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World History Homework Twelve - Model (view source)
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1. World War II: when, where, who and why? Explain.
1. World War II: when, where, who and why? Explain.
:World War II was a world-wide conflict taking place mainly in Europe in which many countries used advanced technology in their war fare. The two opposing alliances were the Allies (British Empire, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (after they broke their alliance with Germany), and the United States and the Axis (Germany, Italy, and Japan). The Second World War began in 1939 and ended in 1945 after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. This immense war began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, which seemed at that time of little threat, until Germany stared conquering more land, breaking agreements, and inhumanely killing Jews and other innocent people. People were afraid that the Nazis in Germany would go to any extent to take control of the world. (Veronika)
2. Compare and contrast communism and fascism, with at least two examples of how they are similar and two examples of how they differ.
2. Compare and contrast communism and fascism, with at least two examples of how they are similar and two examples of how they differ.
:I have two examples. Germany attempted to conquer Europe in World War I and failed; later she did the same thing. Also, Napoleon could not conquer Russia; his men did not do well in the Russian winter and at that point, the tables turned against him. Hitler did the exact same thing. If he only knew his history .... (Tom)
:I have two examples. Germany attempted to conquer Europe in World War I and failed; later she did the same thing. Also, Napoleon could not conquer Russia; his men did not do well in the Russian winter and at that point, the tables turned against him. Hitler did the exact same thing. If he only knew his history .... (Tom)
:History has always repeated itself because we are too lazy to learn from the mistakes of our ancestors. Staring in ancient times, Rome fell because they had abortion, they [Romans] degraded the family, and they tossed their morals out the window. Other nations around the world have fallen into socialism, communism, and fascism because they allowed evil men to take over their governments, hmmmm sound familiar? (Jenna)
:History has always repeated itself because we are too lazy to learn from the mistakes of our ancestors. Staring in ancient times, Rome fell because they had abortion, they [Romans] degraded the family, and they tossed their morals out the window. Other nations around the world have fallen into socialism, communism, and fascism because they allowed evil men to take over their governments, hmmmm sound familiar? (Jenna S.)
H5. Your view of the United Nations, please?
H5. Your view of the United Nations, please?
:... I believe the UN is a terrible waste of space. It does not ever achieve anything it starts, as in the war against poverty, the war against wars, and the war against global warming. At times, it just makes things worse. It puts government programs in place and prolongs wars. It is run by pro-socialists and anti-Americans. ... (Tom)
H6. Was General MacArthur right or wrong in the Korean War?
H6. Was General MacArthur right or wrong in the Korean War?
:I think that General MacArthur was right to cut off the North Korean supplies lines but was wrong in thinking he could defeat China’s army. He should have deferred to President Truman’s efforts for a diplomatic resolution. The Chinese army was thousands strong and geographically easy to rearm troops. (Sandro)
:I think that General MacArthur was right to cut off the North Korean supplies lines but was wrong in thinking he could defeat China’s army. He should have deferred to President Truman’s efforts for a diplomatic resolution. The Chinese army was thousands strong and geographically easy to rearm troops. (Sandro)
:General Douglas MacArthur was right in disobeying the orders not to do the daring flanking maneuver. Even though he probably knew he would get in trouble with the President, he rather would have saved soldiers lives and won the war. (Benjamin H.)
:Churchill had broken the enigma and the Germans did not know it. But had Churchill warned the village that there was going to be a bombing the Germans would have known that Churchill had cracked the code and all of the hard work put into cracking the code would be obsolete as the Germans would have just picked a new code, perhaps one that would have been harder to break. In the future our knowledge of the enigma helped save many lives in World War II, more lives than in the village. (Joey M.)
H7. (counts as two answers) Explain the mathematics of how the Enigma was broken (decoded) including (if you like) some words about the field of cryptology today.
H7. (counts as two answers) Explain the mathematics of how the Enigma was broken (decoded) including (if you like) some words about the field of cryptology today.
:(Counts as two answers) Explain the mathematics of how the [[Enigma]] was broken (decoded) including (if you like) some words about the field of cryptology today.''' The actual code of the [[Enigma]] is very hard to write about and understand in any meaningful way, so I will try to make as much of it as possible comprehensible. When you press a letter (e.g. L), the machine alters it up to nine times (with a minimum of seven) using a set of wheels with the alphabet on them that move much like a standard car odometer (with every 26 letters typed, the next wheel moves to the next spot.). And it must be remembered that the moving of at least one wheel, for every new letter typed, introduced a new set of circuits for each new letter. In addition, if you pressed one key over and over, you would get a different letter each time, but if you hit that same key 16,900 (26 x 25 x 26) times, the pattern would repeat. Cryptologists use a method of code breaking that uses common letter patterns to their advantage: letter and pattern frequency, where the cryptologist would give an educated guess as to what common letter a repeated character is. Also, some letters will appear frequently alongside each other. The most obvious example in the [[English]] language is TH as in 'the' or 'that'. By combining these two weapons, the code breaker could make a reasonable guess that where a single letter appeared repeatedly after the T which he had already recovered from letter frequency, the unknown letter was probably H, particularly if the next letter that had already been recovered was an E. (Jonathan R.)
: The actual code of the [[Enigma]] is very hard to write about and understand in any meaningful way, so I will try to make as much of it as possible comprehensible. When you press a letter (e.g. L), the machine alters it up to nine times (with a minimum of seven) using a set of wheels with the alphabet on them that move much like a standard car odometer (with every 26 letters typed, the next wheel moves to the next spot.). And it must be remembered that the moving of at least one wheel, for every new letter typed, introduced a new set of circuits for each new letter. In addition, if you pressed one key over and over, you would get a different letter each time, but if you hit that same key 16,900 (26 x 25 x 26) times, the pattern would repeat. Cryptologists use a method of code breaking that uses common letter patterns to their advantage: letter and pattern frequency, where the cryptologist would give an educated guess as to what common letter a repeated character is. Also, some letters will appear frequently alongside each other. The most obvious example in the [[English]] language is TH as in 'the' or 'that'. By combining these two weapons, the code breaker could make a reasonable guess that where a single letter appeared repeatedly after the T which he had already recovered from letter frequency, the unknown letter was probably H, particularly if the next letter that had already been recovered was an E. (Jonathan R.)
H8. Write about any aspect of the lecture.
H8. Write about any aspect of the lecture.