Oscar Hammerstein II

Prior to World War I, world powers mainly consisted of a few major European empires all of which owned colonies across the globe. However, following the Second World War, empires disbanded, and many colonies began to form independent nations. This time period is commonly called the decolonization era. This movement of decolonization was strongly backed by the newly formed United Nations. In 1960 the UN passed the General Assembly Resolution 1514 which stated, “ [this charter] proclaims the…

Andrew Boutton and David B. Carter attempt to analyze the popular belief that the United States provides financial aid to globally fight terrorism. There have been several different studies in the past with varied deductions on the connection between how it is determined which state receives aid, in what way this aid affects terrorism in the aided state, and if the U.S. truly follows its foreign policy based upon President Bush’s statement that the war on terrorism will not end until “every…

America was a major combatant in one of the bloodiest wars in human history, World War Two. If America had not entered this conflict, the outcome may have been completely different, and the world significantly different than from what it is now. It may have been the attack on Pearl Harbor that officially marked America’s entrance into the war, but the reason actually stems back about 90 years ago, when Commodore Mathew Perry forced Japan open to trade. It was Commodore Perry who encountered…

World War 2 was fought from 1939 to 1945 in Europe and during much of the 1930s and 1940s in Asia. It was not till the 3rd of September 1939 when Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies broadcast on every national and commercial radio station in Australia the beginning of Australia 's involvement in the War. Many men and women contributed to the war effort, the men going to fight in other countries, while the women like in the first world war stayed in Australia knitting socks and baking cookies to…

World War II “What, oh, what is the use of the war? Why can’t people live peacefully together? Why all this destruction?” The person who said this is none other than 15-year old Anne Frank, a victim of the Holocaust that occurred during World War II. Anne Frank is one of almost six million lives lost during the Holocaust. The Holocaust, however, is just one side to the story of World War II. While most individuals know what was happening on the frontlines during the war, not many know what…

During World War II, under Hitler’s leadership, Germans and their accomplices around Europe murdered 6 million Jews. They destroyed Jewish communities that dated back to ancient Rome and almost completely eliminated the Jewish presence from Amsterdam to Athens, Zagreb…

Billy Stevens was just a regular teenage boy. He went to school, had friends that he consorted with, had parents who loved him. Life was normal for him. Until the war started. Hundreds of thousands of boys his age enlisted to fight for the cause. Despite his mother’s wishes, Stevens did too. He was hoping to find action, adventure, and glory on the battlefield. What he found instead was a trauma that he would never get over. Billy Stevens experienced many forms of trauma during his service in…

Some might say that history might be repeating itself with everything that is going on. There are many things going on in this world with the Syrian refugees that can be compared to what happened in the Holocaust and the Japanese being put in the internment camps. The things that are happening in syria right now and the refugees wanting to leave is similar to what happened with the Jews in Germany. The Holocaust was a very difficult time for the jews. Adolf Hitler was…

Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The merciless bombs were dropped on August 6, 1945, by an American officer in the U.S Air Force by the name of Charles W. Sweeney, on a Booing B-29 Superfortress bomber plane during the final stages of World War II (1939-1945). The mid nineteen forty 's was without a doubt a staggering time for the Japanese nation; this was a period loaded with resentment and anger as they glimpsed a massive nuclear bomb headed straight to them as a B-29 bomber fled the…

support what was going on forcefully. In the 1960 's, Captain America transformed into a considerably more dynamic character, a reflection on the more dynamic well known supposition on the Cold War versus the one-dimensional perspective of World War II. A vast bit of America wasn 't sure how they felt about the Cold War, or were decidedly against it, and subsequently prominent appraisal on the American military began to change and move and incorporate a greater number of viewpoints than in years…