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I watched Into the White, a movie showing the terrible event of two planes shot down in a small Norwegian  isolated region. One of the planes was a British aircraft while the other was a German aircraft. All the people in both crews end up at the sam

I watched the movie The boy in the Striped Pajamas, many times actually. This movie shows all the hardships of World War Two, the most important one being forbidden friendship between an eight year old German boy and a Jewish concentration camp priso

I watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. This movie is set in Germany during the Holocaust. The main character is a young boy named Bruno. Bruno has no idea as to what's going on around him. One day he decides to go exploring (against his mother's w

The movie I watched was Saving Private Ryan. 

In the beginning of this movie they were showing what it was like during D-day. It was hard for U.S soldiers to get off their boats because the Germans were waiting on the beach shooting at them. My favori

I was not in class today.

I watched the move The Diary of Anne Frank. It was about Anne Frank and her family and some others in hiding during WWII.

The movie was based off of Anne Frank's diary that she kept while hiding during the war. The movie followed many important parts

Today we begin our video presentations over world leaders during world war 2.

Be sure to know what each leader looks, what country they led and what alliiance they belonged to.

Also the following: Mussolini

1. Background prior to coming to power

2. How t

This movie was about a boy and his family who live in Berlin, Germany and move out by a Concentration camp when there dad gets a promotion. Well the boy who's name is Bruno sees the concentration camp and thinks it's a farm where the people just wear

For the assigned blog Kat and I watched Valkyrie. It was about Nazi Germany and the German officer's plan to overthrow/ kill Hitler. They saw that the Axis powers were slowly decreasing in power and that the Allies were getting stronger. The officers

I watched one of my all time favorite movies, Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor is the perfect combination of a chick flick and an action movie, and I highly recommend it to anyone even if it is not for this assigned blog. The movie is lengthy, but I've nev

So Cati and I watched Valkyrie which is about some Nazi soldiers who decided (true story) assassinate Adolf Hitler to save Germany from getting destroyed by the rest of the war. So to carry out the assassination they decide to use Operation Valkyrie

I watched the documentary Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy. The short movie starts out giving dates, times, locations, and information of when the Japanese started in on their attack on Pearl Harbor. It shows footage of a large number of planes flying i

We started presentations

I was sick the 18th

Stalin USSR (allied)

1. Background prior to coming to power

• Dropped out of WWI
• In bad economic state
• Lennon was the communist leader

2. How they came to power

Power struggle and Stalin rises through the ranks beco

The WWII documentary that I chose to watch was called Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II. I feel that this movie did a wonderful job covering what happened leading up to and after we dropped the first weapon of mass destruction on the militarised

The movie I watched for our project was "The Diary of Anne Frank." It was about a girl and her family who had to move out of her home and into the hiding. They were joined by another family and a dentist. They were hiding from the police since they w

A few days ago I watched Saving Private Ryan. In the beginning of the movie there was a scene of D-Day. I think this scene did a good job of showing the viewers what the soldiers during WWII had to go through. My favorite part of the movie was near t

I watched Everyman's War, a movie portrayed by three main characters stationed in France during WWII. It first shows the main character Don Smith recalling the story of his time in the military.  In the beginning they show how troops in the military

I watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which was a movie based on the novel. In the movie it shows a family who has to move due their fathers duties. The main character is an 8 year old boy, Bruno. Bruno loves to explore and one day he explores thr

The first movie I chose to watch was The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. In the movie, a young German boy named Bruno moves with his family to the country after his father, a high-ranking Nazi commandant, is promoted. There are no other children to play

we start off with James Ryan (retired) in Arlington Cemetery to visit the grave of Captain John Miller. Then we go back to June 6, 1944, D-Day, a bloodbath but they make it through enemy lines. Capt. was given new orders to find private James Francis