Compare Italian and South Asian migration to Australia in the second half of the twentieth century.Migrants in Australia have had a lot to do with how this country is shaped, from the very beginning when white settlers first arrived on our shores. In comparison with the rest of the world, in particu...

A Decade of Uneasy Peace World War II was the worst war that was fought in the 20th Century, and perhaps the worst war in the history of man. The loss of lives in World War II was a staggering 50-60 million dead (Mitchner, Tuffs Global Forces of the 20th Century 130). World War II also ushered in t...

The League of Nations 1919-1939 On several occasions during the period between 1919 and 1936, the League of Nations failed to deliver international peace between nations. This is one of the factors that ultimately led to its demise. Firstly the role and influence of the League itself will be ...

From his coming to power in 1922 Mussolini had one clear policy that would play a major part in how he ruled Italy for the next twenty one years. His vision was to raise Italy's prestige in the eyes of the world and attempt to re -create an empire to rival that of Ancient Rome. To achieve this,...

A Farewell to Arms, by Earnest Hemingway, is a great novel about the pains of life including the great sorrow that comes with loosing those you love. Frederic Henry, the protagonist of the story, is an American Lieutenant in the Italian Army during the First World War. This fact is significant in le...

"Was there a missed opportunity for social revolution in France and Italy during and after the Liberation".For me to successfully answer this I would like to define what a 'social revolution' is. Marx defines social revolution as "a more or less rapid transformation of the foundations of the juridi...

Mussolini and the intervention crisisBenito Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, on July 29, 1883. Like his father, Benito became a fervent socialist. He qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901. In 1902 he emigrated to Switzerland. Unable to find a permanent job there and...

Topic: Mussolini Mussolini¡s full name was Benito Mussolini. He was born in the town of Varnano dei Costa near the village of Predappio near Forli in the Romagna. Mussolini¡s mother, Rosa Maltoni, was married to a blacksmith by the name of Alessandro Mussolini. He named his son Benito after ...

Devils in Disguise "Under idealism nothing exists except the mind. Whoever controls the mind controls everything. Therein lies the secret of absolute power" (Rapoport 1989) Has this method been used by most of the well known bloodiest dictators in history? The answer is most definitely...

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 marked the involvement of the United States of America into World War Two (II). The domineering of the German and Italian powers, as well as the attack by the Japanese threatened the freedom and democracy of the United States. As the young men of America were shi...

It can be said that WWII was the darkest chapter in Modern History. The world was a place full of economic depression and social turmoil. We should learn from modern history lest it be repeated. There are certain characteristics about these men that should be examined closely, so the world may not...

Japanese-American Relocation Camps On December 7, 1941, the Japanese made a surprise attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. (Fremon 6) Right after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against Japan. (Fremon 7) On February 19, 1942, as the U...

The Treaty of Versailles: Cause of World War II The First World War ended with the Treaty of Versailles going into effect, followed by the Great Depression, collecting German aggression on new limitations, Italian hostility, and Japanese belligerence. Pre World War II conditions were favorable...

Throughout Europe, democracy had prevailed by 1919. But by 1939, Europe's countries were split in their ways of government. Eastern countries went authoritarian, while Western countries stayed democratic. Dictatorship in Europe was by far not something new, but this new, modern form of total...

"And a Lie Shall Set You Free" Nothing could have been harder than having lived during the German occupation of either the ghettos, or worse, the Concentration camps during World War II. Prisoners used many methods to keep themselves alive. In both the films "Life Is Beautiful"...

In the spring and summer of 1941, the Second World War began to spiral into a truly global conflict. In 1940, the World War was in reality a combination of several regional conflicts around the globe and couldn't truly be classified as a global war. In Europe, Hitler's Germany had overrun...

Mussolini had made Italy into a modern state improving the economy and foreign policy. In theory Mussolini's power was unlimited. Italy was a one party state and Mussolini was leader of that party but there were some limitations to his power. Even though there was one party, Italy still remained o...

What is Fascism? Fascism is a 20th century form of nationalistic, militaristic, totalitarian dictatorship that seeks to create a feasible society through strict regimentation of national and individual lives. Total subordination to the service of the state and unquestioning loyalty to its leader wou...

WORLD CONFLICT IN THE 20TH CENTURY 1 The 20th century was the bloodiest 100 years in human history. Based on numbers killed, in warfare, the 20th century exceeds all other centuries combined. The three major conflicts between 1901 and 200 were World War I, World War II, an...

Post World War I two specific events which occurred possibly inspired, or allowed rise to, the era of totalitarianism. This idea, for the most part, was responsible for a second world war so soon after the first. The first issue was the Treaty of Versailles, which was the peace treaty post WWI. W...

One of the best novels of Ernest Hemingway is A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway takes much of his life story line to his novel. A Farewell to Arms is the typical classic story that can refer to Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. In this novel, Romeo is Frederick Henry and Juliet is Catherine...

Benito Mussolini leader of the Fascist government in Italy stated, "If the XIXth century was the century of the individual (Liberalism implies individualism), we are free to believe that this is the 'collective' century, and therefore the century of the state" (Mussolini: 1...

Why did the League of Nation fail?After the First World War, US president Wilson decided to set up the League of Nations. Because of the death and destruction of the war, the league was supposed to bring together all nations to settle disputes in peace. The league was meant to improve working cond...

During the Cold War not much was known about the activities of the Russian state security organization by western intelligence agencies. However after the collapse of the Soviet Union, documents that have been smuggled out by KGB agents (Wilson 1) have allowed agents to see just how much this agency...

Catch-22 Joseph Heller lived a long and prosperous life, throughout his 76 years he divided his time as a writer, teacher, and air force bombardier in World War II. He wrote a lot of books including some of his most famous; Something Happened, Good as Gold, Picture This, and Closing Time. His ...