Monday, March 16, 2009

WW2, The Holocaust and Our Texrbook

Our textbook is very efficient in how it tells the story of the very loaded period that is WWII. When most people think of WWII, the Holocaust and Hitler come to mind. And while this is what most people equate the war to these events and people, they are not the only event and people that helped give WWII its name as an atrocious war. There were multiple events that led up to the war and that occurred before the Holocaust. The same is goes for names. So it is only in the interest of chronology that these events and people be placed between introducing the reasons for WWII and the Holocaust.
If I were to design this chapter, I too would keep these different features of WWII in this order. This way of showing this chapter in history helps show the complexity in human interactions,a nd how one thing leads to another.
A name that would summarize this part of history well would be "A Belligerent World: The Rise, Wage and Consequences of WWII"

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