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neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, but it wasn’t until 1939 that Lou Gehrig brought national and international attention to the disease. ALS led to…

strategies utilized in 1916 could compare to those of 1939. As with any major conflict, lessons learned are a key foundation to making the necessary changes to a nation’s military to either remain or become a strategic and tactical superpower. Additionally, the advancement of technology will undoubtedly alter the strategy of a military force. By delving deeper into how we may compare and contrast these military tactics and strategies from 1916 until 1939, we acquire a more firm understanding…

discrimination against various political and religious groups, indoctrinating the youth, reforming ideas about the role of women and controlling the working class’ lives the Nazi party reshaped the structure of German society during the period of 1933-1939 in an attempt to create a Volksgemeinschaft or ‘people’s community’. The Nazis saw the Jewish Community as an ‘inferior race’ and blamed them for the loss of the war. Once Hitler came to power in 1933 the Jewish community was increasingly…

Rather than abandon his designs on Poland he forgot his hatred of communism and proposed a nonaggression pact with the U.S.S.R. Stalin agreed and the Ribbentrop–Molotov pact was signed on 23 August 1939. Without any danger of Soviet interference, Hitler launched his Blitzkrieg on Poland on 1 September 1939, and two days later the U.K. and France declared war.”(Libguides) The nonaggression pact was a treaty that prevented any weapons or danger made by the people. Hitler thought the making of…

started in 1939 and lasted until 1945 when the United Nations won the war. There are over 60 million people who died in this war, including many civilians. Those civilians died from bombings, diseases and tests for chemical weapons. This is insane! There were many events that happened during the Second World War, most of them were bombings, like the Pearl Harbor incident. Many of the wars were instigated by the Axis Alliance, consisting of Italy, Germany, and Japan. The year of 1939 was…

Disabilities, USHMM), they were killed through the euthanasia program. At first, disabled children and infants were the only ones being killed, but by September 1939, disabled adults were being killed, too. What is quite surprising is that the disabled’s killings were administered and monitored by their doctors at first. Starting in October 1939, the parents of handicapped children were encouraged to bring their disabled children that were under three to a pediatric clinic that were built…

“Strange Fruit,” from the album The Billie Holiday Story (1939). These artists expressed themselves through these songs to communicate the injustice and racial discrimination being done not only to black musicians, but to African Americans nationwide. Armstrong and Holiday took a massive risk by releasing these songs to the public by discussing lynching, unfairness, and racial judgement. Both “Black and Blue” (1929) and “Strange Fruit” (1939) bore an emotional interpretation of the black social…

its peak. To many he seemed to be Europes saviour a reputation that he assumed made him Europes premier statesman. Hitlers invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 angered Mussolini because it was clear that Germany was carving out its own empire and Italy was not. To compensate for this, Mussolini took over Albania on Good Friday 1939. To him, this was a sign of Italys expanding power in Europe. King Victor Emmanuel was offered the title of King of Albania. Italian propaganda made a great…

partially from his love of aviation, having served as President of the Air Council briefly in World War I, the Empire had fallen far behind the continental nations, particularly Germany in terms of its air force and capacity for self-defense. Writing in 1939 and looking back on the frailty of the nation’s air force Rothermere remarked, “had Britain in 1933 been set seriously to work to provide herself with [a 5,000 machine] air fleet, the whole course of history would have been changed.” This…

Ana María Vanegas Professor Kate Newell English 168-OL July 26, 2017 The Undefeated Man: a look to James Thurber’s Masculine Ideals James Thurber’s American classic short story, ‘The Secret life of Walter Mitty’ (1939), narrates the fantasies of an ordinary aging man stuck in his daydreams. Walter is nearly an incompetent man in everything he performs, as he lacks proper concentration, gets distracted and forgets things easily. Additionally, he gets directed and scolded by his dominant wife…