Day 125 - Clicker Quiz

Today in WHAP we took a clicker quiz over WWII

So the main thing we did in class today was the clicker quiz, but some other morsels of information were picked up along the way so I'll mention those as well.

I didn't find the quiz today very difficult, but overall our class didn't do to well, with many questions having divided answers, almost guaranteeing that we didn't get that extra point. I'd chalk that up to a lot of people watching the video the first night, then forgetting about it over Tuesday, then coming into class today and being like uhhhhhhhh.

So unlike what your grade school teachers may have told you, dates aren't simple. Especially in the example of WWII, it's difficult to pin down the exact dates for the start, end, etc. It become a periodization issue when you try to define the war in such rigid characteristics like that.

So Japan invaded China during this time, and they made a bunch of unfair demands to China. Seems like China is on the receiving end of these demands a lot @Britain. China declined the majority of the demands, but agreed to some of them and ceded some territory to Japan. Japan then kept attacking, and in the cities they ransacked they were terrors. They'd commit acts like tossing babies up in the air and then trying to stab their eye with their bayonet, as a demented game of a sort. Then, to the troublemakers, they'd line them all up and then see how far down the line a soldier could get chopping the heads of the Chinese clean off.

The final thing we mentioned was how after WWI, when Germany was forced into paying the other European countries, they didn't have the money to do so. They then started printing money out as fast as they could, which unfortunately for them didn't really help them, and actually made the situation worse. Mr. Profitt showed us how people were burning the money, since it was worth more as fuel for a fire then to try and buy something with it. He said that a loaf of bread cost nearly 5 million (German Currency). Imagine having to round up that much money just to go walk on down to the corner store and buy a loaf.

On a side note, I started an O-Point project over the movie "Valkyrie". I'll be posting the summary of the movie (spoiler alert) later on this week, and then will talk about the plot/accuracy of the film some time over the weekend, on a special weekend blog. If you want to be caught up on what I'm talking about, the movie is FREE on the streaming program "Vudu". You do have to watch adds during the movie, but hey I'll watch 3 cumulative minutes of ads for a free movie. It was actually pretty good, and decently interesting.

With that, the bell rang and we were dismissed. Until Tomorrow!