World War Two: Eyewitness Accounts

We'll spend two weeks on the blog looking at World War Two.

So much of World War Two seems larger-than-life (Hitler, Pearl Harbor, FDR, Stalin, Rosie the Riveter, D-Day etc.) but we need to remember normal people lived through those events.

While grateful we won this war and thankful for the sacrifices made, we should be careful to romanticize or glamorize those awful times.

For this week's blog, visit this website. Select any of the World War Two stories that intrigues you and read it carefully.

For the comment section, write 200 words on what your selection was about and what it taught you about this war.

The Holocaust: We Must Remember

For this week's blog, you will visit this website.

Here you will find accounts of various groups affected by the Holocaust.

For the comment section, please read at least two different sections. Summarize each section with at least 100 words each and be sure to include your reaction to what you read.

Steps Towards War: Events Leading to World War 2

Welcome back!

We begin this semester with an examination of how, exactly, did World War Two begin? Wasn't World War One supposed to be the "war to end all wars"?

For this week's blog, do some independent research on the beginnings of World War Two. Answer the following four questions, with at least 50 words each.

1) How did Hitler rise to power in Germany?
2) How did Germany, Italy and Japan become what we call the "Axis Powers"?
3) Why did America side with the Soviet Union, even though their leader (Stalin) was an evil dictator?
4) Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor and what did we do in response?