Tag: World War II
World War II – The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles faltered to heal the bitter mess that formed between countries in World War I. It left Germany in a terrible...
Effects of the WWII Atomic Bombs
When the atomic bomb went off over Hiroshima on Aug. 6th, 1945, 70,000 lives were ended in a flash. To the American people who...
The Beginning of World War II
At daybreak on the first day of September, 1939, the residents of Poland awakened to grave news. A juggernaut force of tanks, guns, and...
M1 Garand Rifle
I am doing this report on the M1 Garand for Mr. Walker 182's History Class. The Garand is a fascinating World War II semi-automatic...
Pearl Harbor Essay
The recent terrorist attacks on September 11th in Washington and New York City caused the greatest loss of life in a domestic incident of...
World War II – The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a violation of Wilsons ideals. The Treaty is one of the most important agreements (or disagreements) that shaped 20th...
Life Experiences In Farewell To Manzanar
The book, Farewell to Manzanar was the story of a young Japanese girl coming of age in the interment camp located in Owens Valley,...
Farewell To Manzanar: Review
In spring of 1942, immediately after the United States entered war with Japan, the Federal government instructed a policy where hundreds of thousands of...
Farewell to Manzanar: Book Report
In the true story "Farewell to Manzanar" we learn of a young girl's life as she grows up during World War II in a...
Catch-22: A War Comedy
The novel, Catch-22, is a comedy about soldiers during World War II. However, this comic scenes and phrases are quite tragic when they are...
Joseph Heller’s Catch-22: Short Review
Joseph Heller satirizes, among other matters, red tape and bureaucracy in his first novel, Catch-22. The novel concerns itself with a World War II...
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck: Review
John Steinbeck is a writer who experienced the pain of the Second World War and though it is true that many who have read...
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man is one of George Bernard Shaws successfully written plays that have become predominant and globally renowned. Shaws play leads itself...
Rise Of The Superpowers
It is often wondered how the superpowers achieved their position of dominance. It seems that the maturing of the two superpowers, Russia and the...
Kamikaze Pilots Essay
During World War II in the Pacific, there were pilots of the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy who made suicide attacks, driving their planes...
Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret”
Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret” is an essay in which she carefully constructs and describes history, particularly World War II, through the lives of several...
A man named Adolph Hitler
In the Second World War, a man named Adolph Hitler, the leader of the infamous Nazi regime, had a plethora of things on his...
Events Leading Up To The Bombing
Before entering World War II, Japan had many other problems to deal with. It had begun to rely more and more for raw materials...
Post WW II and Japan
World War II took place beginning at 1939 and ending in 1945. Japan was the last opposing country to surrender to the US Allies...
Oral Report D-Day
World War II was one of the largest and most violent wars in the history of mankind. Frank Vinci, my grandfather, was in that...
Veterans Women In World War II
During World War II Hitler was skulking around Europe pretending to save Germany, military minds in Washington were stonewalling women’s organizations, patriotic pressures, and...
Dicks’ Androids and Scotts’ Replicants
Philip K. Dick has written over fifty novels, and is considered among some of the greatest experimental writers of the 1950s and '60s, such...
Post-War Insanity
This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Insanity is...
Salvador Manuchin
General systems theories emerged in the biological and social sciences following World War II. This led to the conceptualization of the individual as an...
To what extent were the 1920s a break form the traditions of the pre-war...
The 1920s sandwiched as they were between the horror of World War 1 and the untold misery of the great depression, remain firmly in...
World War II: A Violation
The Treaty of Versailles was a violation of Wilsons ideals. The Treaty is one of the most important agreements (or disagreements) that shaped 20th...
Pearl Harbor: Isolationism
It is a common held belief that America has historically been a nation driven by the ideology of isolationism. The best cases for these...
Espionage in World War II
Many of us can remember playing childhood games when we were younger. One of my personal favorites was hide and seek. My favorite part...
World War II: Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor were not awaken by the familiar sound of a bugle but by gunfire and explosions. This attack led to other events in...
World War II: Problem of evil
After the World War II and the Holocaust, many Jewish and Christian people were left wondering why God would let such a thing happen....
Before World War II
Before World War II broke out the world took a wild ride during Hitlers rise to power. The entire world didnt think that he...
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was certainly one of the most dramatic turning points in United States history, with all the elements that go along with an...
How did Hitler persecute the minority groups of Germany so that he could create...
During Hitler's time in power minority groups in Germany and in Europe were tortured, tormented, exiled and killed. Hitler persecuted various minority groups because...
