Political+Concerns+of+the+1930s

= = 1st hour According to Don DeAngelo in 1930 Adolf Hitler became president in Germany. They invaded Austria. Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews, because he thought they were not perfect people. They didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes which he thought was perfect. Winston Churchill took the people’s insecurity of Hitler’s invasion to take political advantage to rise to power. The Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Churchill recognizes the government's promise to Poland must be kept and war is stated on September 3, 1939. Churchill gives a speech to the House of Commons which are cause for a full House. (n. pag.) Joseph Stalin was a man who twisted the Soviet Union from a backward country into a world superpower at incredible human cost.

Bill Ganzel tells us, the most noticeable evidence of how dry the 1930s became was the dust storm. Tons of topsoil were blown off dreary fields and carried in storm clouds for hundreds of miles. The driest regions of the Plains were southeastern Colorado, southwest Kansas, and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas became known as the Dust Bowl, and many dust storms started there. But the entire region, and eventually the entire country, was affected. The Dust Bowl got its name after Black Sunday, April 14, 1935. More dust storms had been blowing up in the years leading up to that day. In 1932, 14 dust storms were recorded on the Plains. In 1933, there were 38 storms. By 1934, it was estimated that 100 million acres of farmland had lost all or most of the topsoil to the winds. By April 1935, there had been weeks of dust storms, but the cloud that appeared on the horizon that Sunday was the worst. Then it hit. "The impact is like a shovelful of fine sand flung against the face," Avis D. Carlson wrote in a New Republic article.

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"People caught in their own yards grope for the doorstep. Cars come to a standstill, for no light in the world can penetrate that swirling murk... We live with the dust, eat it, sleep with it, and watch it strip us of possessions and the hope of possessions. It is becoming real.” (n. pag.)=====

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Alabama Department of Archives and History explains, in 1933 Tennessee Valley Authority developed resources of poor Appalachian South, including large parts of north Alabama. In 1931 on March 25, nine black youths, soon to be known as the Scottsboro Boys, are arrested in Paint Rock and jailed in Scottsboro, the Jackson County seat. Charged with raping two white women on a freight train from Chattanooga, the sheriff had to protect them from mob violence that night. Within a month, eight of the nine were sentenced to death. Based on questionable evidence, the convictions by an all-white jury generated international outrage. In 1934 Bankhead Cotton Control Act, sponsored by Alabama Senator John Bankhead, Jr., passed to boost the price of cotton by limiting the amount a farmer could market. State sales tax instituted to help fund education. Alabama Senator Hugo Black appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt to the U.S. Supreme Court. Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenancy Act, passed to provide federal loans to farm tenants to purchase land. (n. pag.).=====

==by Danny and Dillon==

__** 4th Hour **__ During the 1930s a lot of different political revenues changed the world, and gave a new perspective.The Rise of Power of Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis traveled the country giving a lot of speeches, attending meetings, shaking hands,signing autographs, posing for pictures, and even kissing babies for the Whirlwind campaign. Hitler, as well as Britain and France, achieved a major goal of their foreign policy in Munich by isolating the Soviet Union from the international diplomatic scene. This created a feeling that a non-aggression treaty with the Nazis would be the only protection.

The League of Nations came into the picture after the end of World War I. Its task was simple; to ensure that war would never break out again. The League of Nations was based in Geneva, Switzerland. If something did happen the League of Nations could do one of the following: they could sit down and discuss the problem in an orderly manner, if this did not work the League could introduce economic sanctions {or push the nation towards bankruptcy}. If this didn't solve the problem, next would be physical sanctions which mean military force would be put in place of the League's of decision.

Chamberlain set up two meetings with Hitler one at Berchtesgaden and the other at Godesberg. His studies in business made him feel as though Hitler could be handled as simple as any other negotiation. Hitler stated that the Sudentenland was his last request; Chamberlain came to believe that this was a small price to pay to prevent a continental war. Chamberlain was quick to agree and never stopped to see that Hitler was lying. The four powers; Britain, France, Italy, and Germany met at Munich for a conference that was about how to give Hitler his prize whether he deserved it or not.

Chamberlain believed that his bargain with Hitler secured his political fortunes, and the public was relieved that war was averted. The House was relatively content with the status quo. The remaining voice was left to the cabinet, this became known as the Munich Agreement.

**__ By: Kameron Fullbright and Kaylee Jackson __**

5th Hour  Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president at the time. Britannica Encyclopedia states that Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were allies in World War II. Roosevelt felt that they need the Soviet Union on their side for peace, so he made a deal with Joseph Stalin. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin got along rather well. Stalin helped in the fight against Japan but kept satellite governments throughout Eastern Europe (n. pag). Mentioned by Kevin Antoine the Great Depression, caused by the drought, was the main cause of the political issues. The political issues were jobs, feeding the people housing the people, and all the other effects caused by the depression. World War II was another political concern. Adolf Hitler was the leader for the Germans, the war causers. The war caused a major dept that did not help the depression at all. According to the article "Leagues of Nations", "the league of nations came into being after the end of __World War One__. The League of Nation's task was simple, to ensure that war never broke out agian. The league was based in Geneva, Switzerland a neutral country. It could call on the states in dispute to sit down and discuss the problem in an orderly and peaceful manner. The League could introduce verbal sanctions, or warning an aggressor nation that she would need to leave another nation in an effort to bring that aggressor nation to heel. The League could order League members not to do any trade with an aggressor nation in an effort to bring that aggressor nation to heel." (n.pag.)
 *  There were several International relations in the 1930s. According to the article “1930s International Relations” these are all of the International relations during the 1930s: The Depression, 1930-1934, Japanese conquest of Manchuria, 1931 World Disarmament Conference, 1932-1934, German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact, 1934 Plebiscite in Saarland, January 1935 Stresa Front, April 1935 Franco-Soviet Pact, May 1935, Anglo-German Naval Agreement, June 1935, Italian invasion of Abyssinia, October 1935, Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, German reoccupation of the Rhineland, March 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis, October 1936, Anti-Comintern Pact, November 1936 Japanese invasion of China, 1937-1945, German annexation of Austria, 12 March 1938, Munich Conference, 29-30 September 1938, German invasion of Czech Lands (Bohemia & Moravia), 15 March 1939, Britain and France guarantee Poland, 31 March 1939, Pact of Steel, 22 May 1939, Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 23 August 1939, German invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939 (n.pag). ||


 * By Kayla Schroeder, Dakota Kuykendall, and Nicole Gushi**

Political Concerns by Cory, Aaron, Cody, Greg 6th hour

Acorrding to political concerns of the 1930s, Hitler and others trying to rule. The campaign for president continued with the Nazis mounting another furious campaign effort with Hitler making several campaign stops a day. Presidents Hindenburg did less than before and didn’t make a single speech, causing rumors about ill health.On a dark, rainy Sunday, April 10, 1932, the people voted. They gave Hitler 13,418,547 or 36%, an increase of two million, and Hindenburg 19,359,983 or 53%, an increase of under a million. The 85-year-old gentleman was elected by an absolute majority to another seven year term. But no one was at ease. Hitler and the Nazis had shown massively popularity.Berlin was now swirling mess of fear, intrigue, rumors, and disorder. Out of that mess arose a man named Kurt von Schleicher, a highly ambitious Army officer, driven by the idea that he, not Hitler, might possibly rule Germany. William, in his book titled Last Lion: alone (1939- 1940), present a very detailed account of an out-of-power minister of parliament and his trails to become the embodiment of the allied struggle Hitler. The peace movement of Europe in the 1930s contributed to Mr. Churchill’s political isolation. Most British subjects wanted to avoid confrontation and therefore, chose to ignore Hitler rise to power. Churchill was less willing. Manchester shows evidence of Churchill’s weariness of Hitler as early as October of 1930. Churchill is quoted as stating that, if Hitler were to come to power in Germany, England’s eventual respond must be – “If a dog makes a dash for my trousers, I shoot him down before he can bite.” Manchester goes on to describe the endless uphill struggle endured by Churchill to be heard on his warnings of Europe’s impending doom.Manchester gives a glimpse of Churchill’s own hope that Hitler, like a boa constrictor which was swallowed an animal whole, would find Austria more than he can handle. Winston Churchill, always ready to take political advantage and ever staunch supporter of firm resolve, was ready with a stark criticism of every move Chamberlain made. To Churchill, realities made things very clear. Joseph Stalin was the man who changed the Soviet Union in to a world superpower. In 1922 Stalin was appointed to another such post as general secretary of the communist parties central committee. He shrewdly used his new position to consolidate power in exactly this way by controlling all appointments setting agendas and moving around party staff in such away that eventually everyone who counted for anything owned their position to him.



7th hour Janette and Shelbie

according to the article " Adolf Hitler " Hitler was born on Apirl 20, 1889. When he was a child he was always moody, lazy,unstable temperament. He aslo very stronly attracted to his mother who died of cancer witch shattered hitler. He dreamed of becoming a painter. In Vienna he learned to discern the Jews. When war broke out in 1914 he joined and was a despatch runner. Then he was badly hurt and spent three month in recuperating in the hospital temporarily blinded and drinen to rage. Once, he got better he was conviced that the fste had chosen him to rescue a humiliated nation the shackless of the versailes treaty, from Bolsheviks and Jew. He enternal enemy no. 1 was the Jew who was responisble for all Germany's domestic problems. In 1923 election he was arrested. When he got out theey started to let him talk in public. The nazi party won twelve seats in 1928 election
 * 3RD HOUR J.J.** 12-15-09