In 1929 the American Stock Market crashed, a powerful symbol of the growing depression. ... The party now needed a symbol, which Hitler created. He rejected the colors of the Weimar Republic and chose a red field to represent blood with a white circle for the Nationalist idea and a black hooked cross the swastika to suggest the struggle towards victory of the Aryan Man (Forman 43). ... In April 1940 Germany launched its attack in the west with a surprise invasion of Norway and Denmark, which were neutral states. Hitler took Norway because that guaranteed that vital iron ore supplies f...

• Word Count: 3236
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The gates swing open and inside lay mounds of emaciated corpses, haggard and diseased victims and remnants of skeletons within ovens so vast that they defy belief. ... This was the first time that the world in general was witness to the dispensation of justice against men who initiated and efficiently carried out acts "so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated," (Jackson). It is a shame, however, that the model for dispensing world justice was as imperfect as the Nuremberg Trials were. ... He state...

• Word Count: 2850
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. ... Against Modernism it was said that it produced chaotic and difficult writing, that it moved beyond the capacity of many readers and became elitist. ... What is significant is that both kinds of writing could flourish at the same time. ... The language mix reflects a sense that there is no longer a fixed language of poetry just as there is no longer one English. ... In 1898 he published his Wessex Poems, verse that he had written over the previous thirty years. ...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42