Blog #15 - Chapter 20 Collapse at the Center

This was one of my favorite chapters I read so far. I like how Strayer had included the World Wars in one section instead of separating them in to their own sections. I always like reading about the World Wars especially how they got started, as well as the movies that evolved from them. The World Wars had influence a creation of many great movies that are romantic or have a great message behind time. From the top of my head I could think of Pearl Harbor, The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, Swing Boys, and Saving Private Ryan. When reading this section of the Wars I thought of it as a domino effect, that lead up to each war. Even the domino effect I think of it as, World War I cause World War II. This domino effect started off with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, thus creating a cascade of events, and mass murders. It made me wonder what if the Archduke was not assassinated, would there still be a World War, would America still have endured a Great Depression, or would there be such a thing as genocide. It just amazing to think how one little thing can create all this chaos in the World, it was like a ripple in the pond, how the ripple continues to get bigger. I was really surprised to read how the Second World War began in Asia before it started in Europe, I always thought it originated in Europe and then Japan got involved, but Japan initiated the War. Reading about that really caught me by surprised, I was not expecting it, and it totally changed my ideas or views of World War II. It was also sad to read about the Jews how the Nazis created genocide with them and put them in concentration camp. When Strayer was talking about the concentration camps I was surprised there was no mention about how the United States practiced the use of concentration camp toward the Japanese. It is really ironic how America stressed a lot on the concentration camps and helped fight to end it and save the Jews, but America had the Japanese in concentration camps. I feel like that part of history is never mention, and the concentration camps are only referred to the Jews, when it should be referred to the Jew and Japanese. Although America did not go to the extreme with the concentration camps like the German and Nazi, but they still enforced this practice and the Japanese was not treat fairly. I believe in every war every Nation has to blame someone for their downfall or reason to disaster. In most wars the nation would blame the whole race, when it was out of the action from particular people. Nation should not blame nor torture a whole race for an action of particular individuals. For example Germany blamed ALL Jews for the downfall of their economy, the world blamed ALL Germans for the genocide of Jew, American blamed ALL Japanese people for the attack on Pearl Harbor, finally America blame ALL middle eastern race for the attack of 9/11. Nations need to learn that not every one of that particular race had an affect or contribution of disasters happening in the world.