1939

Desert Biomes Denton4 Deserts are mostly found in the east but a few are also found in the western region of the Americas. They are very hot places with low moisture and barren waste lands. When you think desert what normally jumps into your head is sand cactus and clear skies with the sun beating down on you. The maximum temperature for a desert can climb up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature in winter only drops a few degrees and it receives a small amount of humidity. The average amount of rainfall year round is less than 15 cm. Vegetation is very rare, it’s mostly restricted to ground-hugging shrubs and woody trees. All the leaves are replete. Typical animals include small nocturnal carnivores. There are also insects, arachnids, reptiles, and birds. In American deserts is the barrel cactus. The barrel cactus is easily distinguished from other cacti because of its cylinder-shaped body. It is one of the largest cacti in North America reaching a staggering eleven feet tall. Running down the spines are 3-4 inch spines and on top are rings of yellow-green or red blossoms. Native Americans used to boil them into cabbage-like stews. They would also grind up the pulp and extract the water. Another plant native to deserts is the brittle bush. IT is a small deciduous shrub which grows as a low roundish mound 2-5 ft high. The branches sprout from woody trunks. On the branches are leaves about 1-4 inches long that are covered in a thick mat of short hairs. They…

The interwar period of 1919-1939 had economic disruptions that led to unstable political conditions during transformations that were occurring in Japan, China, Mexico, Turkey and Iran. Of all these countries Japan stands out as executing the most successful transformation due to aggressive nationalism that helped it achieve expansion into China as well as the ability to create an empire during this period. Other countries like China and Mexico were less successful because of struggles to…

Who was Judy Garland? A girl, a person, an actress, a wife, a mother, but who really was Judy Garland and where did she come from. She was born June 10, 1922 in Grand Rapids, MN. Her real name was Frances Gumm. Her family was rather odd. Her father was Francis Avent Gumm who was a Vaudeville performer, and a closeted homo. Which got them kicked out of several towns. Her mother was Ethel Marion Milne and she, too, was a Vaudeville performer, who forced her daughter into stardom. She had two…

In Bell’s explanation of the events between 1936 and 1939 there were four integral affairs that spoiled the prospects of peace in Europe: namely, the German reoccupation of the Rhineland, the Austrian Anschluss, the Czechoslovakian Crisis, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. These consecutive events ultimately culminated in the Invasion of Poland on the September 1st 1939, but were foreseen well in advance and were of no surprise to anyone when they transpired. The proliferation, from crisis to…

The 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, is a classical movie that to many, never gets old. After a massive cyclone in Kansas, Dorothy and her dog (Toto) are swept up and placed in the magical Land of Oz. Wishing to go back home to Kansas, Dorothy journeys on towards Emerald City to meet the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard is said to be magical and will have the ability to send her and her dog back home. On this journey Dorothy meets a Scarecrow, Tin Man, and a Cowardly Lion who all wish to…

Hollywood was at its peak in 1939 with over 300 films being released in that one year alone. However, “in December 1939, or in 1940, no one was saying Hollywood just had its greatest year ever” (Silet). At the time, people didn’t notice how many movies were being produced or all of the work that was being put into them. Leland Pague, professor of English at Iowa State University said, “we rarely take into account what was being done behind the scenes.” It wasn’t until years later people realized…

The main aim after World War I was said to be to prevent another major war from occurring. World War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which ironically can also be argued to have been 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…

When Hitler came to power in 1935, his ultimate ambitions was to one day conquer the world. That pipe dream came to a halt when in 1945, as the Allied powers closed in on Berlin and Hitler died by a self inflicted gunshot wound. However, to say that even though Hitler did not have an influence on the world after World War II, one is surely mistaken. The whole reason why the Cold War existed was because of Adolf Hitler. To trace this, one has to go to the moment before Hitler invaded Poland in…

During the war in 1939, Americans and politicians showed disregards to Europe. Many supported powerful measures against Japan, but Europe was the primary focus of the America First committee. A petition purposed to enforce the Neutrality Act in 1939, was introduced by the America First Committee. This forced President Franklin Roosevelt to keep his pledge to keep America out of WWII. As a result, it caused an outrage, as Americans argued he was deceiving. This political cartoon shows the major…

World War 1 began 1939 and ended 1945. The countries involved were Germany, Australia, Italy, Japan, Britain, France, Canada, New Zealand, India, China, USA, and the Soviet Union. Australia, Britain, France, Canada, New Zealand, India, China, USA, Soviet Union all won the war. The United States entered 1941. The war began because people wanted to take over other countries as their own. World War 2 began in 1914 and ended in 1918. The reason this war started is because people wanted more land…