Peaceful Day

It was a peaceful day,

Just like any other.

The sun was shining and it was warm.

This wonderful day came to hault,

In a blink of an eye.

I had no idea what was going on,

All of a sudden there were planes bombing everywhere.

Planes were flighting and bombs were going off.

Everyone was in a panic.

No one knew what was really going on.

The hospital became packed with injured people.

Injured people were everywhere.

It was all kinda a blur.

At the end of all this,

I saw many people from citizens to military personell die.

People lost members of their family.

People will forever remember this day.

The Guard Within

I stand here to keep people in,

Not to keep people out.

I stand here everyday

While people suffer.

As I stand here I see

Children, adults, elders suffer in these camps.

I see horrible beatings of innocent people.

I see people murdered because of they are Jews.

I see people forced into gas chambers,

And forced to work without food or water.

I feel that it is because of me and only me,

That these people are stuck inside.

During the Holocaust,

Ive seen around 1.1 million people suffer and die.

I stood there and watched,

All of these people suffered because of their religion.

Unit 6 Descriptive Logs

Alliance System
1. started by Bismarck
2. designed to maintain Germany's hegemony on the European continent
3. Germany defeated France in 1871
4. Germany was forced to cede two provinces Alsace-Lorraine
5. Bismarck tried to befriend Austria, Russia, Italy and Britain in order to isolate France

Trench Warfare
1. both opposing armies have static lines of defense
2. first trench warfare was employed by Muhammad against the Quraishi army
3. there were usually main trenches and other smaller trenchs that connected the larger ones
4. occurred during the American Civil War and Russo-Japanese War
5. most of the techniques used in trench warfare were ancient

Total War
1. a military conflict in which nations mobilize all available resources
2. used to destroy another nation's ability to engage in war
3. has been in use for centuries
4. first documented total war was the Peloponnesian War
5. war was fought between Athens and Sparta between 431 and 404 BC

Rationing
1. controlled distribution of resources
2. goods were usually scarce
3. has long been used in the military to make supplies last longer
4. limiting the purchase or usage of an item
5. allotement of scarce supplies

Propaganda
1. messages amied at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people
2. basic sense presents imformation in order to influence its audience
3. there are different techniques with advertising and public relations
4. advertising and public propaganda promote commercial products or organizations
5. particular opinion or poing of view

Treaty of Versailles
1. the peace treaty that ended WWI
2. signed exactly 5 years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
3. signed on November 11, 1918
4. treaty was between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany
5. Germany accepted full responsibility for causing the war

Fascism
1. an authoritarian political ideology
2. seek to forge a type of national unity
3. government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator.
4. movement based on or advocating such a system of government
5. dictatorial control

Totalitarianism
1. imposing a form of government
2. political authority exercises absolute and centralized control
3. opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed
4. practitioner or supporter of such a government
5. dictatorial

Adolf Hitler
1. a German politician
2. became leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party)
3. was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933
4. remained in office until his suicide in 1945
5. after the death of President Paul von Hindenburg in 1934, he declared himself the leader

Holocaust
1. used to describe the killing of approximately 6 million European Jews
2. led by Adolf Hitler
3. genocide of European Jews
4. destruction on a mass scale
5. lasted from 1941 to 1945

D-day
1. a day on which an operation is to be launched
2. day on which allied forces invaded France during WWI
3. June 6, 1944
4. indicates the beginning of an attack
5. marks military operations on a specific date

Nuremberg Trials
1. series of trials held in Nuremberg, Germany
2. from 1945 to 1949
3. best known trial was Trial of the Major War Criminals
4. series of notable trials for the presecution of prominent members of the Nazi party
5. Allied powers Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States

Go To War? Heck No! Techno!

If a country just comes into another country and just kills people for no reason at all, then, yes war is quite necessary. But nothing to extravagant. Just go into that country for a few months and let them know who the boss is. Other than that I dont believe war is necessary for anything. Countries these days go to war if one country so much as says something that another country does not approve of. I think that is just a waste of money and a very large inconvenience for those in the military. I myself have 3 cousins in the Army and 2 of which are in Iraq and the other leaving for Iraq in December. Families of those that have to go overseas are devestated when they discover their loved ones have to go across the world to fight for something that is not worth fighting for. Therefore I believe war is not necessary.