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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...
From the many inventions that emerged from the American Civil War, the Ironclad, designed by Captain John Ericsson and Robert L. Stevens, has impacted the world by advancing naval warfare technology. It gave America more influence in Europe and put America ahead ...
World War II devastated Europe such a great deal that it would take many years before the entirety of the continent of Europe would be as strong as it once was before the twentieth century history which, at that point, had been almost totally consisting of wars. Following World War II, European nat...
Causes of World War IWhat started out as a local European disturbance between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, ended up as the most horrific war in world history. Many textbooks say that Germany was the main cause of World War I, but there were many more factors that aided the start of this atrocious aff...
World War 1 is a dramatic point of the history of the world. This war that killed many people from all over the world started because of many causes. First cause of the war was European nations ruled smaller countries, called colonies, and they competed with each other to get more colonies. Secon...
Marshall Plan In the spring of 1947, the atmosphere in Europe was unstable and tense. World War II left behind misery, unemployment and a housing crisis. The cold weather intensified the severe economic and social dislocation that plagued the continent following the long and destructive war. At t...
The history of United States of America starts relatively late when compared to other countries of West European civilization. However it inherited the background and experience of the "old world" and succeeded in becoming the world's superpower. Today, the United States dominates the world in polit...
The Cold War began as an ideological struggle between the two superpowers that emerged in the aftermath of World War Two (WWII). The destruction of the former Western European balance of power post-WWII allowed for new nations to emerge superpowers. The tensions that arose from the restructured bipo...
In his book Nils Gilman speaks about the many theories that defined modernism and modernization during the twentieth century. Those theories refer mainly to the American pint of view and their concept of situations, compared to other countries that were, at that time, less developed. The theory of ...
Sahil Rattanaphas IB History period 2 January 24, 2004 "How valid is it to claim that Europe "stumbled into" a world war in 1914" The late 1800's brought upon a growing trend of Imperialism towards Europe and five of her most powerful nations, Russia, France, Engl...
Between June 1941 and May 1945, six million Jews were systematically annihilated under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. However, because of Germany's firm control over most of Europe, information about theFinal Solution? wasn't leaked to the presses until a year later. In June 1...
1. Describe and explain how and why the economic, political, social and cultural development of the 1920's reflected an era of transition and tensions. The 1920's promoted radio, movies, advertising, and mass-circulation magazines. Sex clashed with the traditional values of hard work, ...
Foreign Policy has varied throughout United States history, in order to adapt to changing times and needs. The alterations to foreign policies are generally made depending on the relationship the United States has with other nations, and to meet their own desires. Three types of US foreign policies ...
The philosopher George Santayana once said that \"those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.\" The definition of \"condemned\" means \"sentenced to punishment\". Santayana warns mankind that to forget the past sentences us to repeat it over and over again. It means that man is un...
If all states were democracies there would be no more wars. This is the statement that the Democratic Peace Theory claims to be true. It is a decidedly difficult statement to agree with however because at a glance it would appear that democracies are involved in war nearly as often as any other type...
Phase 1 In 1868, the fifteen-year-old Emperor Meiji, as he was posthumously known, moved from Kyoto to Edo. The move marked the beginning of Japan\'s efforts to modernize its political and social institutions, develop and expand its industrial base, and achieve parity with Western industrialized nat...
I have traveled to both Spain, and Austria. While both are unmistakably different in both culture, and government, they are not so unalike that we couldn't compare the two. Spain is very culturally rich in its diverse cities, the olive growing provinces, and the wine growing communities. A r...
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Page 1 The Second World War-A Complete History was the book chosen for this review. It was published in 1989 by Martin Gilbert. Martin Gilbert was a distinguished Britain historian. He graduated Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1960, he received a first class honor degree in modern histo...
Western society has come a long way through out history. Living in plush and fertile lands following the prey primitive people, hunting and gathering for existence. There is food and clothing. The basic tools of this stage in stone aged history are the two most easily obtainable objects: rocks a...
The Treaty of Versailles, signed on January 18th 1919, was an attempt by the victorious powers to put an end to the First World War. Dominated by the 'Big Three', consisting of America, France and Britain, the talks ultimately became a forum for conflicting interests and compromises; an e...
The Treaty of Versailles, signed on January 18th 1919, was an attempt by the victorious powers to put an end to the First World War. Dominated by the 'Big Three', consisting of America, France and Britain, the talks ultimately became a forum for conflicting interests and compromises; an e...
How appropriate is the term 'Cultural Revolution' to describe the events of the 'Long Sixties'? Within this essay I will attempt to answer the question how appropriate is the term 'Cultural Revolution' to describe the events of the 'Long Sixties'? The ma...
World War 1The beginning of the twentieth century was supposed to be the century of brotherhood. Europe had a collective of alliances that was supposed to keep the mother countries out of war between each other. It was believed that cooperation was the ideology of the European empires, but it was sl...
Townsend Harris was an American diplomat who was sent to Japan to persuade them into opening Japan ports to trade. While Harris is in Japan, Tamora, the governor of Japan, sent a geisha girl named Okichi to make Harris feel more at home. One day a ship came to Japan that had Cholera on it. Cholera i...