Introduction Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. He was an important part of German history, but led one of the most well known massacres of the German country. In all, he killed about six million people of the Jewish community. He was insanely psychopathic, for he wanted a "perfect&q...

Battle of the Somme A. Plan of the Investigation The aim of this report is to give an overview of the battle of the Somme, and judge the extent to which it can be seen as a success or failure for the allies. The main part will describe the aims and the hidden intensions of the allies. It will al...

Although compared to the United States, Japan only the size of California has been a country with a lot of power. Japan has been competitive with the United States concerning technology. From its many ups and downs throughout its history, Japan was able to become a predominately powerful country w...

Treaty of Versailles. We are doing an interesting essay on our views on The Treaty of Versailles. We will be looking at sources, people' s opinions and what the Internet and books can give us. The question we have to answer is this, 'Was the Treaty of Versailles fair?'The Treaty of Versailles was a ...

Advertising is over 100 billion industry and affects all of us in daily lives. We are exposed to greater than 2000 ads per day. Advertising is part of our life, some people will say we are not influenced by advertising but at the same time they would be wearing a GAP t-shirt. Advertising is a massiv...

Plan What were the causes of the Indochina War started? Methods I have used most Internet resources because of the lack of books in the library at school. It was much easier to find exactly what a wanted on the Internet because of the specified subject a chose. I also used the encyclopaedia there I...

The battle plan, code-named Operation Overlord, called for the largest amphibious assault ever to start the liberation of occupied Europe from Nazi Germany. It began in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, now known as D-Day. Thousands of American, British, Canadian, and French soldiers-ba...

Many people argue that the conservative movement started with an article in the National Review on November 19, 1955. The name of the article was the \"Publisher\'s Statement\", written by William F. Buckley Jr., the magazine\'s editor-publisher. At the age of 30, Buckley declared, \"let\'s face it:...

History of China Before the 19th century came China had stood as a leading civilization outranking the rest of the world with its immense education and knowledge in the arts and science field, but after that Chinas been facing several military defeats. After World War II, the Communists under M...

The Treaty of Versailles: Prelude to WWII The Treaty of Versailles was not a justified treaty, which created German feelings of revenge and dislike towards the victorious countries. This feeling of revenge felt by Germany, in addition with the social atmosphere of Europe, led to a Second World Wa...

BENITO MUSSOLINI Benito Mussolini was an ambitious dictator who started Fascism. He was a dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943.He was the kind of person who needed to prove himself to others and later became the most important supporter of the Fascist movement. Mussolini was also a writer and in h...

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...

"Their [Russia's and America's] starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe," Alexis de Torqueville, late 19th century. De Torqueville's prophecy came true by the 1940s when the two super...

"Their [Russia's and America's] starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe," Alexis de Torqueville, late 19th century. De Torqueville's prophecy came true by the 1940s when the two super...

Brad BermanWorld Since 194512/17/2001Clintonian MaterialismClintonomics, the successor of Reganomics of the 1980's and early 90's brought post-Baby Boom prosperity and an unprecedented era of wealth to the United States without regard for long-term world peace. The United States likes to believe it ...

Charles Kingsford-Smith was born in the Brisbane suburb of Hamilton, Australia, on February 9, 1897, the youngest of seven children. He graduated from Sydney Technical College as an Electrical Engineer at age 16. When he was only 18, he joined up as a soldier in the First World War and later became ...

One of our progressions in the world is trying to minimize the size of our global village. The world has been made smaller with the means of the internet and air travel. Art, without a doubt, is no exception to the group of contributors of the shrinking world. In some forms, it is the most powerf...

Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Review James W. Loewen is an educator who went to college at Carleton University and furthered his education receiving his PhD in sociology at Harvard University. He began his teaching career at Tougaloo University in Mississippi, but would move on to the Universi...

3. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 3.1. Historical Background 3.1.1. The U.S Civil War "War is a hellish way to settle a disagreement" The American Civil War (1861 - 1865) was one of the most violent times in the History of the United States. Many books have been written on all aspects of the Civil War...

The atomic Bomb code named The Manhattan Project was the first atomic Bomb created by the United States. The United States supervised the development of the atomic bomb, under the code name Manhattan Project, during World War II. The first sustained nuclear chain reaction was achie...

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries nations waged wars with other nations for a variety of reasons. Some people believed that their nation was justified in going to war in order to pursue national interests. Others believed that war is only justified if it is fought in order to preserve na...

Sunshine follows three generations of a Hungarian Jewish family, the Sonnenscheins ("Sunshine") through three generations of men all played by the same person. It is narrated by the youngest of the three men who tells the story of his grandfather and father before he tells his own. The t...

On June 26, 1948 the largest airlift began as the American and British forces began theBerlin Airlift. To understand how the airlift came to be, we have to look all the way backto the Yalta Conference. The Yalta Conference began in February 1945 in which the threesuperpowers, America, Russia and Bri...

Americans have just witnessed what may stand in historical perspectiveas the onset of a new era. That is, the terrorist bombing of the WorldTrade Center on September 11th. The World Wars represented for most peoplethe depth of carnage, brutality and government excess that is possible whenthe ...

In literature, authors often write about the world around them. In other words, they write what they live. Take, for example, William Shakespeare. He lived through the Elizabethan Era of the Renaissance. He was a rich man and wrote mainly to please the queen, so all of his works involve a person of ...