No blog assignment. Quiz on either Thursday or Friday.
Zach,Kyle, Jacob-Saints and Soldiers-group of US soldiers escaped a German POW massacre, came across a British Pilot with important information on the Germans. They had to get him to the Americans.
Catie-forgot to do it.
Chancey, Bailey-Pearl Harbor- two life long friends become pilots, one met a nurse, they fell in love, he went on a mission and his plane was shot down...they thought he died, the friend went to tell the girl...they fell in love and them the friend they thought was dead showed up...pearl harbor happened.
Melissa-The Boy in Stripped Pyjamas-German boy becomes friend with a Jewish boy in a concentration camp, they ended up being gassed.
Cody-Das Boot-Group of German people are being deployed on a u-boat after a party.
Jamie-Thin Red Line-they get to an island and are supposed to secure a hill from the Japanese, the whole time they are trying to go forward on the hill. The point of the movie was to take the hill.
Andrew-Valecory-A dude is at a German military base and he loses his eye and hand so is sent back to Germany...someone puts a bomb on Hitler's plane.
Jordan-Diary of Anne Frank-Her family was a wealth Jewish family.Her family and her along with another family went into hiding above a German business, they had to be quiet, and couldn't leave, got caught sent to a concentration camp, dad was the only one who survived
James-didn't do it
Liz-Windtalkers-Joe Enders injuries his ear, and a nurse helps him get back into duty. Him and another guy, have to help some people who are code talkers. Him and his code talker don't get along at first. Enders blows up a Navajo-code talker so the Japanese don't get a hold of them.
China was to Japan as Russia was to Germany-both(Germany & Japan) bit off more than they could chew...small countries tried to invade bigger country and failed.
Rape of Nanking-1937
-major city in China, what Japan did to the city was nightmarish, city was burned down, at least 20,000 women and children were raped, gang raped, killed & stabbed. Killed hundreds of civilians. Japan has never really appologized for this...there is a lot of bad blood over WW2
Quarantine Speech-1937
-Roosevelt turns his attention from domestic violence, to outside, says Germany, Japan, & Italy needed to be quarantined, the peaceful countries have to quarantine this countries.
-Roosevelt didn't act like a neutral president
Appeasement Policy
-" a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor"
-gave countries more confidence and time to build up their military
-Great Britain and France used this policy throughout the 1930's
-Helped give Japan, Italy, & German confidence that they would face no consequences for their actions
-Considered to be a huge mistake by historians
Panay Incident-1937
-American gun boat(Panay) was attacked and sunk by Japan, Japan appologized because they thought it was Chinese...started a bad relationship between these to countries
Anschluss with Austria-1937
-Anschluss is german for union.
-Austria had no problem with this
-The leader of Austria had the people vote if they wanted to do this, the people voted not to but it was too late.
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