Kevin’s Blog

Lusitania was always a target.The sinking of the Lustania was alot the cause of World War one.On may 1st 1915 the ship was healing to Liverpool.Unknown to her passengers but probably no secret to the Germans, almost all her hidden cargo consisted of  contraband destined for the British war effort.The afternoon of may 6 a torpedo fired by German submarine u 20 was attacked from the side.Seconds later another explosion ripped the liner off from Lusitania. The shipped was on its way to sinking life boats and jackets crashed into the water and people was trying to be saved from death or sinking with Lusitania.The majority of passengers had no chance of surrvival but still made a effort.Then about a half a hour later the big shipped sunk beneath the sea.That made the everything bad for America two years later America declared war the Lusitania caused alot of problems from Germany to America. This connects to the titanic another big ship that represented alot and sunk ending many of lives.Both ships was a big symbol in the world and they both sunk  and killed thousands of people.It was devistating for those who did not surrvive.

April 15th 1920 fredrick parmenter was shot dead carrying two boxes containg the payroll of a shoe factory. AS soon as the two robbers took the 15,00$ They got into the car containg several men and fled the scene. Several witnesses said the robbers look italian.A large number of  were questioned but eventually the authorities decided to charge Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco  with the murders. Although the two men did not have criminal records, it was argued that they had committed the robbery to acquire funds for their political campaign. The trial started on 21st May, 1921. The main evidence against the men was that they were both carrying a gun when arrested. Some people who saw the crime taking place they identified Bartolemeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco as the killers and robbers.Not everybody agreed with the people that was accused.Whether they agreed or not did not matter.Summer of 1927 it was clear that both Nicola Sacco and Bartolemelo Vanzetti were going to be put to death for the murder of Fredrick Parmenter. The Sacco-vanzetti Case connects to rascism we experience now in 2010 just because they are iltalian they have no right to be killed.

The great war of yankee agression i feel is America going to a weaker country and bullying them ,trying to take over their country.That is also a form of imperialism it is also based on domination showing the power within America.America has great power a high poupulation and they also have weapons of mass desruction and it is easy for america to agress because they are greater in numbers.

This picture describes mexican chinese russian and irish being mixed in with american people.The civil war start april 12th 1861 when america was attacked by the confederate state.During that time abraham lincoln tried to put a end to slavery and increase the power of the government.Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state, leading to declarations of secession by four more Southern slave states. Both sides raised armies as the Union assumed control of the border states early in the war and established a navel blockdale.All these other countries were put together in america due to immagration. The civil war was finnaly over at 1877.Slavery was also over and the government power increaseed rapidly. The civil war was one of the true earliest industrial wars in american history.

A Liberty Bond was a special type of war bond that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I. It could be redeemed for the original value of the bond plus interest. It was created by Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo to raise money from war-supporting Americans by selling the bonds. Liberty bonds support war but it is better to buy them because you may even recieve more than the original. They more liberty bonds they get get the more effects the people that did not support world war one. William gibbs McAdoo created the bonds to gain more than what he had it was basicly a investment that supported the cause in world war one.

In the picture i feel that they are basicly telling people do not tell on evrything that is taking place om the ship.They want people to keep there mouth shut all there production will be ruined if people were to find out about the ship moving and the war production. The hand out the water i feel signifies people that are dying or it represents all the bad things people are doing on the ship dat they do not want anybody to know.The word of everthing that is going on in the ship has been spread and in the pic that is the prime example of what happens if you tell.