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...

The only successful attempt to conquer Russia was by the Mongolian army under the leadership of the great Genghis Khan in the 1200s. Many other historical figures have tried to repeat his accomplishments, which somehow eventually led to their downfall. Adolf Hitler was the most recent to try to dupl...

Jarrod Shappell VanOver/Kyle American Studies 6/7 6 April 2001 The Atomic Bomb No one knows exactly how many people were killed in the initial blast, because thousands disappeared without a trace. The official estimates vary between seventy thousand and eighty thousand. Many more were injured. Thou...