Rugby league

because women are not seen as strong, tough and athletic people which makes sports so exciting in the first place. Football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. Yet, men are the only ones who play. There are no female football leagues or teams, even at the youth level. This is because women are viewed as delicate beings and if they were to play a sport like football, it just wouldn’t be as fast paced and rough which is what people like about football so much to begin…

During the war in 1939, Americans and politicians showed disregards to Europe. Many supported powerful measures against Japan, but Europe was the primary focus of the America First committee. A petition purposed to enforce the Neutrality Act in 1939, was introduced by the America First Committee. This forced President Franklin Roosevelt to keep his pledge to keep America out of WWII. As a result, it caused an outrage, as Americans argued he was deceiving. This political cartoon shows the major…

World war I was a very harsh war. Because of this, the brave men that fought in this war used special equipment to fit their needs. World war I happened around the 1920’s, and was set in Europe (mainly France and Germany. There were two sides, the Allies and the Central Powers. The Allies consisted of Britain, Italy, France, America, and Russia while the central Powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. The countries involved in WWI such as Germany,France,…

"The fate of history is once again in the hands of America." America during the early 1900s is not yet the superpower of the world, as it is later known. How will America get this title? At the start of WWI, Germany had victory over Europe in its sights. That all changed when Germany made catastrophic mistakes by threating the democracy of the world, sending Mexico a hostile note directed toward the United States, and participating in submarine warfare. Threating the democracy of the…

The British military has had many allies throughout history. France and England have always been allies. There has only been two wars where Great Britain and France fought against each other. Britain and France fought on opposite sides during the Anglo-French War (1202-1214) and the Saintonge War (1242). Besides these two wars, the two countries have been allies. France and the United Kingdom fought together in World War I and World War II on the side of the Allies. However, during the German…

The Battle of Verdun is probably among one of the greatest battles in history. As well as being one of the longest skirmishes, lasting nearly ten months. There has never been a battle before or after this that involved so many soldiers, in such a concentrated area. The battle of Verdun lasted from February 21, 1916 to December 19, 1916 with an estimated casualty count of around 700,000. There is no explanation for the shocking losses from both sides. This battle had boiled down to a matter of…

Captain America, always standing above evil, representing the greatness, that our founding fathers always viewed possible. Furthermore, not famous for being the hero we need or desire, however for being the hero every one of us can be. Born in the early nineteen forties, foregoing the strike on Pearl Harbor, created to embody the necessity for American reinforcement, preceding their engagement in WWII. Displayed on the cover of “Captain America Number One” pummeling Adolf Hitler in the jaw,…

Back in the 1930’s, America was deep in the Great Depression and the end of the first World War that it was important to focus on the inside. Isolation was necessary to rebuild the economy and was needed to band together to rebuild our losses and guide the country through hard times. America even tried to stay out of the next world event, World War 2. They were so focused on isolation that choruses of “I hate War” went around and people stood by that mindset. Next comes along the 1941 Pearl…

The United States Foreign Policy is to create and keep the peace by balancing the war and keeping the United States secure from any foreign country invading the United States. In the United States, the people responsible for making the choice of the decisions made and ruling of Foreign Policy is the Executive Branch. Foreign Policy is either bilateral or multilateral, which means common ground with two countries or more. America's Foreign Policy covers ranges of military, political, ideological…

In modernizing America in the years of 1900-1945, four major things occurred, the world war one, 1920s, Great Depression and the New Deal, and the second world war. World war one began because the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in 1914. At the beginning of the war President Wilson decided to stay neutral. Later the Lusitania was sunk by Germany and Germany also sent a letter to Mexico called the Zimmerman telegram. During this era many technologies and techniques for war…