weekly Reflection #1

reflection on from d.day to1945...

during this session we talked about the European theater of world war 2..
we talked about how the German put a line of hedgehogs to prevents any tanks and vehicles getting to the shore line and get to the island.
we watched saving private Ryan... me as a visual person watching the movie really put it in perspective of what they actually went through, getting to the island and how many people died and wounded.
Then we talked about the pacific theater, we learned about pearl harbor and when that was and when FDR signed the papers to declaration of world war 2. but other then that i couldnt tell you what we talked about. as i go through the slide show i see a bunch of maps and pictures and some of them i dont even recall you talking about them... but as far as the assignment goes the soilder story i thought that was kinda fun and interesting assignment i could deal with things like that once in a while...
then comes in the 1945.. when the war of world war 2 was done,, and where FDR died and Hitler committed suicide, we read Hitlers will in class and talked it over, and we read the littler paragraph about FDR's death. we also talked about the Yalta Conference, this was about *dividing Germany *Formation of the united nation *German war reparations *The entry of Soviet forces into the Far-Eastern front (Japan) *The final, and most difficult issue, the future of Poland, and FDR represented the united states, Churchill represented GB and Stalin represented the soviet. Also in this we talked about the Holocaust, and how kinda disturbing and cruel it was. i remember what one of the sign into one of the camps said "work makes you free" this was on the way into Auschwitz the biggest concentration camps of this time. there we huge masses of graves with hundreds of dead bodies in them. and when soldiers walked into the camp they said they're were "walking dead".
As an overall view of how i liked class during this week, i thought it was interesting. and i like that its recant in history i mean my dad was born 3 years after this ended.. and in 7th grade i learned about the holocaust and i liked ti then but it's not like what we went over was the same stuff it was different.. but as far as all the infomation i was a lot to take in but it was stuff that im interested in so ill retain it better.. i hope haha..