Halloween II

Fighter and Bomber Aircraft of WWII During World War II, aviation firmly established itself as an important part of warfare. Countries taking part in WWII quickly learned that dominating the air meant winning the war. Before WWII, most of the strategies for air warfare were mainly theoretical, since WWI had little effective air warfare, and most air to air combat at the time was primitive. Fighter aircraft are military aircraft which are designed mostly for air to air combat against other…

interests. Prior to and including World War II, if the President decided that war was needed, he would ask Congress for an official declaration of war. This process is enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. A state of war was recognized before the President deployed troops and commenced his power as Commander-in-Chief. The controversy surrounding war has escalated as a result of United States involvement in foreign wars after World War II. In general, the President bypassed the…

trajectory, and time of detonation (Technology of War). Aircrafts are also suited with stealth technology from Germany that helps conceal the aircraft and increases accuracy for a successful attack. Many of these aircrafts include the F-35 Lightning II, F-22 Raptor, and the B-2 Spirit (Chow). Technology has made leaps and bounds since the early 1900’s and is continuing to grow…

The United States became somewhat imperialistic to an extent that their only motives were to gain raw materials, military strategic purposes, and to join a greater market sell their manufactured goods. Before the turn of the 20th century the united states were still trying to conquer their own continent. The united states were not thinking about overseas empires. It wasn’t until after the war of 1898 when America gained interest in colonial empires. The outcome of this war lead to the United…

The Causes of World War 1/ the Great War The Great War, or what most people know it as World War 1, was an extremely bloody war that took place in Europe from 1914-1919. World War 1 caused an estimated of 10 million soldier deaths and 20 million more wounded. Finally, at the end of 1918, the Versailles Treaty was signed by the countries taking part in the war, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Britain, France and Russia, which was a treaty that ended the state of war between Germany and the…

The effects of World War I, or ‘The Great War’, on Germany were very detrimental to the nation socially and economically. World War I was a series of battles fought from mid 1914 to late 1918, and involved many nations. During the war German daily life was vastly impacted, especially in terms of food and raw material shortages. In the middle of World War I the German economy felt immense pressures and women and the youth became a valuable part of the workforce. After the Germans ‘lost’ the war…

and technology have always been necessary for the advancements of nation-states throughout history. Additionally both science and technology play extensive roles in the progression of the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and World War I and II. In the Enlightenment science and technology helped establish the heliocentric theory, Newton’s laws of motion and the law of gravitation. The Industrial Revolution focused on the transition from wood to metal and farming to industrialization. The…

The decision to drop an atomic bomb on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, respectively, was, simply put, a foolish, rash, and depraved action that could be classified as a diplomatic blunder, among other things; certainly it could not be seen as either a military necessity or a scientific experiment: for scientists already knew enough about their project to determine the consequences, at least in the short term, such that if the dropping was an experiment, it was the most morally depraved one…

I stumbled across an article on CNN.com about a Japanese Zero pilot in World War II lamenting the war and his country’s role in it. One point made in the article that caught my attention was “Harada said his main concern is that as his war generations dies out, decisions about Japan’s future will rest with younger people who have only known peace and never experienced the horrors of war” (Wright, 2015). That is a sobering thought and equally applicable here in the United States along with the…

sides fell into a stalemate. This is perhaps when a third world war looked imminent. Much like Japan at the end of World War II, the North Korean army had been driven back into their own territory, yet refused to surrender. They could not come to a peaceful agreement, and the U.S. dropping a bomb on North Korea would have the same effect as it had on Japan at the end of World War II. However, instead of ending a war, it would have started one. The USSR also has nuclear weapons, and if the U.S.…