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.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Winston Churchill

"Those who do not think of the future are unworthy of their ancestors." Winston Churchill spoke these words in London on Oct. 24th, 1936, during a tribute to the Royal Marines. This statement told those people who were ready to fight and die for their country, it foreshadowed the challenges Churchill would face and Britain during World War 2. The years before he led Britain into victory in this war was marked by his political isolation and overall Britain appeasement policy towards Germany. One of the most important time in Churchill career was when he held no position, and most of his people found his ideas idiotic. When he was unpopular he didn’t belong to any party. These rivals manage to keep Churchill out of power until the outbreak of world war 2 in 1939.
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