Open Letter to Incoming History Students

My expectations for this class was to do a lot of reading from our textbooks, and a lot of projects. I also thought that this class would be difficult and that I wouldn't learn that much.

The difference between what I expected and what I experienced was a little different. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be but it wasn't too easy either. I found out that our teacher Mr. Blas the most chill teacher you will ever have unless you don't listen. If you listen and do what you are supposed to do it will be fun and easy. I expected that I wouldn't do so well in this class and at first I was doing well then I started falling behind and almost had an F but then he caught me and started helping me to get my grade back up. It is the last week of school and I did a few things yesterday and got my grade from a low B to an A in less than a day, so its not that hard to get your grade up in this class, and I thought it would be hard but it wasn't at all.

The one most important thing I learned in this class was nothing, there wasn't only one most important thing I learned, there was a lot and it would take up half my blog page, if I tried to tell you so one of the things I learned was about Gandhi and how against imperialism he was, but he wasn't a violent type of person.

I think if I could have done anything differently to have a better experience it would be to do all of my work in the beginning and try not to miss any assignments, and if I did miss an assignment I would make it up.

I think you could achieve more success by doing the extra credit he gives you even if you don't want to, you should because you may miss an assignment or you may not get a good grade on an assignment and that extra credit will help your grade.

Causes of WW2

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The main causes of WW2 were appeasement, bad feelings left from the first world war, and the Treaty of Versailles.

Life after WW1

After WWI there were many negatives and positives. Some of the negatives were that many people died most soldiers and families that had nothing to do with the war. This also impacted art and the way people thought these were bad because after the war it turned some people insane. The positives were that it gave people such as artists a different view of art giving it a new perspective. Some other reasons to why the war was good; it brought lots of women rights. Women could now vote and work. It also made philosophers think a lot about how humans work and lots of science was discovered such as theory's.

People would question every idea about reason and progress. T.S. Ellioe said "the world was a "waste land" drained of hope and faith. Existentialism believed no meaning to life. Writers and authors got out of Germany and told people what was happening there.

WWI also affected the way art was made. Before the war happend artists would make sure their portraits were perfect and excact to the object they were duplicating. After the war, it messed with lots of artists head this made them start drawing and painting their thoughts and what was going on inside. Piccaso created cubism and he would use it a lot in his art their was also doli who created surilism. Artists, depicty the inner world of emotion and imagination rather than realistic. Pablo Picasso, Cubism in 1907 natural shapes into geometric forms. Surrealism movement to link dreams to real life.

There were many things that WWI effected but another was science and how it was seen. many philosophers saw different theory's. Albert Einstein was one of them he created the thoery of relativity.