Biological warfare

There are many events in history that stand to be crucial for new American citizens to learn about. This is because of how they impacted our world, both positively and negatively, and how we can learn from our predecessor's actions and decisions. The U.S. atomic bombings of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one example. It is a very important topic because of the tough choices that it brought to the table for not just the U.S., but for the entire world. These bombings, how they came…

Liberty Leading the People and Guernica are two very famous paintings that display war in different subject matters. Liberty Leading the People is an artwork of the French Revolution by Eugene Delacroix. Guernica is by Pablo Picasso, and is about the bombing of the City of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The two paintings have similarities and differences portrayed in the artwork. The paintings have much symbolism and political messages about war. The paintings have many similarities and…

that warranted a novel way of thinking befitting of the emerging nuclear era. The engineering of the first nuclear weapons started in the United States in WWII with the Manhattan Project. The introduction of this WMD dramatically changed human warfare by increasing the level of destruction proposed by a single weapon and introduced the concept of mutually assured destruction. States are now more cautious when entering into a conflict because of this newly presented…

Trench warfare was one of the deadliest ways of fighting World War I. One of the ways that trench warfare was so dangerous was chlorine gas. Chlorine gas caused great damage to the repertory system. If soldiers inhaled the gas it caused death by asphyxiation because their lungs filled with fluid and cause severe breathing problems. It would also cause intense irritation of the skin, the eyes, and the throat. The gas was soon contained into shells that were dropped directly into enemy trenches…

Before Truman was the 33rd president of the United States he was the vice president for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During the 1944 presidential elections Roosevelt chose Truman to be his running mate because his former vice president, Harry Wallace, was not well liked. He was only vice president for 82 days when Roosevelt died of a stroke. When Truman came into office America was in the middle of the Second World War. The war had already been going on for six years before Truman became president…

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice shocked viewers when Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel was killed off by Doomsday, although comic book readers probably already knew what was coming the moment Lex Luthor’s creation appeared in the film’s trailer. Nevertheless, the death of Superman doesn’t seem to faze director Zack Snyder, who is already interested in working on Man of Steel 2! Snyder recently spoke to IGN, where he confirmed that he would want to do another film about the DC superhero. “I think if…

Explosive volcanoes are one of the most dangerous natural occurrences on the planet, but the types of volcanoes that can destroy the world are know as super volcanoes. Super volcanoes are determined by past explosion and this volcano can be located in the United States called Yellow Stone. Their criteria also depend on the volume of an eruption, for a super volcano the eruption must be more than 240 cubic miles of pumas and ash. There had been three super explosions that fit the criteria at…

that German forces used to initiate large-scale chemical warfare during World War I at the Second Battle of Ypres, which affected the use of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. World War I began in Ypres on October 7, 1914, when German forces troops entered…

that they had fought on. Tanks, mustard gas, and airplanes not only changed the way wars were fought, but they changed many more wars to come. Tanks were first introduced in World War I on September 15, 1916, the tanks were used to combat trench warfare the tracks known as caterpillar tracks gave the tanks a good grip in the mud and allowed them to travel over rough terrain that other vehicles could not. Their heavy armor made them slow but protected the crew from small arms fire…

If a gigantic atomic bomb hit your home you’d be scared too, right? That's exactly what the people of Hiroshima did, and here's how they grew from it. Through tragedies we learn from our past to grow our communities in spirit of a hopeful future by courageous and having humility. By being courageous we can stand together to help others in need. When you have courage you can get more done because you aren't afraid of the outcome. In Hiroshima Mr. Tanimoto and father Kleinsorge went out to look…