Hitler: Speech of 1941

Franco, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler: these four men are still considered some of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th century. Together they accounted for millions of deaths during their terrible reigns as supreme leader in their respective countries. However, one in this group stands apart from the rest. Only one of these men was named Time Magazine Man of the Year. This very man would be the one and only Adolf Hitler. On January 2, 1939, Adolf Hitler was named “Man of the Year” by

occurred in history, with sixty million casualties and it involved many countries. On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland is what started World War II. The war ends when Germany signs an unconditional surrender on May 7, 1945 at Allied headquarters in Reims, France. Meanwhile in a top secret lab in the US, approximately 100,000 scientists worked on the Manhattan project. On August 6, 1945, The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. The bomb wounded and killed nearly

Introduction The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I on 28 June 1919. Part of the treaty required Germany to recognize the independence of Poland. However, the treaty did not do enough to prevent Germany from gaining power again. The treaty broke up the Austria-Hungary regime and pushed Russia back to the east. Germany was now the only dominant power in Eastern Europe. History The German’s did not react well to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Most notably, they were upset about the

World War 2 or known as the Second World War was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. There were a lot of conflicts or problems that led to World War 2. It was the most dangerous and longest war and there were sides to the war. One of them was the Allied powers which were made up by America, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and France. The other group is made up of the Axis powers which include Germany, Japan, and Italy. Background: World War 1 has recently just ended but for the central power

tried to take advantage of the crisis facing the Weimar government by establishing a revolution in Munich, Germany. It seemed like the perfect opportunity, but poor planning and misjudgement resulted in failure and the low security imprisonment of Adolf Hitler. After Germany’s failure in World War I, the Weimar Republic had been declared the new democratic government of Germany in February 1919. “The Weimar Republic was a genuine attempt to create a perfect democratic country [and] looked like the

horizon of the 19th century, the development of a rising German enterprise created a cataclysmic downfall of British, French, and American diplomacy. Above all, while under a firm hand by Joseph Stalin, Russia sought expansionist ideals just as much as Adolf Hitler did. The failures of British and French negotiations, under previous attempted containment of Germany with a lackluster Treaty of Versailles, paved the way for Russo-German negotiations that green-lit the eventual invasion of Poland. It was

How the Greatest Generation Won WWII, Saving the World. The "Greatest Generation” is a term that Tom Brokaw coined to describe those individuals who were born roughly between the years of 1909-1928. Every generation after the Greatest Generation owes their gratitude toward this generation for the livelihoods we enjoy today. The Greatest Generation had endured some of the toughest times in the history of the United States, growing up in the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, and then fighting in the

death arrived in Europe in October of 1347. It was brought by twelve Genoese trading ships that docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a lengthy expedition through the Black Sea. The people that were gathered on the docks to meet the twelve ships were greeted with a terrifying surprise: the majority of the sailors that were on they ship were dead, and the ones that were still alive were somberly ill. They had fevers, were unable to hold down food, and were delirious from pain. They were covered

Central and Eastern European countries. Both Nazism and Stalinism sought to build utopic societies by implementing a final and permanent revolution. People that did not fit into to the utopic image created by Stalin and Hitler would be forcibly removed from each society by the use of violence and terroristic tactics. As Nazism and Stalinism rose to power, they implemented a system of inclusion and exclusion by creating an image that all nationals should aspire to. Poland was a victim of both regimes’

by the end of World War I, Europe was a mess. Countries had been dissolved and rearranged, governments had fallen and been replaced, and economies were thriving then crashing, all as a result from World War I. One of the main goals at the end of World War I was to prevent another tragedy like World War I from happening again. Clearly that did not happen, as World War II still happened, causing over 50 million deaths. The repercussions of World War I caused World War II due to radical ideology, bad