Meeting of the Minds

It is finally time for Meeting of the Minds Day 1. I am very excited and I believe I am ready for it. I am very glad that we are getting a dress rehearsal so I make sure I can get it perfect for Tuesday. To prepare I did a massive amount of research on Otto von Bismarck I read a book about him and printed off about 20 pages of information relating to him to read and than I took the major notes down and looked them over. Some of the things that helped me the most feel like I can be him is looking over his quotes and also looking over things that he did (Who he attacked, why, what he thought of people). I will use this information as an aid to the questions to back me up in the points that I make and help me explain why I believe something.

05/17/2009

Revolution Rebuilding and New Challenges
The powerpoints that were picked to be presented in this section was a great choice and the presentations were also great! I loved learning about NATO and Opec and learning more in detail about many things I only knew the base facts of. Some of my favorite and most insightful powerpoints I heard were the Dalai Lama and The future or the united nations
"Who was the bloodies Tyrant of the 20th Century?"
I really enjoy this paper handout and It taught me a lot of things. I did not realize how bad things were under Mao Zedong and that 40M deaths occured. Looking over this sheet and remembering the facts that you presented us with in class i still have to say that I think Stalin was the "Bloodiest Tyrant" of the 20th century. I base this on the facts that even though Hitler did not care for life Stalin killed many more by his own hand and never once had a regret for it.

Age of Crisis Images

This picture potrays to me the "new found" importance of women in this period. Women needed to be more promanant in society during war time because the men that once made them stay at home left to aid the war efforts. So women found themselvs, like here, helping in factories and many other places to aid the war effort from home.

This is a picture of many people in shelter where you can get food. during this time period many people were very poor and hit hard by the great Depression and could not afford a house or even food. Many people were lost for a job and I think this picture portrays the life of many people during this time period very well.

WWII Photos

This photo shows the major ruin that the atomic bombs left on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The new atomic bomb was 200 times more powerful than any other bomb used in the past. The explosion left everything and everyone in the areas destroied which leaves alot of disscussion on weather the dropping of the bombs were moral right or not.

This pictures shows the horrible reality of how the Jews were treated like they were not even humans. This also shows this time period by showing how massive the deaths were. If this many deaths occured in this one room at only one period in time how many would occure total? Well, 34M deaths occured under Hitler during WWII.

This picture is scary. This shows how the power and persuasion of Hitler almost brain washed millions apon millions of people to create a huge and strong nazi party that he would eventually try to take over all of Europe and if he succeded probably all of the world.

Connection Across Time WWII

World War II is a war that was much different than the war on Terrorism today but their are some unique qualities that are only shared by these two wars. First both of these wars we started by insensitive dictators who killed a massive amount of people for outrageous reasons. Hitler had killed many Jews that were citizens of his own country because he felt threatened or he believed they were inferior to him. Hussein did the same things to the citizens of his own country. Even though personal opinions on the current war differ both wars had great purges and deaths throughout the enemy's countries.

Connection Across Time Age of Crisis

The age of crisis is very similar to today. To of that major parts of the age of crisis was the great depression and the rise of dictators. Currently we are in a state of term oil economical. Currently it is not nearly as bad as during the great depression but it has a lot of the same characteristics. Both of the economical problems was a result of war and loans that were not able to be paid back. I think that currently we could be in the same situation as before if we did not learn from our mistakes and catching the problem a little early, having a more stable stock market, and also having the FDIC and much more trust in banks.
The rise of the dictators also creates a similar situation. We have Kim Jung El that we had to deal with, whom caused a lot of distress. Before him we had a lot of problems with Putin in Russia and currently we are still feeling the effects of Hussein. Hussein like Hitler caused a war that brought troubles to the entire world.

04/24/2009

WWII

It was amazing learning about WWII. Everything went from formation and just shooting at each other to complex planes. strategies, weapons, bombs and so much more! Learning about what happened throughout the war was great It seemed as if Hitler was doing great and he just got greedy and lost it all because as you say he could not read. Transitioning from this into the brink of Total War with the US and Japan was very interesting. The choice to drop the Atomic bomb was a great one in my opinion and if I were president I would have made the same decision instantly. The discussion/debate on the Atomic bomb was very fun and a good experience. I enjoyed hearing the points from both sides and learning some new information on what really happened. I think this really was my FAVORITE unit.