The Battle of the Philippines Sea -Ton and Sora

Cartoon: Germany's Expansionist Policy on a German's View

In this cartoon, Adolf Hitler says "It's time for us to rise against the British and the French. We have lost everything in the Treaty of Versailles. Now, we shall get back what belongs to us!!! We shall conquer and rule the WORLD!" to the Germans. Hitler is giving more hope and courage to the Germans and that they can change the country Germany like the past, when Germany used to be powerful. There is a map of Europe behind Hitler coloured in yellow. The colour yellow symbolizes gold or wealth. So Europe is shinning like gold and that the Germans are ready to fight and conquer the whole world. In the picture of the octopus invading the earth, shows that Hitler is thinking about Germany leading and taking total control of the world. Therefore, Hitler tries to pursue Germany's goal on taking revenge on the countries that have made Germany suffer after the Treaty of Versailles.

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN –by: sora & kevin

"It is better to jaw jaw than war war." This quote was said by Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1937 to 1940, who, contrary to his intentions, gradually brought about the World War II. He was born on the eighteenth of March, 1869 in Birmingham and died on the eighth of November, 1940. In general, he, his father, Joseph Chamberlain, and his half-brother, Sir Austen Chamberlain were all politicians. Neville Chamberlain was educated at a public school called Rugby School and earned his degree at Mason Science College. He had a lot of political careers, but his policy of appeasement was what made him worldwide known for. He is an important person, who used the policy of appeasement to try to ignore war by settling arguments in discussion, which actually made the country, Germany much more powerful than ever.

Neville Chamberlain was assigned many political careers such as being chairman of Town Planning Committee, the mayor of Birmingham, Director of National Service, member of the parliament, minister of health, and chancellor. However, that was not everything he has done in his life, he was elected as the British Prime Minister. During the 1930s, there were some serious economic problems like the Great Depression in Great Britain and France where the governments had to cut their spending, lower taxes, and struggle not to get into any war since they could not spend huge amounts of money necessary to improve their weapons and expand their forces. In addition, people disliked war after experiencing World War I and seeing that many soldiers have lost their lives. Furthermore, many people believed that the Treaty of Versailles was too harsh on Germany and that one day, there would be a new outbreak of war. Therefore, Neville Chamberlain and the French Prime Minister, Edouard Daladier introduced the policy of appeasement, which helped prevent war but encourage Germany and Italy to regain power to expand. The British and French Prime Minister had a discussion with the President Edward Benes of Czechoslovakia to give away Sudetenland to Germany so that Germany would be persuaded not to declare another world war. Hence, in 1938, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier and Adolf Hitler attended the Munich conference, where Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler signed an agreement that Britain and Germany would never to go war again. However, this agreement was considered a weak sign of the Western Europe to Adolf Hitler, which encouraged him and Mussolini more to expand their land. This conference was the sign that showed that other surrounding countries were scared of Germany. However, in Great Britain, Chamberlain was welcomed as a hero’s welcome where many people supported and thanked him. Neville Chamberlain believed he had saved Europe from war and proclaimed that he had achieved “peace for our time.” In March 1939, Adolf Hitler broke the Munich Agreement which he signed. He invaded the entire of Czechoslovakia and later to Poland, Netherlands, then France and Belgium. Hence, the Munich Agreement was a total failure that made people frightened and panicked since that was the start of the outbreak of World War II.

Neville Chamberlain gave all his efforts in to try maintain the world at peace, but his policy of appeasement was kind of a huge mistake that he made because the policy of appeasement just helped improve Britain’s economic problems not the world wide problem. The policy of appeasement showed Germany that Great Britain and France were too weak to fight and thought that it was the right time to expand their territories and pay back their enemies. Chamberlain’s goal was to prevent war, but the more Germany demanded something that was forbidden in the Treaty of Versailles, Britain and France just gave Germany want they wanted, which gave them strength and courage. In my opinion, Chamberlain’s creative idea was brilliant, but there is no possible way to ever prevent war because any country can declare war on another country anytime. Therefore, I admire his effort in trying to protect and help his country bur just couldn’t take under control everything like World War II.

Works Cited:

"Neville Chamberlain." Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia.. Wikipedia. 14 Jan 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain.
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Russian Propaganda Project-citation included

Propaganda was very frequently used throughout the Russian Revolution for it spreads information, new ideas, or rumors through posters, newspapers, radio and television broadcast, and films. They were effective in somewhat way because it persuades and make people believe that all propaganda are true. However, propagandas are actually tricky, brain-washing, or mind-twisting way to controlling people as the people believe propaganda. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolshevik leaders, Lenin Vladimir and Joseph Stalin are two powerful-main leaders who used propaganda in many ways in order to control the people of Russia. Below this paragraph you are reading, there will be several propaganda posters used to persuade the people of Russia with explanations to the messages of the posters, what is the posters trying to get people to think, and what is particularly effective about the posters.



The message of this propaganda means that these fifteen people, each representing a different religion, group, and culture are united together in this poster. The poster tries to tell the people of Russia not to fight, but to unite together into one powerful nation, as you can see in the propaganda the flags of each religion are made into a picture of the Soviet Union. You can tell whether they are from religions or not because of their traditional costumes. The picture of the Soviet Union flag looks mostly red from a far point and is also shining will bright green lights meaning that the Soviet Union is made up by these people, the people of Russia. Therefore, this poster encourages the people of Russia to unite into one country representing themselves as the Soviet Union. I think that this propaganda is effective to the people since it persuades the people to unite.

This poster is trying to tell the people of Russia that sending workers to work in Siberia is a great opportunity to achieve something big. This poster is trying to change a person’s thought toward this cruel way of getting rid of people who opposes Stalin. Stalin sneakily brain-washes the people of Russia to think that sending people to Siberia is a great way of improving their lives, instead of thinking that Stalin is exiling the people who might threaten his rule in Russia. Therefore, the poster tries to make the reader believe that the people in Siberia are enjoying their work since they have huge smiles on their faces. This is an effective way tricking a person’s mind showing how clever Stalin is and how planned and organized he is. However, you may notice that the colours of the people’s clothes are dull meaning they are employed to a bad occupation, which would not really attract the people of Russia to go to work in Siberia.


This propaganda poster shows the people of Russia that the future of Russia can be like the industrial city shown in the poster. This poster is trying to encouraging them to cultivate vegetables near factories. They are told to use the system, Five-Years Plan (collectivization), to improve their industries and agriculture. The poster shows the reader that when there is a lot of food supplied (surplus), which they can sell in industrialized cities. Therefore, this poster suggests that why shouldn't they farm near the cities for many benefits to the city since food is one key to Russia. This poster is also effective because it makes the people of Russia consider this effective way of living for their own benefit. Meaning they are doing for the sake of their future and it also improves the city's food supplies if agriculture takes place near industrialized cities.


This propaganda poster resembles something to do with responsibility and rightfulness. There is a red hand catching a bunch of people’s arms who are trying to steal money. This picture clearly shows that people who do not work should not get an equal amount of share. The poster shows that it is not right that the people who work hard should share their earnings. In addition, the poster also tells the people about the Kulaks. The red hand is stopping the Kulaks from stealing the worker's earning because the New Economic Policy is changed to the Collectivization. Kulaks hated Collectivization because they didn't get any profit from this new system instead they lost a lot of lands. Therefore, this is an effective poster to the workers because the poster now tells them that they do not need to worry about their earning because they will get depending on how much effort they put in to their work.


This propaganda poster's message is that the people should work harder because following their new system; they have an opportunity to achieve something greater, meaning they will get paid as how much effort they put in to their work. The background shows a man and a woman, showing that there would be no difference in achieving anything big even though their genders are different. In my opinion, I think this is another effective poster as it gives the people of Russia more hope, freedom, and courage.


In conclusion, these posters were basically made for people rights except some propaganda posters. However, the posters mostly helped the people think and give steps to guide them to which path of life they should take. There was a lot of use of propaganda posters during the Russian Revolution since it was a time when there was always a person who led the country and needed to have the people's belief in the person (meaning the leader). Therefore, the use of propaganda was for the good and also for the bad, but mainly made/shown for the people of Russia and the Soviet Union's benefit. Hence, you can see that propaganda was used in a variety of ways.

Works Cited
1. "Russian Posters, Cuban and other Posters." Propaganda Posters. 6 Nov 2007, http://posters.nce.buttobi.net/russ5.htm
2. "Soviet Poster ." International Institute of Social History. 22 march 2007. 6 Nov 2007 http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/sovintro.php.
3. "Soviet Poster ." International Institute of Social History. 22 march 2007. 6 Nov 2007 http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/sovintro.php.
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