This week we have been doing writing on events during the World Wars, either Gallipoli or the Holocaust. I find both depressing subjects. I mean, I get why we remember them. But for the independant group, we do our own research. The websites on Gallipoli I found were gruesome, detailed accounts of many things that people did wrong. Many people died. It was, to be frank, not an enjoyable writing task.
Gallipoli started when the two fronts the Allies were fighting on didn't seem to be going anywhere. The idea was to create a new front that the Ottomans couldn't cope with, so the Germans would send reinforcements, weakening their lines on the main fronts. Then they intended to overpower the Germans and win the war early. I think this was a very ambitious plan, and it failed dramatically. Why would you do that when there was a less than 50 % chance it would work? If I personally was on the War Council I wouldn't stand for that. It sounds like it would work but it could just as easily backfire. It could also just as easily go horribly wrong and result in thousands of deaths, which it did.
The Holocaust is also a depressing subject to research. Hitler was a bad guy. Hitler killed many innocent people because they weren't pure. Hitler set up prison camps for Jews. If it was up to me I would choose to remember the people who died, not why they died or who killed them. Scratch that, if I had the power I would go back in time and prevent Hitler's parents from meeting.
World War Three, however, will be fine enough to remember. I mean, every country that has them will send nuclear bombs, everybody dies, and the whole world will be wiped out in half an hour. (It takes about half an hour for the nuclear bombs/missiles to fly around the world, land and blow everything up.) At least, that's how I think WW3 will go.
When you put it like that it sounds far-fetched. I'm pretty sure it's not.
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