The Causes of World War II

There are countless reasons or causes of why World War II was started. In my personal opinion, there are five different reasons that are the cause of this war:

1. Adolf Hitler
2. The Jewish Race
3. The German People
4. Mien Kampf
5. The Soldiers

I have chosen Adolf Hitler for all the obvious reasons. Hitler is a man of words and arguably may be one the greatest dictators to step on earth. After World War I, Hitler took the advantage to speak out to Germany because the country was under a depression and was trying to rebuild the society itself. Hitler took the opportunity to speak out and blamed all the problems on the Jewish Race.

Now this is why I have chosen the Jewish Race, Hitler explained to the German people that the Jews was holding their money, and the only way to get their money back is to remove them from society. Hitler talked the people of Germany to the point where they agreed with him and wanted to kill the Jews as well and they were willing to follow Hitler with his cruel and harmful actions.

Hitler has had a plan to eliminate the Jews and take over Germany long ago when he planned everything out in a Jail Cell. He wrote a book called "Mien Kampf," a book that had all the details on Hitlers plan. When the book was published, the words sunk into the German minds and he persuaded millions and millions of Germans that Jewish people are the cause of the society. It took him a full 2 years to fill the pages of this book with his plan, and as shown, his plan turned out rather well.

To top World War II off, I strongly believe that the soldiers are a major role in the act of this war. They went through the gory and pain to fight for their own country. In the book "Articles of War," a kid named Heck was living a normal life in the US until he was drafted to fight in the war. He was a typical farm boy that is just trying to support himself and his family; now his country. Heck is a boy that is not the bravest, nor the greatest, but someone that will do whatever is needed. Soldiers are people with regular lives and have families that they love.

A great example are the American soldiers, it wasn't a choice to fight in the war. Hitler declared war on the US and forced the Americans to fight. "To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason."(- Paul Fussell, war veteran) Paul was a soldier that fought for America, and as said in the quote, he wanted to go home, but the only way was to end the war. I wouldn't say that soldiers are a cause of this war, but a role that is no dictator, no politic, a soldier. A soldier that risked his own life for Hitlers words.

Camping out in the Tent

The main character in "The Articles of War" is a boy called Heck. He is a farm boy from the Iowa and he was drafted in the year 1944 for war. He was shipped off to Omaha Beach for to train for the war. Heck was someone that works very hard, and doesn't complain much at all, so because of this, training didn't take long at all. Soon enough, Heck was ordered to ship out to Normandy, France. This is his very first assignment.



When he arrives in Normandy, the soldiers had to hurry and set up camp. I thought the tent was a good artifact because it is Heck's first mission and tents are rather important in war. In WWII home base was important because it supplies ammunition, food, and most important, soldiers. The tents supplied these items and this is why I have chosen the tent as a good artifact.

A tent to a soldier is like a home to someone that lives in a house. A tent is a relaxed place to be for the soldiers. After a hard fought battle a tent is a good place to be to relax, write, eat, or whatever the case may be. The streets of Normandy were filled with tents and the tents were full of soldiers.

Later in the story, I think that home base will be important because Heck has a very scared and nervous personality and I think Heck will run back to home base where his tent is at (his home). When the US is in Normandy, I think they will have to travel around the country and move their tent somewhere else.

What is Hate?

Hate is more than a word, it is a word that is intended to hurt or break down a person's morality. "I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses..."(Harry Elmer Barnes) Harry Barnes served in the service from 1944-46 and when he came back to the US he became an anti-war politician. As said in his quote, he hates war, coming from his point of view, he feels that a war doesn't solve much of anything, it begins hatred. When the word hate is aroused, the meaning it expresses just doesn't go away, the feeling it gives off is permanent. Hate is a word that is being thrown around to much these days and people are getting hurt day by day by this horrible word.

For example, in World War II the word hate was thrown around the most. A man named Adolf Hitler used the word towards the Jewish people. Hitler hated people that were apart of the Jewish religion. "The Jewish spirit as the product of the Jewish person. Unless we expel the Jewish people. Unless we expel the Jewish people soon, they will have judaized our people within a very short time.”(Adolf Hitler) This quote, is a very hatred quote, a quote that is euthanizing the Jewish Race.

In the picture to the left. It shows Adolf Hitler as the teacher asking the students if they have any more questions about the Jews, and has "How to kill Jews and go to Heaven" written on the board. This cartoon is very discriminating against the Jews. Hitler is saying that if we kill the Jews you will be sent off to heaven. This statement is obviously not true, but its showing a persuasive manner. Hitler wants the Germans (All Germans youth and the old) to jump on his band wagon and remove the Jews from society.