Part 3 D-Day

I just read part 3 of the prologue of d day and I definitely agree with mr. Ambrose, especially when he said that mathias and brotheridge are one of he primary reasons for our freedom. What they did, I cannot even comprehend. How they volunteered to jump out of planes with 30% chancE of surviving. And I don't understand how the allies could train eighteen and twenty-eight year olds and expect them to just go out and fight. And without even training them as professionals. I am guessing that these men also became terrified and unable to fight once they saw their friends get shot. Which, for most of them, was the first time! I really thought that the allies did fairly well against the attack but I think if they took better precautions they could have done better.

Internment Camps

After watching the Nanking film I actually realized how the Americans could be so racist against the japanese because of all of the actions they participated in. However I do not think that he Americans should have put them into camps. I find that to be absolutely degrading and unfair because these were American Japanese. And I feel that putting them into camps is going against what we're fighting for later on, and that was getting the Jewish out of camps in Germany. And although we did not burn and work them to death, it is still the idea of isolating one race. And that is not what we are about in America. I think that these camps were a complete mistake and I do not understand why we would do that, even if they were our enemies. They are still people, real people.

The most horrifying movie in my life

So I know that his might be somewhat extreme but I now finally realize why he americans were so negatively racist towards the Japanese. As we watched the events of the attack on Nanking unfold my stomach dropped, my eyes filled with tears, and my heart broke. The Japanese stormed into the capital thinking that they could what they wanted and they wanted it. They destroyed homes and businesses and then looted them. The Japanese took everything that they wanted. When thy found men thyr would tie them up in groups of tens and bayonet them to death. Or machine gun them by the thousands. What got me the most though, was hearing about all of the rapings that occured. 20,000 accounted acts of rape occured during the taking over of Nanking. 20,000 girls my age (17) and younger were being taken out of their homes and forced to be tied up while men took their turns. Then they would kill them, slowly and painfully. Most accounts involved girls from 14 to 12. I could never imagine what that could be like. And I immediately felt sympathy for them because these were girls my age and younger. I couldn't even comprehend what that must have been like, and then to live through it? Another story that really opened my eyes was when a man was telling the story of his mother and baby brother. And how the Japanese soldier stab the baby and threw him off. And beat his mother. And watched his mother die right before his eyes. At age 9. How would you be able to get through that? I wouldn't.

Adolf Hitler Avatar

This is my version of Adolf Hitler. I would first like to point out that I know his hair is the wrong way and yes it bothers me too because I tried everything to see if I could switch it. Anyway, I am not the biggest fan of Adolf Hitler. I think that he is an incredibly cruel man. I do realize that the Treaty of Versailles was not fair at all to Germany however, I think that Hitler is going too far with his revenge. Especially with the Blitz on London because he ordered his air raid to destroy the whole city including citizens. Because of him, several innocent civilians lost their lives in this unnecessary event. And then he starts the holocaust which we all know was a disgusting and horrifying series of events. Overall, Hitler is a terribly repulsive man and I cannot believe that everyone in the world let him go on for as long as he did.

Germany during WWI vs. US during War in Iraq

When we were talking about all the reasons why Germany lost WWI I made some connections to the war going on today with our own country. The biggest similarity I noticed was that the Germans lost because the public just did not support the war anymore. They wanted it to be done, enough people had died. I find this situation very similar to the one happening today. In my eyes, the war should be over and I think that a lot of U.S. citizens would agree that they are just not supportive of the war any longer. Granted we are not losing as many lives per day as the Germans did, but we are losing lives nonetheless. And for what cause? We've already caught the conspirators that planned 9/11 and why do we have to establish and make them a great government? It's not our country! We should be more focused on our own government and our economy. I definitely feel a sort of connection to the German citizens during WWI. Asking myself, why are we still doing this? Why are we in this still?

Treaty of Versailles

So in class we have been discussing the Treaty of Versailles for quite some time and I really feel like after all of the discussions I have come to my (somewhat) final conclusion, I think that the Treaty of Versailles was very fair to the Allies. The different countries all put what they wanted to see happen in the treaty and so they made it happen. However, they also participated in the war, and they as well started some battles and kept the fighting going. I do not think that it is fair that all of the blame for WWI is being put on Germany. I think that they were a large component to blame because they invaded France and they gave a blank check to Austria-Hungary to do whatever they needed them to do. But Austria-Hungary could have just simply had a friendly talk with Serbia about what they wanted, or they could have just not called anyone in for support and WWI could have simply been a war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. Overall, the treaty is completely unfair to Germany, they deserve some of the points that were said however, I think that Austria-Hungary should have been blamed and punished for starting the war as well. Because if A-H never had a dispute, than Germany would have never given a check.

Memorable quote! :D

While watching the movie the Red Baron (which is fantastic so if you have not already, you should watch it), there were several different quotes and actions that caught my attention. One of the quotes I have still been thinking about is when Manfred(the main character) is on the frontline with the General and they are arguing. Manfred was complaining to the General that the way they were killing their enemies was too brutal and disgusting. He was trying to tell the General, "Ummm hello! you're killing people out there! Real people! Like us!"(did not actually say it). The General says to him, "My soldiers do not kill people, they destroy the enemy!". Manfred calmly responds back with, "It still has the same effect." This part really caught my attention because he is right. It doesn't matter if the person is your enemy or anything like that, they're still a person. What do you think about this quote? Do you agree or disagree?

Was that necessary?

Today in class we discussed the Battle of Verdun, Germany against France. The Germans plan was to destroy all of the French. The Germans were going to attack Verdun, the most important historical military place. They were going to attack here because the Germans knew how sacred it was to the French and they expected the French to keep sending troops out. The Germans wanted this, they wanted the French to keep resupplying soldiers so that they could destroy them all and "make a mountain of French corpses". The Germans attacked with a great amount of weapons. The two sides started fighting, however the Germans lost the element of surprise fairly quickly. Both sides were suffering from high casualties, yet they kept trying to slaughter one another. Finally the Germans had to retreat because of Russians on the Eastern Front, but the Germans did not gain anything, the fort was still in French hands and they did slaughter all of the French. Both sides suffered about half a million of casualties and wounded men. So my question is, why was this massive bloody battle necessary? Why did it have to happen? It did not change anything for anyone.

They attacked with no ammo?!?!

During the battle of Gallipoli, the Allies made several mistakes when they were trying to defeat the Turks. One of the biggest, and uncomprhensible, tactic the Allies used was to run out of their trenches, in a certain time sequence, and head straight to the Turkish trench without any ammo. Now, once I saw this happening in the clip of "Gallipoli" that we watched in class I was flabberghasted to see that the Allies actually did this. First of all, because the Allies made all of their attacks on certain minutes and seconds, this gave the Turks the exact time that they should be ready to shoot at the troops running at them. Another shocking tactic the Allies used was to run to the Turk trenches with an unloaded rifle. And throw in the fact that the Turks had machine guns set up to shoot anyone that ran across. All of these strange techniques really brings up the questions of why did the Allies think that this plan was going to work? And how did they think that men would actually make to the other side using this tactic?

How did the Germans go to such lengths to destroy Britains Empire?

During WWI, Germany's only thought was to gain total domination of the world. The Germans especially wanted to take control over the most powerful nation, the British. The British were mainly so powerful due to their high-class navy. And Germany wanted to attack that navy. With only seventeen cruiser ships spread out in the oceans, Germany found some way to defeat the British. One of the only reasons Germany was able to do this great task was because as the German ship and the British ship were in a race to victory, the British wanted their fastest ship out there, however it was not equipped with the best guns. Thus, the German ship destroyed the small ship. Germans also used a trick against the British and their allies. When German ships were out at sea and a British or a British ally was drawing near, the Germans would put up a dummy funnel to disguise the ship as a British ship. Therefore, when the opponent came near the Germans were able to attack without any warning.With these different tactics, the Germans successfully sunk two British ships.

How was WWI a "Global War"?

WWI was a global war because it spread around almost the entire globe. Great Britain and Germany had settlements all across Europe, through Asia, and even down in Africa. With these settlements mainly connected to either the British or the Germans, help move the war to several different areas around the world besides the Western Europe area. As a result in these alliances, once Britain was in the fight it brought up Japan and all the settlements there, and then shortly after, Japan called on India to help them. Therefore, since the British had numerous alliances and settlements in different parts of the world it spread out the fight to these places. What also did not help the cause was that Germany wanted complete world domination. The country tried very hard to gain the most power and be the most powerful.

French World War One Propaganda

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Why is everyone so cruel?

In the movie, Merry Christmas, that we watched today for extra credit, (which was amazing!), gave me new insight on what was going on in this war. On Christmas Eve, the French, Scottish, and Germans ceased fire and actually talked with each other and spent time with each other and learned from each other. And then on Christmas Day they ceased fire again to have a burial ceremony for the dead that were in "no man's land." All of the soldiers that were fighting, finally realized that they're all pretty much the same, just from a different country. I would say they became close to them and befriended them. You would think that because of this they would see that they should not fight anymore, and that the war was completely unnecessary. However, they still are ready to fight. Yes, most of them do get sent to different fronts, however all of the countries still go against each other. Why didn't anyone try to say something? Why didn't anyone try to rebel and stop the war and make everyone see what they saw Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?

It was Germany! No it was Austria-Hungary! No! You're all wrong it was Russia!

So who really is to blamed for the start of the Great War? And who is the cause of it? When we received this prompt in class I looked over my notes and immediately went to the thought that Germany was the cause for the war and that Kaiser Wilhelm II was to blame. Almost all of the facts lead to this conclusion. By the fact that Bismark's (German) Alliance system was the cause of this because if there was not an alliance system, there would be nobody backing anyone up and the war wouldn't have escalated like it did. And sure enough a lot of the facts point to the Kaiser to blame because he broke apart the alliance system. He is the one that wanted to make a navy that was a threat to Britain's, he mobilized the military on the borders of all the countries around Germany. Some would like to argue that Austria-Hungary is to blame because they were the ones that wanted to fight with the Serbians. But if it were not for the Germans, and Kaiser, on A-H's side so strongly, A-H would not have challenged Serbia the way they did. However, with much consideration and analysis, my new opinion is that the cause of World War One is the alliance system that Germany created however the blame can be traced to the Austro-Hungarians because of their strong "need" to fight the Serbians. Was anyone elses opinions changed during the class discussion?

What Creates a World War?

I think that a World War is created by a build up of several different arguments between many countries. After all of the arguments have been building up, some sort of "accident" or major event will let all of the arguments loose and make countries turn on each other. So in other words, countries will have problems with other countries but when a large dramatic event happens the countries blow over and start a war. With this belief, also comes my belief that another World War may be possible. With all of the problems going on between countries and with other countries, I think that a World War is bound to happen. If more and more conflicts start rising between countries or old ones become more intense, I think that if a dramatic event happened, our world could easily be put back into a war.

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