Jordan's Fun Day in Birmingham!!!!!

Never Give Up 

            To be honest, I have never really looked into The Children's March or thought about the Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Baptist Church. In class we watched a very powerful video before the trip to Birmingham to visit these cool places, and I expected the video was going to be boring but it only caused me to become more interested in the subject. I have never been able to wrap my mind around how racist people can be in this day and age, much less back then. Killing four little girls? Throwing police dogs on people, even little kids? The people of this time showed no mercy.
            As we arrived to 16th Baptist Church where the four little girls were bombed and killed, I felt a sudden sadness in my heart. This is where many families will never be able to look at the building the same. The wonderful man who filled us in on stuff "you can't find on google" had a sense of humor, and that shocked me. It shocked me because I would think this would be such a serious moment or place, therefore it wasn't a joking matter. But his thoughts were, all glory to God. He had such things as urine thrown on him, just for being a black person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Can you imagine?
            Walking through the Civil Rights Institute made me cringe. Seeing that KKK uniform made me think I would see that thing in my nightmares. Seeing the little that blacks had, but how big they made it out to be, it made me happy. The blacks simply new people were ignorant but made the best of the situation. Yes, some were violent but when Martin Luther King jr. asked for them to tone it down and to prove a point, they quit. Those children marched into that police car proudly, they knew it would all be over soon.
            If anyone ever argues that the Civil Rights Field Trip is a waste of time, they are wrong. The difference between hearing about these events and seeing the artifacts was something you need to experience. I try to have as much empathy as I can, and it is much easier to do when you SEE it. My opinion of the Civil Rights' Issues remains the same, it never should have existed.

Questions about World War I

When and Why did it start

World War 1 timeline 

The US entering the War 

Treaty of Versailles

Casualty Rates 

1) The immediate cause of World War I was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria Hungary on June 28th, 1914 and the war began one month later on July 28, 1914 when Austria declared war on Serbia. Not too many days later Germany declared war on Russia, then France, and then invaded Belgium which lead to Britain declaring war on Germany. Britain, France and Russia formed the Triple Entente, while Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy comprised the Triple Alliance. 

2) The US entered World War 1 on April 6, 1917. Unrestricted submarine warfare was the main reason President Wilson asked to declare war on Germany on April the 2nd. 4 days later, the US joined their allies (Britain, France, and Russia). 


3) On November 11, 1918, World War I came to an end due to the peace treaty named The Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on June 28, 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. 

4) "The main terms of the Versailles Treaty were:

(1) the surrender of all German colonies as League of Nations mandates;

(2) the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France;

(3) cession of Eupen-Malmedy to Belgium, Memel to Lithuania, the Hultschin district to Czechoslovakia,

(4) Poznania, parts of East Prussia and Upper Silesia to Poland;

(5) Danzig to become a free city;

(6) plebiscites to be held in northern Schleswig to settle the Danish-German frontier;

(7) occupation and special status for the Saar under French control; (8) demilitarization and a fifteen-year occupation of the Rhineland;

(9) German reparations of £6,600 million;

(10) a ban on the union of Germany and Austria;

(11) an acceptance of Germany's guilt in causing the war;

(11) provision for the trial of the former Kaiser and other war leaders;

(12) limitation of Germany's army to 100,000 men with no conscription, no tanks, no heavy artillery, no poison-gas supplies, no aircraft and no airships;

(13) the limitation of the German Navy to vessels under 100,000 tons, with no submarines" (The Terms) 

The United States did not sign the Treaty of Versailles because they disagreed with its terms, specifically, the high price that Germany was to pay for its role as aggressor. Instead, the U.S. negotiated its own settlement with Germany in 1921. 

5) Did Gavrilo Princip regret the assassination of Franz Ferdinand? Was it worth all the deaths?