search like this one could occur in my school and should be allowed but I am not aware of my school’s rules pertaining to searches of personal belongings.

5.       The Supreme Court should prove her guilty because the search was a reasonable search and all of the evidence found in the purse shows she not only smoked marijuana but sold the drug as well. Proving her not guilty is poor ruling on the United States part of the situation.

Labor Unions

Various labor unions have been formed throughout the history of the United States; but the Unions really took a stand in the 19th century. Workers were put through brutual conditions and long hours with terrible salary. Workers formed these rebelious groups, or unions, to not only improve working conditions such as health and safety issues, but shorten the average 10-12 hour work day. During the early 1800's many work places were tansistioning into the factory style of work with early machines taking the place of human hands. This transistion made the wealthy richer and the poor struggle more. Many unions were formed for the sake of the every day hard workers who barely made a living  pushing through these arduous conditions ; some of these unions include The Knights of Labor formed by Uriah Stephens, American Federation of Labor, and the Committee for Industrial Organization.

KKK

The Klu Klux Klan first appeared around 1866 after the Civil War by veterans of the Confederate army.The group originally wasn't formed to be an anti-black group, but focused on the killing of freed slaves, intimidating northerners and southern republicans. In 1868, the Klan had killed around 1300 southern republican voters but soon faded away only to make a bigger comeback by the early 20th century. This time, the Klan was more structured and oraganized and payed memebers to establish new chapters for the organization. Their preachings focused on racism, anti-Catholicism, nativism, and anti-Semitism and was now growing to a size of around 4 million members. In the 1920's, members became governors for multiple states and began finding seats in congress; taking a much more political approach to voice their beliefs. After thousands of innocent murders and organized riots, Alabama's main KKK organization collapsed includng Indiana and 14 other participant states. Small groups still call themselves memebers of the KKK but it doesn't remain an official organization. Studies say 1 out of every 30 people were memebers of the Klan in the 1920's but since 2005 the number of memebers has dropped even more to 1 out of every 100,000 people. They still encourage to recieve as many memebers as they can for another up bringing, but turn many away with their ruthless actions towards racisim.

Civil War Political Cartoon

This carton represents the different views between President Abe Lincoln and Jefferson Davis with George B. Mclellan in the middle. Abe Lincoln simply wanted to preserve the Union and didn't believe it to be possible with slavery in the picture. Jefferson Davis on the other hand, was from the south and viewed slaves as property and a part as the south's economy. In the middle we have General George B Mclellan who was a Civil War General, memeber of the Democratic party, important organizer for the Union, and opposed federal interference with slavery.

Assignment 1

John Bell was a politician from Tennessee and a wealthy slaveholder. Bell served for the United States in multiple posistions including The House of Representatives and Senste. John Bell was born in Mill Creek, Tennessee and graduated from Cumberland University where he studied law. He first participated in politics in 1817 when he ran for Tennessee state senate and served a single term. Then from 1827 to 1841 he served for Tennessees 9th congressional district in the House of Representatives. When the election of 1860 came around, the Whig party had crashed but John Bell wanted to preserve the Whigs becoming a presidential candidate In the the United States Constitutional Union Party and opposed the spreading of slavery; although he was a large slaveholder himself. Abraham Lincoln won the election but Bell had 39% of the Souths votes and 13% of total votes. Following the election, Bell traveled to Washington D.C. To meet Mr. Lincoln and help to keep Tennessee in the Union.