1944

World War II has been considered one of the most horrendous tragedies to ever occur in history. Violence,hostility,death and aggression dominated the 1930’s in certain European nations.In this essay I will explain the major battles of World War II. One of the major battles in World War II is Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941 the japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii using bombers, torpedo bombers, and midget submarines. Nobody knew that several flights…

striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you….. I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle”(General Dwight D Eisenhower). These are words spoken on the day the tides turned into World War 2. On June 6, 1944, the U.S and its allies invaded Normandy Beach. D-Day was called the beginning of World War 2 because of its great impact on the War (National D-Day Memorial). D-Day was one of the most important battles in World War 2. The battle of D-Day…

That’s when CCF appeared. CCF was a social democratic party formed by the combination of left-wing labor and farm organizations. In 1944 Douglas resigned his seat in parliament to lead Saskatchewan’s CCF party in their provincial election. He was an amazing speaker who delivered captivating speeches over the radio or to large groups. In the 1944 Saskatchewan provincial election, Douglas led the CCF to a crushing win by taking 47 of the 52 seats. After this, he won four more elections and…

Finland’s participation in World War II was extremely interesting and bizarre compared to the other European countries throughout the war. To begin with, one must know with the backstory between Finland and the Soviet Union. To quickly summarize, the Soviet Union has constantly been trying to take Finland’s land. This conflict started in the early 1800’s and continued on to the very end of World War II. At the beginning of the war, well what started the war between Finland and the Soviet…

from. The groups include political opponents, members of “inferior races”, criminals, and the “shiftless element”. “Homosexuals were classified in the ‘shiftless element’.” - Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany. This quote is explaining what the “shiftless element” is and who was part of that group. Most were in the “inferior races” category/group although there were plenty in the other groups. All in all, the prisoners received harsh and cruel treatment for being different than everyone else…

picture taken by Eugene Smith during the Battle of Saipan in 1944. There were many horrors that had happened, in which we can only begin to imagine. Lydia Warren, one of the authors of Daily Mail reveals, “But now black-and-white photographs, captured by Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith, show the everyday horrors for the U.S. soldiers fighting against Japanese forces on the Mariana Island of Saipan between June 15 and July 9, 1944”. We are able to more closely view the few glimpses of…

The Second World War also continued the First World War tradition of documenting the western theatres in landscapes. By the early 1920s, a new group of Canadian painters emerged with the aim to help establish a Canadian identity in art. These seven artists, known as the Group of Seven, traveled around central and northern Ontario to paint landscapes with broad sweeping brushstrokes, which ultimately become their signature style. From 1920 until 1931, their Canadian landscapes were held in eight…

Hypothesis: The film Saving Private Ryan will represent what happened on the first day of the D-day invasion but then fail to represent what happened before and after the initial invasion. Introduction The Film Saving Private Ryan Successfully represented the initial Invasion of the D-day invasion but failed to represent anything else in the film. Saving Private Ryan failed to accurately retell the events of planning the D-day invasion and what went into the planning. While it did represent a…

Finding the missing can be a huge challenging, but when its millions of dollars work its extremely difficult. In Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories, it states, "The theft was big news then and remains so today as it nears its 25th anniversary." The missing work isn't easy to find in a year or two, it takes a very long time. The criminals are very clever to leave very little detail that can lead the police to them. Also in the same passage it states, "I have gathered hundreds of…

1970 In the 1970 it was a tumultuous time.In which women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays and lesbians and other strange people continued their fight for equality, and many Americans joined the protest against the nonstop war in Vietnam.The behavior of president Richard Nixon reduced many people's faith in good intentions of the federal government.The silent majority that swept president Richard into office 1968, which lead to Nixon demolished the welfare state that had fostered such…