Participants in World War II

leagues. In the 1880’s, the Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League were two leagues created to help blacks assert themselves. Soon players and teams gained popularity, thus empowering some oppressed people. During the time of the Civil War, the black community became caught up in the same baseball passion that had taken root in the rest of the country. Black teams and local leagues formed across the nation, and in the 1880s, black players even began to make their way into the…

: 2 The 1960’s was a decade of revolution and change in politics, music, and society around the world. It was an era of protest. The decade shaped the country and made it how it is today. There were numerous amounts of leaders, presidents, motivators, etc. that changed how the society lived then, and how we now live our day to day lives right this very moment. They all wanted a change in equality, and freedom for the people. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most influential voice of the…

A difficult question that surrounds the idea of the Cold War is what we all have heard since high school history class, did atomic weapons cause the cold war, or at the very least, accelerate it? According to many historians, the Cold War was a conflict of two main objectives; the development of nuclear weapons and the fear of communism and soviet expansion. With these two key characteristics, it is only logical to say that the Cold War was a spawn of both of them combined. It began as a…

The demise of the Soviet Union would seem to be a victory for the Soviet West because they had lived under the communist rule for so long they did know realize how different their lives were than their eastern counterparts. When The East was eventually allowed to cross the boarders into the West, many people realized that their visitors, who were all doing well off financially, had a better standard of living than they had. While one would think this was a victory for the West, it was not a…

INTRODUCTION Considering the position of America as both the global authoritative superpower and a centrally involved participant in world affairs, any action taken to adjust the current grand strategy will have vast ramifications on all actors in the international system. Ultimately, the decision will fall upon the shoulders of our future president; whether Donald Trump will continue the political status quo of deep engagement or follow through on his “Make America Great Again” campaign…

cultural, historical and psychological. These lenses will debut the manner in which our country has been influenced by television sitcoms since the fifties until recent years. In the year 1951, on CBS the sitcom named I Love Lucy aired and took the world by storm.…

Following the incredible chaos of World War One, the restlessness in America shaped into a new era: the Jazz Age. “The Jazz Age is the name given to the era in American history between the end of WW1 and the start of the Great Depression in 1929 (Alchin, Linda. 1913-1928: WW1 & Prohibition).” The Nineteen Twenties were a time of many radical cultural changes in America. Young men who had returned from combat longed to make the most of the rest of their time, and began living rather reckless…

highly effective person,” it talks about being in the right place at the right time. Wallenberg was very ADVANTAGEOUS. Everybody knew he was the right man when it came to the war against Nazi Germany. On August 4, 1912, Raoul Wallenberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden (“Raoul Wallenberg”).…

The Catalan independence movement is a political movement that emerged from Catalan nationalism that is mainly dedicated to the support of the independence of Catalonia from Spain and France. This feeling is brought by the dictatorial times of Franco who attempted to suppress the Catalan identity. To give a more geographical sense of Catalonia, it is a roughly triangular region in Spain's far northeast corner, which is separated by the Pyrenean mountains from southern France to which they share…

medium of air, water, cattle or crops. The history of biological warfare and terrorism goes back to the dawn of civilization. (1) The instances of the use of biological weapons can be found as early as in ancient times such as the Trojan War, or the Sacred War of Greece. Although this type of warfare…