Bombing of Dresden in World War II

Yesterday Turned To Today, Today Will Turn To Tomorrow Students believe history is insignificant, waste of time, and useless. Wrong, today can 't exist without yesterday. The United States’s yesterday was a battlefield, a Revolution, a Civil War, a fight for freedom, and a fight for civil rights. Today, the revolution continues and events continue to shape tomorrow. The United States’s past eras, in specific the 1920’s and the 1950’s, are important because of the events which occurred. The…

Christopher Clark’s book, The Sleepwalkers, and the introduction of Margaret MacMillan’s book, War or Peace, both examine the origins and the events that led to the First World War. Clark focuses on examining how the war broke out while MacMillan focuses on why the war started particularly in 1914. In his introduction, Clark states the difficulties experienced when researching the origins of the First World War. These problems include the artifacts’ use as propaganda and their unreliability,…

environment around us, what people think of us the first time they see us walking inside a room, fashion separates us in social classes and maybe this why fashion is game. Fashion is something powerful so powerful that millions of people all over the world gather in New York, Milan, Paris, and London just to see in the runways what will be the next season trends and what will…

The book by Stephen E. Ambrose ‘D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II’ is about the planning and execution of D-Day mostly told in the viewpoint and words of soldiers who were there to witness it all. The book starts in the beginning of 1944 and ends on D-Day. Eisenhower the commander of the allies, and Rommel the commander for the Germans had much in common, but the major difference was Eisenhower could command anyway he wanted to. Rommel however had to get permission from…

The historical non-fiction book D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II explains the planning and execution of D-Day. Ambrose used the stories of soldiers who witnessed it all to tell the account of D-Day. D-day was the allied invasion of German-occupied France, the allies invaded France to open up a second front in the war. By opening a second front this would relive pressure on the Soviet Union in the Western front. General Eisenhower was to plan this enormous task of…

The last words of Liesel’s novel are: “I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” (528). Words are an essential piece of Liesel’s life, which she shares both good and bad memories with and hopes to use for good, not evil. To exemplify this theme, Markus Zusak, the author, picks and apt setting: “She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words.” (147). This quote is significant as it connects the power of words to one…

William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, was written in 1954 in the post world war 2 era. This is where Golding drew his inspiration for his novel. One of the major themes, good vs. evil, can be closely tied to the religious allegory and the struggle between good and evil within the war. Religion also plays a major role in the novel because many characters and objects can be thought of as symbols for it. Through Golding’s work the theme of good vs. evil, shown through Jack and Ralph, Simon…

On the 28th of June, 1914, the world-famous assassination took place in Sarajevo. The heir of the Austria-Hungary empire ------ Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a member of the Black Hand[ Black Hand: A secret military society in Serbia which mainly consisted of young Serbian men who is willing to die for his country.], which had given the A-H empire a good reason to declare war on Serbia. This had pulled out the complicated national relations within the European continent bonded by variety…

comes across in their lifetime will determine who that person becomes. These are the ethical dilemmas that can change a person’s life and lives of people around them. In World War II these were the choices that made people perpetrators, bystanders, or rescuers. In Michael Bess’s book he defines the choices that were made in World War II and the reasoning behind them. Iris Origo’s personal narrative gives evidence of…

blames Germany totally for the first world war. The Second article that we will be comparing it to is Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf; which are the accounts Hitler composed while he was in “prison for treason” (***). This book focuses on how the Jews are taking over and that Germans are the superior race that was chosen to defeat the Jewish people. These are the two articles that historians to this day still debate on whether or not they are the cause of World War 2. In order to properly examine…