Thursday, February 27, 2014

Great White Fleet:Naval Presence Around the World   This site really helped me understand and grasp just how long the Great White Fleet's journey around the world was. It gave these details with a few short sentences that gave the message directly and easily to me. This was important for me to understand through out making my postcards, but was especially important when I give details about the grandness of the journey in numbers.

The Great White Fleet:Naval History and Heritage Command   This site gave me information about the ships as well as the journey itself. I was able to view the names, ranks, and even important people of each ship in an easy chart that was given. This site helped me know what the purpose of the fleets journey. Why did they travel the world? Who's idea was it? What was the underlining purpose of it all? These were my questions to being with and this site helped answer all of them. With background stories and information on President Teddy Roosevelt, this site gave me information on why the Great  White Fleet took its journey.

The Cruise of the Great White Fleet   This site was especially useful and important when I was researching. It was easy to navigate, with pages about each different country the fleet visited. I used this site when I was writing the letters on my postcards. I could find information about specific things that happened at each place they went to. I was able to look at the places they went in order to better figure out how they took their journey. With the stories and information about all the countries visited by the fleet, I was able to write about where they were and what took place there on my postcards. This is also the site that I got all my pictures from because this site also included many pictures of each place, the ships, and even pictures of actual postcards of the time.