This weeks blog topic was a combinations of thoughts based
on the readings. I remember asking my
grandmother about the great depression a few years ago. She mentioned that it was a very hard time
and she was forced to work and help out her family. That was a very trying time for Americans and
as a result of the great depression some people committed suicide. When the stock market crashed 11 Wall Street
bankers killed themselves. Banks closed
and a lot of people lost their life savings.
Investments dried up and businesses were unable to sell their
products. The loss of work was very hard
for most Americans. Franklin Roosevelt’s
New Deal was what was going to make the great depression end. The New Deal was complex tangle of reforms
intended to restore pre- Depression prosperity and to prevent future
calamities.
Hitler was a very charismatic person who made people fall in
love with him. He was able to convince a
nation that one race was superior to all others. Eradicating the Jewish race the way he did
was so foul and completely insane. He
had a way of making people believe that what he is doing was okay. Some folks had no sense of what was going on
even though they were living during that time.
I had a thought and I wondered if there could possibly be another Hitler
type person in this world that could influence and rule a certain people on a
global level. With all the media and
knowledge of the past I often wonder if we could experience a repeat. I doubt that, but I am sure that this could
happen on a small scale. I don’t think
that would last long because people would revolt and not become subject to such
a thing.
I remember reading about Hiroshima and the atom bomb as a
little kid. I always thought that was
crazy and the older I got I became really ashamed. All things happen for a reason and I know
that war is a terrible, but necessary thing so I sort of understand. The atomic bomb was a result of an attack on Pearl
Harbor in Hawaii. I think that it was
important for the United States to send a message to the world, but
interestingly enough japan sent their own message to pearl harbor. This action by the United States showed the
world to not mess with the US. Now other
nations make threats and try to gain an upper hand with nuclear power
plants. It seems that history has a way
of repeating itself, so hopefully the most recent century doesn’t come back the
way it happened then.
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