B. Mytilene debate 1. According to Thucydide, the revolt of Mytilene took place in the year 428 B.C and the debate took place in the city of Mytilene who had surrender to Paches (2013 p 94) 2. The Athenians believed that the revolt at Mytilene was premeditated as the Mytilenean people had planned to unify with Lesbos and revolt against the Athenian Empire (2013 p 94). Their government had plotted a rebellion with the help of the Spartans and Boeotian’s as well as cities on other islands to…
When Britain declared war on the Axis powers in 1914, many young English men saw this as an opportunity for bravery, glory, and chivalry. As the war escalated many people started to change their view as they saw the brutalities of the fighting. This war had a big influence on poetry in future decades. The main difference between the attitude towards the war sparked from the poet's tone. The tone varies from seeing the war as glorious, to it being a dreadful experience. The Soldier by Brooke…
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die," said Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States. This quote that is still relevant today, is referring to the situations in countries such as the ones in Venezuela, Ukraine, Syria and Iraq are in today. The situations in these two books, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, are similar to the ones of these countries. The main characters, Ishmael Beah and Katniss Everdeen, are kids in a…
The Maginot Line: France’s Most Ingenious Military Failure France’s Maginot Line is well known for its failure to halt the German invasion of France in June of 1940. Named after André Maginot and constructed in the 1930s, the Maginot Line was thought by the French to be an impregnable and untouchable wall of defenses. The Maginot Line was an unbroken line of fortifications that went along the Franco-German border from Longwy, near where France, Belgium, and Luxembourg meet, to Switzerland’s…
Document 5 shows a rabbit, with a ribbon stating “League of Nations,” staring down a snake wrapped around a branch labeled “international strife.” The idea behind this comic is that the League of Nations was a joke which was completely true. Document 12 is an international treaty giving up Sudetenland to Germany in an attempt to appease Hitler. Document 9 asserts the 20th…
From 1939-1945, the world was experiencing a state of total war include mass genocides, the evolution of modern warfare and machinery and the ultimate dueling of the Allied and Axis powers – World War II. The rise of fascism and dictatorships throughout Europe and some parts of Asia contributed to the start of the war. At the time, Britain and France were allies with Poland. As Russia and Germany began to invade Poland, the allies-by-treaty retaliated and so began the start of WWII. Britain…
World War I is known as one of the bloodiest wars in history, claiming over 17 million total casualties. It was a conflict between global powers that produced mass destruction and casualties on a completely unprecedented level. So much so, that the generation of young, surviving soldiers became known as the “lost generation”. Towns and cities lost whole generations of young men. Wartime has been the producer of many hardships, but critics and historians have often found that wartime also serves…
Failure and Success of League of Nations and United Nations Although League of Nations had achieved to accomplish the objectives in some instance yet the League is illustrated as failure due to the broke of second World War. There are numerous reason why the League had failed. In fact, the structure of League itself considered as ineffective. The League is known as the “Winner club “or victors of World War I dominated by the European countries. The initiative countries of the League -United…
Boom! Getting into fortresses can be tough, especially before weapons were created to help out. Cannons stemmed from the invention of gunpowder. Gunpowder was invented in China lead to the creation of the cannon. The cannon ended the use of castles by blowing them up Cannons were useful for war. You may be wondering who invented the cannon and where did they use it.Cannons were not invented by one person or maybe it was but there are no archives to say who invented it.The cannon was used in…
"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations"(Annan, 1999). This quote was given by Kofi Annan to clarify the essentialness of the United Nations and to impart why its presence is required in our general public. Where the overall issues can never be dead set and settled by any one nation acting alone the United Nations as the general establishment offers the best and plays…