Monday, March 31, 2008
Ike and Photographers
It was good in class today to step back a little from all the battles in the European theater and look at some individuals that played major roles in the events of WWII. I thought both presentations were good, especially the one about the photographers. I think it was important to show that propaganda was used by both sides and so was censorship. Too many times we look at all the negatives of the enemy and do not look at our own disappointments. An example of this would be the Japanese internment during the war. However it was cool to see all the equipment that the photographers used and some of the photos that were published and those that were not. As for the presentation on Ike I thought it was good to see how many operations and functions he served during the war. Obviously he was a key part in the Allied victory.
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Ike was indeed a leader who found himself invovled in many diferent functions durring the war. His perserverence was shown to be affective with regards to his conduct as the commander of SHAEF. He also demonstrated his ability to be a good ally by not always letting the U.S. military aqcuire the glory. He made many considerations with the other Allied nations that were invovled.
Indeed, Eisenhower had a keen sense of the political ramifications of various actions. And while indeed both sides used propoganda, sometimes the censorship of the pictures was a necessary thing to keep public morale up in what was a truly world wide war. Without support form the homefront, America would have had quite a difficult time acheiving what it did throughout the war.
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