Polish resistance movement in World War II

of America as a superpower in the mid-1940s. It was this mantle that caused the United States, for whatever reason, to assume responsibility for the reconstruction of nations both in the west and in the east following the devastating effects of World War II. A point largely dismissed by those too young to remember. That virtually uncontested assumption of responsibility combined with the need for smaller countries to align themselves with something counter to the growing might of the Soviet…

achieve something great would be doing. Melvin was unsatisfied with small town life, and was determined to make a difference. He told his sister that he was going to be like Douglas MacArthur, the famous General that fought in both of the World Wars. In World War II General MacArthur was famously known for his campaigns in the Pacific and in Asia, a place where Melvin would soon have his own mettle tested. Having the desire to walk in a General’s shoes can quickly lead a man to become…

It was not Allied tactical superiority which eneded the war, then: it was a crisis of German morale, and this can only partly be attributed to the exogenous force of Allied infantry and artillery. (8 August?) D613 G59 Wars can end only when the minimum terms of sttlement of both sides become compatible, when both are asking no more thant the other side is willing to give up. The counter argument is that the war ends when one side is so defeated that it has to accept the terms offered…

1939 to 1945. With Hitler in its wake, a surge of Nazi German invasions reeked havoc as World War II played out across the continent. With the threat of this unrelenting force, an unlikely alliance was born: The Grand Alliance. Great Britain, the United States of America, and the Soviet Union all put their former disagreements behind them and banded together to suppress Hitler and his devotees. The Second World War merely acted as a Band-Aid to patch together this old feud in order to defeat a…

The First World War, began in July of 1914. It did not end until July of 1923 when the final peace treaty between Turkey and the Allied powers was signed. Throughout the course of the war, everyone was impacted. For soldiers life in the trenches was unbearable. Factory workers were constantly forced to work under harsh conditions and in dangerous situations. Refugees who tried escaping the terrors of war in their homelands were faced with even more challenges when trying to find safety in new…

The War To End All Wars One June evening in the 1914, in the Ottoman Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were visiting the town of Sarajevo to speak with the mayor and other officials. Six members Serbian nationalists set out to assassinate the Archduke, they had no idea the magnitude of the impact their actions would cause. Later that day, one of the men shot Ferdinand dead and sparked a war between the Serbia (the country the assassins represented) and Austria-Hungary. Shortly…

were the result of granting Jewish citizens political power. Through the passage of the Nuremburg Laws, Germany took radical steps in ridding the Fatherland of the Jewish problem. The inferiority of the Jewish race plagued Germany as they prepared for war, and the leaders of the Nazi party found it necessary to eradicate this problem in whatever means necessary. These actions were sparked when Hitler spoke out in Mein Kampf…

racial slurs and stereotypes. This is ironic because the United States is supposed to be a melting pot of different races, cultures, and languages. Everyone’s families had to have immigrated to the United States from various other countries around the world. There is no surprise that when the Japanese immigrated to Hawaii, and then to the United States in the latter part of the nineteenth century, they became the newest target of prejudice. The Japanese Americans have gone through tremendous…

The Plea to Commence War In order to gain freedom from the despotism of the British monarchy, citizens of the United States took it into their hands to persuade the loyalists to take action against injustice. In 1775, Patrick Henry powerfully addressed the idea to commence war upon the British to resolve the issue of oppression at the Virginia Convention. He was able to conjure conflict and fear within the minds of the audience members by appealing to emotion, and making religious or…

History of how Hitler came to power During the 1930’s, Germany suffered economic hardship because of their lost in World War I (WWI). The Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, and ordered Germany to down size the number of military troops, transfer territory to its neighbors, and pay reparations. The huge amount in reparations paid, caused the economic hardship, and left many Germans unsure in their government. Then, along came Adolf Hitler, and his party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party,…