Oscar Hammerstein II

On October 29, 1929, on a day know as “black tuesday”, the Start Market Crashed resulting in one of the most terrifying events in American history, the Great Depression. At this time “banks failed, the nation 's money supply diminished, companies went bankrupt, and workers were being fired in packs”. When FDR became president in 1933 he tried to “stabilize the economy” and “provide jobs to those who were suffering”. To do this FDR instituted “a series of experimental projects known as the New…

1. The movie depicts the change of identity in Russia and for the Russian people by showing the downfall of the Romanov dynasty. It starts with the beloved Tsar and Tsaritsa ruling over imperial Russia and progresses forward with them becoming less and less popular. This downward shift in popularity is partly because of the close friendship of the Tsaritsa with the drunkard Siberian priest Rasputin. Despite his stated noble intentions to help and serve his Matushka and Batushka his mere presence…

The theme of the book Yellow Star is, the understanding in which the main character of the book experience as a child. It taught me, what it was like for Jews during World War II. Made me feel like I was actually there experiencing the struggle the jews had to go through. I feel as though the treatment was harsh and unnecessary, because all people should be treated equally regardless of one 's race. No human being should ever be left to starve, or freeze to death, or be treated as animals,or…

USSR soil, the impact of both super powers were largely present during the Vietnam War. The conflict in Vietnam started during the Indochina War, when France was fighting in Vietnam to stop Communism from spreading to North Vietnam. After World War II, France took control of Vietnam, because Japan surrendered to the US, and the US granted the land to the French. After the battle of Dien Bien Phu the French surrendered. After the war, North Vietnam “went red”, or in other words became Communist.…

Was the fall of Imperial Russia Inevitable? The fall of the Russian Empire was a cause of many events, but was it inevitable? In short yes. I believe that Nicholas II was kindling to the fall of Imperial Russia and World War 1 was the spark that lit it. On the optimist’s side, there were signs of Russia slowly becoming more stable before the war ruined all the progress made. Their economy was rapidly growing in Europe. Russia would have had an industrial economy in less than a decade. Therefore…

Europe was that the war almost killed an entire generation of Europeans. Over eight million men died fighting and twice that were the number of men wounded permanently. The events that happened during and after World War I would lead up to World War II. Some men that survived World War I eventually became leaders for their countries in the 1930s, like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The citizens in their countries looked up to the survivors as father figures and leaders since they fought in…

their experiences similar (name & explain at least 2 similarities)? There are multiple points of comparison between the experiences of World War II veteran, Carl Amundson, and Iraq War veteran Joel Talsma. A key difference in the experience of the two veterans is the amount of direct combat. While serving in the Pacific theater during World War II Carl Amundson was faced with direct combat with the Japanese’s forces. Notably, the Battle off Samar in which his ship USS Gambier Bay sunk,…

The Atomic bomb is the most controversial weapon ever made by man; first used by the United States of America during World War Two, it evaporated tens of thousands of people In seconds and destroyed whole cities. The Atomic bomb was devastating but not devastating enough for the U.S. Government who started another bomb project only this time experimenting with Hydrogen. Thus the Hydrogen bomb was created; a bomb that was feared by all people who knew about it. This paper will give one a good…

The arms race. A competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare that occurred before and during the Cold War. In this time, both the US and the Soviet Union were competing for supremacy. When the power of the nuclear weapon was discovered, both the United States and the Soviet Union believed that the more nuclear weapons they had, the more powerful they were. Thus the arms race began. Both of these countries aimed to create more and more nuclear weapons in order to have the upper hand which had…

Throughout Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, which is placed in World War One, it is evident that the German soldiers frequently dealt with loss. In various scenarios, Paul Baümer, the protagonist, is faced with loss, whether it is the realization that they have lost their youthhood and innocence, or whereas in many situations where he experiences his fellow comrades die and evokes emotions of sadness and woe. However, it is not the singular notion of loss that affects them,…