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News

• Today, on 1920 men are off at war, leading to not having enough men to build families. Moreover, Middle aged women and teens would be left to just themselves. With men off at war, and the Spanish Flu just ending it makes them think that they don’t have to have a "boring typical life.’’, they say that life is short and we should be enjoying it. These women are starting to be known as "Flappers". The literal definition behind this word is, birds flapping their wings. But in Northern England they refer to it as a women who bobbs their hair, wears short skirts or dramatic dresses, listens to Jazz, smokes and drinks specially during prohibition,, rides in an automobile,, bound their chests, and wear high heels. They engage to city life, and are the ones to experiment with sex. Many of them celebrate the age of the flappers as the female Declaration of Independence. They choose activities that please them instead of the typical women that pleases their husband or children. Now off to you, Nancy….

Sports

• On this day in 1920 New York Yankees major league baseball club announces its purchase of the heavy-hitting outfielder George Herman, also known as “Babe” Ruth. Ruth played 6 seasons with the Red Sox, leading them to 3 world series. On the mound Ruth set a new league record that is said to stand for many years. Having broken the major league home run record with 29 and led the American League with 114 runs-batted-in and In addition to playing more than 100 games in left field, he also went 9-5 as a pitcher. After the sale, the Yankees took over Ruth’s contract, which called for a salary of $10,000 per year. Aware of his value, Ruth had demanded a salary raise, and New York agreed to negotiate a new contract with terms that would satisfy their new slugger. With his amazing hitting, pitching and fielding skills, Ruth had surpassed the great Ty Cobb as baseball’s biggest attraction.

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In the early 1930s, the German military began seeking out new weapons, which would not violate the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Assigned to aid in this cause, Captain Walter Dornberger, an artilleryman by trade, was ordered to investigate the feasibility of rockets. Contacting the Verein fur Raumschiffarht (German Rocket Society), he soon came in contact with a young engineer named Wernher von Braun. Impressed with the VfR's work, Dornberger recruited von Braun to aid in developing liquid-fueled rockets for the military in August 1932. He created the A-4, later called the V-2, was a single-stage rocket fueled by alcohol and liquid oxygen. It stood 46.1 feet high and had a thrust of 56,000 pounds. The A-4 had a payload capacity of 2,200 pounds and could reach a velocity of 3,500 miles per hour.  On October 3, 1942 the A-4 was first launched from Peenemunde. Breaking the sound barrier, it reached an altitude of sixty miles. It was the world's first launch of a ballistic missile and the first rocket ever to go into the fringes of space. In 1943 Hitler decided to use the A-4 as a "vengeance weapon," and the group found themselves developing the A-4 to rain explosives on London. Fourteen months after Hitler ordered it into production, the first combat A-4, now called the V-2, was launched toward western Europe on September 7, 1944. Highly interested in the weapon, both American and Soviet forces scrambled to capture existing V-2 rockets and parts at the end of the war. In the conflict's final days, von Braun and Dornberger surrendered to American troops and assisted in further testing the missile before coming to the United States. While American V-2s were tested at the White Sands Proving Ground, Soviet V-2s were taken to Kapustin Yar. Working to develop more advanced rockets, von Braun's team at White Sands used variants of the V-2 up until 1952. The world's first successful large, liquid-fueled rocket, the V-2 broke new ground and was the basis for the rockets later used in the American and Soviet space programs. 

Sources:
- http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrocketv2.htm
- http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/artillerysiegeweapons/p/v2rocket.htm

Great Depression Outline

I Intro (Leave Blank for now)

  The era of the Great Depression was the worst economic decline in the history of America. It affected all americans in all different classes in one way or another. Its causes were overspeculation, government policy, and unstable economy. Throughout the 1930's americans struggled to regain the "good times" they'd experienced after the end of world war one. President Roosevelt's new deal ushered in many new government policies to jump start the economy but nothing seemed to help. In the end, it was the start of another world war that allowed america to regain control of its disastrous economic issues.

II Causes (The causes of the great depression were stock market crash, unemployment and deflation)

A overspeculation (Define, how important)

- People borrowing excessive money, banks going out of business.

B Govt Policy

- government policies didn't regulate the stock exchange.

C Unstable Econ

- excessive fluctuations in the macroeconomy. An economy with a not stable growth and low and inflation would be considered economically unstable.

1 uneven prosperity

- When the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer.

2 overproduction

- relative measure, referring to the excess of production over consumption. The tendency for an overproduction of commodities to lead to economic collapse is specific to the capitalist economy.

3 worker issues / farm issues

 - After the war they were competing for jobs and during the war famers made good money but after the war they were competing with farmers in europe. 

III Effects

A Poverty - People lost their jobs and were very poor, soup kitchens 

B Society - artists stared to paint the horrors of the great depression 

C World - Hitler rises to power in Germany 

IV Solutions

A Hoover - Hoover was the 31st President of the United States.

1 Volunteerism - Public works, Hoover refused to give money directly but they worked for the government. 

2 Public Works - The Hoover Dam 

3 Hawley Smoot - U.S. law enacted in June 1930 which caused an increase in import duties by as much as 50%.

4 RFC - The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was an independent agency of the United States government

B Roosevelt - was an American author, naturalist, explorer, historian, and politician who served as the 26th President of the United States.

1 new deal - Was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. They involved laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

a alphabet soup

            example: SEC

            example: FHA 

            example: HOLC

            example: NYA

b Criticsim?

Some people liked the idea of the new deal others didn't 

2 2nd new deal

 The legislation that Roosevelt and Congress passes between 1935 and 1938 - The second new deal legislation relied more heavily on the Keynesian style of deficit spending.

B Political Criticism (ex. Came from both the conservatives and liberals)

A Conservatives

conservative coup against the new deal who thought that Roosevelt's plan were violating their rights 

B Liberals (ex: criticised the new deal also. They….)

Ex: Huey Long, democratic senator of Louisiana 

VI Effectiveness

A Changes in US

government became more involved 

B Unions

started strikes to get fair treatment

C Culture

people had restored faith in the American way of government 

Conclusion: 

 Despite all of Roosevelt's efforts to end the Great Depression, the economy still sputtered along. When the beginning of the second world war began to push its way into the view of the shattered country, americans fought the idea of being dragged into Europe's affairs when they were still recovering from their deprssion. In the end, it would take a war to spike America's economy. It would take a country of people working to save not just themselves, but many other people who had it much worse. Therefore, it was the beginning of a war that led to the end of the depression.