2X Extra credit WW2 Blog

During the war, my grandfather was a Merchant Marine. His major objective was transportation in Sherman Tanks over to North Africa. He worked with the native merchants for supporting the war effort. These shipment of tanks was a key part in the battles in N. Africa before the Axis Powers were forced to flee back through Italy. It's supprising that we just learned about this in class just a few days ago and my own family was a part of it.

Winter

Yesterday in class, the irony of the worst winters in history were at the same time as the invasions into the Soviet Union. If Hitler would have checked everything during the invasion and calculated all of his advantages, he would have known about the temperatures during that time. But twice during both invasions? To me it sounds like the U.S.S.R even has the weather to prevent the takeover. Hitler needs to think more about his plans or hire someone to make them because he is not doing a very good job.

The Nazis in December

After thinking that the Britians were lucky, i realized that the Nazis were cowards. The weather conditions was probably just an excuse to have some reason not to kill a bunch of Brits. If I was Hitler i would be angry too. The entire country is paying dearly to end the United Kingdom and they didnt have enough courage to go one last time. Think about the Japanese. They were going out knowing that their lifes would end. So they CRASHED!! On purpose!! The Nazis should have gone through with the attack like they were ordered.

The Blitz on Britian

Watching the video in class got me thinking, I know the Nazis had a vendetta against the British, but all the bombings at the same time was a little overboard. The "fire bombs" were a great advantage for the Nazis to mark their targets. I have to say that Hitler took a lot of time into coming up with this plan, for he took into consideration the drought and the winds with his bombings. It was a terrible, catosrtophic event for London, but it was a great attempt to eliminate Britian from the war. Hitler was a smart guy.

Election 1932

Ok first of all, the Germans really have choice issues because of the major switch for power. Although the Nazis are ahead by A LOT Hindinburg still wins the vote. Appointing Hitler as his back-up though is probably the choice that started the war. If Hitler did not have power, 6 million+ lives would be spared at one cost...Germany would be Communist. Personaly i think communism isn't so bad. The Russians work well with it. If you break the law, then the Gulag it is. There is no rich/poor or lawyers for everyone to hate in court.

Test Day

Well I think that the test was a little bit eaiser than I expected it to be. I have to say that i was soo focused on WWI stuff that i forgot where to hand in the test...well anyway, i wish that i was right on most of them because when he read the scores i became unsure. And when you teachers read this...thanks for no essay because that would have sucked!!

The End

So we finally ended WWI and i thought it was just a bunch of worthless fights. The Kiaser was a big pushover when he heard about losing the war and sent Ludendorff away. There was no need for so much bloodshed on the last day of the war. Woodrow Wilson's 14 points didnt even help at all with the end of the war because they were not passed by Senate. If you add all of it up, everything was worthless, the only thing that happened was death. They both ended where they started. There was no point, Kiaser was just a baby and wanted land and to control the world. The same thing is going to happen with Hitler soon...