Until The End Even in our darkest hour, never despair, the light will come sooner than expected. It was December 23rd , 1943, and there they were, sitting in a ghost town that was once the fine city of Rostock. The soldiers were waiting patiently in the bombed out, abandoned airplane factory that still looked like a war zone. The area was littered with skeletons of World War II jets and engines that once fueled Hitler’s Wehrmacht and mighty blitzkriegs that helped him conquer most of Europe in its hey day. Hitler’s army went through Europe decimating buildings and works of art that had great historical value. The Nazi soldiers gave no thought to what they were doing, but only wishing to please the Furor. The bones of these mighty planes looked as sorrowful as the men were now feeling. The putrid smell of dead bodies and spent casings hung heavy in their nostrils. The entire company was chilled to the bone by the hard sleet and snow that had been pelting them relentlessly for the past15 hours. They were in the northeastern corner of Germany, nestled between the mighty Warnow River and the harsh Baltic Sea in a city that once was bustling and thriving before the allies invaded through Demark and Sweden and the red Russians barreled through Poland. The men were glad it was almost empty, lending a sense of peaceful serenity that almost had a way of making them feel safe. It was so quiet; almost too quiet. Gunnery Sergeant Ronald L. Carter, a tall, athletic, blonde
When Dana returns from living as a slave in the Antebellum South, she identifies with accounts of survivors from the Holocaust during World War II. She compares the horrible acts of the Nazis to the behavior of slave holders who worked at every turn to demean enslaved people and lessen their humanity. While the monstrosities of the Holocaust may have been more intense over a shorter period of time, Butler points out that those who lived through slavery endured conditions just as horrible over a much longer duration. Yet while Americans are largely comfortable acknowledging the events of the Holocaust as the worst impulses of mankind, there is often more hesitancy to take responsibility for the degradations of enslaved people that took place
Americans in the 1960’s lived in a state of fear. Fear of nuclear war, fear of communism, and fear of losing to the Russians in the great race to the moon. However, the biggest fear for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow was ignorance. More specifically the spread of ignorance to Americans through the content displayed on television. Minow felt that broadcasters had an obligation to the American people to deliver more educational and enriching content and as FCC chairman it was his job to make sure of that. In his speech, Television and the Public Interest, Minow informed the broadcasters of this fear. The speech primarily appealed to the audience’s emotions by providing logic as to how the content directly
After World War I legacy the Great Depression brought isolationism. The best work produced by President Roosevelt was the Four Freedoms; freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. President Roosevelt was the leader of the Allies, he used this statement as part of his Allies aim. The Soviet Union joined the Allies after being invaded by Germany. Millions of art were sold and reprinted as it publicizes the Four Freedom in 1943. In 1940s after tension between the United States and Japan over East Asia, on December 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. There was no warning of this attack happening as a result United States declared war on Japan. The Good neighbors policy was, brought into place by President Roosevelt and Hoover in 1930s. This was a policy that would help the relationship between Latin American countries and the Unites States. The good neighbors policy would not only help the Latin countries but also the United States with trade and military.
World War II happened during the time that women wanted more rights and wanted to be able to work. So when World War II happened, it created new job opportunities and women were able and willing to work. The war was fought between two alliances that was against each other, “the opposing alliances are now referred to as ‘The Axis’ and ‘The Allies’. The Axis group consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Allies group consisted of France, Britain, the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China. World War II was especially heinous because of the genocide of Jewish people perpetrated by the Nazis.” (Diffen LLC, n.d.d). World War II is known for being a brutal and long war that involved more than thirty countries. Also, some of the important things of
Would you kill someone? Many will say no, but others in the past have said yes. In nature, animals survive by killing, as we do. Civilizations have battled for territory and resources. We kill to feed ourselves. In the present time, we only kill people when it is deemed acceptable, such as wars; however, during World War II, millions of people were treated less than human, forced into labor and killed on sight. Others were given a swift death by a bullet to the head while others died of starvation and disease. What makes this treatment of human even worse is how the Jewish people were targeted. Killing a specific group of people is called Genocide. A crime known to the U.N. as the worst crime a human can do. People in Europe in 1939 to 1945 were in terror due to war. Jews on the other hand had to endure punishment that no human deserves. The Holocaust serves as an event where millions died and suffered, it gave birth of the term “genocide”. Unspeakable acts were committed during the time, not only did people die, but many were treated less than human and many were troubled by it. Humans revolve with one another, when we do crimes such as genocide, it affects everyone but also the mind.
In 1914, a war began that would turn into one of the deadliest combats in all of human history. A war that was fought between two alliances named the Triple Entente, consisting of Russia, France and Great Britain, and the Triple Alliance, which consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. One of the reasons the war was so deadly was because many of the commanders and generals did not develop the tactics at the rate at which the weapons had progressed. Artillery and Machine Guns would decimate anyone who came over the edge of a trench, leading to millions of deaths. The old style of face-to-face trading fire combat had become obsolete due to the invention of the automatic and semi-automatic weapon. A single gun could now kill or injure
World War II was a period in history which contained a motley of quarrels and conflicts. General Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower played a significant role in the theatre of World War II. In the conflict, General Eisenhower served not only as a 5 star general in the the United States Army, but also served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. As a _____ leader, General Eisenhower coined the historical term “military-industrial complex”, and also led several pivotal conflicts(??) throughout the course of the war, some of which include the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch (1942-1943) and the invasion of France and Germany from the Western Front in Operation Overlord (AKA D-Day).
World War II was a unique time in American History. World War II represented the best and the worst that the world has to offer. The atrocities committed by the Axis forces were deplorable actions that would require an astonishing amount of coordination and teamwork on the part of the Allied forces. Hitler, with his insatiable desire to spread his vision of Arian supremacy across the world, resulted in the United States and their European Allies engaging in a War that the fate of the world depended on. As a result of the severity and high stakes nature of World War II the United States would be forced to cooperate with any and all resources available to them, even if it means collaborating with a different enemy, The Mafia.
Most people think D-Day is a day that we freed France. This is true , however, there is much more to it. Many soldiers deceased, and people lost loved ones. One of the bloodiest battles in World War II was on June 6, 1944 on Omaha , Juno, Gold, Sword, and Utah beaches to free France from the Nazis ' and make them surrender.(D-Day by Martha Brack Martin) People have been told that the cause of the war was because Hitler believed in the perfect race. This may be true, but others have different reasons. Dwight D. Eisenhower entered the war to help plan for D-Day and lead them into the war. He was responsible for the whole thing. Franklin Roosevelt may have helped and same with Winston Churchill.
World War II stands out as one of the grisliest wars in human history. Though it 's the effects that make it a unique war. With over twelve countries involved in the war, it brought billions of people together (World). It generally wasn’t for the best, but there are moments where it brought good. My grandparents were one of these moments.
When evaluating the causes behind the atrocities experienced during World War II, many reasons for these events can be found in the conditions occurring beforehand. Beyond this, many of these causes can be applicable contributions to each World War. In terms of cause, World War II can be considered an inevitable continuation of the first World War. It erupted due to Hitler’s extreme desire for expansion and hostile foreign policy, war was immediately declared upon German militarization of Poland. However, the expectation for global warfare had been longstanding before Mussolini and Hitler came to power or Japan’s assault upon China. Whereas the tensions leading to World War I came about due to a rise in nationalism in response to
World War II proved to be the deadliest war in history, and it resurfaced how divided humankind can be. Under the Nazi regime, Hitler promoted that the Aryan race was superior to other races. Hitler then created concentration and death camps to eliminate the inferior Jewish population from existence. Many prisoners of these camps did not survive; historians estimate that five to six million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust. Primo Levi was one of the survivors of Auschwitz, one of the most horrible death camps in World War II. Levi wrote about his experience in the camp, to document and remember the atrocities of the Holocaust. Auschwitz was an unparalleled environment that nurtured immoral tendencies when no sense of community or compassion existed in the death camp.
One of the most unfortunate yet necessary aspects of leading a nation is facing the prospect of war. As devastating as war can be, it often is key to ensuring a nation 's freedom and protection. One war that was certainly devastating on both sides of the battlefield was World War II. The tension in the Japanese-American relationship had been boiling for a while, between the military blockade of Japan, and Japan’s intrusion into China in direct violation of the Open-Door policy, but the attack on Pearl Harbor was the exploding point for the War that would eventually lead up to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The weapons dropped on these two cities were used for a number of reasons, but ultimately this decision would end up
Most people have had a problem with someone, some might refer to it like a war. War by definition is generally characterized by extreme aggression, destruction, and mortality. However, for forty-four years a war that would scare millions around the world occurred. This war was not all brutality, it was arguments that would change the world forever. This war was known as the Cold War.
“One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic.”- These words were spoken by Joseph Stalin after the largest and bloodiest battle in human history, Stalingrad. The eastern front of World War II was one the bloodiest single war of all time. Once the Germans invaded the USSR they did not know they had unleashed the Soviet storm. During Russia’s great patriotic war, the battles of the eastern front led to the downfall of the German Reich.