Second World

September 1, 1939, the German army crossed the border into Poland officially starting the Second World War. A war that would leave 80 million people dead, a continent in shambles, and start a rivalry between two ideologies that would last for fifty more years. But why, why did such a terrible event that caused so many terrible things happen? There are three major reasons why, first is the Second Sino-Japanese War, second, the rise of National Socialism and Adolf Hitler in Germany, and third, and most importantly

The Second World War was unparalleled in the horrifying acts and outcomes of war as well as in the incredible scientific and technological advances that continue to influence current military operations and people’s everyday lives. Although the Second World War is often remembered for some of the most terrible acts of violence in human history, it was also a time of incredible scientific advances. Numerous scientific and technological improvements significantly influenced military operations during

The genocide committed during Second World War is one that still scars the human psyche to this day. The horrors of the Second World War lead to Raphael Lemkin’s creation of a new word, “genocide” in 1944 (Conversi 2006: 320). The definition of genocide is still under dispute by academics (Dallaire and Coleman 2013: 778; Manaktala 2012: 179; Hinton 2012: 11). For the purposes of this essay the definition used is the one created by the United Nations following the signing of resolution 240 (Stanton

After the Second World War, cultural propaganda was identified as the main field of battle between the leaders of the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union. Indeed, the development of the atomic weapons led both sides of this conflict to think of cultural propaganda as one of the major means by which they could project their powers and undermine their enemies. Immediately after the Second World War, much of this cold war propaganda was concerned with the division of Europe into two ideological

The First World War was considered total in many aspects; it was the Second World War that put greater pressure on civilian populations. In addition to witnessing the horrors of war, civilian populations were affected in numerous ways. Media was censored and often incorporated state-sponsored misinformation and propaganda. The Second World War was experienced differently depending on where you were in the world. Areas that were greatly affected by the world included the United States, the Soviet

December 29, 2014 Lesson 1: The 1848 Revolution, the Second Reich, and the First World War The Second Reich lasted from 1871 until 1918. The first era was known as The Era of Bismarck where Germany started to become a powerful economic and political force in Europe. However, due to Bismarck’s authoritarian rule causing political and social tensions, he was removed from office. William I reined as emperor since the founding of the Second Reich but died in 1888. His son Frederick III then

The M1 Garand is a semi-automatic .30 calibre gun which was used by the American WWII Forces during the Second World War. It was a widely used by the American forces and was a very successful gun against many of its competitors such as the Arisaka or the German rifle 98 Mauser. The mechanism for this gun is a gas operated rotating bolt action single fire gun. The M1 Garand was manufactured from 1936 to 1957 and was manufactured by the Springfield Armoury, Winchester and Beretta. It was later manufactured

Soviet Crimes During the Second World War Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia both were totalitarian killers and criminals of genocide. There is much more evidence regarding the Nazi crimes than Soviet ones and about those who conceived and ordered the crimes, those who carried them out, and those who suffered and died as a consequence. But a conclusion of both systems Stalinist and Nazi were genocidal by their ideology that led them to use the mass killing of groups of their own citizens (and others)

Britain’s initial involvement with the second World War was commenced after Adolf Hitler sieged the Polish borders in 1939. A dormant war was declared against Germany by Polish allies, France and Great Britain, that was later realized when Hitler began conquering western Europe in 1940 (Atwood, 2011). Although a peace treaty was declared in 1938, few trusted Hitler’s words, and used the time to prepare. Women, who demonstrated their usefulness in the First World War, were taken into account during the

Hitler began the ripple effect of the second World War by invading Poland. Writer Thomas Weber writes about Hitler’s success in the early stages of World War Two. After defeating Poland in six weeks, Weber writes, “ It was a considerable personal triumph for Hitler that in as little as forty-four days Germany managed to defeat the two countries in which he had spent more than four unsuccessful year between 1914 and 1918.” (Hitler’s First War, Page 317.) From this passage one can tell that these early