Sudetenland

Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. He was the fourth child that his parents are Klara and Alois Hitler had. Adolf had a wife named Eva Bruan that he married in 1945, which also happens to be there year of death. They were married for about 40 hours until they both decided to commit suicide. In Hitler’s early years he never got along with his Father, Alois. Alois died suddenly in 1903. Hitler’s mother, Klara, then allowed him to drop out of school. Adolf…

The Anschluss occurred when German troops entered Austria, forcing Austria to unite with Germany. Half a year later, Hitler returned to his expansion plan and turned his focus to Czechoslovakia. This demand of the Sudetenland was reluctantly allowed by Chamberlain on the condition that the remaining land in Czechoslovakia would not be invaded. Several months later, Hitler once again went against his word and invaded Czechoslovakia months later. France and Britain still…

One might argue the Second World War was the greatest and most horrific war in the history of this world and a major impact to modern everyday life. It was the most international and fatal war in history with many detrimental causes to many countries. Thus, proving how crucial it is to know about specific historical events in history and to apply past mistakes to future decisions. Leon Trotsky says, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” This quote signifies the…

death. Aunt Piri became ill and was killed. With the Soviet getting closer, the SS left, leaving her, Serena, and Rose to take shelter in an empty house. They spent months trying to reach Prague where they had relatives, where they then left to Sudetenland. Here Irene was able to go to school, while Serena worked at…

a) The reason why Japan felt the need to invade China, was the Japanese nation’s need for extra resources, which had to the cause of Japan’s growing political star. Primarily, they had found these resources in China, more specifically Manchuria, which surely had no deficit of resources. b) This is because it had been the time during the collapse of the Ching dynasty with the replacement of republican governments. As this occurred China had been in a political turmoil with had left it with a…

In the six whole years of World War II, 60 million people died. Imagine almost all of the United Kingdom's population dying. At first, I didn’t think about how so many people died. But when I started thinking about it, I had so many questions like: How did so many people turn against each other? What countries were involved? How did the world change because of the war? Before I started my search, I read a lot of realistic fiction books about WWII. The books didn’t have many facts, but I got…

The first days of September in 1939 marked the beginnings of a new war in Europe, a new international conflict that would come to last for six years and be the most devastating and bloodiest war know to human history. Over these years, genocide slowly became common practice for the German people and the use of aerial attacks was adopted by various nations for the use on the civilian populations to deter the enemy. Before the fighting and the bombings and the casualties, the conditions of the…

Fascist leader and Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883 in the small city of Predappio, Italy. He was the son of Alessandro Mussolini, a blacksmith, and Rosa Maltoni, a schoolteacher. Mussolini behaved badly even at a young age. At the age of ten, Mussolini stabbed another classmate after being insulted by him. This was only the start of his erratic behavior. Only a few years later, at the age of eighteen, Mussolini became a schoolteacher. He was looked down upon by…

This investigation focuses on how Hitler and Mussolini co-operated in the inter-war period , which led to the Rome-Berlin Axis in 1936. I will focus on how the Abyssinian Crisis, the Spanish Civil War and Hitler’s ambitions for Anschluss, including their common ideologies and enemies, as well as their aggressive foreign policies. I have chosen this topic to understand how the two leaders needed each other in order to revise the consequences of the Versailles Treaty, as well as their envy for…

On April 20th, 1889, a man was born in the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. That man came to be known as Adolf Hitler. When he was three, he moved from his hometown in Austria-Hungary to Germany. As a child, he had an interest in becoming an artist. He also became obsessed with German nationalist ideas, despising the declining House of Habsburg. However, when his younger brother died in 1900, he became increasingly detached. After his father’s death, his mother permitted him to drop out…