Blog discussion today!!
Abby and Gabriel watched Enemies at the Gates: A russian that became a sniper for the Soviet Union and was supposed to hunt down another German sniper.
Connor: watched Spitfire
Taylor: The Devil's Arithmetic~a girl named Hannah didn't care about the Jewish religion, but takes a journey back in time to a period where her aunt was a little girl, and she sees a time where the Jews were highly discriminated against, and she gains a new respect for the Jewish way of life.
Kelsey: The Diary of Anne Frank (old one)~ at the beginning, Anne Frank's father went through their old house and found Anne's diary. He remembered the time when they had to hide in their annex for four years, and when they and another family that was hiding with them had to be extremely quiet so no one would hear them and so they wouldn't get caught.
Charlotte and Me: Saving Private Ryan
Brayden: Saints and Soldiers
Danielle: Pearl Harbor~Rave and Danny are best friends, and they're both pilots. Rave is in a relationship with a girl named Evelyn. Rave and Danny go to war together, and Rave tells Danny that if he ever dies, that Danny should tell Evelyn what happened. There was an incident where Danny thought that Rave was dead, and he tells Evelyn, and starts a relationship with him. Only problem is, Rave wasn't really dead. Evelyn and Danny had already had a child together, and they had named it Danny after Danny the father.
Shelby: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Rape of Nanking-1937: The Japanese would rape women and children (as young as infants), Japan invaded China, and it was so horrible that Nanking was obliterated.
Quarantine Speech-1937: FDR makes his first speech, and the speech relates somewhat to war. Quarantine means to close something in/to isolate it because it isn't a good thing. FDR said that we needed to quarantine the countries that were causing the problems of the war. He didn't mention Japan Germany and Italy specifically, but everyone knew which countries he was talking about.
Appeasement Policy: "a dimplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor". No one wanted to go to war, and the US gave the forceful dictators of the war what they wanted so there wouldn't be a start of any war. Great Britain and France used this policy throughout the 1930s. All of the appeasement helped give Japan, Italy and Germany confidence that they would face no consequences for their actions. Germany took over all of Chezch Slyvakia and didn't have any consequences at all. The axis powers believed that they would be able to take over whatever they wanted
Panay Incident-1937: Japan sinked a ship in China using planes, but later apologized to the US for sinking it because they didn't know that the ship was American, they thought it was a Chinese boat trying to escape.
Anschluss with Austria-1938: This was Hitler's first aggressive act. Austria wanted to become a part of Germany, but that never happened.
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