1. Modern World History - WWI, WWII and Exploration
Churchill took a major role in setting the foundation of the welfare state in Britain, he prepared the Royal Navy for world war I , and he helped settle the political boundaries in the middle east after the war. ... On the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, he went out on to the battle fields as a mere war correspondent for the London Morning Post, but within only months of his arrival he was captured when accused of acting more like a soldier than a journalist, by the Boer officer, Louis Botha. Winston was then taken to a prison camp in Pretoria, where he made a dramat...
What many people fail to realize is that throughout Hitler's childhood, the Germans exterminated the Herero people in southwest Africa, as well as the genocide by the French, British, and the Americans (Lindqvist 276). ... If the German people have to sacrifice 160,000 victims in yet another campaign in the east then those responsible for the bloody conflict will have to pay for it with their lives (Gerlach 272). ... Germany's imperialism is evident in their annexation of territories in Africa and the Pacific (Taylor 157). ... The British Army in South Africa, under the command of Lo...
Stalin's real intentions with the Berlin Blockade, as the History Channel's web page describes were to "limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany" This would give the USSR edge over the Western allies in the fight for control over Berlin and consequently Germany. ... Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the South African Air Force flew ...
South Africa has stated they feel the United States is putting itself in a very uneasy situation by attempting to take the law into its own hands. ... The general feeling in the Middle East and Islamic world is that it would be very difficult to maintain close allies with the United States, even in the war against terrorism, if they decided to strike on their own. ...
During this period of wartime, African-Americans from the rural South where the prejudice existed for blacks moved into the northern industrial cities, where they could possibly get their jobs in factories and have more freedom, which was Great Migration. ... In 1924, another law that restricted foreigners was established, which was called National Origins Act that this new rule prohibited immigration from an entire East Asia. ...
Some other battles, like Jutland and Tannenburg were fought more in the East though. Jutland for example was fought in the Baltic Sea, South of Sweden and North of Germany. ... Other colonies in Africa fought for the country that ruled them from Europe. ...
It's a fact that since the Gulf war in the early 1990s, over $60,000,000,000 dollars worth of arms and ammunition have been sent by the United States to the Middle-East and central Asia. The USA has maintained their military presence in Asia and the East for decades as if it was their own land to do what they want with. ... Was the United States not the last to impose sanctions when hundreds of thousands were dying in South Africa because of apartheid? ...