You have all been introduced to your major assignment for this trimester, a history research project which will analyze the effects of a specified Presidential decision during wartime. Please share with the class an important fact you have learned now that you have begun the research phase of the project. Be specific, and make sure it was a piece of information you did not already know.
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During my research regarding the atomic bombs that President Harry Truman commanded the military to drop on two targets in Japan, I found that to this day, people argue over whether or not it was necessary. Truman always argued that the bombings shortened the war, saved American lives, provided revenge, and, therefore, benefited the United States as a whole. These are verifiable reasons, however, it was an unnecessarily violent solution.
For the history research project, I am studying the event where President Harry Truman commanded the military to drop the Atomic bomb on two targets in Japan. Now that I have begun the research for my topic, I learned that this was a decision Truman was absolutely forced to make, and he certainly felt regret about the necessity of wiping out whole populations of innocent civilians, especially women and children, because of the cruel leaders of their nation. Additionally, Truman did not drop the atomic bomb until it was 100% necessary, and he had no choice but to drop for the sake of ending the war.
I learned much more about Martin Luther King from his speech till the day he was assassinated. I learned that MLK had been almost killed by another African American women. I also learned a lot about Rosa Parks and what she did and what would of happened if she never refused to get off her seat. I learned about segregation and how it affected everyone back then.
I learned that during World War II, the United States did not want to get directly involved with the war but they still wanted to help their allies so they created the lend-lease program. This was a way of saying that the U.S will help their allies by giving them support and supplies but they would not go and fight in the war because President Roosevelt did not want to get involved in another bloddy war.
I learned that for my history project, President Eisenhower's decision on the Little Rock Nine, there were originally twenty-one black students who volunteered to go to Little Rock Central High School. The other twelve students who were supposed to go to the high school, dropped out because of the protests.
I am studying Little Rock nine for my history research project, i learned the u.s military walked the nine kids to school everyday, and they were outside the school for the entire year. Also i learned that i learned that the name of the army that blocked the angry white men and women form hurting the kids were the 101 air-force troop.
My research topic is the FDR's decision on Japanese internment. I learned that intern camps were mostly in the West part of America. I also learned that FDR did the internment camps because he feared that some of the Japanese in America were spies sent from Japan, and were to report information back to Japan.
During my research on the Lend-Lease program I learned that Congress extended the terms of the Lend-Lease to include the Soviet Union. They did this in November, 1941, despite the fact that the USSR had already recieved American military weapons and had been promised $1 billion in financial aid.
For the history research project, I am studying the event on President Eisenhower's decision about the Little Rock Nine. Starting my research i have found out that even after the guards were escorting them into school they were still being called names by white students.
For my research project, I am studying about the atomic bombs that president Truman commanded to drop on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. I have finally started my research, and I found out that that Truman did not neccesarily want to drop the bombs, but was forced to drop them. He needed to ensure the ending of the war and the safety of the American people. Though I do not agree risking millions of people's lives, I do understand his choice of having to end the war for the sake of the American people.
MY project is about President Harry Truman commanding the military to drop bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I already knew a bit about this bombing but I have learned a lot more about it. I learned that during World War II Hitler was already trying to form some kind of an atomic bomb, and he was taking all the best scientists in Germany to have them make this idea. But Einstein and many other great scientists in Germany fled the American and told the President what Hitler was trying to make. And so they had to make it before Hitler did. All the best scientists in America came together to make this bomb before Hitler and it was called the Manhattan project.
I learned that the Governer of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, originally called in the Arkansas National Guard to assist the segregationists prevent the Little Rock Nine from entering the formerly white school. The story told today was that the Army was assisting the students to enter the building. People dont normally talk about how the National guard originally prevented them from entering.
For the project, i am doing the presidential decision (made by FDR) to send all japanese americans to interment camps after the attack on pearl harbor which dragged the US into the war. During my research i found out that one camp called Poston in Arizona had almost 30,000 innocent americans held there at its peak. It amazes me that we didn't learn from this discrimination, because some felt that this is what we should've done to muslims after 9/11.
For the history project, I am researching what happened at Little Rock, Arkansas. One thing I did not know about this event was that Governor Orval Faubus disregarded the Federal Courts when he asked them if he could delay the blacks from entering the high school. When Federal Judge Ronald Davis declined Governor Faubus' idea, Governor Faubus ordered the National Guard to prevent the black students from entering the school. Then Governor Faubus asked President Eisenhower for help to delay this situation at Little Rock. I was very shocked that Governor Faubus still continued to ignore the Supreme Court and the Federal Law.
During my research the little rock nine, I learned that every day the kids went to school, they would have a patroller that would walk with them to school, and during school. Even though they had this patroller, they were still attacked by angry white mobs. One time in school, Melba Patillo got acid sprayed on her and almost became blind but her patroller threw water on her. The name of the patrol that protected the troops was called the 101 air force troop.
During my research of the Civil Rights Act passed by Lyndon Johnson in 1964, I learned that this act was officially put into effect in the summer of 1964. It was passed on July 2nd, and the during the process of legalizing it, the Senate took 83 days and the final vote was 73-27.
For my history project, I am studying the Emancipation Proclamation and how Abraham Lincoln issued it in 1863. I learned that this document said that all slaves were now free in the United States. It only applied to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also said that parts of the Confederacy had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it said depended upon Union military victory in the Civil War.
While doing my research on the Little Rock Nine, I learned that this event, broadcast across the nation and world, was the site of the first important test for the implementation of the U.S. since Brown vs. Board of Education.I found this interesting because I thought that there were events that happened between 1954 and 1957.
During my research on the atomic bombs drooped in Japan when President Harry Truman was president. I have learned that The Manhattan Project wich was a top secret project that tried to develop the atomic bomb. The many scientist that worked on the bombs included Elbert Einstein. These scientist were being persuaded to stay in Germany and help him create the bomb first but they fled to the United States and help us. This project later created the atomic bomb which was drooped on Hiroshim.
For my research project, I am studying Abraham Lincoln declaring the Emancipation Proclamation. During my research, I have found that when Lincoln was first elected he was pressured to make slaves free, but in order to announce the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves, he was waiting for the people to say they wanted them free so that he was sure he was making the Northerners happy. What showed Lincoln that people wanted slaves free, was when they all agreed on a law called "The Second Confiscation Act" which freed the slaves of everyone in rebellion against the government, and this made him feel positive that they were all fine with the idea of freeing slaves.
For the project I am studying the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ordered by Harry Truman in 1945. While doing a little research I learned that this was the only time that nuclear weapons have been used in war ever. I always thought that nuclear bombs were common in wars. I also learned that the Truman ordered 67 smaller bombings of Japan over a period of 6 months before the atomic bombings trying to get the Japanese to surrender without any extreme effects; which proved to be unsuccessful.
During my research I learned that the United Nations, which we visited in 6th Grade, started out as the League of Nations, in 1919. Woodrow Wilson, wrote the Treaty of 14 Points, which mentioned the creation of the League of Nations to prevent another World War. The Treaty of Versailles, took parts from the !4 Points Treaty, including the League of Nations, and thus the League of Nations was formed.
During the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he created a "Lend-Lease" program to help our allies in the World War. In helping our allies were made: war ships, tanks, shells, etc.
I also learned that Einstein was German, he later moved to America when the war started because he did not want to be apart of the nuclear bomb experiment.
I researched Harry S Truman dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasake. I learned that prior to the dropping of the two bombs, 67 individual cities in japan were being fire bombed by the US for 6 months.
For the Research Paper I was assigned the topic of the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. I learned that the U.S. kept bombarding Japan for four years, but Japan was not willing to give up. So Mr. Truman had to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. I also learned that two days later, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and dropped another atomic bomb on Japan. In total over 150,000 people were killed right after both bombs. This is a truly astonishing fact.
For my research paper, I was assigned the topic of Pearl Harbor and what happened when Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the federal order to intern japenese-americans. I never knew that there were internment camps created by the United States. I also learned that there was a great deal of racial prejudice toward the Japanese in America, during the early nineteen hundreds. This decision was made because President Roosevelt feared that some of the Japanese on the west coast were spies for the enemy Japanese.
My Research Topic is about the Little Rock Nine. President Eisenhower responded by federalizing the National Guard and sending in units of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division to escort the Nine into the school on September 25, 1957. A interesting important fact about the Little Rock Nine is some of the people that were students in the Little Rock Nine turned out to be very successfully. For instance, Melba Pattillo Beals is an author and former journalist for People magazine and NBC. Gloria Ray Karlmark, was a prolific computer science writer and at one time successfully published magazines in 39 countries.
During my research on the Atomic Bomb I discovered that an Atomic Bomb has two stages a primary stage and a secondary stage. The primary stage is similar to the one that was dropped on Hiroshima. In the primary stage there is the pit, the hollow core, containing fissile material and containment shells of other metals is surrounded by chemical explosives. When it is fired it compresses and then it goes into a nuclear chain reaction. I found this really interesting because alone they can't do much but together they become a weapon of mass destruction.
For my history research project i am studying about FDR decision on the Japanese Americans internment. During my research i have found out around 111,000 Japanese Americans were forced out of their homes and moved to camps all around the inland part of the United States. This only had begun around 6 months after the attack at Pearl Harbor.
Durring my research i have learned that the Japanese-Americans on the west coast after pearl harbor where kept in concentration camps. The government though that these Japanese-Americans where spying on america and delivering messages back to their relatives in Japan. The fact was most the Japanese where mad at the home country for attacking the USA and wanted to fight back against Japan.
I am doing research on President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. We studied this in class but I found out something I hadn't learned before. When Abraham Lincoln was new in his presidency, he was convinced that gradual emancipation was the best way to go. In order to win over legislators and gain their support, he actually proposed that the slaveholders should get compensation for their property. Despite his efforts, he did not gain any support at all. After the Union's victory at Antietam, Lincoln wrote a preliminary decree saying that slaves would be free in the states that succeeded and he still had a plan for compensated emancipation. After none of the Confederate states took this offer, he decided to issue the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves without compensation to their owners.
For the History project, I am researching the Civil Rights Act passed by Lyndon Johnson in 1964. I learned that this act was passed on July 2nd, 1964. Also, I did not know that after 83 days, the Senate had its final vote which resulted in 73-27.
While I was researching about Harry Truman's command to drop the atomic bombs in Japan, i learnt that so many died from the effect of the bombing, not from immediate death. I thought that was really surprising because i expected that many would of died immediately from it. To hear that the radiation caused such awful cancer on the children was so upsetting because they survived during the bombing itself, but the aftermath caused them to intake the radiation and pollution, giving them disorders or cancer. I always thought the total death toll was from the actual time when the bomb was dropped.
My topic for the research project is about the decision President Harry Truman ordered the military to drop 2 atomic bombs in Japanese cities. Through my research, I have learned that President Harry Truman was forced to drop the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Also, I figured out that Hitler and Germany were also trying to build an atomic bomb. However, many scientists heard this news and gathered in the US to build one first. Although Harry Truman did risk the lives of many innocent Japanese citizens, he ended the war and gave America it's safety.
My topic was President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law in 1964. I learned that John F. Kennedy was actually the one to create the Civil Rights Act. He was assassinated before he could have it passed through Congress, therefore his Vice President Johnson passed and signed the Act.
For the history research project i am studying the event when President Dwight Eisenhower calls in the national guard to integrate Little Rock Central High School. During this research proccess I learned that Governor Oral Faubus had the national guard block 9 black students from entering Central High School just because he didn't want to integrate the school, therefore President Dwight had to send federal troops to protect the black students.
In studying my topic about President Eisenhower's decisioin on the "little rock nine" in Arkansas I learned that the governor did not want the students to attent the school. On the first day he sent military troops to report in front of the school and make sure the students did not enter. This bothered me because since he was the governor he should have allowed them to attend.
During my research about the Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki i learned that the scientists who made the bomb petitioned for the US military to not drop the bomb.
I am researching the internment of Japanese Americans (1942-1945). In that subject I have found out that after FDR had announced executive order 9066, the Lieutenant General at the time was able to incarcerate 120,000 Japanese americans shortly after. The worst part about the internment is that most of the people incarcerated were not Japanese citizens, they were American citizens.
I learned that the US created the Lend-Lease program to help the allied in WWII. They created the program because they did not want to fighting in the war, but they wanted to help their allies.
During my research of the Lend-Lease program, I learned that the Lend -Lease program helped the US aid the allies in WWII financially. This let us help the fight in Europe and still have soldiers for the war in the Pacific.
I learned that the League of nations would cause World War 2 and leave Germany in a terrible depression. This would cause the upbringing of the Nazis.
For my research project, I am studying about how Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent almost all Japanese-Americans (mainly in Hawaii) to Internment camps. The reason FDR sent almost all Japanese-Americans to Intern camps was because he feared that they might be spies. Almost 40% of all Hawaiians were Japanese-Americans.
For my history project I am researching the creation of the League of Nations and President Wilson's envisionment of it. An interesting fact that I learned was that America along with other powerful countries were not members during the the start of the league.
For the history project I am learning and studying about the interment camps for the Japanese-Americans of post pearl harbor. I also learned that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, issued the order to put the Japanese-Americans in intern camps, because they thought they were spy's and could be a threat to national security.
I learned the President Roosevelt created Internment camps because he feared that the Japanese in the US were spies. And that there was a lot of racial bias toward the Japanese in America in the early nineteen hundreds.
My research papers topic was the emancipation proclamation. What I learned when I first started researching was that when President Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation he changed the objective of the war. He made the war about slavery and in doing so, he made it impossible for Great Britten to ally with the south. Great Britten couldn't ally with the south because they were very antislavery and the south was very proslavery.
For the research paper I am studying why President Eisenhower sent in the national guard to protect the Little Rock nine. What really stood out to me when I was researching was that the white public schools spent 22$ per person and the black public schools only spent 2$ per person
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