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JD99:
Sometimes I wonder if our school is the only school that studies this option....  ;D
Does anyone else have trouble finding information on this topic?
I've had a lotta trouble getting my head round this...maybe i'm the only one....but anyway, I thought I'd start this chat to get those of us who do this topic together!!
Please help out by loading any useful information on here, and asking/answering questions! :) :)

This is one cool site i've found.... http://ww2history.com/experts/Akira_Iriye/The_Start_of_Japan_s_war

Cheers!   :)

av-angie-er:
Hey! :) I can't believe I'm only seeing this thread now... and I agree that it's kinda hard to find resources :-/

Personally I haven't been searching for many sites, though, because our teacher gave us a lot of sheets. I still found some helpful sources outside of class like a Netflix documentary called 'Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II' which outlines the events leading up to the dropping of the A-bomb pretty clearly. Somebody also uploaded a video of Bruce Dennett's lecture from this year's HSC lectures at USYD here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ic53IChHE. The lecture goes over some pretty interesting aspects of the conflict that I've found are seldom addressed in textbooks, like the importance of racial prejudice (and I was also at the lecture in the second row, just close enough to get try eardrums blown out by Dennett's passionate words of wisdom ;) )

Hope these are helpful!

av-angie-er:
And maybe I should mention, just in case since a couple students in my class were heavily mislead by this mistake: the film Pearl Harbour shouldn't even be considered as a source for reliable information... it's also just a bad movie imo... But yeah, anyone hoping to get an idea about how the real Pearl Harbour went down should never turn to Ben Affleck for help  :-X

JD99:

--- Quote from: av-angie-er on October 11, 2017, 05:12:04 pm ---The lecture goes over some pretty interesting aspects of the conflict that I've found are seldom addressed in textbooks, like the importance of racial prejudice (and I was also at the lecture in the second row, just close enough to get try eardrums blown out by Dennett's passionate words of wisdom ;) )

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That lecture was awesome!
I found that bit about racial prejudice, and the fact that it was on both sides, really really interesting.
I was in the second or third row....i was probably sitting less than a couple of metres away from you!! Absolutely loved both his lectures! (Speer as well)

Thanks for those videos, i'll check em out!!

sudodds:
Don't have much to add other than...

Dennett <3

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