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4/28/2010

-For this weeks weekly blog I have to blog about The Great Society-Environment (pg.690).

- For the cold war project I got NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence

- Mr. Bruns doesn’t think we are going to have another test

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4-28-10

Today we started by doing our presentation. Then we started "mop up operations" as mr bruns says. We talked about George C. Marhsall. Chief of staff of the US military during the WWII. He is most famous for the marshall plan. Gave millions to europea
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4-28-10

Today Nick and I did our presentation. We did not do very well today. Go figure. Mr. Bruns also started his “Mop up Operations” over these presentations.

Selective Training and Service Act of 1940:

This was the first peacetime draft in Us History. Used

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April 28, 2010

d-day and european front

d-day

was also known as Operation Neptune or Operation Overlord

began on Tuesday June 6, 1944 at 6:30 am.they invasion happened in two phases

1. an air assault

2.amphibious Landing

Germany was basically dug into the beach landing z

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Austin and Nick did their presentation today

European Front and Operation D-Day

D-Day is known as Operation Overlord or Operation Neptune

This day began on Tuesday

The invasion happened in 2 phases

1 Air assualt

2 Amphibious landing

-Germany was basicallydu

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Wednesday 4-28-10

Now Austin and Nick are presenting on D-Day and the European Front. D-Day was also known as Operation Overload or Operation Neptune. D- Day began on Tuesday June 6, 1944 at 6:30 am. It was on the northern part of France. The invasion happened in two

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4/28/10

We are continuing presentations.

D-Day
D-Day aka Operation Overlord. The invasion was the largest amphibious landing ever. Largest airborne assault ever. Germany had many mines on the beaches and machine guns in bunkers. The U.S. had trouble getting a
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wednesday april 28 2010

Kesterson and Petsche went today..they had D-Day and Eastern Europe... Petsche is in tennis so i expect a lot out of his presentation...

D-Day

D-Day was operation overlord, US was invading Normady Beach on tuesday june 6,1944 at 6:30 a.m.

2 Phases- 1.Ai

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Wednesday April 28th, 2010

Victory in Europe VE day

Events in Europe

1944 air warfare in favor of allied powers

made way for invasions at Normandy

battle of the Bugle

cleared france and belgium

The soviets

Baltic states, East Poland, Belorussia, Ukraine

Forced surrender of Romania, Fi

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Wednesday April 28

Today in class we did some more presentations and we might be getting close to the end. There is no blog this week.

VE Day

We got control of the air over Europe paving the way for D-Day. The Soviets came at Germany from the other side and started pushi

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Wednesday, April 28

More projects. i went first with VE Day and VJ Day.

Why we won

--US: no war on US ground, support from home, support for other coutries

--Great Britain: kept fighting, island nation

--UUSR: winter stopped Germany

--Germany: starte fighting USSR, now two s

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Wednesday, April 28th

VE Day stands for the victory in Europe. We had the major controls of the air. The Battler of Belguim was the last stand for Hitler.

The Soviets forced Romania Finland and Bulgaria to surrender.

The Allied powers won because the U.S. were good at makin

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Wed April 28

Today is wed. another day in paradise eh. We have no blog assignment this week so that’s some good news. Today we are going to try and finish up presentations. We are going to start cold war projects end of next week. It is taking a little while for

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April 28, 2010

Why the Allied countries won

Germany and Japan tried to invade too big of land

Allied had better technologies

Overview:

support for other countries

No war on U.S. ground

Soviets winter hurt Germans

China and USSR- big land hard to capture

America helped alli

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Wednesday April 28

today the group for VE and VJ day presented they talked about the victory over germany and how russia joined the battle against japan after we dropped the first atomic bomb. after that the group for why the allies won WWII presented. some reasons why
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wednesday april twenty eighth.

US Home Front; going on in the us to help win the war.
taxes
raised to pay for war
economy,
controls on prices and wages.
labor;
employment rate went down, women got jobs.
farmers were affected. people moved into city to work in factories.
students got out o
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Wednesday April 28, 2010

African Front

Stalin wanted us to openly invade Europe to get the Germans out of Soviet Union but we went to North Africa instead. Stalin wasn't very happy. There was a lot of Vichy French troops in North Africa and they were on the Axis side. They sl

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April 27, 2010

Yesterday, we presented our powerpint. That took up the whole class period due to the internet being faulty.
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April 26, 2010

On Monday, I worked on the powerpoint while listening to the Pacific front present. They talked about where battles took place, where midway was and why we needed midway, guam ,and saipan. saipan was one of the most costliest battles in marine histor
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