Closely Watched Trains captures the zeitgeist of Czechoslovakia while it was occupied by Germany during World War II. The film’s comedic yet melodramtic mood creates an image of the Czech people as having lost their spirit. The focus on the young protagonist Milos parallels the wartime experience of Eastern Europeans during the german occupation a […]
Casablanca and Captain America-The First Avenger are World War II films that have leading female characters central to the plot. The portrayal of the female lead in each film displays varying levels of anti-feminist agendas and propaganda that are used to influence the actions and opinions of female and male audience members during each time […]
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Get startedThe victory of World War II made more and more Americans feel more confident. As the world’s most powerful country, the United States has an obligation to maintain world peace. Rebuild the world’s economy, and provide moral leadership so that it can be achieved worldwide Universal values of the United States. The actions of successive […]
A memoir, To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy, and a non-memoir The Flags of Our Fathers by James D. Bradley were fantastic books. The books To Hell and Back and the Flags of our Fathers are super detailed books that have interesting events and day-by-day details of the war that occurred during World War […]
Aachen, the city that was notoriously known for being turned into a fortress by the Germans during World War II due to the rich, sentimental value Hitler saw in it; it is heavily guarded and protected by its vast array of barbed wiring, pillboxes, anti-tank obstacles, and other barriers, was penetrated by American forces. Also […]
Japanese-American Internment During World War II, following Pearl Harbor, many journalists and government authorities feared Japanese-Americans. They believed that people of Japanese descent had a plan to invade the west coast, specifically California. As journalists continued to spread rumors of the invasion to the public, the public became so fearful that the FBI investigators began […]
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are distinct historical events because they remain to be the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of warfare. Setting the stage for these tragedies were the commencement of the second world war in 1939 and the subsequent bombing of Pearl Harbor by Imperial Japan in 1941, […]
This was had two sides at first that were known as theaters that were being fought, the European theater and the pacific theater. The cause of World War II was when Hitler’s re militarized Germany invaded Poland and since Poland this also led for France and Britain to declare war on Germany hence the European […]
From 1939 – 1945, World War II changed many peoples’ lives. Several of the major countries worldwide, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, China, and the United States were involved in this conflict. Not only did men help to fight this war, but women also played a big role. They fought, worked […]
It has been a while since World War II, but the atrocities committed against humans in Germany and Japan are still vivid: human trials, massacres, racial discrimination, bacterial weapons, etc. are all unforgivable crimes committed against the world. So what is it that made Germany and Japan do such a terrible act? What horrible things […]
What if crime during wartime is viewed the same as a crime in normal times? In Nazi Germany, crime during wartime is seen through a different lens in comparison to crime not during wartime. In The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, Hitler is ruling the Germans with propaganda during World War II, from 1939-1945. During […]
World War 2 was a war marked by great levels of devastation and anguish, taking 17 million soldiers and even more civilians. The war began in 1939 on September 1st with the Nazi invasion of Poland. In total, more than fifty nations were involved, with the Axis powers consisted of Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan […]
World War 1 was one ofthe most brutal and tragic wars in the early 1900s which caused a lot of pain and suffering for man. this war occurred in 1914-1918. This war was between European allies.. Both sides were fighting for land. This war had many reasons for occurrence. Militarism, Alliance Systems, and Nationalism were […]
National Socialism, commonly called Nazism, German political movement initiated in 1920 with the organization of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, also called the Nazi Party. The movement culminated in the establishment of the Third Reich, the totalitarian German state led by dictator Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. National Socialism emerged from consequences of […]
World War 1 not only changed the lives of soldiers physically but mentally as well. Both on the battlefield and in the trenches soldiers suffered from wounds, starvation, and fatigue. Although history cannot hide the number of people who were killed and wounded, the mental effects of the war are more hidden. Both during and […]
World War I was known to be “The war to end all wars,” and also labeled as “The Great War.” It began in 1914 and was fueled by militarism and nationalism throughout Europe. Tensions increased within countries due to strained alliances, and competition to usurp land from colonies was setting the scene for a great […]
Multiple countries became involved in the fighting of World War 1, though each became involved for vastly different reasons. The fighting originally began when Austria-Hungary began trying to regain their status as a world power and decided to start by taking over Serbia. Austria Hungary had sent in Archduke Franz Ferdinand to tour through Serbia, […]
World War 1 has several different titles whether it be the first war or the great war. It was very helpful to Germany despite their defeat in batter. This is true because the rise of Nazism is directly related to this war for several reasons. According to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM): “In the […]
World War I was a devastating war that caused over 16 million deaths worldwide, including over 60,000 Canadian deaths. War experts initially thought World War I would be a short war and last only for a couple months, but it lasted for over 4 years, from 1914 to 1918. It was called “the great war” […]
There were many contributing factors to the ignition of World War One or as it was also known, The Great War. One of the main causes was the Alliance System. The Alliance System was a number of treaties that countries such as Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary and Italy had signed for protection. These treaties […]
Post World War 1, Europe was a changing continent. 3 empires crumbled and many grew stronger, but many things stayed the same in Eastern Europe. The inability to address potential issues and not cripple in an economic, political or social way aided those who ultimately sought to exact their revenge is a re-occurring continuity that […]
Some Causes of World War I and Historians’Taboos is a scholarly journal article written by William M. Johnston considering the ‘What if?’ on World War I. He observes the of how Vienna dealt with World War I along with its counterfactuals and how things would be differently if a certain variable were to be altered […]
After World War I, many men who had gone to fight in the war were returning and desired to take their jobs back from the women and African Americans who had taken them in America; because African Americans and Women had been exposed to the taste of equality in factory jobs and good wages, they […]
World War 1 was not just due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, although this could have been considered the triggering short term cause; it was actually the result of multiple short and long term causes, which stretched back far into the 19th CE. Kaiser Wilhelm II ruled over Germany. However, the whole world […]
What is the Holocaust / who started it all Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was the founder and leader of the Nazi Party and the most influential voice in the organization, implementation, and execution of the Holocaust, the systematic extermination and ethnic cleansing of six million European Jews and millions of other non-arynes. On January 30, 1993, […]
Background-World war lI Some people believe World War II started in 1937 when Japan invaded China. Others think it started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. The War officially started in 1939. Hitler was a brave soldier in World War I, he was awarded the iron cross which stood for bravery in the war. In […]
The Nazi Party’s paramilitary organization was the Sturm Abteilung, more commonly known as the SA. The SA was formed in 1921 and was known as ‘brownshirts’ due to its brown uniform. Initially, most members were ex-soldiers or unemployed men. Violent and often disorderly, the SA was primarily responsible for the protection of leading Nazis and […]
During the brutal times of the Holocaust, there was “killing of millions of Jews and other people by the Nazis during World War II” (Merriam Webster Dictionary), many devastating events happened. During these times of war and anti-semitism some people stood up to the injustice of these events. The situation of this could not have […]
Rozsa Heisler. Almost 75 years ago, Hungarian Policeman forced her and her family onto a train. Not a doubled decored train with velvet seats, air conditioning, and a cafe that serves coup’ o noodles, but a smelly boxcar packed to the brim with confused, sad people. Rozsa Heisler says, “We were crammed together for five […]
I believe Oskar Schindler was a person of concrete and righteous morals. During the savage takeover of Poland by the German Nazis, Schindler used what power he had to protect as many Jews as he could. He risked his life business and possibly his families for a bunch of people who he had never met. […]
