It has been said that one man cannot change history. Alexander the Great, Christopher Columbus, and Abraham Lincoln, all brought out the best and the worst in men. Throughout time, we have put immense power in the hands of few and now their names live on forever. How does the son of an Austrian fact...

Adolf Hitler was born and reared in Germany. He was just like any other man, de-voted to his country. Hitler served as a soldier and a statesman. He gained the trust of mil-lions that fought and died in his name. We must understand how he gained and abused power. We must know the life and impact of...

Why did the Weimar Republic get off to a \"bad start?\" What were the republic\'s main successes and failures? What were the unique features of the Weimar constitution? What social problems existed in post-war Germany? What does \"We shall all be nationalists in ten years,\" mean? Why was 1926 a goo...

It is almost a universal conception that Hitler deliberately provoked World War II for his personal desires. Some historians prove this belief by Hitler¡s biography ¡§My Struggle¡ (Mein Kampf) and his series of bold and aggressive foreign policies. While others confirm this notion by demo...

THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMBTHE CHAIN REACTION BOMBAtomic bomb imagined The New York Press reports: "New hope for releasing the enormous stores of energy within the atom has arisen from German scientists". World famous Niels Bohr of Copenhagen and ...

The Manhattan Project did more than allow the United States to knock Japan out of World War II: it allowed the United States to lead the way into the Nuclear Age. The United States needed a way to end the war quickly without losing many of its own lives, so the president ordered scientists and ge...

For millenniums, women have been portrayed as society\'s weakest link. During Hitler\'s reign, women once again were reminded that they were subject to humanity\'s oppressive ideals. The Nazi ideology saw women as inferior to men. According to Goebbels (propaganda minister), a woman\'s primary, righ...

The Great DictatorThe Great Dictator made in 1940 by Charlie Chaplin was at the time a controversial film because it exposed Nazism and anti-Semitism with both humor and horror. In his film, Chaplin plays the two main characters: Adenoid Hynkel, the tyrannical dictator of Tomania and a Jewish barber...