The Battle Of Dieppe: The Beaches At dawn of August 19th 1942, six thousand and one hundred Allied soldiers, of whom roughly five thousand were Canadians, landed at the French port of Dieppe in their first major test of the defense of the German-held coastline. A combination of inadequate communic...

"When Push Comes to Shove" In August 1940 the continent of Europe was all but conquered by the Nazis. There was no army left to fight the Germans on the Western front. Adolf Hitler's troops had pushed 340,000 English soldiers off the coast at Dunkirk, back across the channel to England...

The War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Britain. Many factors influenced Americans to go to war. They hoped to expand the United States by seizing control of Canada and Florida. Three critical factors that helped Americans decide to go to war were the embargo policies, impressme...

Arms Race A major contributing factor to the tensions between the great powers that led to the outbreak of the First World War was the intense competition between them in building armaments. There are mainly 2 races; the naval race and the development of mass armies. In 1889, the British gover...

World History Extra credit OLD NEWS September 1993 The Red Baron World War 1's leading fighter pilot for Germany was Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. During his two years of fighting for Germany he shot down eighty enemy planes. Richthofen painted his plane bright red so everyone that...

Political Life before World War II Churchill assumed the position of prime minister in 1940, a few days after the German army pushed into Belgium and Holland. Though he was only appointed after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Churchill was by no means a newcomer to warfare or pu...

World War II in Europe Before dawn on September 1, 1939, German forces crossed into Poland in an attack so fast and brutal, they called it blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war. This time Britain and France decided to fight, and on September 3 they declared war on Germany. Roosevelt declared the Uni...

Why Were People Leaving The Land? Introduction Why were people leaving the land? It is a very good question so here's the answer in a nutshell. Low wages, harsh working conditions, no holidays, the invention of machines, the industrial towns and cities, the diet, importation of foreign gr...

Winston Churchill Born- 1874 November 30 Death- 1965 January 24 at the age of 90 National Origin- Oxfordshire, England Early Influences- his father, Randolph Churchill Awards, Prizes Honors received- In 1900 Winston Churchill was elected into Parliament. In 1905 Winston Churchill is...

During the 1850-1939, the western powers, particularly Britain, came over to Asia. The main reason they came to Asia was because of trade. The British wanted to trade with the Japanese, but mainly the Chinese, for goods such as silk and other things that you couldn't find in Europe. The only pr...