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War Contrasts and a Review of Living in the American Century 1940-1950 Exploding Into a Brave New World by Henry Allen

In two pages this September 1994 article featured in The Washington Post is reviewed as it pertains to the Second World War. Ther...

New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt and its Influence on Cyclical American Presidential History

In three pages FDR's New Deal is considered in an examination of U.S. presidential cyclical timing and how it both defined and con...

Three Decades of War

force from farm to factory, from country to city. They were also aware that the United States lagged behind Europe in its struggle...

Review of the Post World War II Film The Bicycle Thief

In six pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the realities confronting Italy after the Second World War as featured in Vitto...

Hiroshima Devastation

atomic bomb. Fearful of the world devastation that could result from their creation in the hands of such a tyrannical leader, man...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

American Women's Movement and the Impact of the Second World War

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Reasons Behind Them

The assumption was that Germans were working as feverishly on atomic power as was the U.S. - and it was only late in 1944 that the...

Fictitious Oral Interview with a Second World War Wife

hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

An Ungrateful Nation - Blacks after the Second World War

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

Strategic Campaigns in World War Two

North Africa - Operation TORCH: TORCH represents the first combined Allied action of the war, when British and American troops lan...

Second World War and Racial Propaganda

In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a...

First World War's Main Cause

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

Japan and China After the Second World War

emperor asked the people of Japan to agree to peach "by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable by surrenderin...

Second World War Jewish Stereotypes and Minority Group Perceptions Regarding Gays and Lesbians

gays and lesbians within their own ethnic group, one might readily surmise how the lack of religious tolerance is partly to blame ...

Ancient Rome to Post Second World War Infrastructural Development and Military Strategy

strategies of Romes Julius Caesar and Claudius, the author emphasizes the role infrastructural development played in wartime strat...

Five Centuries Leading Up to the Second World War

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...

Austro Hungarian Empire and First World War's Causative Factors

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

Second World War Fashion and Social Trends

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

Second World War and the Diverse Roles Played by Women

Women played many critical roles in World War II. Their impact would have long-lasting effects. This is true not just from the...

Disillusionment Reflected in Art Between the First and Second World Wars

past, but seeing it through disillusioned, or "cubist," eyes. Picassos other work under examination, Guernica, is his most analy...

Second World War as a Result of the Versailles Treaty

participation and Germany was prohibited from participating because she was the defeated power. Instead, the so-called "big four"...

Warfare Changes from the Second World War to the Today

in the hopes that the French would lend some support.1 "The primary objective was to utilize ready Allied forces in an operation c...

Second World War and Its Chronological History

"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...

Post Second World War Business History of Japan

of Change Statistician Walter Shewhart published a work in 1931 describing the benefits of bringing manufacturing under sta...

First and Second World Wars and Photography Style

romanticized and consistent with literature, which always glamorized warfare and sanitized it. Photography does not allow for sani...

Second World War Victory by the Allies

Iwo Jima. The last straw would be the bomb that was let loose at Hiroshima. It was a devastating blow. A lesser, but just as detri...

Link Between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Missississippians Service in the Second World War

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...