America was all too comfortable with a naive sense "nothing can touch us and noting can hurt us." ... For example, World War II was thought of as the war "over there", "over seas", but the events that occurred on December 7,1941 at Pearl Harbor, noting at that point could compare to the awakening and the realization that America could be struck and struck hard. ...
Do I agree with Stimson's explanation to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? From November 1944 onward, Japan was subject to numerous bombings, but non-nuclear ones. It was predicted that because of the success of these bombings the war would end in October. When Germany surrend...
Wilson, president of the United States at this time, was shocked but said that he would wait for "actual overt acts" (Danzer 585), and those came in form of the change of the Russian monarchy to a representative government, which made this war now to a fight between democracies and monarchies, and the Zimmermann Note, which proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany (Danzer 585). ...
Age of Anxiety? Anxiety is a part of everyday life. It is the scale and proportion of the circumstance and those affected that determines the significance. It also depends on the priorities and the thresholds of the group or individual. While we have many of the same ongoing anxieties now as we...
World War II When World War II broke out, there was no way the world could possibly know the severity of it. Fortunately one country saw and understood that Germany and its allies needed to be stopped. America's involvement in World War II not only contributed to the eventual downfall of Adolph Hi...
" "Fly Away Peter" charts Jim's loss of innocence as he confronts the brutality of war and the truth about human nature." DISCUSS "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" - ECCLESIASTES 1:18 David Malouf's "Fly Away Peter" is the story of one ma...
It's important too to note that the historical context of this internment is that it followed the Niihau Incident, which caused the east coast to be hyperaware and fearful that any Japanese American could possibly betray the United States14. ...
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a very important event during World War II, and it was one of the major reasons the United States joined the war. Pearl Harbor was the turning point during the war for the United States. In a book about Japanese Internment, which was an effect of the attack on Pearl ...
Adolph Hitler has been one of the most researched and discussed figures of our time. From his meager beginnings, one would not think such a man could rise to such power. Hitler somehow managed to do so and in the process took the lives of so many innocent people. In this paper, we take a look at...
Economy Of Hungary During the two decades following World War II, Hungary was transformed from a predominantly agricultural land into an industrial-agricultural state. This transformation was carried out under a system of central planning patterned on that of the Soviet Union. Consumer desires were ignored, tight labor discipline was enforced, and living standards were depressed, so that the largest possible share of Hungary's resources could be used to develop an industrial base. Investment in industry was encouraged by a tax and subsidy structure that overpriced consumer goods and unde...
The Stock Market Crash of the 1930's In the 1920's many people invested in the stock market. The stock market is how companies raise money to grow larger. It sells shares of stock, a piece of the company. A person who buys the share is buying a part of that company. The people holding shares can m...
And in the 1920's Q: Utilizing class notes and perhaps resources of your own, write a 1,000-2,000 work dealing with each of the following artists in the period directly following World War 1 [1918-]: German art movement of the 1920s began after the end of WWI. ...
Confusion or Understanding That All Depends Modern art can either bring unity and coherence into a fragmented modern world by introducing something that other human institutions fail to do, or it can present tragedy and suffering in an unforgiving light, adding more confusion to the situation. Mo...
It was unusually hot in Hiroshima on this late summer morning in 1945. People busily rushed through the streets, all starting their daily agendas around the same time. There were few people who took time out of their busy schedules to relax for a bit and look at the new morning sky. It would be these people, and these people only who would notice the three foreign aircraft flying mysteriously high above their city. And it would be only the people who were captivated enough, or even those who had the time, to notice the underbelly of one open and release an object resembling a cigar, and let it...
Mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings can characterize the Cold War by two sides and their allies. The Cold War shortly followed the conference held between the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, which took place at the Black Sea resort of Yalta between the 4th and 11th of February 1945. This event held great significance as it led to the Cold War. At Yalta, the Allied leaders, known as the Big Three, met to plan the last stages of the Second World War and agree to the subsequent territorial division of Europe. Notable postwar settlements were d...
American Foreign Policy: Where are We Today and How Did We Get Here? The typical American citizen knows very little about American foreign policy. I realize that is a very broad, general statement. Nevertheless, it is true. Its not that the typical American isn't capable of understanding American foreign policy, but rather that we choose not to. ...
Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est about the first World War, in which he had personally fought. It was addressed to Jessie Pope, a writer of other poems concerning the War. Specifically he wrote the poem to counteract her poem "Who's For The Game?". Owen felt that Pope did not comprehend the s...
Seconds after the explosion came first the air blast pressing hard against the people, to be followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained awesome roar that warned of doomsday and made us feel we puny things were blasphemous to dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved for the Almighty.2 It is amazing to note the speed of which the Americans first created the atomic bomb. ...
Right off the bat the book Citizens of the Empire is provocative in nature, but Robert Jensen forces the reader to reevaluate everything they thought they knew about American foreign policy after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Radical Jensen sets out on a mission to display how the illegitimate auth...
Anti-Semitism goes at least as far back as the day Jesus Christ was sentenced to crucifixion. Followers of Christ blamed the Jewish for the death of their messiah, and so despised them. The Romans kicked the Jews out of Rome for failing to worship the Roman gods, and, when Rome converted to Christianity in the early fourth century, the Jews were certainly not welcome to back; they had even been given the name "Christ killers". The theological basis of anti-Semitism is found in the New Testament of the Holy Bible, which states in Matthew 27: "And the governor [Pilate] said, 'Why, wha...
Japan is one of the world's leading powers, second only to the United States in terms of economic and technological advancement. It is also a fascinating country with a long history, rich culture and a keen sense of global citizenship. Japan is a country that has evolved from an agricultural, sub-standard industrial society to one of the world's most advance, industrial and technological countries in the world. It is also one of the closest allies and most important economic partners of the U.S. The scale of Japan's growth is easy to demonstrate but understanding the reason i...
