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I feel like I learned less about WWII by reading that paper. Somehow information I already knew was sucked out of my brain and now I know less.
 
I'm really hoping the next batch of leaks include Michael Bay's offer for Chris to be the historical accuracy consultant for Pearl Harbor.
 
Da Pickle Monsta said:
The Marco Polo incident was one act among many of Japanese aggression towards China. It occurred in 1937, and is considered by many the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Chris neglected to mention many of Japan's acts against China, such as the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), the Twenty-One Demands of 1917, and he then listed the Japanese invasion of Manchuria (1931) AFTER the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in his paper.

And this isn't even touching Commodore Matthew Perry, the Russo-Japanese War, or the annexation of Korea, all of which are integral to understanding Japanese imperialism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nor did Chris mention the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941.
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Yeah, I never really learned that in school (doubt Chris did too, but for different reasons). Just some of the basics like Pearl harbor and the bombings in 1945.
But see, the difference between me and him is that I, or the other students in my Social Studies classes for that matter, were not taught that stuff (again, hailing from Canada has some downsides). He on the other hand probably just never paid attention. That he made a mistake listing an earlier event taking place after a later one kinda proves it.
 
"Ingles."

That aside, my grasp on this period in history isn't the best, but wasn't America trying to avoid becoming involved in the war? I'm pretty sure they weren't wanting to "get it on." It was only after Pearl Harbour that America became involved.

Damn it, Chris.
 
qld said:
What I thought was stupid is that Chris has a name that has a Spanish equivalent. If he had my Spanish teacher, his name would've been Cristobal or Cris, not Ricardo. And yeah, using the names was retarded, but it was a bunch of 13 year olds and it didn't last. CWC still claims the name Ricardo. I wonder what the motivation was? What was his Spanish bear for that name? The teacher? Another student? Has the name Richard ever appeared elsewhere in his life? Or is it as simple as some sort of I Love Lucy connection? I don't want to accept it as being THAT simple.
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Oh my God, I know, it disturbs me so much that his English and Spanish names don't match! I mean, for Christopher there's Cristóbal, right? And for Christian, the equivalent would be Cristian (or Cristián, I think it exists), which is basically almost the same. The only possible explanation I can think of is that he picked another name, such as Ricardo, because of how similar Cristian is to Christian, it kind of defeats the purpose, but it's still highly unnerving, his name isn't Richard dammit. If it was a suggestion by the teacher, then I disagree with her. If it was his choice, or another student's, it's a poor choice but more understandable. I can't imagine who it was, though, since we don't do that kind of thing in ENGLISH classes. (Edit: I DON'T EVEN KNOW MY OWN LANGUAGE ANYMORE, RICARDO HAS ACTUALLY MADE ME LOSE KNOWLEDGE OF MY OWN MOTHER TONGUE.)

As a side note, what I meant is, I can see why you guys would be so excited about it but you knew the limits and you grew out of it. Retardo here obviously didn't, he took it really fucking seriously.
 
BALLZ-BROKEN said:
Though, that was before him and Andrew Hamilton locked the Cherokees in the teapot dome.
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Andrew Hamilton had to do it because Sherman Grant burned their ancestral lands and the mighty Cherokian Curse-Ye-Ha-Me-Ha shattered the dome and forced Henry Fonda to go to Viet-nam.
 
If the United States and Japan went to war over an argument of racial superiority, I wonder why the American Revolution was fought . . .

. . . probably because we ruined all that tea. That's gotta be it.

libertyoftheaether said:
"Ingles."

That aside, my grasp on this period in history isn't the best, but wasn't America trying to avoid becoming involved in the war? I'm pretty sure they weren't wanting to "get it on." It was only after Pearl Harbour that America became involved.

Damn it, Chris.
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Pretty much. Americans had sought an isolationist policy but had been offering material to Great Britain and the Soviet Union via the Lend-Lease Act. In addition, we provided naval escorts all the way past Greenland for much of it. We had also placed oil embargoes against Japan in response to their aggression in Asia, and many analysts thought that the Japanese would eventually strike--but not at Pearl Harbor, and not in the force in which they did. And even after all that, it was Germany that declared war on the US.
 
Mitsunari said:
Oh my God, I know, it disturbs me so much that his English and Spanish names don't match! I mean, for Christopher there's Cristóbal, right? And for Christian, the equivalent would be Cristian (or Cristián, I think it exists), which is basically almost the same. The only possible explanation I can think of is that he picked another name, such as Ricardo, because of how similar Cristian is to Christian, it kind of defeats the purpose, but it's still highly unnerving, his name isn't Richard dammit. If it was a suggestion by the teacher, then I disagree with her.
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I really want to believe that his Spanish teacher was a troll and specifically gave him "Recardo" so other students could call him "Retardo".
 
libertyoftheaether said:
"Ingles."

That aside, my grasp on this period in history isn't the best, but wasn't America trying to avoid becoming involved in the war? I'm pretty sure they weren't wanting to "get it on." It was only after Pearl Harbour that America became involved.

Damn it, Chris.
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Well what do you expect from someone who uses his "Ricardo" moniker on a history essay?
 
Da Pickle Monsta said:
The Marco Polo incident was one act among many of Japanese aggression towards China. It occurred in 1937, and is considered by many the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Chris neglected to mention many of Japan's acts against China, such as the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), the Twenty-One Demands of 1917, and he then listed the Japanese invasion of Manchuria (1931) AFTER the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in his paper.

And this isn't even touching Commodore Matthew Perry, the Russo-Japanese War, or the annexation of Korea, all of which are integral to understanding Japanese imperialism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nor did Chris mention the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941.
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I cannot remember from high school (I'll probably look this up in the morning), but didn't they also invade China because they wanted access to more natural resources, or resources that the Islands of Japan did not have or did they want to expand Japan onto the continent of Asia by conquering the Chinese?
 
Yeah, it's been said twenty times already in this thread alone, but...

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EleSigma said:
I really want to believe that his Spanish teacher was a troll and specifically gave him "Recardo" so other students could call him "Retardo".
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The plot thickens. That means MHS was conspiring along with Greene County all along. *gasp*

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Yeah, it's been said twenty times already in this thread alone, but...

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Did you make this? I totally dig the rainbows. Gay gay gay gay gay gay <3
 
My great-granddaddy told us all about how he had to tell all those mean Japanese soldiers to go away when they came to Pearl Harbor to invade our privacy!
 
generalmeldor said:
I cannot remember from high school (I'll probably look this up in the morning), but didn't they also invade China because they wanted access to more natural resources, or resources that the Islands of Japan did not have or did they want to expand Japan onto the continent of Asia by conquering the Chinese?
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Pretty much. Japan had been taken out of its isolationist policy in 1852 when the US Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Harbor in a warship and forcibly opened Japan to trade. Japan then quickly embarked on an era of forced industrialization and military expansion. Between 1894-1895, Japan went to war with China (First Sino-Japanese War), which earned it trade rights in Manchuria. In 1905, Japan whipped Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan then started making trade and territorial demands from Korea, and orchestrated the assassination of Empress Myeongseong and used this as justification for making Korea a Japanese protectorate. In 1910, Korea was formally annexed into Japan. In 1914, Japan declared war on Germany as a part of the First World War and was the first nation to use aircraft carriers in combat; they took several German possession in the Pacific in this manner. In 1917, Japan issued a list of Twenty-One demands to China which essentially demanded that China become a vassal state. In 1931, Japanese saboteurs orchestrated an incident in Manchuria by blowing up a railway. Japan used this as justification for establishing a puppet state in Manchuria called "Manchukuo." In 1937, the Marco Polo Incident occurred and Japan went to war with China AGAIN. Later that year, Nanking was seized. Between 1941-1942, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Guam, the Philippines, and the Aleutian Islands. Conquered areas were consolidated into what was called "The Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere."

In reality, at least 200,000 Chinese were slaughtered in Nanking alone, Korea was under brutal marshal law, women from the Philippines and other conquered nations were forced into military brothels by the thousands, and POWs were taken on death marches and made to work in factories with names like Toyota and Mitsibishi.
 
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Hmmm, I feel like this essay is missing something. Something very important, in fact it's probably one of the most important moments of the twentieth century. I just can't put my finger on it, what could it b-
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Ah, that's it!
 
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