Research Project

My topic is about World War 2.  I am focusing on the end of the war and the aftereffects.  If I focused on the aftereffect of World War 2 for the whole world, then I would end up with and 200 page paper.  To avoid writing 200 pages on the after effects of World War 2, I decided to focus on one country.  I thought that any country would be interesting to study, but I thought that not many people think about what happened to Germany after World War 2.  I decided that it would be really interesting to study Germany.  I have always found World War 2 really interesting.  I have studied it many times, but never looking at Germany and what happened to it.  So far, the answer I have come up with has been that after World War 2, Germany had to re-build itself completely.  I have found a lot of information about how they had been split into 4 parts, and how a different country ruled each part.  I have read a lot about how they were left with nothing.  There was also a lot about how they were finically and economically declining rapidly.  I have never really thought about the way Germany was affects so this was really interesting to learn about.

My research topic is about World War 2.  I am focusing mainly on the aftermath of the War on Germany.  I was originally going to do the aftermath of World War 1 on Germany, but after some research, I found out that the main aftereffect of World War 1 on Germany was the start of World War 2.  I have always loved studying World War 2, but I have never looked at it in this way.  The main answer that I have found was that the aftermath of World War 2 on Germany was that Germany was left with almost nothing.  They were finically and economically dead.  Their people were all poor and had few possessions and were struggling to get food.  The country itself was split into 4 separate parts that were controlled by the 4 main powers on the Ally side.  The interesting thing about that was the berlin wall and how it affected the other parts of Germany.  I have never looked at Germany and what happened to it after World War 2, so this is really interesting for me to learn about.

Minutes:
1.5 hours on annotated bibliography- making sure I have everything required in them; finishing up the 10 annotations due; trying to fix the formatting (actually fixed it correctly in class)

1.5 hours doing research and finding good, reliable websites; going back and trying to find authors and publishers for some websites and determining if they are reliable

The Fellowship of the Ring: J.R.R. Tolkieng
52 pages; 1 hour