Blog 4: Pearl Harbor

Look at the following website and answer the two questions below: http://ezinearticles.com/?Facts-on-Pearl-Harbor&id=1582085 1. What was the date of the bombing of Pearl Harbor? 2. List 3 facts on this site and be able to discuss in class. http://www.worldwariihistory.info/WWII/North-Africa.html 1. What was the North African campaign of WWII? (write a one paragraph description) 2. Who was the commander from Germany? U.S.? England?

Blog#2 FDR

Read the following on the election of 1932.

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2008/09/10/the-most-consequential-elections-in-history-franklin-delano-roosevelt-and-the-election-of-1932

1. What did President Hoover think the government should do about the crash?
2. What was FDR's promise? Describe the election- was it a close race?
3. Describe FDR's inaugural address. (what was he trying to say?)
4. What did FDR do in the first '100 days'?
5. How did FDR communicate with the country? What was a 'fireside chat'?

Blog #1-Stock Market Crash

Read the following and answer the questions below.
http://www.themoneyalert.com/stockmarketcrashof1929.html

1. What happened on Black Thursday? (Was this event a one-day issue?)
2. Why did the bankers try to save the market?
3. What was the main cause of the crash?
4. How did mass trades lower prices?
5. What was the effect on the U.S. economy- give 3 examples from the reading.

WWI #1

Causes of World War I
Use these next to sites to answer the following:
1. Define and give an example-
Alliance:
Imperialism:
Militarism:
Nationalism:

2. Explain the Moroccan Crisis and the Balkan (Bosnian) Crisis.
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/causes.htm
http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/great_war/causes.htm
Watch this short video when you are finished. (great pictures of the war)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGtru-H5hW8&feature=fvw