1945

They realized that they had to transfer power to India. The question was, to whom should power be transferred? Left to its self Simla Conference 1945: In 1943, the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill replaced Lord Linlithgow and appointed the Commander-in Chief, Lord Wavell in his place. Churchill had expected that, being a military man, Lord Wavel would take no political initiative but the…

By March 1945, the scientists felt confident enough to tell the president the bomb was close to being ready and that it would be ready by the summer for testing. The factory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee which was making the Uranium 235 for the atomic bomb, had made enough Uranium for a single atomic bomb. They made two separate sections of the bomb, then they were shipped separately, one by air and the other by water. Physician Rudolf Peierls assembled the bomb by hand, after it arrived at the…

Battles Socials 11 Lesson 2 Who, What, Where, When, Why/How Blitzkrieg: 1939 - 1945 Is a military tactic that was used by german troops in the second world war The term Blitzkrieg refers to “lightening war” which was designed to create disarray amongst enemy forces through firepower The Phony War: September 1939 - April 1940 The Phoney War was a period of time during the Second World War when no major battles took place and there was little fighting During this period, Great Britain…

Liberation of Netherlands. This was the largest Canadian assault that consisted of 175,000 Canadian soldiers. These troops joined the Rhine offense on February 8, 1945 and forced the German troops out of the…

because a broad reconceptualization of heterosexuality that took place in social sciences, the law,…, medicine, fashion and politics had transformed what it meant to be female. In 1969, the idea of ‘woman’ was not the same as it had been in 1945.” Between 1945 and 1969, the condition of the women had change because the popular culture during those years brought fourth many questions, including the role a women played in a relationship with a…

Hiroshima - a Sad Memory in 1945 The tragedy in Hiroshima occurred on August 6th, 1945 in Japan is one of the biggest bombings of history that killed thousands of people. This tragedy was written in the book Hiroshima by John Hersey in 1946, a year after this disaster, through the accounts of the six survivors of the tragedy. John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, and he grew up in both America and China. He can speak two languages, such as Chinese and English. Hersey was known as a journalist…

the West, a graphic novel by Zhang Guangyu in 1945, is a nod to the Chinese classic Journey to the Wets by Wu Cheng'en written in the year 1592. It is written around the reign of the KMT and during the second Sino-Japanese War. From which Zhang uses the style in which Journey to the West was written to "implicate" poke fun of the government and their policies. How does Zhang Guang use the classic Journey to the west to explain the events around 1945 circa China? Why does he use such a frame?…

and WW2 in the growing demand for Civil Rights between 1945 and 1968? Before WW2 not much had changed in the Civil Rights Campaign: People still had the view of ‘separate but equal’ and the Jim Crow laws were still in place. However in the mid 60’s the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Acts made significant changes towards Civil Rights. The Double V Campaign and WW2 were important in the growing demand for Civil Rights between 1945 and 1968 to a certain extent. However Prejudice…

states. “In 1949, the two areas were formally split into the Federal Republic in the West and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the East. In addition, the Basic Law, Germany's constitution, came into effect in 1949.” (European History/Europe: 1945 to Present.) To a degree, it can be comparable to the Treaty of Tordesillas. Although, there was also some ideals of the division that were extraordinarily different from the Treaty of Tordesillas. Similarities Numerously, when there is dispute…

scientists and a top secret project, the United Sates worked hard and fast to create the first ever chain reaction between the splitting of atoms, that would also be known as an atomic bomb. The first atomic bomb to ever be used in warfare was used in 1945 on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These events killed and injured many Japanese citizens and left their cities damaged and destroyed.…