Round Table Discission Essay

Francisco Carmona

March 31st, 2011

World History II/Computers 9

The Interwar Period Essay

The Interwar Period

Comparing and Contrasting

The interwar period is a lapse in the history of the world that lasted since the end of World War I to the beginning of World War II, which was from November 1918 to September 1939. World War II officially started with the invasion of Poland by the Germans.

All of the major countries such as, United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, China and others had a rough time during the interwar periods. That’s way, during the war all countries were reinforced in government and economy, sectors that were really affected. For example, France and the United States suffered great financial crisis that started with the crash of the United States’ stock market. The great depression started almost immediately after the crash, and reached Europe a few years later in France and other European nations. Also, Germany who lost World War I suffered a huge financial crisis, due to the Treaty of Versailles. For example, in the 1920’s and 1930’s devaluation in Germany was so big, that four trillion franks equaled one American dollar. People used to use money to make a good fire in their stove so they could cook. Another example that we saw in our book, was that a German women left a basket full of money in the street. Instead of the money being stolen, they stole the basket.

During the interwar period, many precautions were taken to prevent another bloody war that had killed so many people. For example, the League of Nations was created; this organization was one the regulated military use, military personal and weapons and other things. It’s main objective was to try to maintain the peace between the nations. Major nations such as, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy joined. The United States wasn’t a member because the Congress wanted to prevent the country for engaging on foreign wars or affairs. Another effort to prevent war was the Washington Naval Treaty. This treaty had the objective of making its members reduce their stock in weapons, war vessels, and naval personal. Members included United States, Japan, Britain, France and other smaller and less powerful nations. In 1936, Japan left the member list to start its campaigns of territorial expansion. This treaty lasted 10 years; however it wasn’t renewed because major nations wished, once more, to have big navies.

During the interwar period, you could see a lot of political changes in the countries. In some unstable countries, such as Russia, Germany and Spain you saw bloody revolutions that changed the government completely. Lenin and Stalin were the leaders of the Bolsheviks, once victorious they founded the Soviet Union, a huge empire that was based in communism and absolutism. During the creation and time the Soviet Union existed, millions of people that protested or had different ideas were assassinated. General Francisco Franco led the insurgents during the Spanish Revolution. After the revolution ended, he eliminated the monarchy in Spain, and became dictator until his death. Hitler and his Nazi Party took control over Germany. Even though when Hitler took power was in a non violent way, due to the fact that he already had tried to seize power with violence and it didn’t work, which made Hitler go to jail. By winning elections and eventually making reforms to stay in power for as long he could. I mean it was bloody, because of all the Jews and other races he made work, suffer, and eventually killing them in inhuman ways.

By 1941, all these countries that had been mentioned where engage in World War II. They were separated in two major bands, the Allies and the Axis Powers. The Allies included France, Great Britain, United States, and China; whereas, the Axis included Germany, Japan, and Italy.

Dictator in Another Country

After analyzing all the dictators, their techniques used to seize power and their own countries I came to the conclusion that the only one of the five dictators that we studied could have the same or even a bigger success if he changed country. This dictator would be Adolf Hitler, and his new country would be the United States of America. Hitler could have solve the economical problems of the United States and still create a war for the benefit of the country.

Adolf Hitler is probably one of the cruelest men in the history of the world, and he will always be associated with evil. Despite of this, Hitler was bright man that got Germany “back on its feet”, after the great economical problems and the regulations of the Treaty of Versailles, which had Germany very restricted in many aspects. Hitler created a world leading country. I believe that he could have accomplished the same with the United States. The US was also in economical trouble, known as the Great Depression due to the crash of the Stock Market. Perhaps, his same tactics that he used in Germany could be use in the United States. A very important factor that helped Hitler to achieve power was his political party. Hitler and the Nazi Party target the working population for votes, which is always the greatest in every country. With the correct use of propaganda, which he did, they could easily win any election. The working population in the United States was ambitious to get any job, to have a simple meal. Hitler could have achieved power easily.

The nationalism of the United States currently is very big, it also existed on the interwar period. This factor would help Hitler a lot to accomplish his plans, as he did in Germany. Also, Social Darwinism and racism were huge in the US during the interwar period. Even thought slavery had been abolished in the Civil War, African-Americans were still saw as inferior human beings, even by the law of the country. Jews, Hitler’s primary target in Germany where also very rich in the United States, so for him, the same problem remained. With the correct use of propaganda, Hitler wouldn’t have a problem to make the country see the Jews as inferiors, making them look like animals. As we know, Hitler also wanted to eliminate other races like, Blacks, African-Americans, homosexuals, and many more. The United States was and still is full of this kind of people, so Hitler could had applied all of his reforms and decrees with no problem in the United States.

For all this reasons, and the fact that Hitler has been one of the best oral speakers that the world has ever seen, I strongly believe he could have been successful in the United States, as he was with Germany, or even more.

United States During the Interwar Period

United States in the Interwar Period on Prezi

After using Prezi for one project, I though that it was simply amazing. Prezi is an innovation in presentations, it's the future. One of the major benefits of Prezi, is that is free; whereas, PowerPoint is a licensed program. Another great feature of Prezi, is that you can access it every where in the world, because it's located in the internet. Check it out here. Also Prezi is really simple to use, since the beginning you are going to managed it as you where a master. If for some reason you think is too hard, don't worry! Prezi offers you free tutorials (HERE) A supper advantage, is that if you have low hard drive space or memory in your computer, you don't need to worry because everything is safe in the net. One of the major shortcomings of Prezi is that you need an internet connection to access it. Not every where in the world your able to find a free internet connection, only in modernized countries. I found everything really easy, as I said it was pretty easy. I didn't find anything hard about Prezi, it's pretty simple.

If our computers class teacher would give us the option of using Prezi or PowerPoint I would choose to use Prezi for many reasons. One of the main reasons, is that as I said, you only need an internet connection to work on it, so you don't need to carry your computer everywhere. It will be more practical. Another reason I would use Prezi, will be to safe "space" in my computer and not risk to get a virus from downloading images from the net. The major reason I would choose Prezi would be because it looks cool. PowerPoints are to old fashioned, they look boring. Prezi is the innovation for the future. Prezi is the future.

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The Next Five Years of My Life on Prezi

PSA Commercials

This time, for Computers Class we had to do a Public Service Anouncement (PSA) about themes that are important to our society. Pedro and I, formed a group that took the theme of, My Drinking and The Effects in Others. To represent this theme, we made a video of two friends and the effects that one friend can cause if he is drinking. Pedro was the drinking friend, and I was the friend who got the effects. Since we started the video, we already knew how we were going to record it. We went to Pedro's house to make all our video footage. One of the biggest problems we had during the recording was the differences of ideas; however, in the end we manished to combined them and obtain a good result. Another major difficulty was that our recording device was failing, big time. They where times when we had to redo everything, because the camera just turned off in the middle of everything. At the end, we taped everything we needed.

While watching my video, I realized that I could do many changes. One of the major changes I would do to my video, is make my partner and I have a better pronunciation and a better linguistic skills. Another thing that I will LOVE! To have would be a person who recorded with my camera, because we only put it in place and start taping. You don't see the extra footage because of our editing skills. The two things I mention, would be the only changes I will make to my video.

The Best video of the 2010-2011 ASPV Computers Class for 9th grade was te video of Jade and Debora. Even though they had the same theme as my group did, I admit that their video was much more better than ours. To start, they have original footage of a real party. Also, even though they don't have dialogue in their footage, the way the managed to make the messages enter in the video, it's is just simply beautiful. I also though that the fact that Debo's father appears in the video, is fantastic. Also the special effects they had where great, like Jade in a hangover stage and vomiting, by the way that look so real that I got a little sick. They did a great job.