First Draft
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
One Cause of WW2 : Cartoon
Appeasement Policy (Britain and France)
The British and the French, feeling sympathy for Germany, gave Hitler the opportunity to gain more power and more land, to accomplish his policy of Greater Germany. In 1938, Hitler wanted Czechoslovakia, so that it increased the living space for the Germans and to gather all German-speakers together in one union. Hitler ordered the Germans in Czechoslovakia to go against its own government. The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain was afraid that this event would lead up to an outbreak of the war. Later at the Munich conference, they've come up with a solution to give away 70% of Czechoslovakia most industrialized area to Germany. In the cartoon, the British gave Hitler Czechoslovakia, to avoid going to war; the appeasement policy. On the other hand, Hitler gave the world peace. “At last” showed that people were waiting for peace and they finally achieved it. People were happy that the expected war didn’t occur. However soon after the conference, Hitler broke his promises at the conference. While Britain and France tried hard to avoid wars, Germany lied; Hitler sent troops in to invade Czechoslovakia. This is one of the causes that cause World War Two.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Winston Churchill: Chaya/Lux
The Right Honorable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill was considered as one of the greatest and most influential politician on the 20th century. Winston Churchill was also a very profound writer; he won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his historical writing. Winston Churchill was in the army since the Second Boer War up to the end of WWII—of which he led to victory—showing his great skill in different types of warfare.
Winston Churchill was born on November 30th, 1874 in England of the famous Spencer family. After Churchill left Harrow in 1893, he applied to attend the Royal Academy Military in Sandhurst. It took him three attempts to pass the admittance examination, but Churchill graduated eight out of 150 students and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant immediately. Churchill saw combat with the Malakand Field Force on the Northwest Frontier, at the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan and during the Second Boer War in South Africa. During this period he also gained fame, and not a small amount of notoriety, as a correspondent. At the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, Churchill held numerous political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary during the Liberal governments. In the First World War Churchill served in numerous positions, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air.
On the outbreak of WWII, Churchill was appointed as the First Lord of Admiralty. On the 10 of May 1940, King George VI appointed him as the Prime Minister of Britain after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. He was against the policy of appeasement, the Munich agreement. This was one of the reasons that the British people didn’t like him as much. He thought that Hitler couldn’t be trusted and that appeasing him was not a long term solution to keep the peace. Appeasement just made Britain look weak and gave Hitler the confidence to step up his demands. In September 1939, the war broke out and he was proved to be right.
Although Churchill's role in World War II had generated him much support from the British population, he was defeated in the 1945 election. Many reasons for this have been given, key among them being that a desire for post-war reform was widespread amongst the population and that the man who had led Britain in war was not seen as the man to lead the nation in peace. For five years he was to serve as the Leader of the Opposition. During these years Churchill continued to have an impact on world affairs. After Labor's defeat in the General Election of 1951, Churchill again became Prime Minister. His third government—after the wartime national government and the brief caretaker government of 1945 — would last until his resignation in 1955. His domestic priorities in his last government were overshadowed by a series of foreign policy crises, which were partly the result of the continued decline of British military and imperial prestige and power.
In June 1953, at the age of 78, Churchill suffered from a stroke, but he recovered afterwards. However, on 15 January 1965, Churchill suffered another stroke, this time a severe cerebral thrombosis that left him gravely ill. He died at his home nine days later, at age 90, shortly after eight o'clock on the morning of Sunday 24 January 1965, coincidentally 70 years to the day after his father's death.
Sir Winston Churchill was considered as one of the greatest and most influential politician on the 20th century. Winston Churchill was also a very profound writer; he won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his historical writing. Winston Churchill was in the army since the Second Boer War up to the end of WWII—of which he led to victory—showing his great skill in different types of warfare.
Winston Churchill was born on November 30th, 1874 in England of the famous Spencer family. After Churchill left Harrow in 1893, he applied to attend the Royal Academy Military in Sandhurst. It took him three attempts to pass the admittance examination, but Churchill graduated eight out of 150 students and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant immediately. Churchill saw combat with the Malakand Field Force on the Northwest Frontier, at the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan and during the Second Boer War in South Africa. During this period he also gained fame, and not a small amount of notoriety, as a correspondent. At the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, Churchill held numerous political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary during the Liberal governments. In the First World War Churchill served in numerous positions, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air.
On the outbreak of WWII, Churchill was appointed as the First Lord of Admiralty. On the 10 of May 1940, King George VI appointed him as the Prime Minister of Britain after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. He was against the policy of appeasement, the Munich agreement. This was one of the reasons that the British people didn’t like him as much. He thought that Hitler couldn’t be trusted and that appeasing him was not a long term solution to keep the peace. Appeasement just made Britain look weak and gave Hitler the confidence to step up his demands. In September 1939, the war broke out and he was proved to be right.
Although Churchill's role in World War II had generated him much support from the British population, he was defeated in the 1945 election. Many reasons for this have been given, key among them being that a desire for post-war reform was widespread amongst the population and that the man who had led Britain in war was not seen as the man to lead the nation in peace. For five years he was to serve as the Leader of the Opposition. During these years Churchill continued to have an impact on world affairs. After Labor's defeat in the General Election of 1951, Churchill again became Prime Minister. His third government—after the wartime national government and the brief caretaker government of 1945 — would last until his resignation in 1955. His domestic priorities in his last government were overshadowed by a series of foreign policy crises, which were partly the result of the continued decline of British military and imperial prestige and power.
In June 1953, at the age of 78, Churchill suffered from a stroke, but he recovered afterwards. However, on 15 January 1965, Churchill suffered another stroke, this time a severe cerebral thrombosis that left him gravely ill. He died at his home nine days later, at age 90, shortly after eight o'clock on the morning of Sunday 24 January 1965, coincidentally 70 years to the day after his father's death.
Bibliography
· http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page134.asp
· winstonchurchill.org/
· nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1953/churchill-bio.html
· www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/churchill_winston.shtml
· www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_churchill.html
Monday, November 5, 2007
During the last couples of weeks, we were studying about the Russian Revolution. This was one of the projects, which was to analyze sources. One of the main sources druing the 21th century was the internet but during the Russian Revolution, it was posters. Most posters presented the propaganda. Propaganda is ideas, information or rumors spread, aiming for influencing the opinions of large numbers of people. The effective propaganda was often completely truthful but some propaganda presents facts to encourage a particular theory or to produce an emotional rather than response to the information presented. The five propagandas I’m going to analyze are going to be on Lenin and Stalin.
This was another poster of Lenin. Same as the one above, where there’s red which represented USSR. Above him there were his pictures since he was young. He’s surrounded by the color of red. There were lots of pictures of him, put into a “V” shape. The “V” might stand for Vladimir, which was Lenin’s first name. In the year 1924, he died and in 1929, Stalin became the next ruler of USSR.
This is another picture which showed how much Stalin was important to his people. One of the reasons for him becoming famous was because of his poster. His eyes told us that he was concentrating on determining to reach his goal. Whatever he promised his people, he’ll do it for them.
This is the last poster which I’m going to analyze. This is a poster on both Lenin and Stalin. The shadow of Lenin behind Stalin showed that Stalin followed Lenin or achieved what Lenin wanted to. On the other hand, this meant that Stalin reminded us of Lenin.
In conclusion, there were similarities and differences between the posters of Lenin and Stalin. The propaganda really affected people during that time especially, to force people to think that their leaders were the right one. In my opinion, to be a good leader, where your people respected you, isn’t just forcing them to look at you only the positive sides but for them to look at your negative sides and accepting you as you really are.
A poster of Lenin; he was placed on top of everyone, high in the sky. This suggested that he’s high in position or powerful. He bravely led the others, from the expression of his face. It looked like he and his people completed their missions. The red flag represented the USSR; he’s on top of it. This gave us the impression that he was in control of the USSR.
This was another poster of Lenin. Same as the one above, where there’s red which represented USSR. Above him there were his pictures since he was young. He’s surrounded by the color of red. There were lots of pictures of him, put into a “V” shape. The “V” might stand for Vladimir, which was Lenin’s first name. In the year 1924, he died and in 1929, Stalin became the next ruler of USSR.
This is a poster of Stalin where he, again, was placed higher and bigger than the other people. Also the use of the red flags behind his people, having his people respect and cheered for him from kids to adults. From the expression of his looks, he kindly understood his people.
This is another picture which showed how much Stalin was important to his people. One of the reasons for him becoming famous was because of his poster. His eyes told us that he was concentrating on determining to reach his goal. Whatever he promised his people, he’ll do it for them.
This is the last poster which I’m going to analyze. This is a poster on both Lenin and Stalin. The shadow of Lenin behind Stalin showed that Stalin followed Lenin or achieved what Lenin wanted to. On the other hand, this meant that Stalin reminded us of Lenin.
In conclusion, there were similarities and differences between the posters of Lenin and Stalin. The propaganda really affected people during that time especially, to force people to think that their leaders were the right one. In my opinion, to be a good leader, where your people respected you, isn’t just forcing them to look at you only the positive sides but for them to look at your negative sides and accepting you as you really are.
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Citation
Helsingin , Sanomat . Rosa. 5 Dec 2004. 2 Nov 2007
"Poster." 2 Nov 2007 .
"Wikipedia." Answer.com. 2 Nov 2007
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