Sunday, April 18, 2010
3.2.1 Summary
Why didn't anyone make changes to the economy before the stock market crashed?
- Rape of Nanking- tens of thousands of captured soldiers and civilians were killed, raped and tortured by the Japanese soldiers
- Marco Polo incident- While Japanese was occupying Marco Polo bridge. One of the soldiers went missing. Japanese demanded to search the compound but the Chinese refused, so this gave Japan a reason to go to war with China. Eventually they find out, that the soldier just went to the rest room.
- Albert Einstein came up with the theory of relativity. Theory of relativity is Einstein's ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter
- Existentialism- existentialist believed that there is no universal meaning to life. Each person gives his or her own meaning to life through choice made and actions taken.
- The 1936 summer Olympics was held in Berlin, Nazi Germany Capitol. Hitler built a new 30 million dollar stadium for the games. He took down all anti-Semitic signs in Berlin, to hide his persecution of the Jews from the world
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