1. As a result of advances in technology, what new labor-saving household appliances began to be sold in the 1920s? 2. What did people do before these appliances were available?

3. How did people know about these new appliances?

4. Describe the consumer economy.

5. What product is being promoted in the advertisement?

the images of war are haunting

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.

the authority to tax.

equal area projections

equal-area projection. a projection in which regions on the earth's surface that are of equal area are represented as equal.