Post-World War II baby boom

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,…

The Negative Impact of the Cold War Whenever there is more than one world power, it will always result in a dispute. Many conflicts, such as World War One, occurred as a result of various countries with immense power. It is the imbalance of power that lead to two World Wars. The Cold War is a result of unfinished affairs at the culmination of World War Two. There were two world powers that possess completely differing ideologies. Although the two countries, America and USSR never directly…

matters into its own hands to ensure an end to war on its own terms. The atomic bomb was, in fact, “a clear step designated to force Japan’s unconditional surrender;” however, this statement fails…

a path hoping that it is the one to take them to the center of the earth and water. They soon find out they are in the wrong tunnel and turn around and find water and the way to the center of the earth. However, they soon encounter a whole other world just a few miles below the crust of the earth filled with unusual and extinct plants and animals. There is also a lake they must cross in order to make it to another island containing a cave leading to the center. Many problems arise when they…

Art is about individual finding and imagination. It is an boulevard by which a culture is judged on its victory or failures. The intellectual and affecting strength of its populace is often prejudiced by optimistic or harmful effects that the guidance has on those society. There are at smallest amount three periods in narration in the 20th century, worldwide, where the talent of a people or inhabitants has been honestly prejudiced by the management or political bearing of that nation. The…

The American prisoners of war, Japanese-Americans, and the Japanese in Hiroshima all suffered during World War Two. The American POWs were starved and beaten. Japanese Americans were forced from their homes to live in internment camps. Japanese in Hiroshima had a bomb dropped on them and their lives destroyed. Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman stated "War is Cruelty." This quote applies to the Pacific Front of WWII because the American POWs, Japanese-Americans, and Japanese…

people argue that war is inevitable for humans, but I disagree with this. It is not a necessity but, as Margret Mead put it, an “invention”. Mead, an anthropologist and expert on human culture, writing during World War II, gives examples of cultures who do not engage in warfare. There are the Lepchas of Sikkim who are a peaceful people, and the Eskimos, who are passionate, aggressive people. They engage in one-on-one fights to assert dominance. This demonstrates that the absence of war can not…

Multi-dialects, Confusion, English? A Bavarian priest tried to create the first universal language in the year 1880 and he called it Volapük. A language that was taken from the existing French, German and English, and was difficult to learn. It consisted of odd sounds and case endings similar to Latin. It did not take long before a new language emerged (McWhorter). This new language was a blend of words from India and Europe. It became known as Esperanto. Regardless, of this fact Esperanto was…

communism spreading and the possibility of nuclear warfare. The Cold War and The Cuban Missile Crisis became the center of the political issues that captured America’s fears. The focus of these two ideals became adapted, in two separate films: Three Presidents Go To War, and the satire black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I stopped Worrying and Loved the Bomb. Within the films, one will discover how close Americans came to an all out nuclear war, how Strangelove represented the elements within…