Essays on Germans

Introduction

The Holocaust, a Greek work, meaning 'killed by fire', refers to the systematic mass persecution and genocide of the Jews executed by the Nazi Party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler throughout Germany and German occupied territories across Europe. Jews were not the only victims of the holocaust, which claimed the lives of millions other including disabled people, gypsies, homosexuals and the war prisoners. Infamous for bringing the Jewish race near extermination, the holocaust accounts for the loss of the lives of "eleven million innocent victims" in total, including about 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jewish Nazi victims. The ...

How Ordinary Men Became Genocidal Killers in the Holocaust

Introduction The Second World War was a watershed even in the history of the world. Over a period of six years, the War brought to the fore some of the worst excesses of mankind in a purgatory of hate and violence in the form of the Holocaust. The Final Solution, mass extermination of the Jews, left deep scars in the psyche of humanity. While the contours of the Holocaust may have been the product of the skewed brains of Adolf Hitler, the sole blame of the entire saga of mass murder cannot be left at Hitler’s doorstep alone. Millions ...

The scope of this thesis shall be limited to explaining why the anti-Nazi Germans, Croatians, and Hungarians supported Hitler’s anti-Semitic agenda despite the fact that they did not subscribe to the same ideology. Despite the fact that history largely pins the blame on the Nazis for the Jewish holocaust in Europe, questions have risen about the role played by the ordinary citizens in perpetuating the injustice. Specifically, the thesis shall be concerned with what compels the masses to follow and to accept narcissist leaders such as Adolf Hitler. Many historians might argue that most Germans, Croatians and Hungarians ...

The denazification efforts of the United States in Germany after the Second World War were an attempt to transform the Nazist ideals imposed by Adolf Hitler into the democratic ideals laid by the Americans, which turned out to be a failure. The process of denazification began in Germany after the death of Hitler. Germany split up into four regions as per the Potsdam conference. The Soviet Union, the Great Britain, the United States and France gained each part of the country. Though they had their individual agendas on how to address the country, they placed denazification above all agendas. General ...

International trade has become part of the global business world. Through international trade, different countries are able to do business with each other. The benefits of international trade by far surpass the disadvantages. This is to say that international trade has been embraced worldwide as a day-to-day practice for successful business. Although international trade puts countries on the same platform, some countries reap much more benefits than other countries. This has led to scholars carrying out research to establish what some countries do differently for them to be successful compared to their rivals. The world is diverse, and different nations ...

World War II is up to today considered the largest and the worst war to ever happen in history. It started in 1939 from Europe and ended in 1945, spreading to almost all parts of the world and leaving about 70 million people dead. The figure included men, women, soldiers, children and civilians who died mainly due to illnesses, starvation and bomb attacks. The WW2 involved two opposing military alliances, the Axis and the Allies, formed from great nations that participated in the war. Axis was the alliance between Germany, Japan and Italy where as Allies alliance was between ...

Introduction

Kaiser Von Wilhelm 11 also known as William 11 is one of the prominent rulers in Germany’s history. Wilhelm was the third powerful emperor (Kaiser) to rule Germany Empire and the ninth king to rule the Prussian Kingdom. Wilhelm was the third Germany Emperor since 1888 until 1918, a term of thirty years. He was one of the youngest and long serving Kaisers. Wilhelm, the first grandson to Queen Victorian of Britain, and a beloved son to Prince Frederick William of Prussia and Princess Victoria was born on 26 January 1860, at Potsdam, in Berlin. Both parents came from ...

Germany, together with her allies, i.e. Austria-Hungary and Turkey, lost the First World War to France, Britain, United States of America, Italy and their allies. They began the war very strongly, winning several battles, for instance, against Russia. However, the miscalculations of their generals and her allies’ weaknesses proved costly. Moreover, the United States of America join Britain and her allies against Germany. In the end, Germany lost and on 11th of November 1918 she signed an armistice to end the First World War. In 1933, when Adolf Hitler rose to the helm of the German leadership, Sir Winston ...

The war between Japan and USA was not any ordinary war like any other which was mainly based on power and leadership. According to Dower, this conflict was fueled to the heights of the unforgettable Atomic bombing by the US on Japan by o9ther factors other than power and show of military might. The reason said to be behind this is racial discrimination. The difference in race is between the Americans who believe to be whites and Japanese who are believed to be apes and primitive creatures. This racial difference which appeared to exist even before the First World ...

The question of whether or not the Holocaust was a unique event in history is quite a trivial one. In a sense, every historical event is unique since such an event is never identical to another one. It is not the uniqueness of the Holocaust that matters; rather what matters is whether there is some important distinguishing feature because of which historians regard it as a unique occurrence (Marrus 18-25). Indeed, there is such a distinguishing feature, and those who have debated over the uniqueness of the Holocaust have overlooked it. This is what shall be argued in this essay. Many historians share ...

World War I, also known as the Great War, spanned from 1914-1918. It was also the first major contest of arms fought by large, centrally organized nation-states, which was centered in Europe, since the dawn of Industrial Revolution. It all started on one faithful day of June 28, 1914 when the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were shot by a Serbian assassin in Saravejo. The armies present in the field are 12 million Russians, 11 million Germans, nearly 8 million Austro-Hungarians, more than 8 million Frenchmen and a same number of Britons, 5 million Italians, almost 3 million ...

Type of paper

Introduction The Holocaust refers to the mass persecution and genocide of the Jews carried out by the Nazi Party under the rule of Hitler throughout Germany and the territories under German occupation. Not only Jews, Holocaust also claimed the lives of disabled people, homosexuals, Romani populace and prisoners of war. Holocaust is infamous for nearing extermination of the Jewish race with about 5.5. to 6.1 million Jews killed in the massacre. The mastermind of the holocaust was Adolf Hitler who shifted the religious anti-Semitism to racial and ethnic anti-Semitism making use of the mass sentiments against the Jews ...

Both world wars I and II had huge impact on America both economy and political issues majority of which was negative as one would expect from any given wart in the world. In the year 1914 when world war I broke out America had no interest in joining the war, and the president by then Woodrow Wilson pleaded that his country would remain neutral, a decision that was well taken by majority of America citizens as well as the rest of the government officials. However this could not last for long since later in the year 1917 America decided to ...

The battle of Verdun was one of the longest battles of the World War One (WWO). The battle, which involved the French and German armies, lasted for a period about eleven months, from around February to December 1916. Perhaps, it is called the battler of Verdun because it was fought at the Verdun-sur-Meuse hills, north-eastern region of France (Hickman, 2013). The French army, of about 300,000 men, was under the commandership of General Philippe Petain and General Robert Nivelle; while the German army, of about 150,000 men, was under the commandership of Enrich von Flaknhayn and Crown Prince ...

World War II ended with the fall of the Nazi government in Germany at the hands of the Allied forces in 1945. It had lasted twenty seven years since 1927 (Goldstein 9). By the time it was over, the German army had caused remarkable damage to the countries it had invaded. After the war ended, the allies divided Germany into territories to occupy at the Potsdam Conference of 1945. The French army was allocated Southwest Germany, the British Northwest, the Americans South and the Soviet army occupied the East. The former capital of Germany, Berlin, was also divided into ...

Abstract Poland has experienced remarkable historical events in the last100 years. The 20th century started with the creation of the Second Polish Republic (1918 – 1939), then the World War II (1939 – 1945), then the creation of the People's Republic of Poland (1945-1989), and finally the birth of the Third Polish Republic (1989-today). Within these periods, several events took place, some of which will remain in the ears of the Polish for ever. One such event is World War II, which is considered as the most devastating event in the history of Poland. I set out to investigate this ...

United States of America joined World War 1 on April 6th, 1917 joining other countries like France, Russia and Britain. The U.S. troops of more than two million fought on the battlefield and were commanded by Major General J.P. Pershing, and the president was Woodrow Wilson. On April 4th, 1917 two days before joining the war, there were 88 U.S. senate where ninety-three percent voted in support of the World War 1 against Germany. The first WW decision was endorsed by the House of Representatives by 88 percent votes in support of the war where the U.S. formally joined ...

Introduction

Stalingrad is a city in which the Soviet Union fought Nazi Germany who wanted to get its control during the World War 2. The city is now called Volgograd. The war started in August 1942 and ended on February1943. It was one of the major wars which took place during the World War 2. The war saw Germany retreat from west. This war is important in many aspects as this paper will explore.

The Nazi German loss

The Germans, sixth army had support of Hungary, Finland and Romania. On the other side, the Soviet Union was backed by western countries which were anti-Germans. The ...

Hitler wondered if the British citizens would continue supporting the War. He argued that the citizens in Britain would come against Churchill while they learnt that the war could not be conducted without gaining losses (Trevor 299). The Japanese were seen by Hitler as a country that would not have the ability to occupy the whole of the East including India and New Zealand. The lack of interest by the Japanese occupation would ensure their support to Germany after the war period. The entry of the Japanese into the war would provide the Germans an advantage of regaining the friendship ...

The Somme is a river present in the northern region of France. The name illustrates the name of a river, as well as the tragedy of a war fought in the year of 1914 between Germany and the Allies. The name of Somme still now arouses a bunch of emotions even after near about a century for the group of people who were compelled to suffer directly or indirectly due to the devastating effect of the war. The battle of Somme is mostly known for its slaughtering of millions of lives. But the name of this battle is chiefly associated with the horrific slaughtering ...

1.0 INTRODUCTION World War II started in 1939 sparked by Germany’s invasion of Poland. Three months after the invasion, France and England joined the war to fight against Germany. The world war two provided such a great opportunity for the growth of technology and innovation of novel weapons. The military engineers of the day designed and experimented on many weapons. Some of these weapons saw the light of the day and were used during the war while others remained at the design stage. In fact some of the weapons were designed and developed before the war and the ...

Book Review

Tilman Allert the author of “The Hitler Salute: One the Meaning of a Gesture” is a sociology as well as social psychology professor at the UF the (University of Frankfurt). “The Hitler Salute: One the Meaning of a Gesture” is the Tilman’s first book to written in English. In the book, Allert Tilman employs the Nazi transformation, the greeting, one of the ordinary human interactions to reveal how National Socialism initiated submission, as well as conformity of the entire society.

The Hitler salute as made mandatory in the year 1933 and became a daily reflex within few months, quickly the ...

We live in the multicultural cities. Borders gradually erased and around the world, we are increasingly seeing people of different cultures and nationalities. However, what kind o national feature is common for Americans? Is it even to the people who unite in itself almost all the cultures and nations of the world? Finally, what is common or different can be present at the Americans and Germany? One of the features inherent to the Americans it a habit to talk loudly and behave in a more or less bright. Hard to say how this habit was born and whether it has ...

Introduction

The World War II is the deadliest war that the world has ever faced. Major Powers of this planet fought World War II under flags of axis and allies powers. The world war started in the year 1939 and continued till 1945 but various other battles were fought earlier that caused this war. Millions of soldiers and civilians from both sides lost their lives in this war and hundreds of millions people were directly or indirectly affected by the World War II. Winners of the war, allied forces altered boundaries of nations that lost the war. The world war ...

(Insert Institute) On June 1914, the world saw the dawn of a new age as its super powers took to arms and went to combat. Otherwise referred to as the Great War, the First World War saw nations join its cause in a form of a ripple effect. In other words, what started as a feud between two countries forced the others to join because of treaties and agreements with the aforementioned countries. Colonies fought for their masters while allies were called on for support. The significance of the Great War lies in the fact that its effects were felt in most ...

Throughout American history, different ethnic groups have faced different challenges. The Native Americans obviously were treated very differently than the Irish, for example, and the Chinese were particularly singled out for treatment which included banning them from attaining citizenship at all in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. African Americans obviously also suffered greatly, not only during slavery but also after its abolishment, and with even greater difficulties being accepted by white society even to this day given their appearance and a complexion that was impossible to hide. Yet other groups attained wide acceptance, including Germans, English, and Scots. Andrew ...

Essay Question No. 1 -

The Holocaust, more than any other event in modern history, is important for the witnesses who lived to bear testimony to Nazi genocide. The sheer mind-boggling numbers involved tend, over time, to separate people who were not there from what really mattered, from what happened and what it was like on a very personal level. Firsthand accounts of survival in Primo Levi’s highly personal novel, and the stories assembled in the collections of Ed Niewyk, and Carol Rittner and John Roth are testaments not only to survival but to the determination of survivors to tell the story, so that ...

Introduction

Propaganda is a form of communication whose major aim is to influence the attitudes of a group of people or community to support the beliefs or values of another person. The information is provided with the key aim of influencing the person who is receiving the information. It does this though selective presentation of facts and loaded messages aimed at pursuing a particular political agenda. During the Second World War it was used by both Axis and Allied forces to pursue their political agendas.

The Axis Powers:

The Nazis used propaganda to influence the public opinion on the Jews and the war (Kallis, 2005). Public ...

Essay for Lesson 11: German Reunification

Introduction The division of Germany into West Germany and East Germany emerged as a stopgap solution for the woeful state of the nation following its defeat in the Second World War. With the United States (US) ultimately gaining full control over West Germany, East Germany increasingly became alienated towards it, as it went under the influence of the Soviet Union (USSR). West Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), rapidly grew into one of the most politically and economically influential nations in Europe representing the democratic interests of the US in the region, while East Germany, officially the ...

Exam #2 Short Answer & Essay

Question 1 & 2 A) Joseph Goebbels was a closest friend of Adolf Hitler and a german politician incharge of propaganda ministry in the Nazi government. b) Eva Braun was a long time companion of Hitler during the Nazi Germany and she acted as a wife for less than fourty hours. c) Ernst Röhm was a close friend of Adolf Hitler who co-founded the sturmabteilung a militia party in the Nazi Germany. d) Magda Goebbels was a close supporter of Adolf Hitler and a wife to one of his closest friend Joseph Goebbels. e) Heinrich Himmler was a military commander in the Nazi Party ...

Question 1

Otto Von Bismarck was a renowned German nationalist who rose through the ranks to become the Prime Minister of Prussia and later went to become the first Chancellor of the unified German Empire in 1871. He came into power when modern day Germany was split up into different regions. Using the powerful Prussian army, Bismarck initiated fierce and decisive wars with Austria, France and Denmark to unite the 39 sovereign German states and regions under Prussian leadership.

Question 2

The National Liberal Party – This was the most renowned party and was mainly made up of national liberals who supported Bismarck and his ...

The Battle of the Atlantic is known to be the longest military campaign. It took place during the world war II starting from 1939 to 1945 when the Germany was defeated. The Battle of the Atlantic involved U-boats as well as other warships of the German Army (Kriegsmarine) and German Air Force (aircraft of the Luftwaffe) which fought against the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, and merchant shipping considered being allies of the three. The convoys from North America to United Kingdom and other parts like Soviet Union were greatly protected by the Canadian and British navies in conjunction ...

5) During the 19th Century, it was commonplace for conservative and reactionary opponents of the French Revolution like Joseph de Maistre to ‘blame’ the Enlightenment for its ‘excesses’, particularly the Great Terror that occurred under Maximilian Robespierre in 1792-94. Certainly the Catholic Church was extremely hostile to the Revolution because it lost a great deal of power and property in France after 1789, and it continued to fight the same battles against its liberal and radical enemies until well into the 20th Century. For their part, the Enlightenment philosophers like Voltaire had been especially critical of the Church and had ...

In each and every sphere of human life, intellectual skills are heavily applicable. This has led to many disciplines like politics and social life being heavily intertwined and dependent on intellectual skills. As a form of illustration on how intellectual skills are applied in social sphere, this paper analyses several scenarios in which intellectual skills approach are applied in social studies (Jeanne, 4). In the first example, the main question lies in what should be considered before the other in a business environment. The author claims that it is much prudent for a business to have a higher consideration of domestic issues ...

The Holocaust is recognized as the as the most horrible and grisly demonstration of the brutality of genocide, and it is shocking to learn that businesses at the time actually profited because of the genocide. Over the years, many American, German, and other foreign countries trying to do business have caused controversy because of their ties in the Holocaust (Greenspan, 2008). The Ford Motor Company, IBM, and IG Farben, a German company, are at the top of the list of companies that played a role in the Holocaust. Although, Hitler hated outgroup religions for centuries, but it was Henry Ford ...

Adolf Hitler’s National Socialism was a system without any redeeming features at all, although it obviously appealed to the majority of Germans who were pleased that the regime ended unemployment and made Germany a great power again. Nazism was a racist and militaristic ideology rather than a form of socialism in the Western sense, and was based on Hitler’s own delusions and paranoia, and his obsessions about the Jews infecting the body of the ‘healthy’ Aryan Volk. Unlike most of the other Communist and nationalist revolutions, it also took place in a highly urbanized and industrialized economy that was second only to ...

Before World War II, German scientists were engaged in various medical experiments as a way of revolutionizing Germany state by cleansing all the human species that were perceived as threatening to the country. The medics were involved in establishing various medical approaches, mostly associated with the human genetics in order to develop a master race. Their plans were directed towards racial cleansing at which the German population was perceived as pure and was not supposed to be interfered with by other seemingly dangerous races. Development of eugenics is one of the issues that the government-funded medics and scientists were in a ...

Dr. Seuss emerged as a staunch opponent of isolationism in America in the late 1930s as well as early 1940s. He saw inaction in United Sates to German as well as Japanese expansion as appeasement and cowardice. While the world was in a war, America had isolated itself and just sat to look the other countries fight. Dr. Seuss felt the weakness and thought that Americans were leaving their victims exposed to Japanese and Nazi brutality. Again, just before the Pearl Harbor attack, Seuss used to depict isolationists together with appeasers as lazy, cowardly and unintelligent.

First Cartoon by Dr. Seuss

America First His first ...

Introduction

The German nation was relatively young, born in 1871 after more than half a dozen German speaking kingdoms and duchies came together to form the German empire. However the German Reich encountered several problems during its time that eventually led to its collapse. The country not only witnessed serious political problems but social ones as well. Majority of the population was against the authoritarian rule of the monarchy but the handlers of the empire ensured power did not slip out of their hands through whatever means. Several domestic problems faced the country with civil unrest, the threat posed by the ...

One of the most prominent traits of the USSR internal politics in the 1930s is a change of the concept of public enemies. They were converted to be defined in ethnical way, in contrast to the Marxist-Leninist approach of class. The reason for this change is the idea of ‘capitalist encirclement’ of the Soviet Union, which led to the fusion of domestic and foreign enemies. This change contributed to the struggle against ‘fifth columnists’ and in such a way it was used as a reason for terror policy against the Soviet national minorities, primarily those who lived near the borders of the ...

Also known as the Great War, World War I began on June 1914 when wars were declared by the world’s super power. Due to signed treaties and other forms of agreements between countries, the feud between the first two states led to more disputes among countries associated with the same. Consequently, is safe to state that the First World War was the result of a form of a ripple effect on war declarations and the need to honor the aforementioned treaties. However, according to Hamilton and Herwig, the beginning and events of the Great War were “an accident; it was ...

Supremacy of the American soldiers

One of the most pronounced aspects of social hierarchy during the Second World War in Germany was the perceived supremacy of the American soldiers. The American forces were part of the formidable allies that were fighting against the Germans and from the onset of the war, there was an unspoken perception that they were superior in almost every aspect, military wise, economic wise amongst other social dimensions. Even their language was considered superior! The Marriage of Maria Braun provides several striking depictions of this element of social hierarchy. It cannot be denied that the Americans had for several ...

Book Review:” Armageddon”

Max Hasting manages to bring out gripping drama through this literary work of Armageddon, a book that is well researched and very fascinating. The story captures the events that happened in the final year of the World War II in Europe. He explicitly explores the roles played by the political leaders as well as the military team. Hasting gives a vivid picture of those dark times, brutality of the battle, exhaustion of the soldiers and how the citizens continued to suffer. The story leaves every reader with the desire to read the book more and more. Owing to successful landing ...

Introduction

Toulouse, France is the location of the headquarters of Airbus SAS. This is a multinational aviation company, the ownership of which is shared by Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. (EADS). In this work, we will study the issues of cross-cultural communication which were responsible for a delay in the Globe’s project’s cluster of business cultures. The delay of A380 and subsequent losses of Airbus can be explained with the help of the Globe project, to which we will turn to. In this essay, we will try to find a connection between cross-cultural communication and the technical deficiencies of Airbus ...

This assignment has been formulated such that a detailed study can be provided to the readers with respect to Cross Cultural Management. In the following assignment, Cross – Cultural Issues faced by the Airbus Consortium have been discussed, along with the various efforts they took to try and manage them. Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Project has also been discussed about in the following assignment, which helps to provide a better understanding so as to where exactly Airbus went wrong such that it had to face the various issues. Thus, in turn, provides a better understanding on how to tackle the ...

In any given culture, the activities that take place in daily life are of utmost importance as this describes and defines their way of life; culture and traditions. The German culture is well known for their meticulousness in their planning. Germans are known for following rules and laws set, and this helps them in knowing what is required and plan accordingly to meet the expectations. For Germans, once a proper way to carry out a task has been established, creating an alternative way of doing it is not necessary. Planning means that there is clear marking of boundaries between work and ...

Similarities And Differences Between The Armenian Genocide And The Jewish Holocaust

Genocide refers to a deliberate intention of the destruction and killing of people of a particular ethnic, cultural or religious people. The people in government who usually perform such action have attitudes and behaviors that were discriminative and racial in nature though they were being covered up in super nationalistic ideologies (Kelman, 1973). The Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust have several similarities and differences and scholars have examined both events and explored what led to such actions.

The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian genocide occurred in several steps over several years during World War 1 in the Ottoman Empire. First of all the Turkish ...

U.S. History

The reason why the United States entered the First World War is justifiable. At first, the United States had pledged to be neutral; however, it later changed its stand when German mines destroyed and sunk several American ships that were travelling to Britain. The tension between Germany and the United States arose over Germany’s segregation of the Isles of Britain. Britain was one of the closest trading partners of the United States. In 1915, the Germans declared an unhampered warfare against all vessels and ships, whether neutral or not, that entered the war zones around Britain. ...

Research Question, Rationale, Scope and Methodology

In this study, the research question is why the Russians failed to support the Polish undergrounds during their uprising against the Nazis in 1944. The rationale for doing this topic stems from the fact that there are two sides to this debate; on one hand, the Russians claimed that the Germans decimated their early advance on the Eastside of Poland thus reducing their tactics to defense only; on the other hand, western countries believe that Russia deliberately refused to assist the Polish insurgents for political reasons. Given that there are two sides to this debate, this paper examines the ...

Essay for Lesson 5: Hitler and the Aestheticization of Politics

Introduction One of the reasons behind the success of the Nazi Party in taking over Germany is on its extensive use of propaganda. Adolf Hitler, known for his penchant for populism, rendered the strong impact of images, films and other materials attributed to Nazism as essential for the political success of the Nazi Party and its agenda for Germany. As an authoritarian leader, Hitler saw the importance of extracting the patronage of the Germans not through forceful means, but through convincing and motivating measures that enticed their mental faculties. To make such a vision possible, Hitler commissioned the talents of ...

The following paper highlights the role of words or language in the life of the major character Liesel. The introduction shows that general background of the paper and the overall setting of the novel. Zusak integrates his voice in the novel as he use Liesel to show the difference that word make in the lives of individuals. The paper also compares the way that Hitler uses words to manipulate the German people against how Liesel uses language to ease the burden of the characters she interacts with. In addition, there are the influential factors that play an integral role ...

People in all countries have always been attracted to youth groups because they can identify with the activities of that group. This paper will demonstrate how one youth movement called the Wunderbirds created a place to belong for many German youth after World War I. The idealism and propaganda used by such German Youth groups created an identity by reacting to a common enemy in the years leading up to the war (1922-1939). The Youth of Germany were challenging the status quo; reacting against an older generation of Germans that were accused of the country’s social problems after World War ...

Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus: A Survivor’s Tale is one of the most critically-acclaimed and academically recognized comic books in the history of the medium. The tale of artist Art Spiegelman and his conversations with his father Vladek about his experiences in the Nazi Holocaust, Maus’s visual style includes the various characters all being represented by animals – the people are anthropomorphic, and they wear clothes just as regular people do, but their faces are all that of various animals. The animal representations of Maus serve several purposes – first, to clearly express the stereotypes and perceptions of ...

The World War 2 involved the two groups of countries, the Axis, and Allied forces. Germany, Italy, and Japan led the Axis. The Axis nations obtruded upon other countries and expanded their territory. The United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France led the Allies, a group that consisted of fifty countries. In the late May 1940, the British evacuation of Dunkirk left France at the mercy of the Germans. Britain was on its own against the German invasion strategy, the Operation Sealion. The German plan, however, could only work if the German Luftwaffe had taken control of the skies. ...

Maus is one of the most significant and powerful artworks, produced by an American Jewish artist or writer, regarding the Holocaust, which Spiegelman indicates as “things that happened before young Germans were even born” (461). The work is popular due to Spiegelman’s honesty, narrative talent, and use of graphics. In addition, Spiegelman has also put it clearly that the community that people live in is threatening and can cause trauma. However, he asserts that the Jewish community has remained bound together, despite the challenges they face. The author gives his family’s life and, the language and images ...

Introduction

Woodrow Wilson was the first American president of America to be elected from the southern region. He was born Staunton Virginia in a Presbyterian family. Wilson career to the presidency came after coming after a career as a university lecturer, university leader and later on as New Jersey governor. America was to hold elections in 1916; the focus was the world war one that was taking place in Europe, and parts of America (Heckscher, 1991 p. 98). Wilson developed his interested in the general elections by winning nominations in the democratic candidate and selecting Marshall as his running mate. In the his ...

World War 1

World War 1

Introduction

The First World War became a severe test for the whole world in the twentieth century. It was a turning point in European civilization that marked the end of the 19th century - the century of conservatism, education and stability, and the beginning of the 20th century - the century of the great revolutions and world wars, mass terror and rapid technological development. According to Dowling, more than sixty million people entered the armed services in 1914-1918. Around ten million men gave their lives in the conflict known as Great War, along with twenty million others. The ...

Introduction

Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall was a physical barrier that kept West Berlin and East Germany separate for 28 years from 1961 to 1989. After World War II came to an end, the allied powers comprised of the Unites States, Great Britain, Soviet Union and France divided the vanquished Germany and Berlin into four zones each and each of these zones was occupied by either of the allied forces. Soviet Union was a communist country while the other three allied forces were democratic and capitalist countries. Soon their relationship soured with the Soviet Union, resulting in the bifurcation of Germany ...

“Name”

“Instructor name’ ‘Institutional Affiliation” Imperialism is a subject which draws very strong opinions and emotions from historians and it offers a lot of scope for arguments and discussions. Today’s generation view imperialism to be inhumane and an arrogant activity undertaken by a strong nation to exploit the people and resources of a weaker nation. This is mostly true because the conquering European powers did utilize the mining and agricultural potentials of the African and Asian nations, to benefit the economy of their homeland rather than for the welfare of the countries they occupied. But one should not forget that, there were also a ...

It is undeniable that today, the United States remains as the most powerful nation in the globe, followed by its allies and partners. Its sway in the international community, as well in regional conflicts is unparalleled due to its capacity to support its words with action. Many would believe that despite the power the US now amasses, the US was once similar with other nations who did not actively sought an active role in the international sphere. The Americans did not see the need for them to influence other conflicts that threatened the balance of power, as well as ...