world war II was a war of survival not only for the men and women fighting in it but also for one perticular race we all know to be the jews. Jews from all over europe were taken from their home and towns to be prosicuted for their beliefs. The jewish people were either killed directly or taken to concentration camps and either worked to death to just killed. Families were broken up and seperated into camps all throughout europe , many of these jews thought nothing of these camps and were expecting to live.
life in these camps were horrifically unreasonable, hard wood beds were made for three or four people to share which made the spreading of disease enevitable. The food that the living were served was watered down soup of bug infested bread. these worstening accomidations were only for jews who the germans used for work, but the jews who were considered useless were sent to camps call death camps. In these death camps the jews were ultimatly there only to die and no other reason, gas chambers and crematoriums were build to assist the germans in their extermination plan for the jews.
Although many jews did survive the holocaust, millions of others died in the camps. These jews were striped of every right and were only given a number to live for, many died thinking that they were hated. Stories about these camps are told even today from people who spent time in the camps and lived.

leaders of industry

In the late 1800's to the early 1900's John D. Rockefeller was the biggest leader of the oil industry. By the end of his career Rockefeller owned nintyfive percent of americas oil industry.At this time in history oil had an ever growing demand, oil was used to heat houses, power cars, and run electric engines. With out the progression of oil consuming inventions american would be consuming other valuable natural resources.

working conditions in the early 20th century

At this time in life, americas labor force was progressing rapidly. During this decade labor unions were just beggining to be formed and the triangle shirtwaist factory fire brought about the issues of the unsafe working conditions that were present in many of american factories. Childern still at this time working as factory workers, miners, and delivery boys with unsafe working conditions.

new inventions

1879 is known as the year of the light bulb invented by thomas edison. compaired to the hundereds of light bulbs that exist today (2010) carbon was used rather than tungsten. three years later the invention of christmass lights had benn the first idea of the lights we see today around christmass time. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone which have none of the capibilities of the telephones today, like how we can see whos calling and even the simplist thing of getting a message was not available.if it wernt for the many brilliant people in the early and late 1800s the many luxaries such as toilet paper, telephone, matches, automobile and many many more would not be so available today.

rise of modern machines

One example of how technology made working life easier in the early 1900's was the way factories became much more efficient with the invention of electricty. In 1909 there was a boom in triangle factories, over 500 were in operation in New York city alone. triangle factories were usually very loud and the working evironments dim and dinghy but work was done quickly. Every thing from th sewing machines to the telephone ran off of electricty.

eyes on me

hello, my name is David im setting up this blog for U.S. History.