Thursday, April 30, 2015

beginnings of WWII

German aggression in Europe
- the German aggression in Europe was launched by Hitler
- Hitler invaded Austria in 1938
- On  August 23, 1929 the Nazi German and the soviet union signed the German- Soviet nonaggression pact



Japanese aggression in Asia
- happened in East Asia
- 300,000 Chinese killed in 6 weeks
- they were killed by hand

Monday, April 6, 2015

coping with the great depression

After great depression
- They had to sell their house
- they had to sell all the nice jewelry they had
- they had one pair of clothes each
- they had nearly no food to eat, the daughter was still hungry after breakfast so the dad had to give his food to her
- he had to fight with a broken hand because the family needed the money
- he lost his job as a fighter because he kept losing, he didn't have enough energy because they had no food
- in result of that they had to send the kids away
- they lost all of their grocery credit
- the father has to go day to day job hunting
- the great depression affected the upper class too