When we think about war‚ we think about words like death‚ disabled people‚ conquer and destroy. Without exception‚ the Great War during 1914-1918 was a catastrophe to the people and the countries involved. For Britain‚ the casualty numbered approximately 722000. It counts for 6.3 percent of the male aged 15-49 of the whole country (Beckett‚ 2001: 312). 1600000 wives lost their husbands. 300000 children lost their father. Millions were wounded or disfigured permanently (Bourne‚ 1989:178). Though miseries
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During the Cold War the practice of McCarthyism in the United States ran rampant. McCarthyism is the accusation of an individual or group of people for being treasonous without proper evidence or general regard for the truth. More specifically‚ this pertained mostly to people promoting or sympathising with communist ideals. One of the primary targets for this practice was the entertainment industry. Screenwriters who wrote works that had any trace of communistic ideals were questioned severely and
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Most people probably have heard of the concentration and internment camps that withheld many innocent people from the outside world during World War II. These camps both had the same concept with trapping people inside a designated area and forcing them to live. They also have a major difference between how they treated their prisoners. Because the prisoners trapped inside these camps weren’t seen as equals‚ they were undoubtedly mistreated. Although both camps were similar‚ the concentration camps
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The Cold War started after WW2. Harry S. Truman showed off all of his nuclear weapons and all of the weapons that were amazing at the time. Stalin was offended and sent in spies to steal the American’s ideas. After that happened‚ Stalin made his own weapons. Stalin wanted to be better so he was making twice the power and amount of nuclear bombs. Harry didn’t really like Stalin because of Stalin’s Communist ideas and Truman wanted to contain communism but Stalin wasn’t going to let that
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2 years after WW II started‚ the government made the work force open to women to help contribute to the war from home. The women mainly served clerical jobs such as farmers‚ canteen servers‚ Red Cross nurses‚ and in the war industries. A few years after‚ the National Defense Headquarters began allowing women to work in uniform such as the air force‚ army corps‚ and naval services. Since the women took on such a strong role during the war as workers‚ and in uniform‚ it impacted women then‚ and now
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States and the Soviet Union‚ the Cold War proved to be a pivotal period in world history. Lasting from the mid 1940s to the early 1990s‚ the Cold War shaped the world in many ways. Through numerous conflicts arising from the spread of communist ideals‚ both the US and Soviet Union engaged in several tactics and activities to negatively affect the other nation’s ability to engage in war‚ or what is more important in this case‚ the other nation’s spread of influence. I believe the Cold War was indeed a
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controlled a lot of during World War II. In 1930‚ the Germans elected the Nazis which would affect the whole world as this group would instigate the Second World War. Rosalind Franklin was born to a British
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Coming out of a post-World War II the relationship and tensions between America and the Soviet Union lasted for most of the second half of the twentieth century. This so-called war‚ heightened suspicions‚ creating a series of international events that brought the world’s two superpowers down to the brink of destruction. The Cold War was around a decade long struggle for the United States and the Soviet Union. The cause of this war was to stop anymore communism‚ or so that was the party line from
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The Cold War as it is called was a war that started because of tensions between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. The tensions that developed were primarily over military‚ political‚ cultural and social ideas that varied greatly between the two nations. Each Nation and its allies developed a distrust that would last for many years and introduce new military and political methods that would shape our future. The Cold War was not a war as we would think with destruction
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Missile Crisis Both the United States and the Soviet Union had strong military forces of aircrafts‚ ships‚ tanks‚ and soldiers. Both also had arsenals of thermonuclear hydrogen bombs that were capable of destroying entire cities and millions of people in an instant (Byrne 11). In addition to these weapons‚ both nations had intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that could reach around the world (Byrne 42). So when the United States found Soviet missiles on Cuba‚ an island only 90 miles from
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