Sexism was a biggy back then.

This picture demonstrates sexism as you can see. Since it's way too small to read it says "There are 4 reasons why more women cook on Magic Chef." They had to put the word WOMEN in there, why not families, or men? Also, in the picture it shows the mother in the kitchen cooking. Also, it's even worse because it looks like the daughter is watching her, and it looks like she's probably teaching her, that Magic Chef is better. You don't see a young son in the picture do you? Back then, most of all the add that ad to do with cooking, i garentee you will find a women in the picture, you wont find any men because women were expected to stay home and cook. This is how men viewed the ladies in the house, and what they expected from them to do house work, and be in the kitchen all the time. Men were very sexist back then, as you can see in this picture.

Norman Rockwell's art, my story

    On a gloomy monday, Johnny, Jacob, Jessica, their mother Monica, and their dog sprinkles wait un patiently because todays the day that Dad comes home from the war. So, they all are helping mom with cleaning the house, and cooking, and the kids set up the table. They make the place spotless for welcoming Dad back. After all that is done, time flew by. It was 6:30. The time he was suppose to arrive but, he was a no show.. They were hoping he would come back today because Christmas was in two days!! After all, what is Christmas without dad? All the presents were under the tree, there was many for Dad not bought, but handmade from the children. As they are all upstairs in Moms room, the wait by the window with a Christmas reef on it showing Christmas spirit. 7:30 comes around and he's still not there. The kids wonder why he isn't, and the mother wonders if something happened. All of a sudden a yellow cab pulls into their driveway, and everyone jumps up with HUGE smiles on their faces waiting to see if Dad's getting out of that yellow shabby cab. The man steps out, and it's their father. The mother and kids, smile at him and wave through the window because they are so happy to see him! Even the dog is drooling with joy. The family runs down stairs, swings open the door, almost blowing it off the hinges. The kids run to him, Jessica gets there first jumping on her dad hugging him, then the boys come after. Last but not least, he puts the kids down after hugging them for a while and grabs his wife gently, lays her back and romantically kisses her and says "I've been waiting to do that for a long time." She then smiles, and a tear drops from her eye down to her rosy cheeks. When the kids notice this, they run up to Dad and they all hug him creating a group hug. Monica then tells him, "Come inside, I made your favorite dinner, and i even made desert for you." The kids run inside, and following them is Monica and her husband with his arm around her. Daddy's home, everything alright now, no more worrying. 

Topic 10 Study Concept

McCarthyism Impact on Society:

• House committee on Un-American activities.
• Hollywood producers, directors and everyone involved with the movie that has to do with communist propaganda were charged being a communist.
• Hunts the "Hollywood Ten" which is what they call the people who work on these movie sets.

"Witch Hunt":

• Communist hunt
• Led by Joseph McCarthy
• Communist especially in Hollywood (producing films with communist propaganda)
• Hollywood producers, writers, directors, etc. put in jail and lost their jobs over it.

Space Race:

• Battle between the Soviet Union & the United States 
• 1957
• When Sputnik was launched, United States poured out money to education.
• 1969- Man on the Moon- Apollo 11

Cold War mind set for U.S gov & public:

• U.S. was afraid over being defeated
• U.S. was afraid of communism. 
• Soviet Union had the best technology over the U.S.

Relationship of suburbs, cars & roads:

• Suburbs were far from the city (working areas)
• Some got places near the city or in the city to be close
• Those who were in suburbs used their cars to get to work because it was too far to walk
• Interstate Highway act - 32 billion dollars to pass this act, 4,000 new miles of Roadway
• Car benefits: McDonald's - drive through. DisneyLand - travel/with no cars disneyland wouldn't be able to happen

Baby Boom:

• 1946-1960
• In 1955, one baby was born every 7 seconds
• it was a cause of the depression, "tough times"
• Cause: Removal of social & economic - restraints that kept people from having families
• Consumer BOOM: Increase in spending and buying
• Typical family, like on TV back then, Father goes to work, mother stays at home, and they have two kids which do homework right away when they get home, also obeyed

Urban-Suburban Pattern:

• SUBURBIA
• Levittown: 8,000 dollars to buy a house
• 60$ a month

                                            Business District
                                Inner City - Low income families
                                                       ↓
                                                  Suburbs
                                       Middle income families
                                                       ↓
                                                  Suburbs
                                          High income families
GI Bill:

• After WWII
• You enlist in the military & they will pay for your college
• Enlist for four years, go to college for four years
• Soliders received loans
• A lot of benefits for enlisting

Expansion of Middle Class (why were things affordable):

• Credit card - 1945 - 17 million
• 1960 - 60 million
• Baby Boom
• Houses were cheap for families in Suburbs

Casablanca outline

SETTING:

• The movie takes place in Casablanca, Morocco and was during the 1940's (WWII).

INTRO:

• They introduce the main character which is Rick Blaine.
• Rick own's a popcular cafe which a lot of people go to.
• Two German couriers are murdered carrying official documents.
• Ugarte shows up at Ricks club with letters of transit which he wants to sell.
• Ugarte gets chased, and they finally arrest him after a struggle.
• Now, Rick has the letters of transit.

STARTING TO HEAT UP:

• Ilsa Lund shows up with her husband now which is Victor Laszlo (which escaped from a Nazi concentration camp) to Victor's cafe.
• His ex lover and her husband needs the letters to leave for America.
• The German authority see's to it that Victor does not succeed with leaving for America.
• Victor meets with Rick for the letters, but Rick does not give it to him and tells him to ask his wife for the reason why he isn't.
• Victor gets everyone involved with a song, and sang over the Germans, which was a success.
• Due to this, the club gets shut down.

Ilsa DID WHAT?

• She confronts Rick for the letters, and when he refuses she threatens him with a gun.
• This is when they get emotional, and she tells him that her love for him was not a lie.
• She also explains to him why she left him waiting to leave for Casablanca. She was going to leave with him because she thought her husband was dead, but she didn't leave with Rick because she had just found out that Victor was still alive, so the right thing to do was to go back to her husband.

DOWN HILL FROM HERE:

• Rick tells Ilsa that he will give her the papers, and he will go with her so that they could be together.
• Victor shows up, so Ilsa is hiding upstairs while Victor and Rick have a chat.
• Victor informs Rick that he knows about him and Ilsa and what they had, also he says to give the papers in order for Ilsa's safety.
• Police arrest Victor, but Rick convinces Renault to let him go.
• Rick then tells Renault that himself and Ilsa are going to America together (lying).
• Then Rick tells him to call someone but Renault is actually calling Major Strasser.

THE END:

• As Victor shows up to the scene, Renault tries to arrest him but Rick points a gun at him.
• Ilsa's confused, and Rick tells her that he is not going with her on the plane, and if she stays it is not safe for her. She is now convinced and goes on the plane with Victor.
• Major shows up, and Rick shots him to his death.
• Major's men shows up right after Major and finds him dead. Renault sticks up for Rick, and doesn't tell them he killed him. 
• At the end, Rick and Renault are walking (buddy-buddy).

We were talking at the end of the class about him letting them go on the plane, and some people said he was stupid for doing it. I don't think he was stupid at all, i think he did the right thing. Victor was in a tight situation he was going to be locked up for escaping the concentration camp, so we was more likely to end up in jail if he didn't get on that plane. Also, Victors wife was Rick's ex lover, which makes it the right thing to do because it is his wife. So, i think Rick handled that situation in a very good manner, and what he did was right all the way.

My topic 9 study concept

ROLE OF WOMEN DURING WWII:

•  Some worked while the war was going on, and when it was time for the soldiers to come back, they lost their job and went back to taking care of the house.
• Other women either took care of the kids, or was nurses in the war.

C/E OF ATOMIC BOMB:

• United States bombed Japan under any circumstances (twice).
• This caused death to millions of people.
• Also, the U.S. hoped to end the war, but it didn't worked out as planned.

US FOREIGN POLICY BEFORE/DURING/AFTER THE WAR:

• Before the U.S. was isolationist.
• During, US basically joined the war in the middle, we didn't want to get involved until the US got attacked.
• After the war, the US got involved in foreign affairs, and joined the United Nations.

EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON EUROPE:

• There was an Economic change (a bad change).
• Many, many casualties.
• Imperialism was put to an end.

EFFECT OF PEARL HARBOR:

• it caused another dropping of the Atomic bomb.
• Military started to believe in the radar systems.
• Immediate U.S. declaration of war against Japan.
• Any person that was Japanese or Japanese decent were sent to relocation camps, isolated.

JAPANESE INTERNMENT:

• Japanese Americans were put in relocation camps because they were considered a threat after the attack of Pearl Harbor. Also, anyone who was Japanese decent had to be out in these camps too.
• Korematsu v. United States, this was the order to put Japanese Americans into camps.
• Many of them were released many years later & got money as an apology if they were still alive.

NEUTRALITY ACTS:

• 1935-1937
• Cannot sell weapons to countries at war. - Embargo
• US battle ships could not be armed.
• Americans could on travel on ships to countries at war.

PURPOSE OF PROPAGANDA?:

• Propaganda was deceitful. It would get people to believe in things that aren't true. 
• For example, it was used to make Hitler seem like he's running things smoothly, and what he is doing is for the sake of their lives.
• People who saw propaganda around would believe it, and they would get all "pumped up" about it.

RATIONING:

• American's were asked to conserve on everything for the sake of our soldiers in war.
• Families would ration food, gas and even clothing to help out.
• Sacrifices for all.

RESULTS OF WWII?:

• United Nations.
• Poverty.
• Baby BOOM.
• Birth of Atomic Bombs.
• Start of the Cold War.

Weekly Article, time line

SOURCE: http://www.worldwar-2.net/

Holocaust survivors, bless them

The video I watched of a man named George Gottlieb was really emotional. But first of all, he said the solider let him find his mom for 20 minutes. There were soliders out there who felt bad, and did let them slide or bend the rules. But also, he said when he found his mother she was bald, and looked very bad. He was hurt when he saw her like that and he broke down on camera. It's really sad to know the survivors didn't reunite with their families and it makes me feel blessed to be born in my time and not have me or any of my parents go through the holocaust. It made me feel really bad watching it because you would see it in him after all this time he is still hurt, and he can still cry about it and tell that story.
Erna Anolik was another survivor. This was a women. She said when she arrived to the camps they shaved her head, and they got them undressed and gave her a dress with no underwear to wear under. This makes me think this was an easier way for the soldiers to rape these women. Also she says she volunteered to take coffee to the other camps for a chance to see her parents, but of course she never did. This is really sad that these women had to cope with this and live under these conditions. It makes me sad inside because i am a woman and i certainly wouldn't like these conditions at all if i was born during that time. Like i said, i'm very grateful that i was born after the Holocaust because i really don't think my chances of living were high. Also, i feel happy that there are survivors out there and it's good to know that not everyone died.