Journal 6      November 11th 

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the guns fell silent. On this day in 1918 the First World War came to an end. After four years of bloody trench warfare the world was at piece. The war had cost millions of lives and caused massive damage across Europe. However, when news of the treaty reached the front soldiers who moments before had been killing each other ran across no man’s land and hugged one another. This piece however was to be short lived. The allies, mostly the British and French, Imposed harsh sanctions in Germany. These sanctions and the massive economic downturn that occurred with the great depression helped to push Germany to the second World war.

Journal 7 November 20th 

On this day in 1945 the Nuremberg trials began. For the first time in human history people will be brought to justice for events committed during war time. Crimes against the peace as they would come to be known, would result in the hanging of many top Nazi officials. These crimes including the purposeful killing of thousands of innocent civilians and the mistreatment of prisoners of war. Most of the Nazi officials claimed that “they were just following orders” however the allies called them out on this. Dozens of Nazis would be sentenced to hang for what they did, and it set a world precedent for what would be tolerated in time of war.

Journal 8 November 27- December 13

Today in 1950 marked a defining day in United States Marine Core history. On this day Chinese forces launched their attack on the Korean Peninsula and encircled the 1st Marine Division and an army task force at the Chosen Reservoir in North Korea. These men surrounded, and low on supplies in negative thirty-degree weather were fighting for their lives. Chinese orders were to overrun and annihilate the Marines. However, the men fought a heroic fight managing to preform a fighting withdraw to a friendly port where they were evacuated. Despite this, the death toll was still heavy. Over three-thousand man were killed or died due to the bitter cold.