Probably the two most interesting and perhaps most formative, for him, was the role he played in the civil rights movement and then his role in the anti-Vietnam War movement, which stemmed from his service as an air force bomber pilot in World War II. ..…
Not only did it produce a colossal death toll, but it left behind a legacy of bitterness and resentment in Germany that Hitler was able to manipulate so cleverly to gain power and start an even more destructive war and the Holocaust, as well. I think it’s impossible to imagine the Second..…
Patton, who later gained international fame as a commander of Allied tanks during World War II. . . ..…
At the end of World War II, Soviet Union ended up on the same side as Allies, despite German- Soviet non-aggression pact.. The alignment between Soviet Union and Christian West was never comfortable one, and for that reason, World War II morphed quickly..…
Despite the fact that the U.S. boasts more than 20 million veterans who have served in World War II through the present day, the plight of veterans today is America’s badge of shame, with large numbers of veterans impoverished, unemployed, traumatized mentally and physically,..…
The continuation of this conflict, World War II, killed more people and brought more destruction on civilians in firebombed cities but, at least for me, World War I holds a special horror and poignancy. ..…
His overt nationalism and embrace of protectionism, critics say, have undermined American leadership and called into question the future of the international order constructed by the United States after World War II. . ..…
U.S and its allies succeeded in defeating Axis powers during World War II, they were able to do so only at in lives, treasure and overall devastation that dwarfed the toll inflicted by World War I.. ..…
What historians can tell us now, though, is that nationalism was not the only ism that hatched World War I and hastened World War II. ..…
Along with the battles of Mons, Loos, the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele, and the writings of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden, the statistics are probably known to every sixth-former in the United Kingdom: the 60 percent casualty rate that tore apart the British..…
Its role as host of the main international commemoration highlighted the point that the world mustn’t stumble into war again, as it did so quickly and catastrophically with World War II. . . . . ..…
World War II, in turn, type of governmental structure that is inherent to totalitarian regimes. It also brought Cold War against America's World War II partner ally, Soviet Union, and anti-Russia mentality that is U.S today. ..…
Turning to World War II veterans in attendance who sat under cover, he quipped: “You look very comfortable up there as we get drenched.” . ..…
., the resistance in World War II). That does not, however, amount to endorsing everything those in the opposition stand for. ... But despite those issues, his defense of liberty against tyranny, particularly in World War II and its aftermath, was very..…
The examples of the bourgeois democratic revolutions in Mexico nearly two hundred years ago, and in Bolivia and Cuba after World War II had should have demonstrated in practice the inability of the national bourgeoisie to lead the democratic revolution. ..…
On Sunday, Merkel met with the head of United Nations, organization born from the ashes of World War II, and the president of Serbia. ..…
A second Cold War, like the years before World War I, would be multipolar. ... What caused World War II was evil. What caused World War I was stupidity. ..…
A second factor is the weakening of America’s post-World War II Judeo-Christian civic culture. ..…
Rather than for ever stopping war, the wartime profiteering and imposition of vengeful reparations set the stage for World War II's million fatalities, and the nearly continuous string of moneymaking legalized murder that has continued since. ... Kurt Vonnegut, World..…
Post-Second World War US-Japan relations, and the European Union, both followed this model, ultimately decreasing the likelihood of hostilities, due to the significant economic ties that now bind them. . ..…
These ranged from a return to pre–World War II reclusiveness to a continuation of the expansive (and expensive) Cold War posture. ... Even if a threat to the United States did emerge, geography would provide a buffer to allow for rearmament, as it did in the opening years of..…
Global Power, John Dower’s The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II, and John Feffer’s dystopian novel Splinterlands. . ..…
By the mid-1930s, conditions were in place for the post-World War II division of Europe. . ..…
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