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Assigned Blog #4- Pearl Harbor

I had mixed emossions about this film. I was looking forward to watching a war movie on World War II, but was surprised with a wierd love story with a romantic war twist. I thought that the movie was a great illistation on how Washington DC and the N

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Assigned Blog #4

The movie i chose for this assigned blog was Saving Private Ryan. I thought it was a good movie but very long. I learned a lot about what happend in D-day and just a lot about WWII and how severe it was. I would rate this movie a 5 out of 5. It was s

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Assigned Blog #4

I watched Saving Private Ryan with Bailey Kuhl.

The movie starts out by showing Private Ryan as and old man with his family visiting Normandy and it showed him walking through the cemetery  of all of the soldiers that died there. Then it goes back to

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Assigned Blog 4--WWII Movie--Flags of our Fathers

Flags of our fathers is a historic story of Iwo Jima, and the triumphs and set backs of the battle. The movie starts out with a man falling down the steps whom collapses, named Doc. A author is interviewing the surviving heroes of Iwo Jima and throug

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Assigned Blog #4-CWI

Current Event:

Europe and the International Monetary Fund handed Greece $170 billion bailout to avoid cathloc default on Tuesday Febuary 21st, 2012. Ministers are trying to cut Greece's debt to 120.5 percent by 2020 vs the 160 percent that it could in

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Friday February 24th

Presentation Notes

Europe

  • British people used a man like Uncle Sam for propaganda.
  • Hitler also used propaganda and blitzkreig to attack countries. Blitzkreig means in German lightning war.
  •  Eisenhower gave troops a pep talk a day before D-DAY. February 2
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Friday, February 24, 2012

Assigned Blog due Monday over a WWII movie.

Rhiana- She watched Midway.

Morgan and Jordan did their presentation. They talked about D-Day, the women working in the homefront, the African front.

Cari and Carly gave their presentation.

We assigned groups.

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Friday, February 24th

Today we continued with presentations.

Some notes...

*Women built planes and other war machines on the homefront

*Women received letters from soldiers during the war

*September 1, 1939-invasion of Poland (just for reminder)

*May 8, 1945-VE Day

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Friday, February 24

-Before the US is involved

Adolf Hitler - Invasion of Poland and France, Pearl Harbor, Blitzkrieg,

-Pacific Front

Solomon Islands, Battle of Coral Sea, Doolittle's Raid,

-European Front(France/Italy)

Stalingrad

-African Front

Tank Divisions, Rommel (Desert

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Friday, Feb. 24

We continued presentations.

After WWII U.S. went into the cold war.

We got into groups for our quiz on Thursday.

 

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Friday, February 24th

We continued presentations today.

-Before the US is involved

  • Adolf Hitler leader of german Nazis.
  • Nazis killed 2/3rds of jews in germany.
  • Consentation camps were set up.
  • Nazis started WWII by invading poland.
  • Then France declared war on Germany.
  • Poland surr
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Friday, February 24th

continued World War 2 picture presentations!

  • Battle of Britain - London & London Bridge bombed
  • USS Virginia (Pearl Harbor)
  • Was a failed assassination of Hitler - bomb
  • Battle of Bulge; Hilter's last major offense 

Test Group:

Me, Maddie, Tara, and Rhianna

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Friday, February 24th

We continued presentations: (see below)

-Before the US is involved

  •  WWII started when Germany invaded Poland
  • They invaded Poland to get the land back Sept. 3, 1939
  • The Soviet Union also invaded Poland
  • There was 62,000 prisoners 12,000 were American—Japan
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Friday, Febuary 24

More presentations:

Same information as all the other presentations.

Got in groups for the test: Me, Logan, Trey, and Dalton

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Friday, February 24th

Today me and morgan finshed up presenting.

German tanks invaded poland on September 1939

declared war on september 3rd on 1939

hitler committed sucide before end of war

We start quizing later next week,

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