The Depression in Germany

          The Depression in the US actually contributed to the depression in Germany at the same time. This was the second depression that the German people were going through in the last two decades. We can only imagine how frustrated and angry the people must have been with their government. There's also the whole psychological factor- being blamed for the first world war does do some damage to the country's state of mind. There was mass unemployment, protests and demonstrations at this time in Germany. The German people just wanted someone who would fix the problem and restore Germany to its former power. Change is always hard, but especially when it means you have to struggle to feed your family when this would have been unthinkable five years ago.
         This is where Hitler comes in. He capitalized on the mass frustration expressed by the German people at this time. They were looking for another option- their current government clearly wasn't working- and Hitler presented them with another option. He was charismatic, he was exciting, he was passionate in his speeches. Of course he didn't tell them he was planning to purge the country of Jews and that his methods of doing so would be absolutely incredibly horrific. He only presented the people with this amazing image of him: a strong, smart man who would lift Germany up out of the hole it was in and lead them out of the depression.
         Of course, this brings the question: if someone like Hitler had presented the American people with an option like this during the Great Depression, would they have taken it and met the same fate that Germany did?

1936, Propaganda and Syrian Refugees

         The Nazis used the 1936 Olympics in Berlin as a huge propaganda platform with a wider audience than just its own population. The German athletes' success could be transmuted into the success of the Nazi government and socialism as a whole. The Nazis intentionally used the Olympics as a symbol of how great they were and how far their government had come. Anti-Semitic policies, part of the uglier side of Nazism, were hidden from the world's eyes. During the 1936 Olympics, there were no visible signs that said "No Jews or Dogs."
          However, the American government actually displayed some anti-Semitism when it didn't let two Jewish American track runners compete for fear of offending Hitler. This is just one example of huge world powers' appeasement approach to the problem of Nazi Germany.
          The American government (meaning President Roosevelt) also didn't accept the ship the Saint Louis, which carried Jewish refugees to Cuba, where they were rejected. They sailed north to the United States, thinking good old FDR would accept them. But he turned them away, fearing that whatever political capital with Congress he had left would be wasted on a mere few hundred Jewish refugees. I thought that was awful. These people were suffering incredibly horrible treatment in their home countries, and one of the world's greatest powers cannot muster the empathy and human compassion to save them. 
        This immediately reminded me of the Syrian refugee crisis. Some European countries are completely "shutting their borders," so to speak, and rejected refugees. They feel that they need to focus on their own country's problems instead of providing humanitarian relief to these refugees. Sometimes the lack of empathy is seriously astonishing, but when I learned about how Roosevelt turned away the Saint Louis, the reactions of European countries this past year only make sense because history does repeat itself. 

Great Depression V.S. Great Recession (for GDP)

It is common that people see both the Great Depression and the Great Recession caused some serious, negative impacts on the American economy and American lives. However, the Great Depression brought out the most terrible economic crisis, that spread rapidly, compared to the Great Recession. The two economic crises were similar in the fact that both caused an enormous downfall in the American Growth Domestic Product (GDP). The graphs of both economic crises would show a dramatic negative slope representing the effects of the economic crises and how drastic the crash represent the people or national economy not making money overall, or barely to sustain the economy. There is however more of a difference between the two economic crises like the hardship of growing the GDP and also the length of how far it went until it stopped falling and long it took for the crash to stop and to rise to back to the last biggest GDP. We can obviously see the Great Depression’s effect on the GDP is way more fatal than the Great recession's in many ways, but the hardship of the Great Depression took a bigger downfall/hit and for a longer time to bring the economy back to normal, which took almost ten years to recover from, where Great Recession only took four years to recover from.

More notes/statistics on both economic crisis:

Great Recession:

• GDP rose at a 2.1 percent annual rate in the third quarter of 2015 and was 2.2 percent higher than in the same quarter a year ago.
• This output gap, which is manifested in excess unemployment and idle productive capacity among businesses, is the legacy of the Great Recession.

Great Depression:

• measured by gross domestic product, sharply declined following the crash on Wall Street—from $103.6 billion in 1929 to $66 billion in 1934.
• The economic recovery of 1933-1937, among the most dramatic in US history, saw double-digit annual gains, although a tax increase and cutback in government spending in 1937 threw the economy back into recession

Women in Sports During WWII Essay

I chose to write my essay on the changes that occurred to women's sports teams during World War II. I hope to find a lot of information on how women became more involved in sports because all of the men were at war. Another interesting aspect I am going to research is the difference between how many people followed men's sports versus women's sports at this time. Also, I want to explore questions like how applicable are some of the facts today and how this change affected women's roles in society.

No Bad Chicks Allowed

Schechter vs US (1935)

Schechter Poultry Corp. vs United States was a Supreme Court Case involving conflicts with New Deal.

President Franklin Roosevelt, due to the need for reform, worked with Congress, solidly consisting of Democrats, to create economic reform bills for the New Deal.

The Live Poultry Code was a part of the NIRA, or National Industrial Recovery Act.  This bill gave Presidential power for determining norms in businesses such as minimum wages and the maximum hours allowed to work.

The Schechter Poultry Corporation bought live chickens and other poultry from nearby states.  They sold individual, slaughtered poultry that were said to be "bad" or "sick",  bypassing the Poultry acts.

The Supreme Court deemed this act unconstitutional as it was a violation of "separation of powers" as the President's actions were never approved by another branch of the government.

There existed a rumor that in order to get his way, Roosevelt was going to increase the number of Supreme Court members so the vote would go his way.  Understanding the President was infuriated, the 2 swing voters who were the deciding factors voted in favor of President Roosevelt and his New Deal.

The 1930's :(

On Wednesday (1/13/15) we watched a video and filled out notes on life in the 1930's. Essentially it consisted of a lot of depressing time, what people did to try and cope and like what everyone tried to do to recover. A way some people coped with the depression for a few hours was going to see a movie. Motion pictures were a new thing and for a good .15$ you could get a few hours away from the depressing 1930's and get some good fun. After the movie and the news ended, they had to go back to the depression and back to the sadness. Another way the people coped was the radio, it was like our tv now, they broadcasted movies (just sound) and it kept people happy for as long as it ran for. The depression hit ordinary people extremely hard. Those who worked most likely lost their jobs, and those with families could no longer really provide for them, everything from shelter to food... Banks failed, so everyone lost their money, unless you took your money when their still was money to give out. The people blamed themselves for the depression because they felt like they didn't work hard enough, when in reality it was bound to happen. People moved to Germany because they thought communism sounded cool after they lost all their money... spoiler, it was pretty bad over there too. But President Roosevelt came to the rescue, and loaned out 2 billion to the banks, started making jobs to give the people purpose. But we didn't finish all the documentary... so more to come later!!

infographic vance depression

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/10419536-great-depression-vs-recession

Piktochart Infographic

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Our Infographic shows that both crises were significant for their time and had severe effects on the American people and economy. However we found that the Great Depression was more severe in almost every effect we researched.

Infographic- The Great Depression/Recession

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Within infographic discusses the area of death rate, job rate, unemployment, increase in everyday product either food or essentials and bank failure in both the depression and recession.

Piktochart infographic

Our info graphic compares the causes of the great depression and great recession, along with their effects in GDP, unemployment, and minority impacts.
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Piktochart infographic- Great Depression vs Great recession

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Our infographic is about the differences between the great depression and the great depression, Tara, Sana, Daphne and I split up the work evenly we talked about the : unemployment rate, poverty, home foreclosures and GDP.

Piktochart Infographic - Great Depression vs Great Recession

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Our infographic talks about the differences between The Great Depression and The Great Recession in the following categories: Unemployment, Change in Prices, Bank Failures, and Homelessness.

Piktochart Inforgraphic Depression vs Recession

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Our infographic presents the differences in Home Foreclosure, Causes, Unemployment, and Family Life between the Depression and the Recession

Three of the Causes of The Great Depression

Today in class we went over some of the causes of The Great Depression. Many problems that arose during World War One were not taken care of properly in the 1920s.While it is consisted the "roaring twenties" it still had problems.
The first argument for the cause is lack of diversification in the American Economy. The American Economy was growing in the 1920s due to two industries, automobile production and construction. The problem with these industries controlling the economy is that people do not need an excessive amount of cars or construction. An example being that from 1926-29 expenditures of construction went from $11 billion to $9 billion. Also, in 1929 automobile sales fell 33%. The problem caused these industries to slow down and people to be fired. No other areas of the economy could compensate. This hurt all industries because people has no money.
Another cause was maldistribution of wealth. There was structural weakness in consumer demand, and profits were not adequately passed on to the consumers. Over 1/2 of American Families lived at or below subsistence level in 1929. Industries over produced products for consumers, the easiest way to recover from this was laying people off. Unemployed individuals would not spend more money, further increasing the issues with the economy. 26% of wealth was controlled by only 2% of the population and 24% was controlled by 60% of the population.
The third cause for the Great Depression was the Credit Structure of the Economy. Banks were able to invest in the stock market, using peoples money, and after the stock market crash they were unable to pay people back. People lost all of their money that was in the bank, even though the people who put money in the bank did not directly invest in the stock market. Corporations also loaned people money in order to make more money, however, when people could not make payments, they stopped making money. The connected structure of borrowing money came crashing down. When one part of the economy failed, it caused all parts of the economy to fail.

Banking & the Stock Market Crash: How things have changed

Today in class we discussed how things have changed for banks and what they can do with their customers' money. Before the stock market crashed, banks were able to take the money deposited in their bank and invest it in the stock market. When the stock market crashed, all the money that the banks had invested was gone. Even if you were a customer of the bank that hadn’t invested in the stock market, your money was totally gone. People also individually invested in the stock market, so when the market crashed, all their money was gone. If they had a loan with a bank, they now wouldn’t be able to pay that bank back- because all their money is gone.

Even worse- people borrowed money to buy stocks. People could not borrow money after the crash because nobody could lend them anymore money. The whole situation during the 20’s was really messed up. Everyone in the chain of stocks/borrowing/ lending was very interconnected. If someone borrowed money to buy stock, they think that they can sell the stock for a higher price. Then they can pay back the lender and make a profit. However, this only works if the stock price goes up, and when it doesn’t, everything goes downhill.

The five causes of the great depression: How do they impact us today

Today in class we discussed some of the causes that might have led to the outbreak of the great depression. I was interested by what people think the causes are but also how America learned from it's mistakes. I think it is very important to acknowledge what caused one of America's worst economical drift and food shortage. It is important that we are of what caused it (Great depression) so that we make sure that the country does no repeat a similar mistake. I think this is a topic that we should discuss even more in class because it changed the countries economic strategies, and America's social rank forever.