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“All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animals”. The atrocities committed in warfare are commonly justified by the nationalistic drive of many authority figures whose views are obviously adopted by soldiers. These soldiers believe that whatever they do is for the good of their country and that they are the last…

.. tors were getting huge contracts from the Government. The United States was beginning to come out of the Depression. (p. 494-495 A World At Arms). Comment – When more job opportunities became available, and wages were higher, Americans were starting to enjoy a higher standard of living. They were starting to believe that the…

American Parties from the Civil War American Parties from the Civil War This essay conains American party systems from the end of George Washingtons first term as president through the Civil War. Included are the creations, the building up of, and sometimes the break down of the various parties. As well as the belief in…

Many agree that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war; but exactly how close did it come? The Crisis was ultimately a showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union from October 16 to October 28, 1962. During those thirteen stressful days, the worlds two biggest superpowers…

The Cold War Beginnings Although the Soviet Union and the United States had been allies in World War II, disagreements over the organization of the postwar world led the two countries to compete militarily and politically through the next several decades. In the 1950s this competition was particularly intense, resulting in the Cold War and…

Joseph Mengele, born in 1911 in Ginzburg (Bavaria), originated from anindustrialist family and entered the “Stahlhelm”, a right-wing militant organisation which had been founded by former soldiers of the war, as a 20-year old man. In 1934 he changed to the SA and became a member of the NSDAP and SS in 1937. At the…

The first part of The Plague, by Albert Camus, begins in describing the large French port called Oran which is on the Algerian coast of Africa. The smug town is inhibited by people largely concerned with business. The normal flow of the town is abruptly interrupted by thousands of rats coming out of the sewers…

I feel that through my research that I will conclude that Congressman Sam Gejdenson supports the issues that affects his contributors. Congressman Sam Gejdenson, who was the first child of holocaust survivors elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, was born in 1948 in an American displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany. He was raised…

Cottons Impact on the United States Before the Civil War With the end of the War of 1812, few people in the United States envisioned a civil war in the future. With a developing Western section of the country, the future looked bright for a stable growing economy based on extraction of resources (agriculture, timber,…

Fascism is a form of counter-revolutionary politics that first arose in the early part of the twentieth-century in Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism is a philosophy or a system of government the advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the…