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such as Paris and Amsterdam. The attacks could be carried out at night. New technologies improved precision of the bombs. One of the examples of this would be the German Blitzkrieg. Another example would be later in the war, with the American Firebombing of Japan and mass destruction caused. “More than $2 billion was spent during the entirety of the Manhattan Project.” Truman had little knowledge about the Atomic Bomb. “Not until Roosevelt died that he learned about the Manhattan Project”. Second

Slaughterhouse-Five appears to be semi autobiographical because it includes events that Vonnegut himself experienced, but is written instead about a character named Billy Pilgrim. Pilgrim, also a soldier in World War II, experiences the same firebombing of Dresden that killed more than 135,000 people (Notable Biographies). The novel follows Pilgrim throughout his life where he finds himself “unstuck in time” and constantly travels to different moments from his birth to his death. Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five

| World War I (Total War) | World War II (Total War) | Causes | Long Term: MAINShort Term: Serbian Nationalism, Bosnian crisis, Moroccan crisisImmediate: Ass. of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Long Term: Treaty of Versailles, Failure of LON, Econ DepressionShort term: Absynnia, Munich, appeasement Immediate: Invasion of Poland (9.1. 1939) and Pearl Harbor (12. 7. 1941) | War | Western Front: Schlieffen Plan fail, Trench Warfare, Entry of USA Eastern Front: Austria & Germany V.S. Russia

Irony is a form of humor that occurs when a seemingly straight forward statement or a situation actually means the opposite. Irony occurs again and again in the events Vonnegut that narrates. Kurt Vonnegut is one of the more prominent exponents of irony during the 1960s. Most of Vonnegut’s novel achieve to blend facts with faction, nontraditional narrative techniques yet the presence of the irony in Vonnegut’s work does not lead to the emotional detachment of the reader. Rather, the presence of

cancer that eats away at the very values and beliefs of the American people. Instead of combining efforts to peacefully and legally enact change, domestic terrorists take the law and actions into their own hands. Groups such as eco-terrorists use firebombing to make their point that the Earth will be protected at all costs. That cost even meant human lives. Militia groups feel the same way. Their goal is not about saving the Earth but rather to change the government. They see it as too weak to handle

“A war is not over when a war is over ” Kurt Vonnegut novel Slaughterhouse Five is about Billy Pilgrim a College dropout who joined the army. It is world war two and Billy Pilgrim is deployed in Germany, he is captured and taken as a prisoner of war. Hemingway's short story “soldier's home” is about herald kerb a soldier that is returning home from the vietnam war. During the war billy and krebs were both heros, but when they return home the true trauma of war set in. Transforming them into anti-hero

trips aren't necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next”(Vonnegut, 23). Billy is time traveling in his memories in order to make sense of the firebombing of Dresden, but he cannot find any because there are no answers to why such a horrific event took place.

in an imaginary world, but also a semi-autobiographical anti-war treatise. Considered as Vonnegut’s masterpiece, the novel follows the travels through time and space of its protagonist, Billy Pilgrim. Billy is always going back-and-forth to the firebombing of Dresden in eastern Germany, on February 13, 1945, an event he witnessed and from which he is never able to escape. Published during the Vietnam War, the novel resonated with the thousands of people protesting against it. Although it is written

On August 6, 1945, American bombers dropped the Atomic Bomb over Japan, an event which had lasting effects on American history. Had the bomb not been dropped, there would have been an increased number of negative effects on various countries involved in World War II. The Atomic Bomb was beneficial to America, despite its controversies and negative effects. President Harry S. Truman made the correct decision to drop the Atomic bomb over Japan, because it saved thousands of lives, ended the war quickly

Japanese casualties between the two bombs is estimated around 200,000 Japanese lives, not dropping the bomb would’ve resulted in allied ground invasions and conventional strategic bombing by the U.S, such as the one that killed over 120,000 in the firebombing of Tokyo (History.com), which would’ve led to many more American and Japanese deaths. Another positive effect the atomic bombings had was it caused the Soviet Union to take notice of the military power of the U.S. and