Post-World War II baby boom

From the time President Roosevelt gave his memorable “Infamy” speech, where he outlined the coming war, the days and months following, American biases and prejudices towards Japanese citizens began to show. The LIFE article “ How to Tell Japs from Chinese”, gives us a glimpse of American’s attitudes towards the japanese during this time period. First…

The Cold War was a conflict amongst America and Russia; it was shaped once World War II finished. This created the fall of the Soviet Union, which is a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. It has been declared when the United States dropped the nuclear bombs that it wasn’t the last military performance of World War II although it was the first act of the Cold War. Although Japan was under attack, and the weapons were pointed straight to the Soviet…

have found them at the Goodwill, the person driving the Mercedes, may be renting it. A book called “The Millionaire Next Door” reveals how most millionaires actually live frugal lives. They buy used cars, shop for bargains and have no need to let the world know they are rich. If the people that are actually rich do not feel the need to show off their wealth, why do people pretend to be rich when they are not? Many Americans have a different relationship with spending. What they own is tied to…

The Unhappy Compromise World War I was officially brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. The Treaty of Versailles was negotiated among the Allied powers of Britain, France, and America with little to no participation from Germany. The intent of the treaty was two fold, first to prevent another world war, and second to punish Germany for starting the war to begin with. This vindictive approach would spill over into every part of the treaty and would…

Necessity of Atomic Warfare The question on everyone’s brain since the end of World War II has been “Were the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary?” There are many arguments on both sides. For instance, if we had not retaliated against Japan so harshly they may have continued attacking us. The U.S. could have been seen as weak. On the other hand, many innocent people were killed. Opinions could go on for days and days but the fact is: Japan attacked us first. It was the…

World War II was a war no one anticipated to be as horrific and excruciating as it was. Some of the actions performed during the Second World War were of such magnitude, that those who survived were torn for their lives, the children suffering along side the parents, as the ripples of time collided with the shoulders of those men and women who where forced into a battle for their lives and their future. The unjust burdens pushed down on the reluctant participants of this war ended in more than…

Revisited: Women, The War, and Social Change details the lives of “the real Rosie the riveters” through oral history. Gluck interviews multiple women that lived during World War 2 as they expose the real aspects of daily life of women during WW2. Throughout this book these interviewee personal stories gives life to the iconic symbol of the Rosie The Riveter character portrayed in the mass distributed poster by J. Howard Miller that became a symbolic depiction of working women during war time as…

After the ending of hostilities of World War II and the surrender of the Imperial Japanese government, Japan was disarmed and its armed forces completely decommissioned. American and Allied forces were put in the position of providing protection and security for the nation. As Japan focused on rebuilding itself from the ashes of war, the leadership of the American occupy forces under General Douglas MacArthur put pressure on the Japanese government to amend its prior Meiji Constitution of 1899…

World War I: The Graveyard for People and Values The Great War was a dreadful experience for many people that put Victorian values six feet under. The war experience exploded the generation’s faith in cultural and social institutions of the 19th century. I will demonstrate how World War I poems stretched beyond the trenches into the souls and bones of the Europeans and their civilizations. This experience will directly reflect T.S. Eliot’s postwar epic poem, “Wasteland” that showed the…

continue to be be power hungry, selfish individuals, these ideological desires curate many wars and…