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- 2641: The Dropping of The Atomic Bomb: Was It The Best Way to End The War?
- ... the World War ? ended. There seem to be many young people including me who have not thought about the atomic bomb dropped on Japan, but we have to learn the history of our own country and have one's own opinion about it. I think that this is a good opportunity to do so. I will think about this problem, referring ... acts. Therefore, I do not think the dropping of the atomic bomb can be justified with the act of Japan. When I was a high school student, a teacher of history taught us that America dropped the atomic bomb for various reasons, not only for beating Japan. It was not until that I knew the fact. Though the teacher did not ...
- 2642: The Marshall Plan
- ... locked in. A truer, if more grandiloquent, assessment was made by Winston Churchill. The Marshall Plan, said England's war leader from his retirement, was "the most unsordid act in history." It was, at the time, a very hard sell. The men who wanted to save Europe--Harriman, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson, diplomats like George Kennan--were unelected and ... Some of the men who made the Marshall Plan possible saw the romantic and epic quality of their task. It was "one of the greatest and most honorable adventures in history," wrote Dean Acheson. His friend and successor at State, Bob Lovett, had a more practical view the Marshall Plan was that rare government program that came in on budget, accomplished ...
- 2643: The Holocaust, An Injustice And Tragedy
- ... but only three groups were targeted for systematic extermination: Jews, the handicapped, and the Sinti and Roma, often known as Gypsies. Of all the examples of injustice against humanity in history, the Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the most prominent. In the period of 1933 to 1945, the Nazis waged a vicious war against Jews and other "lesser races". The Holocaust was a dark time in the history of the 20th century. When the Nazi party of Germany, lead by Adolf Hitler, came to power. Hitler's anti-Jew campaign began soon afterward, with the "Nuremberg Laws", which ...
- 2644: The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan
- ... 4] After President Roosevelt’s death, it fell to Stimon to brief the new President about the atomic weapon. At a White House meeting on April 25 he outlined the history and status of the program and predicted that “within four months we shall in all probability have completed the most terrible weapon ever known in human history”. [5] This meeting dealt largely with the political and diplomatic consequences of the use of such a weapon rather than with the timing and manner of employment, the circumstances under ...
- 2645: The Start of World War Two
- ... of enemy aggression (Bailey 20). The next day, Roosevelt delivered a speech to congress asking for a declaration of war. The beginning of the speech would become famous in American history. “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of ... of the Axis powers. Germany’s invasion of Poland in late 1939 is considered the major event that set World War II in motion. But, like many other events in history, there is more to the story. Dozens of smaller occurrences pushed the world closer and closer to the brink of war over a period of many years. The results of ...
- 2646: Kosovo
- ... of the Albanian population in Kosovo by the Serbian government, violation of the basic rights of Albanians occurs frequently. Kosovo is viewed by the Serbians as the birthplace of their history, culture and religion, but 90% of the province's 2 million people are ethnic Albanian, most of who demand independence. It is one thing to be Ethnic Albanian and a ... Star. Also using information from the Internet specifically Yahoo News which provides top stories from various news centres such as CCN and the BBC. I will also provide a brief history of Kosovo to show how the situation is what it is today. March 9th The Daily Star: Western allies have threatened air strikes against Serbia if Yugoslav President Slobadan Milosevic ...
- 2647: World War I
- ... 593-605 Shanahan, William O., “Germany” Collier’s Encyclopedia, Macmillan Educational Co. & P.F. Collier, Inc, New York, 1983 ed., Vol.11 p17-37 Farah, Mounir, & Berens-Karls, Andrea, World History, The Human Experience, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Co., Glencoe Division, Ohio, 1992, p692-714 “Germany in World War One”, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/6916/ww1.htm “A History of the First World War: The Aftermath”, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/1426/page4.html “Central Powers”, http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Palms/2460/powers.html “The Faults of ...
- 2648: The Treaty of Trianon
- The Treaty of Trianon Political, economic, and social turmoil seem to be an integral part in the history of East Central Europe. This has been an area of constant change for hundreds of years. As with all changes, one, and historians especially so, tries to determine the causes which precipitated the events that had such a profound political, economic, social, and/or geographical effect. There have been many such instances in the history of East Central Europe. One of the more recent of these events was World War I and especially the peace treaty following the war, known as the Treaty of Trianon ...
- 2649: The Nuremberg Trials
- ... about the Nazi regime that had presided over the extermination of some six million Jews and deaths of millions of others with no basis in military necessity. Never before in history had the victors tried the vanquished for crimes committed during a war (Rice Jr., 97). Yet never in history had the vanquished perpetrated crimes of such inhumanity. The I.M.T., like the courts in many countries, have held to the principle that persons committing a criminal violation of ...
- 2650: The Effects of the Great War
- The Effects of the Great War The Great War has been called by many the most destructive war in history. The Great War brought a different kind of war to America. The Great War effected America in so many different ways culturally, economically. The Great War was predicted to be ... We saw greater production, a steady climb in wages, and average work week declined. Bibliography John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, Daniel, Czitrom, Susan H. Armstong, Out of Many: A History of the American People. Second Edition, New Jersey 1997
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