1919

Isabella Discua 4/18/16 Period 2 . Influenza Catastrophe From 1918-1919, a deadly, contagious disease, known as the influenza pandemic was spreading at an incredibly fast rate worldwide. There are several names for the flu such as “Spanish Flu”, “Three-Day-Fever”, and “The Flu.” It was first recognized in Europe, the US, and parts of Asia before spreading worldwide. Many of the victims exposed to the disease were young and the adults were healthy. There were no effective medicine to cure or…

The White Sox of 1919 are considered to be one of the only teams to successfully fix the World Series because they had a set plan to do it. The 1919 white sox were able to fix the world series because they only let a select few know about the plan, they had other people put the bets for the players so they wouldn’t be seen, and they had people put bets on against them so they could make the most amount of profit as possible. The reason why players from the team decided to go along with fixing…

The Red Scare of 1919-1920 and the events taking place in the United Stated after the September 11th terrorist attacks are similar because terrorists were making bombs and filling up air planes with gallons of jet fuel smashing into buildings destroying things and killing people. A nation-wide fear of comrades and other people who hold different beliefs suddenly grabbed the American inner most self in the 1919 following a sequence of terrorist bombing. The nation was filled with fear. Innocent…

the beginning of the World War II. From 1919 to 1939, the countries agreed on the need for peaceful communication. They were to replace militarism with more civilized forms of agreements. This desire for collective security, agreement of nations to not attack each other and defend each other in case of attack, failed due to dishonesty and greed. A promising action that would help prevent war was the creation of the Treaty of Versailles signed on 28 June 1919, which main focus was to create…

The amount of homicides spiked within 1919-1933. Within those years Prohibition started and ended. Prohibition lasted throughout 1919-1933. Prohibition only ocurred in America. Prohibition was the years in which Alcohol was banned by the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. Why did America take back Prohibiton? The U.S Government took back Prohibition necause of how bad it was making the economics, the amount of crime it caused, and how bad the enforcment was. First of all, Crime is a good…

Q25: Consider the following statements. The objective of Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919 was A. To give more power to the local government B. To establish dyarchy in the provinces C. The extension of provincial government Which of these statements are correct? A and BA, B and CB and CA and C View Answer Q26: Consider the following with reference to the provisions to 'Government of India Act, 1935'. 1. Establishment of an All-India Federation 2. Provinical Autonomy, with a Government…

On July 27, 1919, the streets of Chicago, Illinois, were filled with racially fueled violence, which resulted in numerous deaths and injuries to both sides. Once again the Nation witnessed another outbreak of violence between the African American and Caucasian populations. The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was considered to be one of the worst of the estimated twenty-three riots that occurred during what historians have labeled, due to the large amounts of violence and deaths throughout the nation,…

The defendants' branch shop, consisting of a single room, was adapted to the "self-service" system. The room contained chemist's department, under the control of a registered pharmacist, in which various drugs and proprietary medicines included, or containing substances included, in Part I of the Poisons List compiled under section 17 (1) of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933, (but not in Sch. I to the Poisons Rules, 1949), were displayed on shelves in packages or other containers, with the…

The paper I write today will be based off of two Periods of time with similar actions and consequences following major events that followed. The first one of these two Periods I will explain and compare is the Red Scare of 1919 which is when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that overtook the former czar state begin to have ripple effects globally and the attackers begin to have an effect on nations in the west. In the United States people were afraid of the communist movement that was…

baseball team also located in Chicago, Illinois, and the Philadelphia Phillies, a major league baseball team located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, led to a look into the 1919 World Series. People were called in to testify. and players from the White Sox would confess to having knowledge of and being involved in the scandal of the 1919 World Series. The eight White Sox players to have been involved in the scandal were sent to court. However, the prosecution suffered from severe problem with its…