World War II was a turning point for American technology. America spent a lot of money and resources to manufacture supplies for allied troop in the begging of WWII. Once the United States entered WWII they had a lot of factories at hand to manufacture weapons for their own troop in the war. Even after WWII the military industrial complex continued creating new forms of technology and leading the United States to the moon. Three technologies created during and after WWI where the atomic bomb,…
A man named Tsar Nicholas II focused on the army and bureaucracy in order to maintain his regime. Once World War I started it made Russia’s problems much more noticeable and these problems challenged the tsarist government. Tsar had qualities of a leader and that really promoted…
superpowers who shared the means of wiping each other out – but who now also shared an interest in each other’s survival.” Geoffrey Roberts further backs up this point as he states that it was “period of cooperation, not confrontation.” Both the West and Russia realised that they needed each other in order to beat fascism and Hitler. Without the USSR 's troops and the West’s funding Germany may have been successful. However, once the war had ended and the fascism threat was dealt with the…
The group consisted of Hans, Sophie, Alexander, Willi, and Christoph, and later Professor Kurt Hubert. Shortly after the formation of the group, Hans and Alex engaged in the first act of resistance. With a title of “Leaflets of the White Rose,” they used a borrowed typewriter and a mimeograph…
The Bolshevik Revolution or the Russian Revolution is the name for the pair of revolutions that took place in Russia during 1917, in which took down the Tsarist totalitarianism and prompted the destined rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire had fallen with the surrender of Emperor Nicholas II, and the old administration was replaced by a new short term government during the first revolution of February 1917. In the second one that happened in October, the Provisional Government was taken…
in trade just like the British. China was forced to sign yet another document, the Boxer Protocol. The Protocol demanded China to pay the Japanese and Europeans reparations. They also owed them an apology. The Russo-Japanese broke out in 1904 and Russia was kicked out of Manchuria. They established a sphere of influence and became elevated, now seen as a world power and imperial…
Before World War II the majority of fatalities in war were not caused by trauma but by diseases. Common diseases like dysentery, cholera, typhus, typhoid fever, smallpox and the influenza would wipe out entire camps of soldiers before bullets were ever fired. WWII marked the transition to trauma causing the most fatalities. Trauma wounds are defined as an injury to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agents like bullets, shrapnel, or blunt force injuries. Medical advances with blood…
On May 7, 351 The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine. On May 7, 558 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt. On May 7, 1274 In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope. On May 7, 1487 The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista. On May 7, 1664 Louis XIV of France begins…
There are criminals and peasants, artists and intellectuals, even former government officials and officers. In this, it becomes apparent that writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is not only writing about the Gulags, but also offering readers a way to experience different aspects of Stalin’s the Soviet Union through his telling of the prison camps. This paper will explore a few of these characters, including Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, Alyosha the Baptist, Fetiukov the scrounger, Captain Buinovsku, and…
World War II was a byproduct of World War I and Germany’s anger toward the League of Nations for issuing The Treaty of Versailles. The German government and people felt cheated at the outcome of World War I because Germany had been blamed for the war itself and left to pay the debt of the war. The Treaty of Versailles, produced by the League of Nations, was a treaty forced upon the German people which not only took land from the Germans, including France, Belgium, Denmark, Czechoslovakia and…