Operation Blog is ACTIVE

OK students...this is the platform upon which students will share their knowledge and understanding of the great marker event of 20th century world history: World War 2. The rules are simple:

1. All students must make at least one post to this blog. Posts are in the form of reflections, opinions, links to articles, video, music, images, etc. Students must relate the nature of their posts to a theme of the conflict and make commentary.

2. All students must make at least one comment on another students post. Comments must be thoughtful, argumentative if inclined, insightful, or you my pose some question leads to another post by you or another classmate.

3. You must tag your post with the applicable theme(s).

4. Grades will be based on an holistic scoring scale which heavily weights the frequency and substance of posts and comments. Minimum participation equates to minimum scores for this class exercise.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Shocking News?!?!

A Shock to the System

On 23 August, 1939, the world was shocked when, suddenly, Russia and Germany signed a 'Non-aggression Pact'.

People would have been even more shocked if they had known at the time that, in addition, the two countries had made a number of a 'secret protocol' agreeing to 'spheres of influence' in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Poland. It amounted to an agreement to invade and divide the countries of eastern Europe between them ... with Poland first on the list.

Eastern Europe in 1939. Germany and Russia invade Poland.


This British cartoon of 1939 shows Hitler and Stalin.



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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2010 at 11:32 PM

    Ummm.....
    I think the content is interesting because it is straightforward and I like that you put the picture but the picture is not clear.
    -OOA-

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  2. Nicky!February 9, 2010 at 6:58 AM

    Well, I don't know why the right picture was cut off since when i was about to post it it look fine in the box... anyhow thx for the comment... ^0^

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  3. ~Avika~ :)February 13, 2010 at 6:37 PM

    In the second picture, Hitler and Stalin are both holding guns.
    Is the cartoon trying to say that even though they both signed the non -aggression pact, they were going to backstab each other?

    Stalin believed this pact was real, should he be holding a gun?

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  4. PremMarch 7, 2010 at 3:24 AM

    wow they were holding a gun???
    i thought they were crossing their fingers
    wow but now that you mentioned it im not really sure...

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