Commanders of World War II

The world knows Walt Disney as the epitome of animation. His movies are known just as well throughout the world, but he is not known for his political dealings. J Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI during the Cold War, is not known for his effects on Hollywood. During the Cold War, both of these men dabbled in areas that they were not experts in. During the Cold War, Walt Disney started a more political angle to get more recognition for his work and more profit for his studio, to combat…

from the aftermath of World War II, currently has 193 Member States. The UN focuses on peace and human rights, doing its best to clean up the broken pieces of war stricken countries. The most current global human rights issue is the Syrian Refugee Crisis; in March of 2011 anti-government demonstrators began a peaceful protest, which quickly escalated to a civil war, continuing today. According to a recent article, “More than four years after it began, the full-blown civil war has killed over…

Humans are one of the most violent and selfish species on Earth. In the book A Short History of Progress, written by Ronald Wright, it explains how the past’s consequences still affect people today. If humans do not change the way they act soon, they will live with the consequences and so will the future generations. Violence and greed are some of the things that have brought empires down and it can soon happen today, Wright believes that humans are the “last ship sailing.” Through time humans…

After world war two, there was a transformation of American that took place in the nation. Had much changing with the automobile, television, the GI bill, suburbanization, and effect of consumerism in the nation society, women gender, and racial segregation experience. Additionally, able to know the role that religion had in the Post World War II society. To start from transformation that happen back then, with the new start of the television and the automobile, and people started to use them in…

Immensely different from WWII, during the Cold War, the United States moved its citizens the same way it it had previously done to rally support in World War II. “During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed frighteningly real to many people in the United States. These fears came to define–and, in…

intrigued me, it would have to be History. It’s all too common that people are not interested in history because of the laborious dates, mass amounts of information, or even the conflicting opinions. I enjoy seeing how generations before us perceived our world, or how human beings before us handled pressing situations. History is the key to perfecting our future. As much as I relish History, there is one simple yet disappointing fact; I won’t remember everything that was taught to me. More…

Slaughterhouse-Five gives an intriguing perspective on World War II and the lasting effects that it had on the men who fought through it and went on to live out their lives in “normalcy”. The author, Kurt Vonnegut, uses irony, dark humor, and spontaneity to create an unorthodox depiction of the life of one of these said soldiers, Billy Pilgrim, the main character in the novel. In this light, he uses Pilgrim’s experiences in World War II to demonstrate the true nature of war to those who were…

town of Guanica, in the moment of the Spanish-American War. Therefore, at that moment Puerto Ricans were promised to be liberated from Spanish colonialism. A few years after his arrival, Congress would move swiftly in securing this land as it would become the most important colony. And so, Congress passed the Foraker Act, which declared the island as US territory. Therefore, this act would become very beneficial due to the active World War I and it created a stronghold because the act…

Nazis planned against the Jewish population in Europe. These actd started with the rise of one man, Adolf Hitler. World War one ended with the Treaty of Versailles which set the environment up for Hitler in the Nazis to rise. The Third Reich guided the social crime against the Jewish people and use excuses such as racial laws for the violent acts that led to the tragic loss of World War two. A person cannot be born evil or good. The thought of a child develops when they grow. Good and evil are…

August 1945, the world saw the first and only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. The United States use of the atomic bombs on Japan, One of the most controversial decisions in history, resulted in the death of over 130,000 people and caused un-predicted effects on physical health and economic relations upon the world. Historians contrast the effects brought upon the world and justifications for using the atomic bombs as a solution to ending the war. The atomic bombs changed the world and brought…