Vietnam War

In the Vietnam War around 60,000 Americans were executed, and an expected measure of 2 million Vietnamese were slaughtered also. The Vietnam war is known to be America's longest war, but at the same time is least discussed. I feel that the war was pointless and caused such a large number of passings on the two finishes. It caused 58,000 American lives and 350,000 losses. Counting very nearly 2 million lives from Vietnam. This war caused so much demise and wounds and it was totally supportive of nothing. President Richard Nixon chose to pull back soldiers and hand South Vietnam a greater obligation to battle in the war. In Nixon's bombed endeavor to hinder the North Vietnamese, he sent warriors to demolish supplies in Cambodia. Be that as it may, he prevailing with regards to pulverizing Cambodia's lack of bias. I feel that Nixon had a great deal of strain to fix Lyndon Johnson's mix-ups. The endeavors to end the issue while additionally utilizing tact were from 1968 and 1973. On January 1973 American powers withdrew from Vietnam and American detainees were liberated. In April 1973 South Vietnam gave up and Vietnam turned into an entire once more. After each one of those years in fight they just gave up and squandered every one of those lives. In any case, amidst that it brought about Congress having greater power. Which in my endorsement is something worth being thankful for in light of the fact that now the president needs Congressional Approval to have American powers to go over oceans. The Vietnam War is an incredible case of why it really is great that the President can not have an excess of intensity. The war was so futile and I for one feel that nothing was accomplished and that no incredible issue was settled. I likewise feel like troopers aren't given enough acknowledgment from the war and furthermore that the Veterans that endure are overlooked.

Black Freedom Movement

This was an exceptionally intriguing subject to peruse and get familiar with. My past information on the occasions that took place during the 1960's we're the fundamentals that a great many people think about. Subsequent to perusing and investigating the materials from this week I feel significantly progressively sure regarding the matter.

African-Americans pressed some significant catches while attempting to push for balance and to end isolation. New ways to deal with battle isolation, disparity in the business field, and hardship were realized by taking part in walks, demonstrations, opportunity rides, and dissent walks. A significant number of these activities were fired up by tired understudies. Them battling for their privileges prompted the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to be passed just as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I thought that it was stunning that the adolescent were standing firm and squeezing hard lines to truly have any kind of effect. The adolescent had help battling for rights from Black extremist, for example, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. Various developments and progress being made in dark networks roused different associations to argue for equivalent chances and rights. Remembered for these various associations were Women, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and furthermore the LGBT people group.

The Birmingham Campaign in 1963 was a development made so as to reveal insight about the combination attempts from the dark networks. This was one of the a lot of things being driven by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just as Fred Shuttlesworth, serve and social liberties dissident, and James Bevel, priest and Director of Direct Action and peaceful training. The consequences of this battle was an episode of mass exhibits and it proceeded for over barely a month from April third to May 10.

1950s America

After World War II America definitely required some rebuilding in many various regions, for the most part monetarily. American economy experienced mind boggling improvement. The Cold War gave incredible reason that evacuated modern creation. It emitted the plan to redistribute the countries monetary assets. You additionally had what is known as the Suburbs create. America was getting known as a, "Shopper's Republic." Most White Americans became property holders during the 1950's. More than 13 million homes were worked in 10 years. The huge conveyance of vehicles, which was vigorously relied upon, during that time is the thing that made it conceivable to drive from the outside territories (rural areas) into the city. A huge piece of the monetary development was the advancement of Suburbia.

William J. Levitt's business office offered economical single family homes. He utilized the creation line strategy so as to get house made quick and modest. All houses had a similar floor plan which chop down expenses. In the interim whites were moving into their pleasant new homes, the urban downtown regions were turning out to be transcendently dark regions. Around 3 million African Americans moved into the city zone after most whites moved into the rural territories. In spite of the fact that there were dark Suburbs, there was still plainly an enormous racial partition inside our nation. A few blacks you would see living in a rural neighborhood were square busted, which fundamentally implies a white individual would purchase a house and afterward offer it to a dark individual for twofold the cost. The city regions were getting less esteemed and run down. Open lodging was turning into a mainstream pattern in urban areas. Government spending on building expressways and the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) advances made the wealthy society and rural areas. Interstates became possibly the most important factor since President Eisenhower loved Hitler auto-bans. He accepted that we required across the nation arrangement of thruways transport military soldiers and hardware. So now laborers would have the option to drive via vehicle as opposed to taking a transport or train. All things considered the way of life of white Americans kept on improving while dark individuals appeared to continue getting the worst part of the deal.                                                                                   Bibliography:

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3429

https://jcsu.instructure.com/courses/29593/files/597169/download?verifier=ITX0VgdRsw0mLf3c4gP0IvJucR769vTmQPyekQmr&wrap=1

https://jcsu.instructure.com/courses/29593/files/595723/download?verifier=wB9zNMZnZwKsoupG2Oj8xJGh7IlCtR9TGRJo8LS0&wrap=1

Week 11: The US & World War II

This weeks theme was about the battles that proceeded into World War II. This war was additionally called the subsequent war. The war occurred in Germany in 1939. There were such a large number of nations associated with this war. Despite the fact that Americans needed no part the administration despite everything moved into the war. A few protests halted however perceiving how it was the finish of the Great Depression. You could state World War II had a lot of death setbacks including bunches of guiltless lives.

Japan propelled an unexpected assault on the United States Pacific armada at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The assault made significant harm the American armada and forestalled genuine impedance with Japanese military activities. The United States at that point pronounced war on Japan. Following Germany's announcement of war on the United States, the United States additionally proclaimed war on Germany. Japanese soldiers additionally attacked unbiased Thailand and constrained its pioneers to pronounce war on the United States and Great Britain. A defining moment in the Pacific war accompanied the American maritime triumph in the Battle of Midway in June 1942. The Japanese armada needed to acknowledge an enormous number of misfortunes and was turned around home. In August 1942, America assaulted the Japanese in the Solomon Islands. The United States Army Air Force dropped a nuclear bomb on the city Hiroshima. A great many individuals kicked the bucket in the blast, and numerous later from radiation introduction. After three days, the United States dropped a bomb on the city Nagasaki. In any event 120,000 lives were lost because of the two impacts. At the point when the United States entered WWII, African-Americans joined the battle. Yet, the decades-long battle for equivalent access to work, lodging, instruction, and casting a ballot rights proceeded.


While these things were going on with the men at war the ladies were left to get the entirety of the leeway at home. They needed to shuffle what the advanced ladies do today which was cooking, cleaning, thinking about the youngsters, and working. In spite of the fact that, with the men away at war a lot more openings for work opened up for ladies most were just impermanent employments.

https://jcsu.instructure.com/courses/29593/files/592069/download?verifier=78k8nFIhabboKPWFFOptZTiiFzizkzM9u7ANdCLF&wrap=1

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https://jcsu.instructure.com/courses/29593/pages/world-war-ii-introduction

Week 10: The Great Depression and the New Deal

After such a blasting decade, the 1920's, came probably the best defeat in our financial history. Its consistently been difficult to clarify or see how after such a prosperous propelling timespan the economies monetary status took such a colossal hit. Months before the downturn started 9 thousand banks fizzled. For the following ten years after the securities exchange smashed in 1929 joblessness numbers rose, banks fizzled, there was a decrease of mechanical creation, and the money related speculations into our economy had definitely dropped. The stock value numbers were not really coordinating up to the benefit numbers. Some would state the individuals had an excess of trust in the financial exchange as a monetary pad for the US.

A great many organizations shut which obviously prompted huge joblessness numbers. I think it is dismal how families needed to keep separate from their urban areas just to have the option to develop and give nourishment to their families and constructed houses out of whatever materials they could discover.

The New Deal was Franklin D. Roosevelt's answer for the Depression, which should comprise of alleviation, change, and recuperation. There was additionally a New Deal Legislation which had to do with FDIC, AAA, WPA, Wagner Act, and the Social Security Act 1935. Anyway there were confinements of the New Deal which unfortunately influenced African Americans and ladies the most. The joblessness rate for blacks was twofold what it is was for whites. For ladies the vast majority of the occupations held were for men and the employments they had barred them from accepting advantages.

By 1938 it was the finish of the Great Depression and New Deal. The economy had somewhat recouped however a large number of individuals despite everything didn't have occupations. Presently at this point there were things set up so as to help keep another downturn from occurring.
https://fee.org/articles/what-caused-the-great-depression/
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GreatDepression.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/dustbowl-great-depression/

Week 8: The modern and conservative 1920s

The 20's was definitely the decade for change. Many people owned cars, telephones, and radios for the first time. New ways to buy cars, clothing, and appliances surfaced. Americans in the 1920's were the first to try these new modernized appliances and correct fitting clothing. This was time filled with new dances, new kinds of clothes, and some of the most imaginative art and writing ever produced.

Even with all of these advancements the twenties were still a conservative time in America. Conservatives strongly resisted modernization. Prohibition, which is the legal prevention of manufacturing, selling, and transporting alcoholic beverages, was a result of their resistance. They wanted to cut off alcohol consumption. The result of this was a rise in organized crime. Among dealing with this new rise in organized crime they had to deal with resurgence of the KKK in the Northern and Western areas. Not only did they target blacks but Catholics and Jews as well.

Women's liberation in the 1920's played a huge role in the history of women's rights and equality. I think it's great how the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, eventually led to greater economic independence. Although women weren't the only ones gaining more freedom. With mass production and labor saving devices gave Americans more time for leisure, allowing them to enjoy a taste of freedom because of the introduction of mass produced, cheap automobiles that changed transportation in America forever. Its arguable that all of the changes in American society in the 1920's helped lead individuals to their idea of the "American Dream.", which for most was the idea of acquiring material things and having equal and fair opportunities.

Bibliography:

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3396

https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5v19n9w0&chunk.id=d0e58

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-2005/war-prosperity-and-depression/the-booming-1920s.php

Week 7 reflection: Woman's suffrage

Back in the 19th century it was not only frowned upon to be a non-white, but also a woman. It didn't matter if you were white, black, or orange, simple rights were just not afforded to us. A non-married woman could not purchase property, file suits, or sit on juries. Even more importantly, women could not pursue an education, profession, or were even allowed divorces. But even then, a married woman had to take beatings from her husband if that was the type of man she married, as well as submit to their husband's sexual needs even if they were not comfortable. Women also had no control over their own bodies. Women were not allowed birth control or abortions.

It's sad to say but even today, we are suppressed in many ways. The most evident way that I have noticed is the workplace. Women not only don't make as much as men, but are overlooked and second to a man for positions. There are men who make more than the women and get promoted faster, even though they don't know what they're doing. Yes, we are able to vote, own property, hold jobs, and etc. I truly thank God that if we are beat by our husbands, we can not only leave them but send them to jail where they belong for putting their hands on us. Not only that, but we are offered so many kinds of contraceptives and birth controls. Besides abstinence, we have different options that best fit our comfort as well as health needs. Despite, the current Supreme Court actually being against abortions, they have not changed that law yet and we are still afforded the right to choose if we want to be a parent.

I think that the next few years will have ups and downs for women, but if we can create life we can do anything.

Bibliography

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=11&smtID=2

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/19/womens-march-back-amid-divisions-350-sister-marches-set/2623810002/

https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage

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Week 4 Reflection: Native Americans and the West

The term show predetermination was utilized when Americans started to grow westbound. I am appreciative this was done in light of the fact that I may have not have been conceived in the incredible territory of California on the off chance that it had not, however it was the manner in which Americans moved west that makes it awful. I comprehend there was gold, silver, and different valuable fantasies to be investigated, so enormous populaces traveled west. I thoroughly get that. It was an opportunity at a fresh start. Rather than figuring out how to exist together with the individuals they came into contact with en route, they settled on understandings and fake bargains that were totally out of line to the Native Americans who were uninformed to this. These bargains put them in reservations keeping them to little regions contrasted with what they were utilized to.

References

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3499

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/01/ending-new-thirty-years-war

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=9&smtID=2

https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/westward-expansion

Week 3 Reflection: Industrial Capitalism

The late nineteenth century was a time of eagerness and trickiness: of voracious Robber Barons, corrupt theorists, and corporate marauders, of obscure strategic approaches, embarrassment tormented governmental issues, and foul showcase." This is the manner in which that a few people sees the last of the nineteenth century, while others decided to take a gander at it as a developmental period for the nation. During this time numerous little makers became modern companies. This was the start of current modern economy as we probably am aware it today. In addition to the fact that this was a period of outrageous governmental issues a period of change. The Civil Service Act's objective was to control government debasement by expecting candidates to take a serious assessment. The Interstate Commerce Act looked to end segregation by railways against little shippers. The Sherman Antitrust banned any business Monopolies.

Industrialism: a social or financial framework based on assembling businesses. Free enterprise: a financial and political framework where a nation's exchange and industry are constrained by private proprietors for benefit, as opposed to by the state. The most political clash during this time was resolved to be the ranchers' revolt. The ranchers censured large business for their battles because of the expanding levies, dry spell, falling costs, and remarkable financing costs. These ranchers started the association of the Populist Party.

Other than major political changes, during the Gilded Age there was innovation developments and mass migration. This was when sports like ball, bicycling and football were concocted. Additionally, papers and magazines started right now. Above all, the phonograph, phone, radio, car, electric trains, and trolleys were additionally all imagined during this time period.

Somewhere in the range of 1865 and 1893 more than 430 million sections of land were settled from individuals relocating westbound. The revelation of gold, silver and different metals in California, Nevada, and Colorado starting in 1849 pushed forward Westward Expansion. This started numerous individuals looking for wealth and individuals started relocating from the east coast and the south to attempt their karma. While every one of these Americans were voyaging westbound, they were attacking the regions of numerous Native Americans who were at that point there. In excess of 250,000 Native Americans were bound into reservations which is genuinely a catastrophe.

Bibliography

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=9&smtid=1

https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h4254.html

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-ushistory2os2xmaster/chapter/farmers-revolt-in-the-populist-era/

Week 2 Reflection: History of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow

The Period of Reconstruction was the twelve years post Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln needed to change history and not simply have the surrendered states rejoin the association. Rather he was resolutely calling for restricted dark suffrage in the South. Regardless of his endeavors, the Republican congressional board accepted that he was in effect excessively tolerant. Because of this, they built the Wade-Davis Bill. Right now Lincoln would not sign, it was expressed that a greater part of voters must make vow a vow of loyalty to the Union, required all states to cancel servitude, and wouldn't respect wartime obligations.

Regardless of these endeavors, many dark individuals were particularly persecuted. Lincoln's passing on April 4, 1865 didn't improve the situation. With his demise came the ascent of Johnson as president. Because of his free requests from the confederate state, everybody other than Texas looked for readmission by December of 1865. Prior to this however, confederate states volunteered to make Black Codes, which were lawful codes that reduced any rights that dark individuals would have as "liberated" individuals. In spite of the fact that requests were never really met by the southern states, President Johnson reported the Union to be completely reestablished.

I feel that all the things that came straightaway: the confirming of the thirteenth amendment canceling subjection, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the fifteenth amendment permitting everybody to cast a ballot including blacks, and the power demonstration and the Ku Klux Klan act were all rights that ought to have been managed. These are not things that ought to have had such a lot of obstruction. On the off chance that all the slaves had been liberated with the Emancipation Proclamation, at that point for what reason did the thirteenth amendment must be endorsed again compelling the south to really recognize this.

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Hello My name is Martha Belle, born and raised in Queens, New York. I am a graduating senior majoring in Business management, and until recently was a sports management minor. With my degree, my long term goal is to open and run a chain on community centers for children and adults. My dream is to provide resources for kids in hopes to open doors of opportunity for them. My goal is to also provide resources for adults so that they can reach greater opportunities.

On my down time I love to shop, eat, and watch African American historical documentaries. Due to the fact that I'm almost always hungry people always ask me for snacks because there's a huge chance I may have packed a bag full of them. Growing up I noticed the different styles between my mom and dad, and soon took after my mothers. Only thing that I didn't realize then, but I do now is that my mom's style always requires money! If it's buying groceries, shoes, clothes, movie tickets, I love to shop for absolutely anything. I grew up in a heavy Pro Black household thanks to my father, who always educated on the non mainstream history of our people. From countless trips to museums and exhibits, to fun fact books, to even emailing me videos today in college my father poured his love for our culture and history into me.


I am known as the hustler among my first cousins, because I am always working or always getting a new job. Though I am blessed to have both parents active in my I still choose to have a sense of responsibility for myself and try to provide what I can on my own. I started off this school year working at Ross Dress for Less, and started this semester at Movado Company Store and Old Navy. Currently I am employed at Movado Company Store as an associate and I sell watches.

Until I start opening community centers, I plan to continue working part time at Movado while working full- time at a management firm.

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Business Management minor in Sports Management