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.
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2010

We're Gonna Have To Slap The Dirty Little Jap - Carson Robison

The song was sang by an American country music singer and songwriter named Carson Robison during World War II. This song was part of American propaganda.




Lyrics (a bit of American racism from 1941 called “We’re gonna have to slap, the dirty little Jap”)

We’re gonna have to slap the dirty little Jap
And Uncle Sam’s the guy who can do it
We’ll skin the streak of yellow from this sneaky little fellow
And he’ll think a cyclone hit him when he’s thru it
We’ll take the double crosser to the old woodshed
We’ll start on his bottom and go to his head
When we get thru with him he’ll wish that he was dead
We gotta slap the dirty little Jap

We’re gonna have to slap the dirty little Jap
And Uncle Sam’s the guy who can do it
The Japs and all their hooey will be changed into chop suey
And the rising sun will set when we get thru it
Their alibi for fighting is to save their face
For ancestors waiting in celestial space
We’ll kick their precious face down to the other place
We gotta slap the dirty little Jap

We’re gonna have to slap the dirty little Jap
And Uncle Sam’s the guy who can do it
We’ll murder Hirohito, massacre that slob Benito
Hang’em with that Shickle gruber when we’re thru it
We’ll search the highest mountain for the tallest tree
To build us a hanging post for the evil three
We’ll call in all our neighbors, let’em know their free
We gotta slap the dirty little Jap

The song was considered racist these days, so don't sing it but you can listen to it.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Brief Information about the Pacific War.....


Do you know that the Pacific war is one of the cause that lead to WW2? Yes it does and here is a brief summary of the Pacific War. The Pacific War was at first a conflict between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China, but it grew bigger and bigger and finally becomes part of the second World war. It started when USA, the allied of China, stop giving oil resources to Japan, and since Japan was the greatest country of the east, they think they should get what ever they wanted and so they bomb the Pearl Harbor [Hawaii] of the United states of America. That was a big mistake of Japan because USA had better weapons and the event eventually made the USA mad. So the USA react by using the atomic bomb to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki a province of Japan.



Sunday, February 7, 2010

Atomic Bombs

After the Pearl Harbor incident, Hiroshima was the main target of the first U.S. nuclear mission attack. The American military had operated the atomic bomb named “Little Boy”. B-29 Enola Gay was the aircraft that carried Little Boy to the city of Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945 at 8:16:02 A.M. (Hiroshima time), the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. It exploded 1,900 feet with a force of 12,500 tons of TNT. The explosion destroyed the city and killed thousands of lives.

The second target of the nuclear attack mission was on Nagasaki, Japan. The atomic bomb was called “Fat Boy”. On August 9, 1945 at 11:02 a.m., the second atomic bomb was dropped by an aircraft called B-29 Superfortress "Bockscar”. Fat Boy exploded at 1,650 feet with a force of 22,000 tons of TNT. In a blink of an eye, Nagasaki was destroyed.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Importance of Aircraft Carriers in WW2

Aircraft Carriers played a important role second world war, these aircraft carriers are deadly because of their ability to carry aircraft on them, this way they can ship planes to a certain area and lunch them there for an attack and this way it is more efficient and the plane save oil, this is also what makes it deadly because a fleet of armed aircraft carriers are able to cause severe causalities in the air, land and sea and the Japanese used this as an advantage to launch the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and that is why the Aircraft Carriers are important in the second world war.

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~magneson/ww2.html

Sunday, January 31, 2010

1942: The Critical Point of The Land of the Rising Sun by Prem, Sea, and Tej

At the start of 1942, Japan was one of the most powerful countries in the world, but after American involvement in the war, and the victory in the battle of Midway, Japan lost Naval Power.