Beginning of WW2

During WW2, the Germans were one of the most aggressive countries in history. They were well known for the Holocaust and their leader, Adolf Hitler.

Hitler had been convicted of treason 

Germans made Stuka dive bombers

Germans showing their tanks at a festival.

Japan was also one of the harshest countries during the war. They were mostly known for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, then were bombed twice by America.

Japanese aircraft carrying a bomb over targets in China

Japanese warriors involved in a street fire.

The Allie Powers during the war

Japanese-American Internment

Map of Camps around the United States at the Time

One of many transfers of Japanese-Americans evacuees from Assembly Centers to War Relocation Centers. 

         Cars of those who could not bring their cars would have them impounded for the duration.

                     Store owned by a Japanese ancestry is closed after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Two friends playing on final game awaiting the evacuation.

Japanese-Americans getting vaccinated upon arrival at the Assembly center

Coping With the Great Depression

10 things the Braddock family did to cope with the Great Depression from 1929-1939

1. Sold jewelry
2. Dried socks in the oven
3. Couldn't pay for gas and electricity 
4. Braddock only got paid $50 for a fight instead of $8,000
5. Fighting injured
6. No money for kids to eat
7. Broke wood for heat
8. Son stole food so his family could eat
9. Braddock gave his food to his daughter so she could eat
10. Everyone slept in the kitchen

Police stand guard while people  

Men trying to get jobs 

Bud Fields and his family. 

Farmers and sons during a dust storm in Oklahoma, 1936

Migrant Mother

Current Events - Obama asks Congress

Obama wanted Congress for authorization of war powers to combat ISIL (ISIS) due to the deaths of U.S. citizens, James Foley, Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller. Congress authorized for war powers to combat ISIL but Obama has to report every six months about what is happening.

Map of the State of Iraq

Map of the Levant

Map of the Middle East

James Foley (U.S. Journalist)

Steven Sotloff

Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig

Kayla Mueller

Spanish-American War

The Spanish-American War was between April 1898-August 1898. Propaganda means information, especially of a misleading nature, used to promote a particular political cause or point of view. Yellow Journalism is journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.

Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst dressed as the Yellow Kid, preparing for war

McKinley Being a Coward

Imperialists VS. Anti-Imperialists

Electoral Votes

Electoral Votes in MA from 1876 to 1888

•  1876 - Republican
• 1880 - Republican 
• 1884 - Republican
• 1888 - Republican

The states did vote as a bloc. The majority of the states in New England had voted Republican rather than Democratic throughout the elections.

2010 & 2014

● Democratic

● Democratic 

In 1876-1888, the president's elected were all Republican and then in 2008 and 2014, it became Democratic. However, in the 2000s Massachusetts would vote for the Democratic party. Also you notice that the majority of the states in New England voted for the same parties in the 1800s and 2000s. 

Electoral Votes in 1888

Electoral Votes in 2008

Thanksgiving and America

I am thankful for my family and having a meaningful and loving feast with them every year.
I am thankful for having a wonderful life in America and thankful that my family have a normal life with jobs and freedom.

                                                                      Family Feast

Freedom in the U.S