Group Project: Cold War Literature - Fiction Many novels throughout the 1950's sought to show the ills of communism. A reoccuring trend in these books is that they show the world from an apocolyptic stand point; possibley to show the negative outcomes from a war on Communism. ...
According to Davis, in "The Invasion Not Found in the History Books," an article found in the Omaha World Herald, Operation Olympic would begin with "X-Day" on November 1, 1945, and would land fourteen American divisions with the support of the largest naval fleet ever assembled, a total of more than 450 American vessels. ... In "Downfall:The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire," a 1999 book by Richard Frank, it's shown that the Imperial Japanese Air Force had amassed more than 10,000 aircraft, which were projected to destroy one-third of the invasion force before the landings i...
According to Davis in the Invasion Not Found in the History Books, an article found in the Omaha World Herald, Operation Olympic would begin with "X-Day" on November 1, 1945, and would land fourteen American divisions with the support of the largest naval fleet ever assembled, a total of more than 450 American vessels. ... The United States knew of this excepted ferocity, and projected enormously high casualties for the operations. ... It is well documented that the United States' economy was resurrected and re-born during the Second World War, and the Manhattan Project was one ...
All books were burnt unless they had a positive nazi message included. ... Many new projects were conceived to artificially employ vast amounts of people. ... Many skills were encouraged and apprenticeships were offered chiefly in areas that were deemed as useful to the re-arming project that was being undertaken at the time. ... To fund this expansion of the weapons and re-arming project, bank accounts of Jews and other "undesirables" were plundered and it is estimated that by 1939, the Nazi party had used in excess of 30 Billion Marks of peoples money. ...
The codenamed "Manhattan Project" was top secret and over the course of the next several years scientist worked on uranium-235 and plutonium-239, the two key elements for nuclear fission1. Then on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico the Manhattan project had its very first successful drop. ... To get the best perspective of the bombs impact books such as The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Kyoko Selden give first hand accounts from the survivors. ...
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany and grew up in Munich as a non-practicing Jew. He was born with a very large head that was oddly shaped. Albert took much longer to learn to talk than other children, and his parents feared...
