1945

The mid 1960s witnessed the growth and dissemination of revisionism as a major school of thought. While Orthodoxy was still the preeminent belief amongst most US citizens, distance from the event allowed inherited ideas to be challenged, and in turn, created social conditions in which revisionism could flourish. One of the largest active voices toward revisionism was political economist Gar Alperovitz. His condemnation of the Orthodox perception came to popularised observation in 1965 following…

World War II brought about many changes in the United States. Of those changes, women experienced the most significant one. Before the war, women had been looked at as stay at home mothers and housewives. The idea was the husband would go out and work every day. He would bring home the money to financially support his family. Meanwhile, women would do everything else. They would be in charge of stay home each day and cleaning the house. They would cook every meal and do the family’s laundry.…

Harbor. United States immediately prepare for war and joined the Allied Forces and on August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped and devastated the Japanese city of Hiroshima. However, Japanese War Council was not convinced to accept surrender. On August 9, 1945 a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and this time it was able to subdue Japanese War Council decision and ultimately on August 15, 1945 Imperial Japan announced their surrender. As a result, nine years later (1954) the first…

In 1945, Britain still had one of the largest empires in the world. As soon as WWII ended, Britain went through a major social change. Winston Churchill was no longer the prime minister as he was voted out, the country went bankrupt, and a new labor agreement nationalized gas, water, health, and many other industries. In 1964, it had been granted independence. In 1947, it was for India and Pakistan. In 1952 they received the atom bomb and in 1957 they obtained the hydrogen bomb. This was…

then late 1943 they moved down to a town later called Oak Ride, Tennessee. This town was specially designed for the Manhattan project. It was first designed in 1942 then once they were done, they let people in and the population exploded up and tell 1945. The town had 80,000 people and was using more electricity than new your city. Oak Ride purpose was to enrich uranium for the first atomic bomb. In the town there were massive plants just for the atomic bomb to be made. Thousands people were…

At 2:45 a.m. on Monday, August 6th, 1945 the Enola Gay lifted off the runway headed for Japan, their mission, cripple a nation through the use of an atomic warhead. President Truman, torn between moral conflict and the preservation of American lives was obligated to make the toughest decision of his life, drop the bombs and save American lives, or send them in. Since the cost and expected casualties from an invasion, Truman’s issues with accepting Soviet help during the Potsdam Conference, and…

The end of World War II led to an era from 1945 to 1970 known as the Cold War. The Cold War was a conflict between the U.S.S.R. and the United States in response to communist expansion. Communism was viewed as threat to Western Society. The United States believed in the Domino Theory; the idea that if one nation was conquered by communists, neighboring nations were at risk, and therefore it was the United States’ obligation to prevent that from happening. Foreign policy of the 1950s in the…

There are many events that shaped the United States from 1900-1945. These events resulted in a heavy change in American lives, but also effect the minority and disenfranchised population. The three main events were World War 1, The Great Depression, and World War 2. The First world war lasted from 1914-1918, it was started after Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated. Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, the central powers, fought against the Allied Powers which were Great Britain,…

armed services enlisted about 15 million men and 216,000 women for non-combat duties. The conflict between Japan and USA brought down the massive human destruction in the history, the Atomic Bombs. On August 6, 1945, USA had dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 180,000, and August 9, 1945, bomb had killed about 80,000 people. In the Later period, America had seen some sudden change in their country. The long economic boom, the post-war baby boom, the Cold War, the postwar prosperity, and…

On September 1, 1939 the German Army commenced its invasion of Poland. The army invaded through the shared border that they had with Poland and even though the Polish Army was considered one of the best in the world they were defeated in around 18 days or just over two weeks. The Germans had more men, technology, and tactics on their side which made their mission successful against the Polish forces. The German forces when invading moved in from East Prussia, Germany in the North, Silesia, and…