Women and the Great War
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
World War I, lasting from 1914 to 1918, was a culmination of entangling alliances, new technology and empirical greed. The Great War, as it is sometimes called, brought the whole of Europe into years of stalemate, death and destruction. United States soldiers were spared most of the war, and the...
Domesticity and the siege of Leningrad
Essay - 20 pages - Modern history
One of the most tragic and at the same time heroic episodes of the Second World War, or as it is referred to in the Soviet/Russian context The Great Patriotic War, is the Siege of Leningrad. The siege itself, although not a key strategic event on the Eastern front, holds an important place in the...
The political role of prisoners of war in postwar Germany
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
In the period immediately following its defeat in the Second World War Germany was faced with many problems: rebuilding itself after the destruction of the war, re-establishing a political infrastructure, and coming to grips with its Nazi past. Although these were critical issues, perhaps one of...
Rigoberta Menchu Tum: A peacemaker from the start
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Rigoberta Menchu? Tum, a great nonviolent leader, born in 1959 in Guatemala, struggled through many hardships with her family. Her mother and father, community leaders working towards their goal of giving power to the peasant workers, fought through to the end when tortured and killed by the...
Salem Village through the eyes of 20th century historians: A historical and geographical review
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
In 1953, Arthur Miller composed a highly-charged work for the theater that struck its audiences as frighteningly relevant to the times. That play was called The Crucible, and its fictional examination of the Salem Witch trials has become a classic of American Theater. Miller's play was well...
The road to the civil war
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
As a result of the Mexican American War, Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the United States. The victory of the Mexican American War seemed to fulfill the citizens' beliefs in Manifest Destiny. The newly acquired territories of the United States put pressure between the Northern and...
The Cold War
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Communism is a political structure based on economic principles that promote the establishment of a classless society in which everything is commonly owned. (“Communism” Par 1) On the contrary, Capitalism is based on the principle that land and means of production can be privately...
Conformity, radicals, conservatives, and Clinton
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
In the United States, the 1950s was the rise of suburbia. Undeveloped areas were constructed into planned communities. One of the most famous subdivisions of this time was known as Levittown. Levittown was a political subdivision of Long Island, New York. It was the first truly mass-produced...
Lo siniestro como producto de la guerra civil española: el caso de La Voz Dormida
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
El año 1939 señaló un momento triunfante para el general Francisco Franco y su banda nacional, marcando el fin de la Guerra Civil y el principio de “La Paz de Franco” que supuestamente siguió. Al contrario, para la población derrotada (los republicanos y otros que no se identificaron...
The Virginian dynasty
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
George Washington was born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family and was raised to be an eighteenth century Virginia gentlemen. Washington was a general and took part in the French and Indian War as well as the American Revolutionary War. Washington became of the most important figures in the...
The Armenian transnation as unified in opposition to its Ottoman past
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Armenians were already a dispersed people; one scattered around the world but primarily divided between the Ottoman and Russian Empires. Their dispersion, however, became part of their self-conception as a people in 1915, when the Ottoman Armenians found...
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The Nez Perce War is a series of wars that occurred from June, 1877 to September, 1877 between the white settlers and the tribes of the Nez Perces. The Nez Perce lost over fifty of their tribe members during a surprise raid by the white settlers while they were sleeping. This attack led to more...
Revolutionary music: The Republicans and the Anarchists
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Music is a creation capable of greatly influencing and inspiring the people that it reaches. Many musicians and scholars suggest that a generation may even be defined by its choice of music. Music is even revered by some as a form of therapy, believed to have the ability to reach a person's...
Unconscious discord: The battle between modern Greece and its ideal in the mind
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In the 18th and 19th centuries, many men from the West journeyed to Greece, trading in their comfortable existences in Europe and America for exciting adventures where many risked their lives in the face of pirates, brigands, and plague; and for some of these men, traveling to Greece “was by...
The War of 1812
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The War of 1812 was mainly between the United States and Great Britain. The “relatively small conflict” (Heidler & Heidler, 2002, p.1) lasted for almost three years—from June of 1812 to Spring of 1815. The war still continued for a few months after a peace treaty ending the war was...
Life and history of Jane Adams
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
Introduction Throughout the course of history, there have been numerous female leaders that have demonstrated their strength and courage to the world. While many of these leaders have been written about in the annals of history, some have left a timeless impression on society, such that their...
The specific events that shaped the development of Europe between the years of 1914 and 1965
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
In the aftermath of World War II, Europe showed a notable overall decline in both its economic production and its overall primacy in the international community. While some historians have argued that the Second World War is what had served as the impetus for the decline of Europe, when tracing...
What occurred in the United States during the Second World War
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Research on the effects of World War II demonstrates that there few areas of society that were not, in some way, impacted by the event. Although many Americans remained on the home front there were numerous social, political and economic sacrifices that citizens made in order to support American...
The history of U.S steel and the industrial revolution
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Throughout the course of the twentieth century notable changes have taken place with respect to the development of the organization. Many of these changes have been focused on the advancement of the workforce and management, leading to the evolution of the organization. Interestingly, however, a...
The Rise of the Irish
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The United States is home to hundreds of nationalities, races, and religions. It is the breeding ground for diversity. This was not always the case. The 17th century to the 19th century was the times of immigration to the country. Immigrants came from all over to experience the “free...
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman provides the author's views on the development of the world since the late 1990s. The central thesis provided by Friedman is that the world is becoming flat. When Friedman makes this assertion, he is not...
The Rise And Fall Of The Slave Trade
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
One of humanities most shameful and horrific periods, is the time of the transatlantic slave trade. This system of transporting human captives and agricultural goods to Europe and the Americas started on a small scale, and rapidly grew to catastrophic proportions. Originally, the slaves were...
Korean Unification
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The notable economic and social problems that have developed in North Korea have spurred recent talks to reunify North and South Korea. While this move has been judged by many analysts to be a positive move toward establishing political stability in the Far East, the reality is that this...
Wolfe Tone's Argument for Catholic Emancipation in 18th-Century Ireland
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Theobald Wolfe Tone was one of the founding members of the United Irishmen, and was also a well-known supporter of Catholic emancipation. This paper will examine how Tone's Argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland, published the first of August, 1791, changed the way that reformers in...
The history of Philadelphia
Thesis - 6 pages - Modern history
By the late eighteen the century, America was well on its way to establishing its own national identity. While the cities and towns that were born during this time period each manifested their own unique culture and heritage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania became the political and economic heart of...
The Tet Offensive of 1968
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
In the early hours of January 31 1968, nineteen specially trained Vietcong soldiers leapt from a taxi cab and a truck to attack the American Embassy in Saigon. At the same time all across South Vietnam, urban centers, providence capitals, and military installations were all coming under surprise...
I Will Survive: How a Disco Hit Defined the Year 1979
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The oil crisis continued, unemployment remained high, Jimmy Carter's presidency suffered blow after demoralizing blow, disco was the popular music, movies were breaking new ground and television continued remained the number one form of entertainment and relaxation. America was faced with...
The Role of ETA in the Basque Nationalist Movement and its Consequences
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Following the recent ceasefire declared by ETA on 22nd March of this year (2006), never has it been more appropriate to look further into what the American Government has classified as one of the best-organised terrorist organisations in the world. In this essay I will explore the origins of ETA...
Women: What Were They Doing?
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
In the period precluding the 1700's, many different societies existed together and the future shape of the world was taking form. Christopher Columbus had discovered North America for Spain, Cortez had conquered the Aztecs, and Europeans began settling in American Colonies. Disease was killing...
Rosie the Riveter: Teaching High School Students about Women in World War II
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
As men enlisted in the armed services, and the need for more ships, and guns, and war supplies grew, the government focused on the recruitment of women to fill those jobs left open by men. The War Production Coordinating Committee commissioned artist, J. Howard Miller to create one of many...
