CafEd

Based on the Ed Café we did in class, it's surprising the true amount of items that one can research about World War II. There are so many elements from all over the world, it's surprising to think that anyone can really call themselves an expert or claim that they have studied all of it. It was, truly, a world war, with people living on the southernmost tip of South America still inadvertently contributing to the war effort. Between the topics discussed, such as the Aleutian Island Campaign, the role of women on the home front, or my personal favorite topic: the Manhattan Project, it surprises me that we barely even began to scratch the surface of the war effort. The Manhattan Project, a massive campaign of innovation and engineering, had hundreds of thousands of people working on it, and took place in over 30 locations across the United States and Canada, while using research from the British Tube Alloys program. All of this, however, only amounts to a mere fraction of what was even discussed, not to mention all that is there to discuss in the first place. It really puts into perspective the true scale of the World War.