Final Post part B

Things I learned:

Throughout the class I learned a lot about Germany and its culture outside of the classic history class. Things such as how techno music is very popular in Germany because they needed to do something outside of the classic music America and the UK had already done.

I learned historical things like the Hanseatic League and how they affected all of Europe.

I learned things about the states of Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemburg and all the other states through presentations by other groups.

I also remembered a lot of random things about the culture of the nation like how dancing with a women was much different of how it is today and much more important. For most it was the first step in pursuing a relationship with someone.

There were many different fields of education on the country of Germany.

Commentary on class:

It would be nice if the class was connected to D2L because it is a good site to let me know how I am doing in the class and communication.

Also, I personally am not a fan of the amount of group presentations there were. 

Final post A

1. http://ge110jessicalu.blogspot.com/2014/12/final-part-a.html

2. The organization stuck out to me right away. It was very easy to look about.

3. You can tell that the creator put a lot of time and effort into it.

4. 5

5. Better

1. http://ge110nathanmc.blogspot.com

2. The blog post is set up like mine with a straight forward structure.

3. The creator had good information on the subjects.

4. 4

5. 4

6. Same

1. http://ge110matthewsc.blogspot.com

2. There were good pictures to catch my eye.

3. The maker put the essential needs and some.

4. 5

5. 4

6. Same

The Red Army Faction believed that West Germany was a fascist state, which drove them to do the historical things they had done. I do not interpret that as a positive piece. They had gone on to do numbers of murders to innocent people. In 1998 the group faxed former BKA President stating that the group is dissolving.

When I was younger I used to play a game called Red Faction made in 2001. In class when I heard of the Red Army Faction, I immediately thought of the game. I started to look into it and found interesting things. Even though the game plot is not involved with the German terrorist group, the storyline in some parts made connections for me. I remember you are a character that is against a group called the commonwealth. I started to look up more about the commonwealth in the game and key words like fascism, and rebel came up. I also looked at the flag of the group the main character is apart of and their flag has the five-pointed star much like the Red Army Faction group had. Even though I did not find any specific correlation from the game to the group, I thought certain things were interesting and definitely gave me a better understanding.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZCnPRCYWqd2uHeGyVYJn0jsQcwz9sg3t_OBKIaFEcm4/edit#slide=id.g509c46e17_030

Our presentation

Germanys role in World War I was to defeat the alliance of French and Russia. This plan was known as the Schlieffen plan. After they had defeated France, they had enemies on both east (Russia) and the west (USA). Eventually being pinned, they signed an armistice in 1918 ending the fight. The country was deeply hurt economically after the loss due to the amount of money they were forced to spend because of the loss.

The country was in a critical depression with inflation skyrocketing.

After the treaty of Versailles, Germany’s military was restricted of having only one hundred thousand men in the Army, and fifteen thousand in the Navy. Along with other restrictions on amount of ships, and cruisers.

The vulnerable state the country was in led to the rise of Adolf Hitler, starting the second World War. Germany’s high point was in 1941/1942 having covered France to Russia, and from Norway to parts of Egypt. Much of this was due to the tactic of “blitzkrieg” which was fast and straight forward.

Germany had eventually lost after much bombing in 1945. The country was split East and West under control of the Soviet Union, and USA.