Attack in Pearl Harbor The attack in Pearl Harbor in December 1941 shocked United States. It meant not only the complete destruction of an important naval base and the loss of many lives, but in the first place signified the beginning of a great struggle for nation's survival. At a time when...
World War I, a war fought to "destroy the axis of evil" and to resolve conflicts between belligerent countries, brought nothing but turmoil and numerous dilemmas to the warring nations; politically and economically. Immediately after the war, many people thought the war had made a safe environment for democracy in all countries. Peace was thought to have been restored among the world. People's views of the world were tainted and many nations began to struggle. In the years following the end of World War I, Americans found themselves in an era, known as the "Roaring Twenties," where the...
Transcendentalism Transcendentalism views include the notion that all humanity is good, the glories of nature, and the importance of individual expression without interference. The notion that all humanity is good means that the Transcendentalists believed that all people are good but there is al...
At first each country wanted a to have their own different way of punishing Nazi Germany after the war, for example the Soviet Union at the time, Joseph Stalin wanted to have an execution of more than 500,000 Nazi officials and those that had helped the Nazi in such inhumane acts, while Winston Churchill, the Great Britain Prime Minister only wanted the execution of the high ranking Nazi officials without any possibility of a trial whatsoever. ...
In 1938 Adolf Hitler felt strong enough to risk his most serious gamble. In a kind of external coup he annexed Austria. With Austria open to the German military, the well prepared defensive positions of Czechoslovakia became obsolete - the southern border was now open to invasion. With this in mi...
