Post-World War II baby boom

With the victory at the conclusion of World War II, Americans experienced an all time high and viewed Dwight D. Eisenhower, Presidential candidate, as a savior—the man who defeated Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and the man who ended the Korean War (after becoming President). Despite his early success, it soon became one of his administrations to avoid long, expensive, and inconclusive wars similar to Korea. While doing this, they also intended to balance the budget and control taxes and inflation.…

newborn daughters in hope of having a son. Terror attacks are becoming more and more frequent and since “human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere”, people all over the world are beginning to live in fear (Wiesel 119). Homosexuals and African Americans are continually being targeted, proving that the world has a long way to go before it truly reaches equality. Remembering the Holocaust can be society’s first step in learning how to deal with the hate that will in some way,…

What is known as the First Moroccan Crisis arose when Kaiser Wilhelm II wished to divide the Franco-Anglo Entente, and so visited the French influenced Morocco and pushed for Morocco’s independence from France. The manoeuvre backfired but set the scene for the Second Moroccan Crisis. French presence in Agadir, the capital…

It was also at this point that Roosevelt doubled down on wilsonian principles, with his introduction of his new aims for the war: the Four Freedoms (Kissinger 389). He laid out these four freedoms --- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from war --- as the goals of any conflict the United States would enter into. He proclaimed that Nazi war crimes and attacks on civilians were showing more and more than the safety of american values overseas was in jeopardy…

this technology was The United States, and it was used for the first time at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in World War II. The devastation caused by the two nuclear bombs was so catastrophic that it led to an immediate end of the six year war. Since then, the technology has proliferated to other countries, and today, nine countries in total possess nuclear weapons. Recently, third world countries such as Iran and North Korea have developed, or are in the process of developing, nuclear…

World War Two caused the death of millions of innocent people and the destruction of hundreds of years of civilisation through the viciousness of mankind. World War Two started on the 3rd of September 1939 when the Allied Forces declared war against Germany after the unprovoked attack of Poland and didn’t end until 1945, 2nd September with the defeat of the Japanese imperial forces. The Battle of Kokoda began on July 21st 1942 when the Japanese imperial army invaded Papua New Guinea (PNG) with…

weapon were dropped on Japan. These weapons were called atomic bombs that were dropped and it forever changed how the world worked. President Truman was the one who decided to drop the bombs on Japan so that he could end WW2 and to show off the atomic weapon power to its rival the USSR. He wasn’t the only person involved in making the decision in dropping the bomb. Secretary of War Stimson,and the Interim Committee which included top scientist that were working on the project as advisors were…

the horrendous tragedies of war and the catalyst for the United States’ entry into World War II. Despite, the bloody tale of how thousands of Americans were murdered and the morale of the United States was questioned, there exists some inconsistencies with the story of Pearl Harbor that many researchers and students dismissed when learning about the topic. The two largest inconsistencies with Pearl Harbor is the reason behind the Japanese committing to the attack and post-event description…

involved the the Korean war was due to the Truman Doctrine. President Truman being fearful of the spread of communism created the Truman Doctrine. To guarantee that the U.S would support countries fighting against communism. This affected America negatively since they need to support South Korea in fighting the North. Which left the American economy in worse shape then it was. As president Truman need to increase military spending and to create new plan of actions to end the war. The U.S was not…

manipulating Greece during its Civil War beginning in 1943, for their own gains, contributed powerfully to the successful conflict against communist forces within and outside of Greece. This war would transpire with the aid of foreign states to show the world the weaknesses in the supposed victorious and all- powerful ideology, and that these communist forces could be defeated under the right circumstances. The Greek Civil War violently escalated to a lengthy proxy war that included involvement…