Wehrmacht

The French Revolution, which is often described as the beginning of Modern Europe, represents the beginning of the 19th century. The political change brought by the Revolution was so immense that it caused other European powers to intervene to prevent its ideas from entering the conscious of their subjects. Ideals outlined by the Declarations of the Right of Man such as “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights” and “As all persons are held innocent until they shall have been declared…

'Asses the extent to which the Nazis implemented a fascist regime in Germany between 1933-1939. ' Fascism is a political term used to describe the nature of four right wing authoritarian political systems which emerged in Italy, Spain, Germany and Japan in the decade prior to World War Two. The term fascism is derived from the Latin 'fasci ' a symbol of authority in Ancient Rome, applying to the defining feature of loyalty towards authority within a fascist government. Whilst each expression…

On Dec. 7, 1941, radios buzzed with the news that several hundred Japanese planes attacked a U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 Americans as well as damaging or destroying eight Navy battleships and more than 100 planes. Though it would be some time before people learned the full scope of the damage, within days a once-distant war in Europe and the Pacific became a central part of life in the United States, affecting politics, business, media, and entertainment.…

in order to fulfill it. As quoted from an article from “The Independent”, "By June 1944 . . . Operation Fortitude had managed to persuade the German high command that the Normandy landings were merely ‘a starter before the main course’. That, the Wehrmacht believed with ‘unshakeable’ conviction, would take the form of a massive invasion of the Pas de Calais across the narrowest point of the Channel by an (entirely fictional) First US Army Group under General…

them for another four years… And even if they are still not complete National Socialists, they go on to Labor Service and are smoothed out there for another six, seven months… And whatever class consciousness or social status might be left… the Wehrmacht will take care of that.” - Adolf Hitler (1938) He created the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls to take their…

During WWII, Adolf Hitler, with the help of the Nazi regime, detained Jews from across their captured territory in concentration camps - sometimes referred to as “death factories”. Concentration camps usually starved their inhabitants, forced them to work long and strenuous hours, among other atrocities.Many Jews in concentration camps consoled themselves with the fact that none of the Allied countries knew the pain that they we’re going through. They convinced themselves that if they knew, they…

For the purpose of this paper I will be explaining the reasons for the rapid fall of France in 1940. Some, if not most, of the attention is given to Hitler’s blitzkrieg style of invasion as a main reason for France’s crushing defeat, but there were many other factors that compounded the devastation that was associated with Hitler’s war on France. As I will highlight, the German advance via the “all new” tank tactics of the time was an extremely devastating driving force that was the tip of the…

People who disseminate information through media are in possession of one of the most influential tools in society. Popular cartoonists fall under this category, as they can project their biased and personal perspectives on reality. “What political cartoonists portray may be an imaginary situation in allegory or a figure greatly distorted by caricature, but to the artists this is the essence of what is actually happening” (Charles Press, The Political Cartoon) Many cartoonists truly believe that…

The significance of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany from 1919-1939 includes losing land, paying reparations, economy had fallen, and the rise of Hitler. • According to Schoolworkhelper.net and History.com the Treaty of Versailles was the negotiation among the Allied powers with little precipitation by Germany. They blamed Germany for the First World War and after strict enforcement for five years, the French assented to the modification of important provisions. Germany agreed to pay…

The first atomic bomb ever dropped was during world war II. The process in making an atomic bomb and using it was a long and difficult project that took maybe people putting in work and making big decisions. Plutonium is created when an atom of uranium-238 absorbs a neutron and becomes plutonium-239. The reactor generates the neutrons in a controlled chain reaction. There are many different opinions about the making and the use of the atomic bomb during world war two and even still today. At the…