Participants in World War II

to imagine the world without wars. People study wars of the past in history classes since the beginning of these classes. Some studied wars even before history classes started to exist, for example in ancient Greece, Aristotle was teaching pupils about wars of Alexander the Great. Famous philosopher Plato said: “Only the dead have seen the end of war”, that means wars are eternal, they never end; if one war ends, another starts immediately and the worst is that there are many wars occurring in…

they still proceed because of the fact that they are being told to. 26 out of 40 of the participants in the milgram experiment delivered deadly levels of shock to a person because of the order they were given. You would think that it would be easy to stand up to an authority figure in a similar situation before obeying such outrageous orders. Mia Shaw notes, “ Following World War II, Nazi officers accused of war crimes would defend themselves with the notion that…

Everyone knows about World War II, Hitler rose to power in Germany and created a Nazi Regime to persecute as many Jews as possible in an attempt to purify the human race. However, in November of 1938, a mere nine months before the official start of the war, the British Consulate, signed a bill declaring that Eastern European children under the age of seventeen would be welcomed into England with the condition that a sponsor was willing to board you and pay 50 pounds (approx. 1,000 pounds in…

Fight The Why We Fight Series was a series of films produced by Frank Capra in 1942 for the Department of War. The videos were used to train new incoming military recruits and get them excited for the war. The movies showed army recruits as well as American public the history of many different historical wars and used them to show what the United States could gain from joining World War II. The series pretended to inform the American public, but they were really trying to change the citizens’…

Throughout history, there have been many wars and much oppression of certain groups worldwide. One of the world’s most famous and cruelest oppressions was the Holocaust. Near the end of World War II, America dropped the first two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki which brought the end of the war. Some historians may argue that the Holocaust was more about liberating the people in concentration camps and giving those people freedom from Hitler and his dictatorship. Other may argue that not…

their time took into account more than the ending of World War II, but the future repercussions as well. Szilard presents a petition that brings to light an argument revied by 69 scientists and himself, all expects in nuclear technology in order to prevent the President of the United States from plunging the world into a state of nuclear fear. As well as an appeal to the emotional and logical thinking of the American people and leader of the free world. The following will evaluate the…

American naval base located in Hawaii. This attack changed America’s position in the war from a bystander to a full participant in the second World War. Before the bombing of Pearl Harbor lied Japan 's thirst for expansion. Being the pre modernized nation they were in the years prior. Japan being the weaker unmodernized country they had been felt it was time to get on the same level as the other nations. World War I was just the beginning of the expansion Japan had desired. With the massive…

books related to war from various authors. These authors wrote their works in a multitude of ways. The time periods at which these authors wrote differed immensely. One author wrote at the time of the civil war, others during the Vietnam War, and another during World War II. The style at which they wrote was anything but similar. The variance of literature was as great as their time difference. Some expressed their writings in a way of short stories, poems, novels, science fiction war novels,…

Introduction In 1963, there was one of the most ethically controversial experiments ever conducted. The reasoning behind it? The actions of Nazi Soldiers during World War 2. At its helm was Stanley Milgram, a Harvard Graduate, who had the intelligence and foresight to create an experiment that would, with minimal bias, put to the test the compliance of human nature. His experiment would prove the true “nature of obedience.” (Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, 1974) Milgram…

During World World II thousands of Jews seeked refuge from Hitler and the Nazis in Germany. At this point in time many countries did not want to accept large amounts of Jewish refugees, including the United States. However, many Jews still made the effort to make the journey to America in hopes of getting an asylum. Back then, American immigration policies denied many Jews access. Now, the Syrian refugees who are trying to elude ISIS and the war zone that has consumed their homeland are either…