Relationship with Iran pt.2

Jackson Pearson

May 18, 2015

USH

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Relationship with Iran

           Many People have no idea of the history between the United States and Iran. Most people think that the United States and Iran have never had good relations, and that Iran has been the one in the country’s relations causing all the issues. This is mostly true, however, the United States has played a role in molding the country’s relationship into what it is today. Many past issues and more current issues have developed the relationship into how it is, starting with the overthrow of Mossadeqin in 1953, to present day with the United States being pressed with the issue of allowing or not allowing the Iranian government to have a nuclear program.

            In 1953, the United States’ CIA joined with the British Intelligence Agency to devise a plan to remove Iran’s Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq. They orchestrated Operation Ajax and after it had been executed, the Prime Minister was no longer in control of Iran. The reasoning for the removal of Mohammed Mossadeq was because he had intentions of nationalizing Iran’s oil industry. This would of course be very costly for the United States and Great Britain. Whether it was right for the United States to intervene in another country’s government is debatable, if we had not came into their nation’s affairs there is a possibility that the relationship would be much better than it is today. However, if the United States had not taken the Leader out of power then the costs of the oil would have sky rocketed and caused the U.S. economy to enter a downward spiral.

            The years following Operation Ajax went as the United States had planned, they would back a new leader to lead the country and essentially do as the U.S. wished. But in 1979 this period of rest came to an end. The Iranian population had finally forced the Shah to leave the country. The people of Iran had been on strike for months opposing the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. Majority of strikers were religiously oppose to him being in power and many of the people wanted him to be in exile. When he left the country it was very bad for the United States, this is because they not only lost their “puppet” but they also did not know who would be the leader to come into power.

            Not even a month after the Shah was forced from the country, Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to create the Islamic Republic of Iran. There was not only a new man in power but in the same year 52 United States servicemen were taken as hostages. However, they were not taken as hostages for no reason, President Carter had allowed the old Shah to enter the U.S. to receive medical treatment. The Iranians did not see it as okay that Carter had allowed him to enter. Once the people of Iran heard of the United States doing this they immediately stormed the U.S. embassy taking all but the 13 women as hostages. The U.S. military took action, executing Operation Eagle Claw, but due to a sandstorm the plan ended in a disastrous 8 servicemen dying.

            After 444 days the hostages were released after Ronald Reagan was elected as president. After the Hostage Crisis the U.S. went nearly a decade without another horrible issue. The quiet time between Iran and the United States came to an end when the U.S. naval vessel, The USS Vincennes, shot down an Iranian passenger plane. Not only was it horrible that all the innocent people were killed, but it was also horrible because Iran did not believe at all that the act was an accident. The Iranian government and Iranian people both believed that the naval ship had purposely shot down the passenger plane, even though the ship claims they warned the plane and thought it was a fighter plane. The idea that the U.S. shot down a passenger plane on purpose spread like wild fire. Sparking more opposition to the United States by the people in Iran. By this point in history, the relationship between the two countries was at a new level of tension.

            After the passenger plane incident there was not much that had happened up until years closer to the present. In the past decade the Iranian government has been accused of the development of a nuclear program. The UN and the U.S. have been unsure of the intentions of the development of a nuclear program, whether it is strictly for nuclear power and research, or for the development of nuclear weapons.

                I believe that many of the issues that have risen in the past sixty years have been preventable. Many things could have been stopped, many tension creating events could have been avoided, and many lives could have been saved if the Iranian and United States governments had worked differently when dilemmas arise.

                In more than half a century of events the relationship between Iran and the U.S. has been changed and put under an unbelievable amount of stress and tension. What has been done by both countries cannot be undone and whether the decisions made were morally right or wrong are always up for discussion. From the removal of a leader to the shooting down of a passenger plane, the U.S. has destroyed the chances of the relationship the two countries could have had.

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Relationship with Iran

Jackson Pearson

May 15, 2015

USH- Research paper
I pledge

United States Relations with Iran

            Many People have no idea of the history between the United States and Iran. Most people think that the United States and Iran have never had good relations, and that Iran has been the one in the country’s relations causing all the issues. This is mostly true, however, the United States has played a role in molding the country’s relationship into what it is today. Many past issues and more current issues have developed the relationship into how it is, starting with the overthrow of Mossadeqin in 1953, to present day with the United States being pressed with the issue of allowing or not allowing the Iranian government to have a nuclear program.

            In 1953, the United States’ CIA joined with the British Intelligence Agency to devise a plan to remove Iran’s Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq. They orchestrated Operation Ajax and after it had been executed, the Prime Minister was no longer in control of Iran. The reasoning for the removal of Mohammed Mossadeq was because he had intentions of nationalizing Iran’s oil industry. This would of course be very costly for the United States and Great Britain. Whether it was right for the United States to intervene in another country’s government is debatable, if we had not came into their nation’s affairs there is a possibility that the relationship would be much better than it is today. However, if the United States had not taken the Leader out of power then the costs of the oil would have sky rocketed and caused the U.S. economy to enter a downward spiral.

The Strikers

            The years following Operation Ajax went as the United States had planned, they would back a new leader to lead the country and essentially do as the U.S. wished. But in 1979 this period of rest came to an end. The Iranian population had finally forced the Shah to leave the country. The people of Iran had been on strike for months opposing the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. Majority of strikers were religiously oppose to him being in power and many of the people wanted him to be in exile. When he left the country it was very bad for the United States, this is because they not only lost their “puppet” but they also did not know who would be the leader to come into power.

Ayatollah Khomeini

            Not even a month after the Shah was forced from the country, Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to create the Islamic Republic of Iran. There was not only a new man in power but in the same year 52 United States servicemen were taken as hostages. However, they were not taken as hostages for no reason, President Carter had allowed the old Shah to enter the U.S. to receive medical treatment. The Iranians did not see it as okay that Carter had allowed him to enter. Once the people of Iran heard of the United States doing this they immediately stormed the U.S. embassy taking all but the 13 women as hostages. The U.S. military took action, executing Operation Eagle Claw, but due to a sandstorm the plan ended in a disastrous 8 servicemen dying.

            After 444 days the hostages were released after Ronald Reagan was elected as president. After the Hostage Crisis the U.S. went nearly a decade without another horrible issue. The quiet time between Iran and the United States came to an end when the U.S. naval vessel, The USS Vincennes, shot down an Iranian passenger plane. Not only was it horrible that all the innocent people were killed, but it was also horrible because Iran did not believe at all that the act was an accident. The Iranian government and Iranian people both believed that the naval ship had purposely shot down the passenger plane, even though the ship claims they warned the plane and thought it was a fighter plane. The idea that the U.S. shot down a passenger plane on purpose spread like wild fire. Sparking more opposition to the United States by the people in Iran. By this point in history, the relationship between the two countries was at a new level of tension.

            After the passenger plane incident there was not much that had happened up until years closer to the present. In the past decade the Iranian government has been accused of the development of a nuclear program. The UN and the U.S. have been unsure of the intentions of the development of a nuclear program, whether it is strictly for nuclear power and research, or for the development of nuclear weapons.

                I believe that many of the issues that have risen in the past sixty years have been preventable. Many things could have been stopped, many tension creating events could have been avoided, and many lives could have been saved if the Iranian and United States governments had worked differently when dilemmas arise.

            In more than half a century of events the relationship between Iran and the U.S. has been changed and put under an unbelievable amount of stress and tension. What has been done by both countries cannot be undone and whether the decisions made were morally right or wrong are always up for discussion. From the removal of a leader to the shooting down of a passenger plane, the U.S. has destroyed the chances of the relationship the two countries could have had.

This is a picture of the plane that was shot down.

Iran's Nuclear Facility

The Hostages from the Hostage Crisis

Sources:

1       http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24316661

This source was incredible. I used this source the most out of all of the sources. The facts are highly reliable because of the facts being on the BBC website. This source was also very good at conveying the ideas.

2       http://www.history.com/topics/iran-hostage-crisis

This source had lots of information on the hostage crisis. I used this source for all the facts on the hostage crisis. It showed all the ideas very well and it was easy to read.

3       http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_4678000/4678707.stm

This source was used for the research on the passenger plane being shot down. It was short but it was easy to read and understand the information.

4       http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/events/iran79.htm

This source was used for the Iranian revolution. It was a great source for this topic and that’s what I used it for.

5     http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/us-overthrew-irans-democracy-1953-1979-armed-iraq-to-invade-1980-1988-now-lies-for-more-war.html

This source was used to find facts on the overthrow of the shah in 1953. It was a blog post but I used it to find information and then check it.

6       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations

This source was used to get a broad understanding of the topic.

James J. Braddock: An American Life

Jackson Pearson

May 5, 2015

USH- Cinderella Man

James J. Braddock: An American Life

            The movie Cinderella Man captures the life of an American boxer, James J. Braddock, as he goes through the great depression. In the early part of the movie you see Braddock living a luxurious life with everything a man needs and more. Unfortunately for Braddock he loses his dream life when all the money he had invested into the stock market goes from dollars to pennies in a matter of one day. The movie tells the phenomenal, true story of how James J. Braddock managed to make it through the depression and how difficult it was for him, the movie is a very accurate depiction of how the depression changed people’s lives.

            As Braddock shifts from the great life to the hardly managing life, you see his mood and figure change as he has lost hope and has been malnourished. This shift was not exclusive to Braddock, in the 1930s many families had lost jobs and like Braddock could only find work one or two days out of the week. In one scene you see Braddock give his daughter his breakfast because she was not full after her small meal, this is a great scene because it really highlights how scarce food was. Instead of getting up and grabbing more food for his daughter the only food he had to give was the meal he had. In another scene it shows Braddock’s son being taken back to the meat store by Braddock to return meat that he had stolen out of the fear of being shipped away. This is another great scene, not only does it show to lack of food but it also shows how Braddock’s son had lost hope in Braddock to provide food for the family. The film conveys the hopelessness and lack of food of the great depression very well.

            During the Great Depression it was extremely difficult to even find work for two or three days out of a week. Because of the lack of jobs many men found themselves shipping their kids off to live with family while they beg outside gates to have a day’s worth of work. In the film Braddock is seen begging to get a job outside the shipyard, he is one of twenty or thirty men and only eight or nine were chosen. The scene portrays the difficulty to find work very well, for the people during the Depression that didn’t get picked for a job they had to return home with nothing to bring their families. Many men resorted to government agencies to help provide for their families; sometimes it wasn’t enough though. The loss pride and of hope to provide for their families led many men to believe they would be better off just providing for themselves. This resulted in broken families and ultimately a scary reality for women that their husband could walk out at any moment. Not only was Braddock’s wife shown in the movie scared of him leaving, many women had this scary thought. The film conveys the lack of jobs in the 1930s very well.

            Even though Braddock was faced with all the terrors of the Great Depression (no food, job or electricity), he managed to get through. He was a great boxer before the depression and he managed to score a big fight that paid very well whether he had won or lost. The last part of the movie shows Braddock fighting a champion boxer who he was not favored to win by 10-1. The fight scene was depicted very well with few minor flaws (no flaws retaining to Braddock). The scene shows Braddock last till the last round and win by decision; this was a turning point in his life. He would no longer have to worry about the awful things the depression brought. What a viewer of the movie may think after seeing Braddock in the movie is that every American had an upswing and was lifted out of the depression; this was not at all the case. Braddock was a rare case that involved a lucky man lifting himself and his family out of the harsh terrors of the depression. The majority of Americans were in the Depression the whole time.

            The movie Cinderella Man shows how the 1930s were for the average American. The movie shows nearly every concept of The Great Depression. From the loss of food to the loss of a whole lifestyle, Braddock’s life in the movie conveys all the ideas involved around the Great Depression that are needed to be shown. The movie emphasizes many of the important things of the depression and does not fail to show the finer, small details of the depression.

Above is James J. Braddock

Sources:

http://daflo05.umwblogs.org/cinderella-man-as-a-secondary-source/

http://www.boxingscene.com/-biggest-thing-cinderella-man-got-wrong--1317

https://sites.google.com/site/apusmoviereview/brooke-spenser-emily--cinderella-man

My Great Birmingham Experience

Jackson Pearson

    My experience in Birmingham was great. We went to the 16th Street Baptist Church and visited the Civil Rights Institute. Out of the whole day the best and most funny experience was in the church when the man that was telling us about the bombing, and about the church was cracking some pretty good jokes. I learned that the Civil Rights was something that was fought for, and was a struggle to press through for the black people of Birmingham. I also learned about the bombing that occurred at the church killing a few little girls.
    There was a huge difference to me when learning about the civil rights through the movie we watched before we went, and the hands on experience I had in Birmingham. There was a difference because when seeing and feeling the places and things were the events occurred is very different than just seeing it on a screen. Also when a man tells you about something in person, and does it with passion it is a very different experience. It changed my view on Civil Rights by providing me a perspective that I had not previously had.
    If I were to be faced with an arguer that wanted to say the trip was pointless it would be a very short argument. For someone to say that without backing it up would be ridiculous; It would not happen because they would have accepted the experience was very worth it. It was a very different experience than just watching a screen or browsing the internet.

This image is very impacting because the bus is what I remember seeing the most.



World War One: Fast Facts

WWI:Fast Facts

By:Jackson Pearson

When did World War I begin, and Why?

The Great War began in July 28, 1914, because of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914. Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, the assassin was a Serbian and the victim was an Austria-Hungarian. The countries that first went to war were Serbia and Austria-Hungary.

When and why did the United States enter the war?

The U.S. entered the war on April 6, 1917. Many Americans were not in favor of the war. The U.S. was a part of WWI because of the support that they had to provide to their allies, America was essentially fighting to preserve democracy.

When and why did World War I come to an end? 

WWI came to an end on November 11, 1918 when Germany formally surrendered. It came to an end because of the allies defeating the central powers.

 What were the terms of the major agreement ending the war?  Why did the United States not ratify this treaty, even though President Wilson had played such a major role in negotiating it?

The Treaty of Versailles put all of the blame for the war on Germany. The treaty would put Germany in massive debt and surely cause another reason for them to go to war. The United States did not ratify the treaty because they could tell that the punishment that Germany had from it was too great and would cause later problems; even though President Wilson wanted to very badly the U.S. did not ratify the treaty.

Come up with a question of your own.

Why did the U.S. not enter the war on the side of the Allies earlier?

Was this war preventable?

Why was WWI as long as it was?

Casualty chart for all countries associated with WWI

Prohibition

Prohibition

By: Jackson Pearson

    In 1920, the United States, after the 18th amendment was passed, prohibited the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. This era in United States history is referred to as Prohibition. The drinking of alcohol had been looked down upon ever since the colonies had settled. The consumption of alcohol was, in many American eyes, a sin. Leading up to the passing of the amendment, there was even a tax on alcohol referred to as a “sin tax”. Obviously, the drinking of alcohol had caused many problems in society, but many Americans were outraged over the ban. However, there was a large percentage of the U.S. population supporting the amendment and doing many things to raise awareness of the dangers of alcohol.
    The American Temperance Society (or ATS for short), helped initiate the first temperance movement. This movement was essentially trying to create a “dry” United States; to make the U.S. how this early group wanted to it took a little less than a century(94 years) after its creation. The ATS was the first group to be created for this movement and had many members (by 1835, 1.5million). The ATS group was largely composed of religious members, with a motive to rid the U.S. of alcohol because of it being a sin to drink.
    With many organizations encouraging the ban of alcohol, Kansas was the first state to make the consumption of alcohol illegal. Kansas outlawed alcohol in 1881 and created the first somewhat gateway to the creation of the 18th amendment 39 years later. Between the years 1881 and 1920, there was much debate on the subject of banning alcohol. Many court cases took place that favored the prohibition of alcohol; but there was also many that did not support the ban. Richmond P. Hobson was a representative from Alabama supporting the ban of alcohol. In 1914, Hobson showed support for the prohibition amendment but with only the majority vote and not 2/3 of the votes, the amendment did not pass congress. But in 1920 congress had a majority rule in favor of amendment, which passed the amendment to ban the sale, importation, transportation, and production of alcoholic drinks.
    The scramble to stock up on beer, whiskey, and other alcoholic beverages happened in 1919. Many Americans stockpiled themselves with alcohol, because the amendment did not ban the consumption of alcohol, many saw the ban coming and prepared themselves for when things went “dry”. After the amendment had passed some resorted to smuggling, illegally making, and bootlegging alcohol. Many wealthy men had a steady supply of alcohol and the passing of the amendment did not affect anything to them besides the cost of a drink.
    Once the amendment was passed it did not work nearly as well as the supporters of the amendment had hoped. The Prohibition Era was not very successful in the fact that many people still consumed alcohol. There was crime produced by the amendment and many people lost jobs (bootlegging, making alcohol illegally, and shootings over alcohol). Saying the amendment made the nation clear of liquor and beer would be a very false statement. It did diminish the amount of alcohol consumed overall but did not affect the nation how it was supposed to. The 21st amendment to the constitution took place in 1933; this amendment removed prohibition from the nation. After the 21st amendment, the nation was back to what it was before. The saloons were back, and stores sold and factories created alcoholic beverages once again.

    In 1920 the United States conducted a nationwide experiment: stop the consumption of alcohol. The experiment looked as if it would work but after 13 years the experiment met an end and alcohol was once again back. The goal to remove alcohol was a less realistic than the goal to find bigfoot; there was no way that it would work

Many people wanted prohibition to happen.

Lots of events took place trying to overturn Prohibition.

Many women were strongly against men drinking.

This image shows barrels of beer being emptied into the streets.

A newspaper when the amendment was ratified.

Sources

1.  https://prohibition.osu.edu/hobson#main-content

This source was a great source about Richmond P. Hobson. It showed how he supported a prohibition amendment and how he voiced his support for it. It is a credible source because it is on The Ohio State University website.

2.  http://www.history.com/topics/prohibition

This source provided a great deal of information all about the process of how Prohibition happened. It is credible because it is the History website. It was written by the History.com Staff. Using this website required me to find the facts on my other sources to check that the facts are true, but it allowed me an insight of what Prohibition was like. This source also had great pictures that had great captions to explain the pictures.

3.  http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/about/

This source was great because of the great video; the video created a larger understanding of Prohibition. The site also had many facts on it that was backed up by many historians. This source proved great to me because of how many facts it had and the videos that explained a great deal to me on the site.

4.  http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/Funfacts/Prohibition.html#.VOznwPnF8np

This site provided many interesting facts about prohibition. The author, David J. Hanson, Ph.D., is a very intelligent historian and professor from Professor Emeritus of Sociology of the State University of New York at Potsdam. This is a very credible source that had many great facts.

5.  http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1054.html

This site provided a decent amount of information about the American Temperance Society. Even though it is not a very big site it provided the information that was needed for the topic I needed to know about.

6.  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/volstead-act/

This was a primary source of the Volstead act. It also had a description of what was being said in the act. This source was excellent in providing the original information, and an easier to read version. This source also provided a huge understanding in the language used in the document that prohibited alcohol in the United States. 

How do you analzse a Political Cartoon?

My thoughts on how to analyze a political cartoon:
1. Look at the caption/s
2. Find what it is about
3. which group or groups is it based against?

Actual way to analyze a political cartoon:
1. Let your eyes "float" over the cartoon.
2. Follow the cartoon's natural flow by discovering the interaction with the primary focus.
3. Determine the audience.
4. Understand the context of the cartoon.
5. Look for widely recognized symbols
6. Look at minor details in the cartoon that will contribute to the humor or the point of the cartoon
http://www.wikihow.com/Analyze-Political-Cartoons 


This political cartoon uncle Sam represents the Americans, the waiter is supposed to depict president McKinley. The waiter is "serving" the Americans what they want by giving them their choices of land.  http://lydiahistory.blogspot.com/2014/01/political-cartoons-of-spanish-american.html



This cartoon depicts Uncle Sam in the Philippines with a man depicting Spain in the background. Uncle Sam is supposed to be helping out the little Philippine child and Spain is supposed to look as if it were a threat.    http://www.globalresearch.ca/selling-empire-american-propaganda-and-war-in-the-philippines/5355055


This cartoon depicts what will happen if Americans allow Spain to have the territories. The cliff represents sure death and the man is pushing the little kid off.   http://www.conservapedia.com/American_History_Homework_Nine