Multiple Choices

1.Who founded the German Workers' Party?
a. Adolf Hitler
b. Rasputin
c. Borat
d. Anton Drexler

2. What does Holocaust mean?
a. Mass extermination of homosexuals
b. Mass extermination of certain race
c. Mass extermination of Arabs
d. Mass extermination of Aryans

3. What were the SA made of?
a. criminal thugs
b. homosexuals
c. Aryans
d. Jews

4. What did Hitler believe of the Aryan race?
a. Superior
b. Inferior
c. Weak and useless
d. sexy and strong

5. Where did Hitler come from?
a. Germany
b. Thailand
c. Austria
d. Scotland

Propaganda Posters

What is propaganda?

Propaganda is information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. Propaganda posters are usually used to persuade or change the way of thinking of people. By studying the history of propaganda posters, we can learn how people think and react back then. We can compare what we think to what the Russians believed in 1917.

The message of this picture is that Lenin would spread food and jobs for everyone. The poster is trying to make people think that everyone would have food and jobs. The artist conveys the message by drawing Lenin holding a bucket with one hand and giving out some sort of food with the other hand. The artist also draws trucks harvesting the crops.

The message of this picture is to choose Lenin and join the Bolsheviks. It is trying to make the people think that Lenin is smart and looks like a leader. The artist conveys the message by drawing some sort of microphone. It means that Lenin is loud and is making a big voice. The red background makes Lenin look vicious and powerful.

The message of this propaganda poster is to show how smart and sharp Lenin was. It was trying to make people think that Lenin looks like a good leader for Russia. The artist was using very formal colors. The artist drew the sunlight reflecting from Lenin's bald head to show that he is bright. The artist also used a dark background, but than made Lenin bright to stand out.

Conclusion: I think Russian people back then were easily brainwashed and the use of colors were very effective. For me now a days i think the posters are very simple and boring. Back than propaganda posters might be as interesting to the Russians like when we are watching commercials on TV now a days.

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The Raid on Zeebrugge

Did you ever know about what happened on April 23, 1918? On this date the royal navy from Britain attacked the German Navy base at the Belgium port of Bruges- Zeebrugge. The navy base was used to keep all the German’s U-boats. The British planned to block the canal, so that the German U-boats can’t get through.

The operation was led by Sir John Jellicoe. The raid consisted of 75 volunteered ships and 200 soldiers. The attack started on the one mile mole. The British first sent out 3 ships with 2 old submarines. The submarines were heavily armed with explosives to bomb the viaduct.

The viaduct was important because it was connecting the mole to the shore. One of the 3 ships, HMS Vindictive drifted to the Bruges Canal and was to send out 200 soldiers to shoot out the German’s gun positions. The British used the smoke screen strategy in order to send out the soldiers. Unexpectedly the wind currents changed, causing the smoke to go away.

Immediately, the German gun positions spotted the HMS Vindictive alone with the other ships. Under fire by long ranged German artillery, the British lost lots of casualties. Eventually one of the submarines conducted by Lt. Sanford was able to bomb the viaduct. The plan to block the U-boats from going through didn’t work out.The 3 ships that were suppose to sink and block the canal went out wrong. One of the ships were heavily fired and destroyed. The other 2 ships sank in the wrong part of the canal.

My opinion to this is that the British should have planned better. The smoke screen should have worked, so that the marines could go destroy all the German gun positions. If that was successful it would’ve made the block ships full of cement successful of sinking at the right place in order to block the German U-Boats for a longer time.

Sources: http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/zeebrugge.htm http://www.mckenzie.uk.com/zeebrugge/Preparation_-%20_Albert_McKenzie_/preparation_-_albert_mckenzie_.html
Picture Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/images/gal_sea_zeebrugge.gif