WW2 was one of the greatest struggles humanity has ever seen. Over 50 countries participated in the war and the entire world felt its effects. There were battles on almost every continent and many major bodies of water. Countless major cities were destroyed in the viscous thirst for more territory. While it is impossible to know the exact number of deaths it is estimated that around 55 million people died as a result of WW2 (History.com‚ n.d.). World War 2 was a war like nobody had ever seen‚ this
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(Irish: Roibéard Ó Floinn‚ 20 April 1879 – 6 October 1949) was an Irish writer‚ an urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist. Contents [hide] 1 Life and career 2 Activism 3 Family 4 Works 5 Robert Lynd’s Anthology of Modern Poetry (1939) 6 See also 7 Notes 8 Sources 9 External links Life and career[edit] He was born in Belfast and educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution‚ studying at Queen’s University. His background was Protestant‚ his father being a Presbyterian
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Conflict in Europe: 1939-1945 The Battle of Stalingrad The Battle of Stalingrad was a key event of the conflict in Europe‚ 1939-45‚ which had a major effect on the outcome of the 2nd World War. For Adolf Hitler Stalingrad was important because it was to be the turning point in getting Operation Barbarossa back on track as the Germans went to control the resources in the Caucasus region. For the Russians‚ as a strategic centre Stalingrad was its third largest city and a major manufacturing facility
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for WW2? (10 marks) Hitler’s aims were aggressive. He planned to destroy the treaty of Versailles‚ create a country of all German people and conquer land in Eastern Europe. But many other factors are thought to be the main reason war broke out in 1939. Hitler’s aims were aggressive and he made this aims very clear in his book ‘Mein Kampf’ (my struggle). To test the courage of the British and French to stand up to Hitler on an important matter of principle‚ Hitler announced publicly in March 1935
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The Average Man W. H. Auden satirizes the United States as an entity‚ which restrains individual advancement. Through depersonalization‚ the government rewards those who actually never do anything. However‚ the "Unknown Citizen" has a monument built as a symbol of his perfection. Thus‚ Auden’s "The Unknown Citizen" shows how the government makes each individual merely a number unless they do not conform to society’s norms. The monument of the "unknown citizen" is erected not to honor the
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W.H. Auden poem “Stop All The Clocks”‚ published in 1938‚ describes the death of a loved one and the enormous funeral which followed. The poem consists of four stanza‚ each containing four lines. Auden’s poem‚ explores the ideas of grief‚ through the first person pronoun “I”‚ in order to engage the reader into his personal tragedy. It’s almost as if each stanza expresses a new emotion‚ with the first stanza expressing grief‚ the second stanza expressing public notification‚ the third stanza expressing
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On September 1st 1939‚ the Nazis had invaded Poland. The life of the 15 year old girl‚ Clara Kramer‚ wasn’t ever bound to be the same again. Clara Kramer was a typical Polish teenager from a small town named Zolkiew where thousands of Jews resided. At the sudden uproar of World War II. Clara and her family decided it was a good idea to go into hiding. They were taken in by a family called the Becks‚ a Volksdeutsche (ethnically German) family from their town. Mrs. Beck was a Catholic woman who worked
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1929 |February 2nd‚ Federal Reserve announces a ban on bank loans for margin trades • March 4th‚ Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as President • June 15th‚ Agricultural Marketing Act passed • August‚ economic expansion peaks • September 3rd‚ stock market prices peak‚ with New York Times index of industrial stocks at 452 • October 24th‚ "Black Thursday‚" recorded sales of shares hits 12‚895‚000 • October 25th‚ market rallies‚ briefly • October 29th‚ "Black Tuesday‚"
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It is partially agreed upon that Hitler’s aggressive actions caused the outbreak of World War Two. The collapse of the New York stock exchange left Germany in a state of depression‚ with large quantities of people left unemployed and unable to support themselves with the conditions they were left in. Hitler’s rise to power was a result of the huge amount of support he received after promoting extreme ideas to lead Germany out of the Great Depression. The more support he obtained‚ the more power he
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The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Written By: Nicholas Phandoe World War II began on September 1st‚ 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and then ended on September 2nd‚ 1945 with the signing of the surrender documents from Japan aboard the American Battleship USS Missouri. During the course of 1941 when the US joined WWII‚ and 1945 when it ended over 291‚000 US American Soldiers
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