Reflection, Week 6

This weeks wanted to talk about the discussion part of World War 1 that America had end up being involved in. This week I feel indifferent about the topics of this week. I look at this week more of a learning experience for me, something’s in the reading that I forgot about from high school so it was like a refresher for me seeing the information. 

So the words that stuck out to me was one imperialism, nationalism, militarism, and aliance. The definition for imperialism is when one country extends its control over the territory, political system, or economic life of another country, most likely involves the establishment of colonies. Also the word nationalism is devotion to the interests in one’s nation, great feelings of pride in one’s nation. Then you have militarism which is a glorification of armed strength, nations competing to develop military strength to discourage aggression & protect colonies. Next we have Alliances which is basically like a connection of equal understanding of having each other backs among European nations.

All the previous words were important because it played into the reading of WWI in someway. Previously reading into WWI it was a deadly war economically and body cont wise. For example  The Great Depression, the Cold War, and the collapse of European colonialism can also be traced, at least indirectly, to the First World War. World War I killed more people (more than 9 million soldiers, sailors, and flyers and more than 5 million civilians), involved more countries (28 nations), and cost more money ($186 billion in direct costs and another $151 billion in indirect costs), than any previous war in history. It was the first war to use airplanes, tanks, long-range artillery, submarines, and poison gas. It left at least 7 million men permanently disabled. 

This war was just a crazy event for something wasn’t supposed to be apart of.

week 4

My reflection for this week was the fact people are just ver contradicting they treat people like horrible, but is that not the reason they all left to America a long time ago just crazy.

In the 1800’s the western wasn’t really busy. As I read on, there wasn’t a lot of people living in the states like North Dakota and South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Not even in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Utah were barely touched. Until the Gold Rush of 1849. The rush sent literally hundreds and hundreds  of people to the west to search for gold and get rich. This Gold Rush came in with some innovation and also migration, with the creation of more railroads, and more creations of windmills, and more things that ranchers and farmers use for their lifestyle. With all of that it came to the fact that over 250,000 Natives were forced to leave their homes and converted to a new place. This happened after 30 years of war. This war also came with a lame roll over of old treaties. I’m talking about one of the most toughest times in the Native history because they was here first. White people came over because they were tired of being treated badly. Yet, they come to America to treat people bad, like it so contradicting.

For example “Kill the Indian and Save the Man”. This happened in 1879, when Richard H. Pratt used education to uplift and assimilate into the mainstream of American culture. That year, 50 Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Pawnee arrived at his school. Pratt trimmed their hair, required them to speak English, and prohibited any displays of tribal traditions, such as Indian clothing, dancing, or religious ceremonies. Pratt's motto was "kill the Indian and save the man." For this there was a big fall in Indian population and much of the Indian land quickly fell into the hands of the white peoples.

Another example In 1877, during a meeting under a flag of truce in Fort Robinson, Nebraska, an American soldier killed Crazy Horse by stabbing him with a bayonet. This was after “The Battle of the Little Big Horn”.

Like I was saying previously they were and still are just so contradicting.

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