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palyed in Jay McShann’s band and made his first recording. In December 1942, he played with Earl Hines and Dizzy Gillespie as a tenor saxophonist. In 1945, Parker led his own group for the first time and worked with Gillespie. From 1945 to 1946, they made more than fifty recordings together. They also played in Hollywood together in the end of 1945. However, Gillespie left Hollywood after the performances, and Parker stayed. Parker, soon, formed a quintet that was active from 1947 to 1948. From…

The Holocaust The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has literally became known as “whole burned” involving a horrible tragedy, the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews, but also other groups including homosexuals, Gypsies, Catholic Priests, Prisoners of War, Russians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Poles by the German Nazi regime during the Second World…

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circle of secondary education from 1967 to 1975. The textbook consists of 332 pages (narrative text, written sources and visual materials) and is divided into five parts each of which is divided into sub-parts and chapters. The events of the period 1939-1945 barely span four pages almost half of which center on the Greek involvement in the Second World War. However, in sharp contrast with Kafentzis’ book in Koulikourdi’s textbook the causes that led to the outbreak of the Second World War do…

political ideologies that gained a wide support in the first part of the 20th century. The chronology is as follows: fascism was introduced to the Italians by Benito Mussolini in the period between 1919 and 1945 while Nazism appeared in 1933 and faced a rapid decay with the end of the WW2 in 1945. Ideologically, Nazism and fascism diverged to a big extent and were promoted under different slogans. The founder of the fascist ideology—the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini—attempted at imposing an…

In 1938, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazis, annexed Austria. However, the Second World War began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Believing that Hitler’s intention was to control not only the region but all of the world’s nations, France and England declared war on Germany two days after the invasion of Poland. In late 1939, Germany controlled Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, and France. However, the United States, under the Roosevelt…

In this report I will be talking about WWII and how it ended with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. America thought that dropping an atomic bomb on japan would end the war. When America dropped the bombs, the Japanese surrendered because they thought that those bombs were just the beginning and that America had more bombs that they could drop on japan. What Caused this to Happen The United States wanted to limit its own casualties by forcing Japan to surrender…

Leslie Ibuado Mrs. Wright Pre-AP English II 17 September 2014 World War II World War II was one of the most devastating wars the world has fought. From September 1939 through September 1945, an estimated amount of more than 55 million people perished. Over 50 countries were fought in nearly every part of earth. Most people do not really know when the war officially started. Some say it began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Others say the war began when Japan invaded Manchuria…

This paper will describe events that led to the decision to drop atomic bombs on cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and analyze its consequences in the context of Robert J. Aumann’s award-winning work on conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis. “There is no conflict like War and no cooperation like Peace.” The use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki introduced the world to a nuclear weapon race that evolved into a game, in which mutual distraction was at stake. Due to a…

bomb. After seven years of working, the Y-12 power plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, produced bomb-grade U-235 that was shipped to New Mexico to construct the weapons named Little Boy and Fat Man, which were going to be dropped in Japan. On July 16, 1945, the nuclear bombs were tested at Los Alamos, New Mexico. This point of time was when Robert Oppenheimer quoted the famous words, “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”1 By stating this, Oppenheimer meant that nuclear…