DIARY OF THE DEAD
THE JOSEPH STALIN STORY
Joseph Stalin was born on December 18, 1879 in a poor village in Georgia. He rose to power and
made Russia a force in the world. This is his story.
Nov 4, 1917
The revolution is coming to Russia. I don’t know if I’m afraid but I know I’m anxious.
Everyone is in hiding waiting until Lenin gives the order to take Saint Petersburg. People will
die either before or after the revolution. Both sides will take casualties. I don’t know if the
revolution will be successful. I don’t know if I will die. All I know is that this is best for my
people (Lourie).
Nov 5, 1917
I’m alone in my hotel room. It’s boring the animals outside my window will suffice as
entertainment. Tomorrow’s the day we finally see who gets the bigger piece of the wish bone.
Were going into Saint Petersburg and beginning the revolution. Death is inevitable. I wonder if
my family knows about this. I can’t wait (Lourie).
Nov 6, 1917
I’m leaving right now (Lourie).
Nov 7, 1917
The revolution was a success. Yesterday the communists took Saint Petersburg. We are
expanding and I’m becoming more powerful. Lenin says he’s going to make me Minster of
Nationalities; it might just be a rumor. Lenin says the USSR (United Socialist Soviet Republic) is
going to drop out of the First World War. I’ve showered and left Saint Petersburg unscarred. I’m
going nowhere but I want to leave this ravaged city. I will most likely sleep at a smaller bed and
breakfast if I can afford to do so (Lourie).
Nov 8, 1917
I’ve been informed that we’ve taken the entire country. This revolution is getting large
and may be unstoppable. Lenin put me in power but I know he’s worried about me taking his
spot as leader (Lourie).
Nov 6, 1932
This book has been long forgotten by me and sat on my shelf for years on end. I’m in
power of the entire USSR. My five year plan has been a success and saved these people from
despair. I will set one out in the future if it is needed
(More or less.com).
Nov 7, 1932
I have a party tomorrow and my wife has also been invited. It’s at the Kremlin. It should
be a good time with the love of my wife Nadya (Lourie).
Nov 8, 1932
Tonight after a long-winded argument with my wife she killed herself. I can’t describe
my sadness in words. I feel the saddest I’ve ever felt in my entire life. I don’t know how this will
affect the rest of my reign as commander of this nation
(More or Less.com).
Nov 10, 1932
I’ve done nothing for the last 2 days. I’ve felt every emotion imaginable. I’ve been sad, happy,
mad and any other emotion known. This feeling of regret won’t leave my mind; I don’t know
how this happened. I miss her dearly
(Lourie).
Nov 20, 1932
I’ve decided to get back to my work. This nation needs my genius mind. Without me nothing
would get done. I must work through my sorrow (Gaynor Borade).
Dec 1, 1932
I’ve worked the last days in order to not think about this tragedy. I will never forgive myself of
the death of my wife (Gaynor Borade).
Dec 6, 1932
As of today any Ukraine citizen caught sabotaging my grain will be starved. I don’t want any of
my important supplies taken away from me these peasants don’t understand the work I’ve done
for my nation. At this time they not only loath me and my power they love me and my gentle
hand. I can be as vicious as a caged dog but as gentle as a young mother cradling her child
(www.faminegenocide.com).
Stalin Died on March 1, 1953 his death is surrounded by controversy and uncertainty. (Enotes)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Enotes. “Joseph Stalin”. 9 September, 2009. <www.enotes.com>
BBC. “Joseph Stalin”. 9 September, 2009. <www.bbc.co.uk>
moreorless. “Joseph Stalin”. 9 September, 2009. <www.moreorless.au.com>
By Gaynor ,Borade “Joseph Stalin”. 3 February, 2009. <www.Buzzle.com>
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RICHARD LOURIE. “famine 1933”. 28, September, 2009. <www.nytimes.com>
Famine Genocide. “famine 1933”. 28, September, 2009. <www.faminegenocide.com>
Lewis & Clark
Lewis
I was born August 18, 1774 on a small plantation. I was born to William and Lucy
Meriwether Lewis. I was the youngest of six children. My father died when I was five years
old. Six months later, my mom remarried an army officer. Together we managed a 1,000 acre
plantation. As I was growing up I liked plants. My mom said I should be an herb doctor. My
neighbor was Thomas Jefferson. I joined the military as a private at age 19. While I was there I
met William Clark, we became good friends. I was there for six years and rose to the rank of
captain. When President Jefferson became president I became his personal sectary. He wanted to
explore the west and he thought I would be the perfect guy for the job, I quickly said yes. (Inside
the Corps).
I wrote to William Clark asking if he would like to come with me on the journey to the
west. He wrote back quickly saying yes. Then we prepared for the journey. We made final
preparations in Clarksville on the Indiana territory. It began on May 14, 1804 and ended in 1806
when we returned to Washington D.C. We went over the Mississippi river and began our
journey to the west. When we began the journey I was 30 years old and my partner Clark was
34 years old. While we were going to the west I kept a diary of what we did on the journey. On
the first day of the journey we sat out at 4:00pm. Every landmark we came to Clark was sure to
keep careful measurements of distant and compass records and put them into a detailed map.
During this time we traveled 4,000 miles. While we were making our journey to the west Clark
said that I was showing great leadership. (Inside the Corps).
During the journey we went to a small Indian town and we met a French Canadian named
Toussaint Charbonneau and his wife Sacajawea. We asked Sacajawea if she would like to come
with us on our journey. The main reasons why we took Sacajawea was because she was an
Indian woman and when we came to other Indian towns she would show that we were not here to
hurt them. Sacajawea was also a great guide. Sacajawea was our translator to the Indian
language. (Inside the Corps).
With Sacajawea we headed to Missouri. We found a place called Tavern Cave. It 300 feet
high and it was along the south side of the Missouri river. As we were climbing I slipped and fell
about 20 feet. Luckily I pulled out my knife and stabbed it into the wall to keep me from falling.
Later I accidentally poisoned myself by tasting ore found in a bluff. I was able to revive myself
by eating salt. (Inside the corps)
In August of 1806 while hunting for elk Pierre Cruzatte accidentally shot me in the thy. I
forgave him and got over a painful heeling process. (Inside the corps)
Clark and I visited Washington D.C. to collect the money for success completing the
expedition we were set on. We got 128 dollars. Clark got a warrant for 1,600 acres of land
because he was in the military. Clark married Julia Hancock in January of 1808 and together
they had a son who was named Meriwether Lewis Clark.
(Inside the corps)
In September 1809 I was caught in a river boat trying to kill myself twice. The next month
while staying in a roadhouse along the Natchez Trace I killed my by shooting myself in the
forehead and in the chest. A letter was sent to my friend Clark about my death. (Inside the corps)
Clark
I was born on August 1, 1770, the sixth son and the ninth of out of 10 children. I grew up on
a Virginia plantation, but when I was 14 I moved to Louisville, Kentucky. I began my career as I
military officer at 19. Later I joined the regular army and I was promoted to lieutenant. During
this time I learned to build tents and forts, draw a map, lead a pack of trains through an enemy
country, and fight Indians on their grounds. (Inside the Corps)
Later when I showed great leadership skills I was eventually promoted to captain. I was
assigned a group among them was Meriwether Lewis. I was 6ft tall and I had a strong muscular
frame. Lewis and I became very good friends. Lewis went off to be the president’s sectary and I
went off to take over the family’s plantation. (Inside the Corps)
About a year after we both left the military I got a letter from Lewis saying that president
Jefferson wanted to have Lewis lead an expedition to the west. Then he asked me to come with
him. I quickly wrote back saying yes. (Inside the Corps)
On May 14, 1804 I wore in my journal “set out 4oClock pm, and preceded up the Missouri”.
Near Bismarck, North Dakota we built a fort of called Fort Mandan by an Indian village. We
met a French-Canadian and his pregnant wife Sacajawea. We asked Sacajawea if she would like
to come with us on our journey to the west. On our way to the west I made a couple of maps of
landmarks that we passed by. (Inside the Corps)
In late October I went back Lewisville were my family lived and met Judy Handkock (my
future wife). In January 1807 I visited Washington D.C. to receive an reword to successfully
completing the mission. I got a warrant for 1,600 acres. Later Judy and I got married and I had a
son named Meriwether Lewis Clark.
On October 11, 1809 I received a letter saying that my friend Lewis had died. I went to
Washington D.C. to see the family and how they were doing.
On September 1, 1838 I died of natural causes.
Bibliography
The West Film Project & WETA. “New Perspectives on the West: Meriwether Lewis”. 2001.
<EdgarMeyer.com>
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<EdgarMeyer.com>
Taylor, Troy. “The death of Meriwether Lewis”. 2004 <www.EdgarMeyer.com>
The Library of Congress. “Lewis and Clark” .9 September, 2009. <www.americaslibrary.gov>.
The Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation. “More Portraits of William Clark” 2004.
<lewis-clark.org>
Suite101. “William Clark Biography”. 21 August, 2009. <www.suite101.com >
Historical Figures . ”William Clark-Biography” 9 September 2009
The Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery. “Meriwether Lewis: Biography” 9 September 2009
< The Leaders>
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The Life if General George S. Patton.
I was born November 11, 1885 in San Gabriel, California. I was known for carrying
pistols with ivory handles. My ancestors had fought in the Revolutionary War, the Mexican War
and the Civil War. I attended the Virginia Military Institute (Estate of General Patton).
I graduated from West Point on June 11, 1909 (Cubs won the World Series 1 year
before). I married Beatrice Ayer, whom I dated while at West Point. I represented the United
States at the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm in the Modern Pentathlon. After the Olympics, I
stayed busy by taking lessons at the French cavalry school, studying sword drills. My first
glimpse of a battle was when I served as a member of the legendary General J. Pershing’s staff
during the expedition to Mexico (Estate of General Patton).
I was sent to Fort Bliss in along the Mexican border where he led routine cavalry patrols
in 1915. After WW1, I held a variety of jobs in Hawaii and Washington D.C. I graduated from a
command and general staff school in 1924, and I completed my military schooling as a
distinguished graduate of the army war college in 1932 (Estate of General Patton).
When the German Blitzkrieg began, I convinced congress that the U.S. army needed a
new, more powerful armored striking force. With that, I was transferred to Second Armored
Division at Fort Benning, Georgia. On April 11, 1941, in was named Commanding General. The
United States officially entered WW2 after the bombing at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 8,
1941. One year after the bombing, I was commanding the only all-American force, called the
Western Task Force for operation ‘Torch’ the allied invasion of North America. After I was
successful there, I commanded the Seventh Army during the invasion of Sicily in July 1934
(Estate of General Patton).
I commanded the Seventh Army up until 1944, and then I was given command of the
third army in France. My troops and I dashed across Europe after the battle at Normandy beach
on 1944, better known as “D-DAY”. Covering 600 miles of land in France, Belgium,
Luxemburg, Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. When the third army liberated the
Buchenwald concentration camp, I slowed down my pace (Estate of General Patton).
By the end of WW2, the third Army had liberated or conquered 81,522 square miles of
territory. In October 1945, I got command of the fifteenth Army in American-occupied
Germany. On December 9, I suffered injuries for a car accident. I died 12 days later on
December 21, 1945 and I was buried among soldiers who died in the battle of the Bulge in
Hamm, Luxembourg (Estate of General Patton).
Remembered for my fierce determination and ability to lead soldiers, I am now
considered one of the greatest military figures ever to lead the U.S. army. The 1970 film
“Patton” provoked renewed interest in me. The movie won seven academy awards,
immortalizing me, General George Smith Patton, Jr. as one of the world’s most intriguing
military men in the world (Estate of General Patton).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ambrose, Stephen. “In the Footsteps of PATTON”. 14 September, 2009.
www.stephenambrosetours.com
EyeWithness to History. “The Forced Suicide of Field Marshall Rommel 1944”. 14 September,
2009. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
Estate of General Patton. “General George S. Patton Jr.”. 9 September, 2009
www.generalpatton.com
Diary of the Ancient Deceased
The Julius Caesar Story
My name is Julius Caesar I was born on July 12, 100 B.C. and my father was a praetorian
and my mother was a plebian (common people). My father died when I was only fifteen years
old in the year of 85 B.C. That year I almost got married. Then at the age of eighteen I got
married to my wife Cornelia. We had a daughter named Julia. Sulla a dictator ordered me to
divorce Cornelia. When I didn't he ordered me to be executed. After that I ran from Rome. I was
awarded the award the Oak Crown, for saving a citizen's life. When Sulla died I came back to
Rome (Napien).
I lead Rome many times in many ways. I was a great general and my men all followed
me everywhere I went. In 59B.C. I was elected consul. In 58 B.C. Pompey, Crassus, and I agreed
to form the first triumvirate. I was fighting in Gaul for nine years. In 56 B.C. my rule in Gaul
was lengthened till 49 B.C. I lead a three month invasion to Britain. I returned to Rome and was
elected Consul. My army and I were then attacked by my ex-friend Pompey in the year 48 B.C.
He escaped to Egypt after I won the battle (McManus).
On October 2, 48 B.C. in Egypt I was presented with the head of Pompey, who was
betrayed by the Egyptians. Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XII were the heirs to their dead father's
throne. Cleopatra smuggled herself into the palace of Alexandria disguised as a rug to enlist my
help to get the Egyptian throne. The army of Achillas had 20,000 men when they besieged the
palace. We held the palace and harbor from the army, but when I ordered the Egyptian naval
fleet to be burned the Library of Alexandria was burned (McManus).
On March 26, 47 B.C. reinforcements arrived to help defeat the Egyptian army. Ptomely
XII was killed by my army during the fight. In October on my way to Africa I was mutinied but
after a brilliant speech my men left me. I was elected dictator for life in Rome. I was trying very
hard to make people happy I was building new streets and other stuff I thought I was doing good
but people did not like me. On March 15, I went to a meeting with the senate. When I got there I
was attacked with knives and…….no entry (McManus).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biography Resource Center. "Gaius Julius Caesar." 01 January 1994. <Inspire>
Encyclopedia of World Biography. "Gaius Julius Caesar." 9 September 2009.
<encyclopedia.com>
Parenti, Michael. "Why Caesar Was Really Killed." 18 August 2003. <hnn.us>
McManus, Barbara. "Julius Caesar: Historical Background." 19 August 2009. <vroma.com>
Napien, Jennifer. "Julius Caesar facts." 14 September 2009. <juliuscaesarfacts.com>,
Sacagawea and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
My name is Sacagawea; I was born in 1788 as Shoshone Indian girl. When I was
about twelve me and several other girls were kidnapped by a war tribe of Hidatsa Indians
(Minnetarees ) in a battle resulting in the death of four of my men . On May 14, 1804
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark came to my village and asked for a navigator to
help them on there expedition to North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean (1804 to 1806). I
brought my new born son Jeam Baptiste (pomp or Pompy as Lewis called him) along on
the journey, he was born on February 11, 1805. Bringing him along on the journey was a
token of peace to the villages that we visited. My husband Toussaint Charbonneau had
two wives at the same time (including me). The first tribe we went to was a Shoshone
tribe, my brother Cameahwait was the chief. I gave up my blue beaded belt in order to
allow Lewis and Clark to trade for a fur coat; they wished to return to President Tomas
Jefferson. On September 25, 1804 the expedition had a conflict with the Sioux tribe. In
spring 1805 the expedition leaves its winter camp. On May 14, 1805, a sudden storm
nearly capsizes one of the expedition’s boats. I saved many valuable supplies from
floating away. (Wiki)
We approached the Rocky Mountains in July 1806. I had been in that area
frequently so I knew it well. After the expedition we settle in St Lewis, Missouri. Clark
had since then been asking me if he could enroll Pompy at St. Lewis Academy boarding
school. (Wikipedia)
Having acquired the taste of freedom and equality, I would find that the white
world no longer needed the services of a young Native American. I remained living with
my controlling and abusive, polygamous husband, Charbonneau and his several "Squaw"
wives, until my death at about age 24, 7 years after the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Nonetheless, my legend began to grow immediately. In fact, my death in 1812 was not
accepted by White or Native American peoples until historical documents were unearthed
by historians and publicized in the middle of the 20th century.
An 1811 journal entry made by Henry Brackenridge, a fur dealer at Fort Manual
Lisa Trading Post on the Missouri River, stated that both I and Charbonneau were living
at the fort. He recorded that I "...had become sickly and longed to reviste her native
country." The following year, John Luttig, a clerk at Fort Manuel Lisa recorded in his
journal on December 20, 1812, that "...the wife of Charbonneau, a Snake Squaw [the
common term used to denote Shoshone Indians], died of putrid fever." He went on to say
that she was "aged about 25 years. She left a fine infant girl". Documents held by Clark
show that my son Baptiste had already been entrusted by Charbonneau into Clark's care
for a boarding school education, at Clark's insistence (Jackson, 1962).
Sometime in 1810, I gave birth to a daughter named Lizette. A few months later
15 men came and attacked Fort Lisa, John Lutting, and Lizette were among the few
survivors. My husband was wrongfully thought to be killed. He lived to be eighty. So,
now my 1 year old daughter and my 10 year old son were parentless.
A modern day burial site was erected on the Shoshone Reservation, in Wyoming,
and it is complete with a memorial plaque stating my long life. The truth is that I was not
buried in Wyoming, nor was I born there, and my Shoshone Tribe did not inhabit
Wyoming at the time of Sacagawea's life. During my childhood, the Shoshone were in
Montana and Idaho, where their villages dotted the meadowlands near the junction of the
Salmon and Lemhi Rivers. Evidence that Sacagawea's Band of Shoshone lived in this
area and not in Wyoming, is confirmed by both Lewis and Clark in their daily journals.
They recorded the fact that as the Expedition proceeded up the Jefferson River,
Sacagawea recognized a large rock formation called "Beaver's Head" and that she
announced that her tribe would be found on "a river beyond the mountains and running to
the west." This soon proved true. And not only was the Shoshone Tribe of my childhood
in the area as she had predicted, but the explorers soon discovered that my brother,
Cameahwait had become their Chief.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sparknotes. “Sacajawea”. 9 September 2009. <www.sparknotes.com>
Jamie. “Sacajawea”. 9 September 2009. <www.usmint.gov>
Lewis, Jone. “Sacajawea”. 14 September 2009. <www.womenshistory.about.com>
PBS. “Sacajawea”. 14 September 2009. <www.pbs.org.>
Niderost, Eric. “Sacajawea”. 25 August 2009. <www.americanhistory.suite101.com>
Wikianswers. “Sacajawea”. 14 September 2009. <www.wikianswers.com>
Wikipedia. “Sacajawea”. 14 September 2009. <www.en.wikipedia.org>
The Diary of Christopher Columbus
My name is Christopher Columbus and I was born in Genoa, Italy. I didn’t have the
privilege of going to school very much, but I still managed to read and write Spanish. I also
taught myself Latin because all the geography books were written in Latin. I wanted to be
wealthy and famous. Therefore I wanted to go on a voyage to find far-away land. I don’t have a
ship or crew so all I could do was ask King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth to supply me with
ships and money. When they finally agreed to my plan I wanted everything they said in writing
so whatever I found one-tenth of the wealth gained from would have been given to me. This was
brave of me because they could have killed me because of these demands. When it was all
official they gave me three ships. Their names were the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria. My
new crew and I left on August 3, 1492. After many weeks the crew became impatient and
wanted to turn around and go back home. I said “Just three more days then if we don’t see land
we’ll turn around and go back home” Two days after I made this statement we found an island. I
named it San Salvador. I thought I found the Indies, so I called the people on the island “Indians”
(http://gardenofpraise.com).
Some of the Indians on the island were wearing gold. They told me they found the gold
on the islands to the north and the south. After I heard that I ordered my men to set sail for gold.
We arrived at another island, but all we found was more Indians. Sense we were not finding any
gold I decided to return to Spain. As we were preparing to return home the Santa Maria crashed
into a coral reef. Since there was no room on the other two ships to take us all back, I chose
forty men to stay behind and build a small colony on the island. They would build shelter from
the wreckage of the ship. The rest of us were setting sail for home. As we sailed back across the
ocean sea we were facing terrible storms. Despite the storms my navigation skills returned us to
Spain safely. The king and queen named me Admiral of the Ocean Sea. They appointed me
governor of all the islands that I discovered. I received my wish. I was a famous hero. I still
wanted to find gold. I knew it was out there. I wanted to go on a second voyage to find it
(http://library.thinkquest.org).
I was finally going on my second voyage. I wished to find gold and to find the men I left
behind to form their own small colony. I arrived at the island where I left my men behind.
Unfortunately they were all dead. I didn’t have the slightest clue what happened to them. Seeing
all of them dead frightened me so I moved to another island and set up my camp there. I found
gold on that island! I sent a load of it back to Spain. The Indians were upset with me, claiming
that I invaded their land and took their gold. For this reason I killed a great number of them
(http://library.thinkquest.org).
I returned to Spain. The king and queen were ungrateful and angry at me. They threw me
in jail. They said that the men in the new colony claimed I was not a good governor. I sailed
across the ocean sea three times. I discovered new land and this was how they repaid me? How
dare they! I was a wealthy, famous hero. I did not belong in jail at all. This was starting to get
ridiculous. I was in jail for a while now and they hadn’t freed me. I did nothing to deserve that. If
they didn’t free me soon I would have gone crazy. The day I got out of there I wanted to go back
on another voyage. Although I couldn’t imagine them freeing me and giving me the privilege to
go on another voyage. At that time all I was worried about was getting out of jail. That was
officially the worst time of my life (http://library.thinkquest.org).
The king and queen finally freed me from jail. I wanted to go on another voyage, but I
was not sure that they would pay for a fourth voyage. I decided to at least ask if they would pay
for another voyage. To my surprise the king and queen agreed to supply me with what I needed.
My men and I were preparing for what would be my fourth voyage
(http://library.thinkquest.org).
We were finally setting sail for another voyage. We were going to new lands. We were
arriving on our first island when our boat crashed into a reef. The ship leaked so badly that we
were forced to swim to the nearby island. We did not have anything to get us back to Spain. This
was exactly what happened to the Santa Maria. I did not want to end up like the men from the
earlier voyage. My crew and I decided to provide for ourselves on this island until we found help
(http://library.thinkquest.org).
It was almost a whole year sense our ship crashed. The king and queen finally sent a ship
to take my crew and me back to Spain. I arrived back in Spain and I was very disappointed with
the outcome of my last voyage. We didn’t discover any new land and we didn’t even find any
gold (http://library.thinkquest.org).
I was ready to go on my fifth voyage. I did not want my last voyage to be a failure. I was
going to ask the king and queen once again to pay for my voyage. The king and queen didn’t
even want to listen to my request. They were still angry and disappointed that we crashed on our
last voyage. I was not going to give up yet. I was going to do whatever I could to go on another
voyage. I was preparing a speech for the king and queen that I was sure they would understand.
The king and queen were still refusing to pay for a fifth voyage. I guess my explorations came to
an end. At least I would die a hero and a great sailor (http://library.thinkquest.org).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Garden of Praise. “Christopher Columbus”. 9/9/2009. (http://gardenofpraise.com)
Think Quest. “The Journal of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea”. 9/9/2009.
(http://library.thinkquest.org)
Enchanted Learning. “Christopher Columbus: Explorer”.9/9/2009.
(www.EnchantedLearning.com)
Inventing America. “Christopher Columbus”. 9/9/2009. (www.InventingAmerica.com)
Social Psychology Network. “Christopher Columbus: The Untold Story”. 9/9/2009.
(www.UnderstandingPrejudice.com)
Adolf Hitler (Blitzkrieg, 1940)
On September 1, 1939 France and England declared war on Germany. A Blitzkrieg swept
them and Western Europe nation to nation. It became German’s war machine. A Blitzkrieg is a
headline word applied to describe military doctrine of an all-mechanized force concentrating its
attack (EyeWitness to History).
My army defeated Poland in October 1939 and invaded Norway in April 1940, it is
referred to as the “Phony War”. Not much happened in this invasion. The British wanted the Air
Force to bomb targets inside Germany. But we found out and shot down the planes from the
British Air Force (EyeWitness to History).
The French feeling confident behind their Maginot line, were ready to fight World War 1
all over again. I had other ideas. In order to isolate resources of Sweden, and secure his northern
flank, I invaded Norway and Denmark on April 9 (EyeWitness to History.com).
The next blow came a month later. In the early morning of May 10, the Germans released
their Blitzkrieg against the Netherlands and Belgium. The attack sent defending troops reeling.
French and British troops rushed to the rescue and were caught in the headlong retreat and
pushed back. My Dive- Bombers filled the sky, strafing the retreating mix of civilians and
soldiers with machine guns and bombs. The allies fought in vain- the German war machine was
unperturbed. In England, the invasion caused Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to be replaced
by Winston Churchill. The Germans defied military doctrine and slashed into France through
Luxemburg and the Ardennes forest. The Blitzkriegs moved with speed when my tanks raced
toward the sea. The Tanks reached the English Channel on May 21 cutting off the armies of the
north they were allies (EyeWitness to History).
We turned again, fighting to secure the ports and annihilate trapped armies. The German
high command called a halt to the advance. It lasted 48 hours, long enough for the British to
defend Dunkirk and evacuate what they could of the allied armies. The Germans entered Paris on
June 14. In a humiliating ceremony on June 22 signed a armistice with Germany. It left Britain to
carry a fight alone.
General Erwin Rommel, who then would later gain fame in the African desert as the
‘Desert Fox”, led the 7th panther division as it crashed through the defenses of Belgian into
France. It skirted the Maginot Line and then smashed it from behind. This was a new kind of
warfare tanks, air power, artillery, and motorized infantry (EyeWitness to History).
Rothenberg (a general tank commander)drove 5 tanks which were the infantry, giving
these tanks lead up to 100 to 150 yards. When the commander of 5 tanks reached the gun
company on the southern edge of Onhaye wood, colonel Rothenberg moved off with his leading
tanks along the edge of the wood going west. We had just reached the southwest coast when we
could see 5 tanks and bullets started flying all over the air. Two of the tanks got hit.
(EyeWitness to History)
The driver opened throttles wide and drove straight into the nearest bushes. He had only
gone a few yards then the tank slid down a steep slope on the west edge of the wood and finally
stopped. It was canted over on its side. In such a position that the enemies guns which were
about 500 yards away. They could not fail to see it. I had been wounded in the right check by a
small splinter from the shell which had landed periscope. It was not serious though it bled a great
deal. I tried to swing the turret round so as to bring our 37 mm-gun to bear on the enemy in the
opposite wood. The French opened rapid fire on our wood and at any moment we could expect
their fire to be aimed at our tank, which was in full view. Me and my crew abandoned the tank.
The rear of the tank burst into flames. Five years later the war was over (EyeWitness to History).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1 Third Reich Roundtable
2 Wistrich, Robert S. The American-Israeli-Cooperative Enterprise 1997
3 Grobman Gary M. 1990
4 Wikipedia
Ronald Reagan By Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
I, Ronald Wilson Reagan, was born on February 6, 1911. I was born in Tampico,
Illinois; my childhood was rough because of the Great Depression which made us move
frequently. I went to high school in Dixon, Illinois and went to college at Eureka College.
When I was at Eureka I got my first taste of political leadership and public speaking
when I help stopped an idea to fire teachers and cancel classes. When I graduated from
college I tried to get a job in communications (Gale Cengage Learning).
After working at a few weird jobs the Davenport, Iowa, radio station WOC offered
me five dollars and bus money to announce an Iowa football game. A couple months
later I was hired as a full-time announcer at the radio station WOC. I didn’t do very well
and then I almost got fired. I then moved to Des Moines to work at WHO. I then started
to announce swim meets, track races, football games, and the Chicago Cub’s baseball
games (Gale Cengage Learning).
After a couple years I became sort of a celebrity in the Midwest. In 1937 I was
introduced to an actress from Hollywood, who then arranged a meeting for me with her
agent in Hollywood. Then the agent arranged a screen test with Warner Brothers, who
offered me a contract. My better movies were Brother Rat, Knute Rockne-All-American,
and King’s Row. In 1940 I married an actress named Jane Wyman who was also in
Brother Rat (Gale Cengage Learning).
After I married Jane we had a daughter named Maureen and an adopted son
named Michael. My acting career started going down hill after my movie King’s Row. I
started getting mad at Warner Brothers for giving me intermediate roles. One of my
heroes was Franklin D. Roosevelt. I was a democratic up until 1952 then I began voting
for republican candidates (Gale Cengage Learning).
In 1948 I got divorced from my wife Jane and in 1952 I married an actress named
Nancy Davis who I was married to until I died. We had two children named Patti and
Ron. Shortly after I got married to Nancy I was offered to be the host of General Electric
Theater. General Electric Theater was canceled in 1962 after that I continued a
television career as a host. In 1966 people were urging me to run for Governor of
California (Gale Cengage Learning).
I defeated the only other republican challenge with ease he was the former
mayor of San Francisco his name was George Christopher. I was elected as Governor
of California in 1966. I then was re-elected as Governor in 1970 beating speaker Jesse
Marvin Unruh. The first time I ran for governor I promised to reduce the taxes and to
make the size of the state government smaller. I wasn’t able to do what I had promised
when I was elected (Gale Cengage Learning).
My first try to be elected as the president of the United States was in 1968. I was
not elected as president in 1968 because I told the people I was running too late, and
because I didn’t get enough votes. President Nixon was reelected in 1972 so I started
thinking about how my chances looked to win. I was up against Gerald Ford for the
nomination for the republican presidential nomination. I told the people that my vice
presidential candidate was George Bush (Gale Cengage Learning).
My next competitor was Jimmy Carter who I defeated. I was elected president in
the year 1980. My vice president was George Bush. When I was elected president the
cold war had been going on for 33 years. The first thing that I wanted to do is build up
military defenses, and nuclear weapons. I wanted to scare the Russians by threatening
to blow them off the face off the Earth. In 1981 a man named Caspar W. Weinberger
tried to get a 5 year budget worth more than $1.6 trillion. It was denied by Congress
(Gale Cengage Learning).
Most of the money that Weinberger wanted to use was used for the Navy. The
Navy now had a six-hundred-ship fleet. I wanted to build up the nuclear weapons. I
wanted to scare Russia out of the war. I also wanted to build a system to protect us
from a nuclear missile, by putting a laser in space to shoot down any nuclear missile
that was a threat to us. I wanted to achieve peace by achieving strength. I did many
other things in the Cold War that I don’t have enough time to mention (Gale Cengage
Learning).
I was re elected in 1984 by a landslide. Apparently the Americans thought that
they were safe with me for the four years I was president so they thought that it would
be good to have me for another four years. George Bush my vice president was elected
president in1988. Now I’m in my old years I bought a multi million dollar mansion. On
November 5, 1994, I found out I was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. On June 5, 2004, I
died of natural causes. I was 93 years old when I died. That is my story thanks for
reading (Gale Cengage Learning).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gergen, David. “Can past be prologue again?” 28 June 2004. < ebscohost.com>
Ronald Reagan Library and Museum. “Ronald Reagan”. 14 September 2009. <
Biography of Ronald Reagan.mht>
Schwab, Nikki. “Ronald Reagan’s Letter to Michael Jackson.” 8 July 2009. <
webfeat.org>
Bedard, Paul. “Celebrating Ronald Reagan’s 100th Birthday.” 26 June 2009.
<webfeat.org>
Gale Cengage Learning “Ronald Reagan.” 6 November 2009. <webfeat.org>
Attila the Hun
By: Kamryn & James
My name is Attila the Hun I was born in the year 406a.d.. The year is 434 a.d. me
and my brother “Bleda” have overthrown our uncle and we now rule the hunic
empire our plans are to defeat the romans and take control of their kingdom.
10 years later
These past ten years have been successful I’ve murdered my brother to take the
soul commander role of the hunic empire. A few years ago I tried to make piece
with the eastern and western roman empire but, they refused. So I attacked the
eastern empire and defeated them so they have to pay tribute to me “ 660 pounds
of gold” and if they stop I’ll attack again so I have a feeling I’ll be back at some
point.
Bibliography
Hutchinson Encyclopedia. “Attila”. 9 Sept. 2009. <www.encyclopedia.farlex.com>
Answers.com. “Attila the Hun”. 9 Sept. 2009 www.answers.com
Kralic, Adams “Attila the Hun”. 9 Sept. 2009 www.about.com
Catholic Encyclopedia “Attila” 9 Sept. 2009 www.catholicencyclopedia.com
Harriet Tubman
My name is Harriet Ross Tubman, in 1844 at the age of 25 I married a free African
American name John Tubman. Even though I married a free man did not make me free. I often
thought about escaping to freedom, but when I talked to my husband about escaping he said that
he would tell my owner where I was going. Than 6 years later after my owner died, I decided to
escape alone. It took me almost a year to escape to freedom. (The African American History of
Western New York Pages).
In 1851 I began to relocate my family to St. Catharines, Canada. I’ve attempted to free
my sister Rachael several times, but to no avail. I’d hoped this time would be different. I arrived
in the South only to find out that Rachael is dead, and her children, (my niece and nephew)
unreachable. Then I helped two other slaves, my brothers Ben and Harry escape to freedom
when I was 27 years old. I kept returning to the South in order to free other African Americans
and their families as well. I am believed to have found and relocated (freed) over 300 people to
the North I was a very successful ‘conductor’. (Robison, Susan; ‘The Woman and the Legend’)
During one of my last trips to the South I helped a family escape to Canada. The parent’s
names were Stephen and Maria Ennals and their three children. As we made our escape we had
to endure bitter cold weather, unexpected snow storms, and freezing cold rain. Making this trip
with children made it even more dangerous and challenging. Since I hadn’t been planning on
bringing this particular family, I had not brought any extra food or clothes on this trip. We
suffered terribly, and had to drug the baby with opium, but we finally celebrated Christmas in
freedom. It was a wonderful Christmas for the family, and for me I had just ended my last
mission of freeing those treated wrongly and enslaved.
(Larson, Kate; Bound for the Promise Land)
During the civil war I worked as a nurse, spy, cook, and scout; I was very familiar with
the land because of my trips to the South. Sometimes; I would go on military raids to free slaves
and assist homeless former slaves find homes and jobs for them.
I received a letter saying that my husband John had died. A few years latter I remarried to
an African American named Nelson Davis. In the year 1913, I died in auburn; I was 93 after a
lifetime helping and serving for millions of people.
(Larson, Kate; Bound for the Promise Land)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Robison, Susan
The Woman and the Legend
Larson, Kate
Bound for the Promise Land
The African American History of Western New York Pages
Autobiography of Harriet Tubman
Abraham Lincoln
I was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. I had an
older sister and a younger brother who died in infancy. When I was seven, my
family moved to Indiana. My mother died when I was just ten leaving my dad, my
sister, and I alone. My dad remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston and she brought
three children of her own into our family. My older sister died giving birth and we
then moved to Illinois. I served as a soldier in the Black Hawk War (The History
Place).
I ran for the Illinois Legislature five times. Unsuccessfully the first time
but the last four were successful (Abraham Lincoln Research Site).
In Springfield, I met Mary Todd Lincoln and married her in the year 1842.
We had four children and one only lived to adulthood (About The Whitehouse).
I was elected the sixteenth president of the United States in 1860. By the
time of my Inauguration, seven states had seceded from the United States to join
the Confederate States of America, because of slavery. On April 12, the Civil War
began when Confederate soldiers fired on Fort Sumter. After the first battle of the
war, four more states seceded making a total of eleven. I vowed to keep the Union
together, to enforce the laws of the United States, and to end the state succession. I
established the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 which ended
all slavery in the South. This Proclamation did not go into effect until January 1,
1863 and was not carried out by the South until after the war ended. The Civil
War ended on April 9, 1865 when the South surrendered (Abraham Lincoln).
Five days after the War ended, it was a Good Friday and my wife and I
were invited along with General Grant and his wife to a play. Grant and his wife
could not attend, but my wife and I attended the play at Ford’s Theatre in
Washington D.C. The play was a British comedy called Our American Cousin.
During the play, John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box, where we were
seated, and shot me in the back of the head. They carried me across the street
where a doctor took care of me. I died at 7:22 the next morning at the age of 54
(Abraham Lincoln Research Site).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Patel, Andrew “An Overview of Abraham Lincoln’s Life” December 29, 1996
home.att.net/~rjnorton/lincoln77.html
The History Place “ALincoln” 1996 www.historyplace.com/lincoln/index.html
About The White House “Biography of Abraham Lincoln”
www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln.com
Abraham Lincoln “Abraham Lincoln” //sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/alincoln.html
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: A STORY OF MY LIFE
I was born on January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. I had a rough childhood because
there was a lot of segregation. As a child I attended a segregated school called David T. Howard
Elementary School and Atlanta University Laboratory School in Atlanta, Georgia. After I
graduated elementary school I went to Booker T. Washington High School. Already at the age of
15, in the fall of 1944 I was going to Atlanta Morehouse College. (Sylvester, Nobel Foundation)
At the age of 17, I became a Baptist minister at Dexter Avenue Church in Montgomery,
Alabama. But I wanted to get a better degree so I went to Boston University. And while I was
there I met a woman named Coretta Scott. I later married Coretta Scott in 1953 at the age of 24.
(Sylvester, the Nobel Foundation)
I returned to Montgomery, Alabama’s Dexter Avenue Church and there I became the
pastor. A year after Coretta and I started living in Montgomery, we had our 1st child on
November 17th, 1955, and we named her Yolanda. (Sylvester)
On January 30th, 1956, our house was bombed, but luckily no one was killed or injured.
A year later I heard a thump outside of my house, and I went out to go look. I was amazed to find
a bomb on my front porch, but luckily it didn’t explode. (Sylvester)
On February 21, 1956, a suit was filed in the U.S. District Court asking that
Montgomery’s segregation laws to be declared unconstitutional, and on June 4th, the U.S. District
Court ruled that racial segregation on city bus lines was unconstitutional. So on November 13th,
the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed this ruling. For the first time on December 21st black
passengers could legally sit any where they wanted on the city buses. The next city to add this
law was Tallahassee, Florida only six days later because the blacks wanted to have the same
right in Tallahassee as they had in Montgomery. (Sylvester)
On October 23rd, 1957, we had a baby boy and we named him Martin Luther King the 3rd.
Within the same year I published my book called Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery
Story. In the same year I was elected president of the southern Christian leadership conference.
(Sylvester)
In an eleven year period between 1957 and 1968, I traveled over six million miles to
speak to over two thousand five hundred times, to appear wherever there there was injustice or
protest. (1964 Nobel Peace Laureate)
In 1959, Coretta and I went to India and I served as a guest of Prime Minister Nehru. I
did this because I wanted to learn and study more about Gandhi’s philosophy and ways to nonviolence, and this took about a month. In the same year, I published a book called The Measure
of a man. (Sylvester, 1964Nobel Peace Laureate)
In 1960, I was arrested for breaking Georgia’s trespassing law while picketing. I was
transferred to Reidsville State Prison but I was released on a $2,000 bond. (Sylvester)
On January 30th, 1961, Coretta and I had another child, and we named him Dexter. Only
two years later our fourth child was born on March 28th, 1963, and we named her Bernice. Also
in 1963, I had a meeting with president John Kennedy in which I had my famous speech “I Have
a Dream” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in front of a crowd estimated to be around
250,000. Another thing I did that year was I wrote a book called The Strength to Love.
(Sylvester)
In 1964, I was awarded and honored by Time Magazine as “Man of the Year.” Only six
months later I published another book called Why we can’t wait. (Sylvester)
Also in 1964, I was invited to the White House to see President Lyndon B. Johnson to
sign the Public Accommodation and Fair Employment parts to the “Civil Rights Act of 1964”.
On December 10th 1964, I received Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. This was one of the
greatest achievements in my life. (Sylvester)
In 1968, I went to Memphis, Tennessee to lead a march to support to striking of
sanitation workers. That evening I gave my speech “I’ve been to the Mountain Top,” at Mason
Temple. On April 4th, 1968, I went out on my balcony and I was shot. (Sylvester)
Bibliography
Sylvester, Melvin Professor. “A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” June 1998.
<http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm>
The Nobel Foundation. “Martin Luther King Jr: The Nobel Peace Prize 1964.” 9 September,
2009, <http://nobelprize.org/nobel-prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html>
1964 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Martin Luther King Jr. 1964
<http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/1964a.html>