so the blog for this week is to watch a WW2 movie. we'll have to summerize the movie and say what its about and etc and give your review of it. wiikipedia has a list of WW2 movies at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_films#2000s
so im going to drea's house on saturday. idk what we're gonna watch, she says she's gonna check around her house to see if she has any of the movies on the list. if she doesnt have any, we'll either rent one from somewhere or check youtube.
other than that, blog discussions over specific countries' roles in WW2.
japan recap. we were isolationist. japan attacked us with the strange logic that the only way they could have asian domination was to attack us. well....not so strange. we werent trading oil with them because they were invading china, and they needed oil. so to get our oil, they attacked us in the hopes that because we were isolationist we would decide that since they hit us pretty hard we wouldnt want to go to war with indochina and the area, so we'd make a trading deal with them and they could go about their merry business. well. that horribly backfired. we attacked them back.
before the great depression, japan was all about peace. so the great depression changed them. they figured the only way to get the resources they needed was to invade. invade china. in any case, hitler didnt like the japanese, cuz he was racist, but he respected them and saw them as the germany of asia. so they were allies.
so after WW2, their course was once again completely altered. a lot of their cities were pretty much destroyed by US bombing, and not just atomic, but conventional. but the US helped rebuild Japan afterwards, to the point that they became a major economic world power. but they have a very very very tiny military.
once the old people die off, the world will be better, or at least more democratic. example? egypt, lybia. the youth are rising up against their dictators, who have been in power for too long.
china tangent. they have lots of untapped potential. and we are in maaaajor debt to them.
us national debt clock.
we got sooooo off topic.
out of time.
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