Angela's Ashes Historical Context Research by Melissa Toland https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s en-us 2017-01-05 16:08:59 UTC 2017-01-05 17:10:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Table 7 https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145538196 In the war Irish reinforcements went to fight in the war against hitler with the English which left them weak and able to be invaded by the Germans. After and during the war there were alot  of diseases including typhoid and diptheria. These diseases were a major causeof  illness and death among children]]> 2017-01-05 16:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145538196 Jeicatl Alonso , Marisol Melendez, Alexis Belmontes, Gail Cueva, Alessandra Ramos https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145538311 Ireland was neutral during ww2
There was a fever called the diphtheria fever that killed many people greatly decreasing the population in Ireland 

]]> 2017-01-05 16:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145538311 Table 5 https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145539352 We think some major events that may have influenced this memoir is extreme poverty and loss of crops . There  was also a lot of diseases and many people were getting  very sick , many people dying . Another event could be war because with war comes a lot of poverty and starvation.]]> 2017-01-05 16:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145539352 Maggie,Jeter,Hayden https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145539533 The 1940s were full of war for Ireland but change was part of it as well . The war caused tragedy among everyone throughOut the land. During the warthypiod fever and diphtheria were  the of the diseases in that period.]]> 2017-01-05 17:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145539533 Group 3 https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145540110 During the 1940's there was a mass depopulation in the country. This  was caused by death by the many diseases. In an article it states that many children died because they encountered a disease.]]> 2017-01-05 17:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145540110 Table 6 https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145540702 In the article it states, in the mid-1940s in Ireland, about 500 children died every year of vaccine preventable diseases, such as measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, tuberculosis and polio. Today's death rate figure for these illnesses is zero. 

Irish Medicine
]]> 2017-01-05 17:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145540702 Table 4 War https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145540860 War changed Ireland because they started going to war and the people of Ireland were in slums with no food  ]]> 2017-01-05 17:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mtoland1/r78svcw10y2s/wish/145540860