Layton's poem "Rhine Boat Trip" illustrates the time of horror during which the Holocaust was taking place. Any of what is told in the poem can be seen from the Rhine because of the borders it keeps. The Rhine is a river that flows from the North Sea to Switzerland, but a vast major...

A Bridge to Far In A Bridge to Far the Allies try to end World War II by dropping soldiers behind enemy lines and cut off supply lines. The movie goes into great detail of the confusion and power struggles amongst the leaders of the allies. In 1944, the German armies were being pushed back acros...

During the 1930's Italy and Germany followed a policy of aggressive territorial expansion; they invaded weak lands that could be taken over easily. The dictatorships (led by Hitler in Germany, and Mussolini in Italy) knew exactly what their goals were, to form the empire they didn't achie...

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...

When Germany was under a monetary crisis after having to pay reparations for World War II, people had turned to Adolf Hitler. He made promises of restoring Germany to its original form and many people were willing to support him. However, the failure of the Munich Putsch in 1923 had failed and had ...

Before the First World War had finished, the groundwork for the early stages of another world war was beginning to take place in Germany. By the end of World War I, the economic and social foundation of European society was shaken. France had lost twenty percent of its young to middle-aged men,...