First Battle of the Marne

Russia. That alliance was called the Triple Entente. During this alliance, Germany was pairing themselves with Austria-Hungary, also known as the central powers. On June 28th, 1914, in an event widely regarded to have sparked the outbreak of the first great war. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungary empire, was found shot to death along with his wife by a Bosnian Serbian named Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Archduke had been inspecting the imperial armed forces led by his…

On December 17th, 1903, two Americans, Wilbur and Orville Wright created the first successful airplane design. As the only sustained, controlled, heavier-than-air, human flight of the time, it was groundbreaking. Furthermore, their three-axis control became and remains the standard steering system on various fixed-wing aircrafts. Their basic design would be developed into the much-more-practical Wright Flyer III. However, large scale usage of aviation technology would not be observed until World…

U.S. after Japan is attacking them and then the Germans declaring war on them. After, the Japanese bombed the U.S. they had started to get bombed. U.S. started to push back Japan toward Japan. Key battles that pushed them back was the Battle of Coral where the ships never saw each other, also the Battle of Midway. Right after Japan bombed the U.S. we went and bombed them. To end the war, the U.S. went and nuked Japan twice. Back in Europe air warfare was now in the Allies favor. D-Day was a…

being completely crushed in the first days of war. Moltke reduced the…

A constant battle between the Huguenots and the Catholic Church/French government, caused the lives of the public to dramatically change, first because, their cities and towns became the center of conflict. On “Friday, September 26,1567, the town of Montereaux-sur-Yonne was taken by some disturbers of the public peace, otherwise known as Huguenots”; Soissons, Lagny-sur-Marne, Orleans followed. People’s lives crumbled because of all of the violence…

Dear Mama, I have missed you dearly. I hope that you are not worried about my safety and well-being. I have been staying strong like you told me to. I am sorry that this is my first time writing you since I left home. I have been in an abundance of places, and this is the first time that I have been able to sit down to write you a letter. I have made some new friends since I have been here, and I met up with some old friends. Some of the things that my friends and I have experienced since we…

every battle of American History. From the Mexican war where the “Blood Stripe” were earned for heavy losses of Non Commissioned Officers and Officers at Chapultepec to the attack of Libya led by Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon in 1805. The memory of these battles would be in heavy use when the Marine Corps hymn was in widespread use. Now heard in the Marine…

When writing The Stranger, Albert Camus had other intentions than just giving his audience some story about the life of an indifferent man. The novel itself gives the main character, Meursault, a way of thinking that some would find unimaginable and incomparable to any character that might be seen in another piece of literature. While the book makes an attempt at making sure the reader understands the philosophy of Meursault while progressing through his timeline, the philosophy Meursault…

Over the last century, since it happened on the 1st July 1916, the Battle of the Somme has been viewed and qualified as one of the most significant battles in history. It was the first major offensive of the war against the main enemy, the Germans, in which British troops played the leading part. Many different historians in different times have almost opposite opinions/facts about what happened. However, they all agree on one thing: it’s significance. Whether it was due to failures, successes,…

1. The Opium Wars contributed to the creation of Imperialism greatly. Right before the first war, Chinese leaders were trying to purge themselves of the drug making Europeans upset. They believed they had the right to trade with whomever they wanted which led to fighting. British beat the Chinese and with the Treaty of Nanking got trading privileges, and access to five cities and Hong Kong, controlling trade. After the second war, other countries thought they should have the same rights and…