At the outbreak of the Second World War‚ Australia as a nation was still very closely tied to the British. Therefore when war was finally declared after a period of appeasement‚ Australia’s Prime Minister Robert Menzies of the United Australia Party‚ made his famous Melancholy Duty speech‚ committing Australia to the war effort. However as the war waged on‚ and when Winston Churchill’s promised support was most needed‚ they weren’t there. It was America that showed up to help save our proud nation
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Introduction The brief Spanish-American War that lasted from April 1898 through to August 1898 was fought over the issue of the liberation of Cuba‚ a Spanish colony that was suffering under the brutality of Spain’s authority. “The war essentially grew out of Cuba’s struggle for independence. Since the early 19th century‚ many Americans had watched with sympathy the series of revolutions that ended Spanish authority throughout the Americas” ‚ yet it was in Cuba where Spain kept their autocracy alive
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Women and World War II Eighteen million women worked in the work force during World War II. World War II caused a change on how women were being portrayed. As a result of the war‚ they took on different gender roles; the military created divisions where women could serve; and women’s rights were affected. Traditionally‚ women were usually found at home as a mother‚ a wife‚ a teacher and as a housekeeper. Women were discouraged from working ‚ while men would leave the home to work and provide
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During World War I‚ African Americans went a step further. Instead of only participating in protests‚ black workers would write persuasive letters – using the war and patriotism as means to support their requests. “Despite the tendency of the postal system to marginalize them‚ African Americans participated in a broad process of communicating … ‘African Americans viewed the war as a potentially defining moment in their history of racial progress and struggle for freedom.’ African Americans … made
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World War II ended September second in 1945 and about two years later in 1947 the Cold War started in which many things came to be. Some of those things can be considered advanced‚ while others can be considered bad and slowed down the development of the global world. The cold war brought political and military tension between powers within the West and powers within the East. The Cold War created new technologies like aircrafts and wind tunnels‚ the spread of diseases‚ fighting and terrorism within
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opportunities that arose for women during World War I had deteriorated when the war ended. The jobs that women had taken over were now reserved for men when they got back. Some states even banned women labor forces from employment. After the war had ended‚ women went back home to continue their roles as wives and mothers. When Germany invaded Poland in September of 1939‚ women again began pursuing careers that would help the war effort. Following the beginning of the war‚ more women made it their mission
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to quarantine it until it either dies out or a cure is found. The United States policy of containment brought about during the cold war was an effort to stop the expansion of communism to other regions. Though communism was thought of as both something that could be lived with and without‚ America was right to think of it as a threat to the American way of life. The Soviet Union was looking to expand their way of life and basically take away liberty‚ slowly but surely. It may not have seemed so at
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totalitarian power over the whole world set in motion conquests that led to the Second World War‚ the effects of which are present to this day. Using the insult of Treaty of Versailles on Germany‚ the chaotic political system in Germany and the economic depression as a stepping stone‚ Hitler became the ultimate dictator of Germany. His greed for world domination also caused his defeat‚ forcing him to kill himself before the brink of defeat in the Second World War. Hitler‚ the ruthless dictator of
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Cold War and the Media When discussing the media coverage in light of what we as Americans know now‚ I chose the so called “Cold War” era. Although there are many different arguments and views about the actual dates that this era occurred‚ it can be generally said that it took place from the years of 1945 up until the late 80’s and even as recent as the early 90’s. The reason why I chose this era was because many major historical events and civil rights movements occurred during this time
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Feelings of War During the World War I‚ the literature had a conversion of the emotions and purposes of how writers told their stories through the poetry. As a consequence‚ of the tragically situation on war‚ James Campbell (1999) incorporated to the poetry the ideology of combat gnosticism that is defined as “the belief that combat represents a qualitatively separate order of experience that is difficult if not impossible to communicate to any who have not under gone an identical experience” (Campbell
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