Casa Blanca outline.

I. Setting
A. Casablanca, Morocco
1. World War II

II. Introduction
A. Rick Blaine
1. Owns Rick's Café Américain
2. Very unknown, careful man
B. Ilsa Lund
1. Rick's ex who left him in Paris
2. Married to Victor Laszlo
C. Victor Laszlo
1. Resistance leader
2. Escaped from Nazi concentration camp

III. Rising Action
A. Ilsa Lund and Victor arrive at Rick's cafe
1. Ilsa spots Sam, the cafes piano player
2. Ilsa asks Sam to play the song her and Rick liked
3. Rick comes to investigate why Sam is playing that song.
B. Laszlo and Ilsa plan to escape to America
C. Laszlo gets word that Rick has the letters of transit he needs to escape safely

IV. Climax
A. Laszlo attempts to get the letters
1. Rick refuses to give them up
B. Rick's Cafe is closed because of German military
C. Ilsa tries to get the letters
1. Rick doesn't buy it
2. Flashback to Paris

V. Declining Action
A. Rick tells Ilsa that he will help her
1. Isla and Rick are in his office
B. Police arrest Laszlo
1. Rick tells police to wait until Laszlo has the letters of transit.

VI. Ending
A. Police try to arrest Laszlo as they had planned.
1. Rick tricks them so Victor and Isla can escape.
B. Rick makes Ilsa leave with Laszlo
1. Ilsa disagrees but then is convinced.
C. German officers arrive
1. Rick kills the lead officer
D. Rick and officer become friends and walk off into the distance

Topic 9 study guide

Roles Of Women During WW2: These rolls varied from nurses to working in factories that made supplies. Either way they just wanted to help the war effort.

Atomic Bomb, Cause and Effect
cause- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and we need a quick end to the war
Effect- We bomb Japan killing millions of people and devastating a country.


US Foreign Policy
Before we were involved in foreign affairs
During - U.S Was Isolationist
Then the U.S Got Attacked amd we went to war.


Effects Of The War On Europe
Loss of life
Financial turmoil



Effect Of Pearl Harbor
We declared war on Japan
We imprisoned Japanese-Americans in concentration camps
Dropped 2 Atomic Bombs

Neutrality Acts
Embargo with countries at war.
US battle ships could not be armed with amunition


Purpose Of PROPAGANDA
Propaganda
Rationing
Food Rationing
Sacrifices


Results Of WWII
Poverty throughout the world
Cold War Started
Atomic Fallout
Baby Boom

We Took What We Could

When asked to show an object from WWII with importance to you, I decided to take a diffrent route. Most people went to Ebay and found something that interested them. I turned to my stepmother whom had some of her grandfathers buttons from WWII. What I found were these two German Nazi buttons. The larger one belonging to a worker for the German Red Cross. It shows you that no one was safe. Red cross people were supposed to be protected, but this was not the case. The other was a button he removed from a dead German soldier so he could send it back to his family to show what he had done. These are significant to me and my family because they show our part in the war. They also show that no one was immune to death by war, and you took whatever you could off the dead.

WWII Timeline

Questions for the Past

When reading about a Jewish man named Michel Margosis I had a few questions.

1. When you heard the bells was it always a bad thing? or did it mean come together?

2. Did you ever think you would be on the run for escaping a detention camp?

3. What kind of mental toll does being forced into hiding for a year do to you?

4. Did you loose much of your hope when you were not able to obtain exit visas?

5. After it was all over and you made it to the USA, did you think you were finally safe?