World War III

interstate highway system which created jobs in mild recessions and helped increase profits of the auto industry and oil companies, on which Eisenhower wrote in Mandate for Change, “more than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf turns, bridges, and elongated parkways. Its impact on the American economy—the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up—was…

World War III begins early in the 21st century. It is fought between the two superpowers, West-Dem and Pac-Peop. The fighting is extensive and severe, most of it performed by "leadies", robots built to withstand the most extreme circumstance. The Earth becomes a battlefield. Unable to exist in the atmosphere created by robot war, vast "ant tanks" are constructed underground to save the diminishing human population. The government and war engine remains on the surface; the elite "Yance-men".…

Auschwitz Concentration camp was a network of German Nazi Concentration camps and extermination camps, built and operated by the first Reich in Polish areas by Nazi Germany during World War II. In September 1939, the town of Oswiecim and its surrounding areas in Poland joined to become Auschwitz. The Auschwitz concentration camp was one of the worst holocaust camps ever, where over one million prisoners experienced brutal living conditions, execution or were used for medical experiments.…

when the nation was involved in a World War, which had been fought on two different fronts. This was a time before the jet-age, before that atom bomb, at a time the nation was just a world power, not the superpower it would later become. The beginning of the United States Air Force Weapons School traces its roots to the enlisted Airman who attended one of the many Aircraft Gunnery schools established throughout much of the United States during and after World War II. This school was located…

Can you imagine our world destroyed to its bare core? Can you think of ways and reasons why society would allow the world to fall into apocalyptic times? Much more like the famous quote by Albert Einstein, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” (22). In the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the reader is placed in the aftermath of a catastrophic war that left the world in ruins such as in an apocalyptic manner. The book…

A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway which takes place in Italy during World War I. Readers learn of the character Frederic Henry and his lover, Catherine Barkley. Throughout the entire novel, Hemingway uses nature and weather in symbolic ways to gain the attention of readers. One of the greater symbols is the rain. Most people would agree that rain means life and that it does not have a negative symbolic use, but Hemingway uses rain as a symbol for death and despair. During the…

His reluctance to become Tsar was a major factor that contributed to his own demise. The release of the October Manifesto in 1905 was one of the key events that led to the end of Tsar Nicholas’s rule over Russia. Tsar Nicholas’s poor leadership in World War 1 as well as his weak-willed personality was also issues that further contributed to the collapse of the Romanov Dynasty. These factors and events severely influenced the political, social and economic aspects of his ruling .The use of…

In 1940, as the European political situation worsened after the outbreak of World War II, Bartók was increasingly tempted to flee Hungary. He was strongly opposed to the Nazis and Hungary's siding with Germany. After the Nazis came to power in the early 1930s, Bartók refused to give concerts in Germany and broke away from his publisher there. His anti-fascist political views caused him a great deal of trouble with the establishment in Hungary. Having first sent his manuscripts out of the country…

arose over land dispute, World War I was just beginning. The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Austria-Hungary had sparked the war. However, the war had between the two nations had greatly escalated as alliances started to join. At that that time, Italy was just a neutral country until it was dragged into the war due to the alliance. Many would argue that the nation of Italy had served no real purpose in World War I, however, without the help of Italy, World War I would have not…

people in the entire world were killed during the Holocaust.("The Holocaust: An Introductory History.") The incredible torture that the Jewish people faced was not only felt by them. The Nazis committed a few genocides during the same time as the Holocaust. The Nazis killed over three million Polish people and the same number of Russian Prisoners of War.(Wistrich, Robert S. Hitler and the Holocaust.) The Holocaust would not have happened if Germany would have won World War I. The massive…