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...

Genocide as defined in international law is the intentional and systematic destruction, wholly or in part, by a government of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. When some people think of genocide they automatically think about World War II and the annihilation of the Jews by the Nazi&ap...

There have been many pieces published on the causes of the First World War, and among them there lie many different opinions as to who or what was truly at fault. The purpose of this essay is to compare the views of three historians, Fritz Fischer, Gerhard Ritter and Konrad Jarausch; each took a di...

Saving Private Ryan The movie Saving Private Ryan is not your typical World War II movie. It is about the triumph of the United States over Germany but rather the focus on how horrific the effects of war are on those participating, not only physically but also mentally. What I liked about t...

What Ever Happened to the Indians?-A Look into the American Holocaust For years and years students across the world have studied and memorized endless gory facts about massive genocides such as the Jewish Holocaust, the World War Two atomic bombs, and the religious Crusades. These were extreme...

In the books, Human Comedy, Mama I Love You, and One Day in the Afternoon of the World William Saroyan uses the family theme.Saroyan makes the family the background in his books. He shows how the family has its good and bad times together, how it separates after arguments and how it comes back toge...

There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.- Bonar LawIs it possible to live in a world without war? In order to answer this complicated question one needs to examine arguments that may provide some sort of reasonable merit to justify why this st...

When most people look at war the first thing that they usually take into consideration is the destruction, anarchy and casualties, when in reality the most important aspect of war might be the theories of why the war happened instead of what went on during the conflict. These theories can show us m...

Maria Tidwell World Cultures III Professor Longfellow 26 November 2000 The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb On August 6th 1945, the world changed forever. The United States dropped the first Atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The surviving witness Miyoko Watanabe describes her e...

Japan, China, and North Korea have a strong history that makes dealing with the present and future very difficult. All three countries have close geographic proximity to one another, but have very different cultures, governments, and histories. After World War II (WWII) and the Allied Occupation,...

Argumentation The United States' policy on foreign affairs is that there really is no foreign policy. Controversy and mixed opinions have surrounded this area of politics since the beginning of the country's existence. Each presidential administration has had its own perception as to what this polic...

Mommsen's article had as aim to eliminate as a causal explanation German imperialistic aims and the argumentation is convincing in that respect. Regarding Mayer, he clearly attributed a large causal role to domestic policies within the Great Powers and presents compelling evidence to that effect. U...

The cold war was a time of political and economic insecurities. It was not a battle in the sense of bloodshed but a battle purely of political ideology. It was a battle of political ideas which involved blocs and mini wars fought by the Soviet Unions allies rather than themselves. The United States...

The German Workers' Union was conceived by Anton Drexler on the seventh of March, 1918. Drexler's union consisted of about forty members, most of whom were railwaymen, that were banded together by shared sentiments of fierce nationalism, anti-Semitism, and support for the war effort. Previou...

Air Power and the Gulf War An acknowledged aerospace historian, Mr. Richard P. Hallion is an associate for the Smithsonian Institution employed in the research division. A former Charles A. Lindbergh Professor of Aerospace History, Mr. Hallion has written or edited thirteen other books, including T...

Blood Tears and Folly Blood Tears and Folly, by Len Deighton is then novel that I have chosen to read. The reason for myself choosing this is because of the blurb it reads ' This feast of a book is a cordon bleu performance' as stated by Piers Brendon of Mail on Sunday. To read this an...

Never before in the history of the United States had a war created such disillusionment as the Vietnam War. From the soldiers who fought in it, and the students who protested it, to the politicians who funded it, they all felt that somewhere along the line that they had been lied to. Whether it wa...

Fraternization and the Feminization of Germany What is primary message being delivered? "Villain to Victim" discusses the swing in US foreign policy towards Germany at the end of WWII. In 1945, as American forces commenced their invasion of Germany their hearts were hardened towards al...

Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen, is one of those rare examples of poetry that, although relatively skimpy when it comes to symbolic meaning that probes deeper than the surface of the text, is so wonderfully written that it casts itself far above the status of an ordinary poem. It is not surpr...

Contrary to what is often accepted as fact, there are a variety of reasons why a war comes to an end. Most obviously, wars will end when one side is defeated, but what of those cases where the outcome is in doubt and what exactly constitutes "defeat?" The definition of defeat is obvious en...

Is it possible to say that the killing of hundreds of thousands of human beings can be justified? Hiroshima, written by John Hersey, illustrated the horror of the use of a new powerful weapon to end the world's worst military conflict to this day. Through his book, Hersey told the stories o...

World War I It is hard to point out one specific incident that led to World War I but rather it was a culmination of many different events that led to the most catastrophic war of its time. The United States pledged to stay neutral during the war but with great economic investments with the allies ...

Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man\'s work, everyone knows its impact on the world of science is astonishing. Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on M...

To What Extent was Austria-Hungary Guilty of Causing the First World War Austria-Hungary had been established by a compromise between the Hungarian nobility and the Habsburg monarchy in an attempt to maintain the old Austrian Empire. It was a multi-national Empire, and its political life was domi...

IntroductionAmerican slaves struggled a lot by the hands of their white masters. Theirancestors in the present world are fighting and struggling to getreparation. People around the world are in conflict whether to providecompensation to slaves or not.The Issue: * To Determine...