Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 05, 2022

Hitler tried to conquer Europe and was stopped.

Get Ken Burns to write it for you Patty!

It was a dark and stormy night in 1939 when…

Some nut job thought he would create an empire to rule for 1000 year. He was pretty nasty as well. He took the cowards way out.

This is one of my favorites. I’ve used it here and there as student and teacher. I’d cite it when I got a similar essay question on a test, one of the worst ones in grad school. I’d also use it as a joke on my students’ tests, or aloud in a discussion. Sometimes I’d sub something for WW II, then after a few stunned seconds I’d add “Use both sides of the paper if necessary.” You could get the same students several times a year before they caught on.

Good thing its Peppermint Patty taking this test instead of Linus, as he’d turn in a dissertation on the war.

As a newspaper reporter once wrote: “World War II was responsible for many things, not least new styles of clothes and hats”.

“Explain WW II”? That’s pretty vague. Could you be more specific as to what her to focus on?

One side for the allies and one side for the axis?

Would that be the inside and the outside?

(Use additional sheets as necessary)

“It began when I saw Liza Minnelli in Cabaret.”

I assume that you understand World War I and the treaty of Brest-Litovsk …

In the early 70’s, my eighth grade history teacher favorite wording on tests was discuss the war, discuss what happened in…

PP .. take the easy way out & describe Stalag 13 using Sgt. Schultz’s favorite line: “I know nothing .. nothing!”

That’s absurd for grade school. Why didn’t they just give her some calculus problems to solve?

How about “Explain Gulf War I”.

For extra credit, state what “World War I” was called at the time it was fought…

It was caused by Climate Change.

World War I – the countries needed a time out to resupply and rearm.

I doubt that PP will need both sides of the paper…

“World War II is a cat who lives next door to Snoopy.”

See also: the cat that lives next door to Snoopy.

Phew. She can use both sides.

World War II was a horrible time. Hitler nearly drove all minorities to extinction.

One word. Stupidity.

World War 1 would probably be more difficult…

Some short guy with a tiny moustache got angry with the Jews and tried conquering the world in anger. Got bashed up by other people who also desimated his friend’s two cities.

The standing joke when I took my Ph.D. exams was: “Define the universe and give two examples.”

World War I was so popular, they made a sequel.

come next month I hope we can stop the possibility of WWIII. js

Explain WW II…………. Stupid Humans, the end.

There was some racism involved and some people might feel bad about that. So let’s call it CRT and let’s ban it from being taught.

as someone still in school that is terrifying

What a question. You’re going to need a lot more paper than that, Patty. Might as ell give up on it now.

It was a systemic conflict that drew all of the planet’s great powers and most of the moderate ones into two competing alliance systems. Nothing new there. What was new was the scale of the fighting.

It also stands out as being the last total war as of this writing. The amount of time, energy, and resources needed to keep up fighting on such a large scale was recognized as being unsustainable, so in the postwar era, superpowers and countries that aspired to attain that status focused on high-tech weapons systems that could multiply the fighting effectiveness of much smaller fighting forces. For the remainder of the twentieth century and the first part of the twenty-first, wars were fought by modest sized militaries with advanced skill sets, not by huge numbers of raw recruits whose training stopped with how to aim and fire small arms. Kind of a reversal of the trend in warfare that had been going on since Agincourt.

If I got that from a teacher I’d reply… “you must be joking.” (and I was a teacher)

Define the universe. Give two examples.

Good Luck with that…..

Then Stalin took advantage of his armies in eastern Europe and enslaved them under Communism. Never let a crisis go to waste.

https://www.gocomics.com/mtpleasant/2022/09/25 Just saw this.

Throughout history, sociopathic megalomaniacs have always wanted to conquer the world, or, if not the whole world, that part adjacent to theirs. During the 1930s, four such individuals gained control of major industrialized countries and proceeded to make their best attempt to conquer the world. Three of them formed an alliance, called the Axis. The fourth, after some dithering, entered the fight on the opposite side, the Allies (how creative).

Ultimately, after death and destruction on an unprecedented scale on both sides, resource constraints and bad military decisions resulted in devestating military losses for each of the Axis powers. The three Axis megalomaniacs died and their countries were run by the Allies for a while, ultimately becoming peaceful and successful. The fourth megalomaniac, having been on the winning side, repressed and murdered millions of people with impunity, and his legacy lives on in the form of today’s worst war since WWII.

When my mother was born, the leader of Russia was trying to exterminate the Ukrainians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

When my mother died, almost 90 years later, the leader of Russia was trying to exterminate the Ukrainians.

Plus ca change.

Sally’s teacher is every students worse nightmare.

Humans are stupid.

I’d have needed more than two sides to explain the war. Maybe seventy-five sheets of paper.

Come to think of it, that would have been high school for me. Elementary school maybe two sheets of paper to explain the war.

World War II was the breaking of eggs necessary to make humanity’s greatest omelet, the Atomic Bomb.

(/s, if needed)

(Paraphrase) “I have a signed paper that guarantees peach in our time.”

hmmm… explain WWII… antifa won, fascism lost

but be very afraid… the talibangicals are raising the flag of fascism again 8^(

There was just one World War and it isn’t over.

That would make sense for Marcy to use both sides.

World War II actually started September 1, 1939.

“What else were we supposed to call it after World War I?”