Korean War: A critical timeline and a bit xtra

The Korean war changed the world in many different ways. Again, looking back at the Koreas, both of these two countries had very peculiar connections with the outer world. This war was started by North Korea who earlier agreed with Russia (That Russia would provide weapons while China would provide man power) that if anything [...]

The Korean War: Comparing textbooks

May 18, 2010  Tagged , , , , ,

For this post, I will be referring to and taking notes from this article. It is a comparison on the contents of the Korean War from perspectives of different textbooks used around the world. The American media: North Korea Quote: “North Korea, is the last Cold War frontier and remained an isolated nation from the [...]

The Patterns

March 18, 2010  Tagged , , ,

Economically speaking, what caused the crash was very similar to what is causing our current depression. Patterns: Bubble stock/housing People followed – Pack/Wave Over excessive loans from the bank – eg: When one only has $1 but spends $10 Flipping the prices – Supporting the buying and selling with no real money involved More and [...]

Numbers

March 16, 2010  Tagged , , ,

While browsing, I looked into the hard numbers and looked to collecting these a bit more but just to update and keep to date: The Depression’s impact on the economy 1929     1933 Banks in operation                                           25,568     14,771 Prime interest rate                        [...]