WWII
If there is a period that will always be remembered in the history of the 20th century, it is the Second World War. Although it was blamed for deaths of hundreds of thousands, it is also a period that stimulated technological advancement and prepared the world for the social changes that ensued after the war. Some of the most notable social changes include the termination of European colonial rule in some countries. It is also the period that marked heightened civil rights movements in the U.S.A. and the emergence of women's movements. The programs that set the pace of the exploration of outer space also started in this period. The warring groups involved a split on the axis of Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and some relatively smaller allies versus the allied group that involved ritain along with the commonwealth nations, the Soviet Union, and USA[footnoteRef:1]. The allies emerged…...

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The explanation that the Non-Aggression Pact was an agreement in which Hitler ultimately exploited Stalin may not necessarily be accurate. There is even the supposition that Stalin was deeply hurt on a personal level by Hitler's betrayal. But in reality, the Pact was sufficient to prevent the Soviet Union and Germany from coming into conflict until almost a full two years later. These were two years during which Hitler needed to focus his efforts on facing the British and French while strengthening Germany's key alliances with Japan and Italy.

Likewise, the Soviets benefited in the intervening time both by reaching gradual armistice with the Japanese and by enjoying the full extent of the Pact's guarantees to unchecked Soviet reclamation of the Baltic States, and its share of Poland. Though "Nazi Germany occupied the remainder of Poland when it invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941," the Soviet foothold in Poland would…...

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Halsall, P. trans. (1997). Modern History Sourcebook: The Molotov-Ribbentrop

Pact, 1939. Modern History Sourcebook. Online at  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1939pact.html >

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Roberts, G. (2001). From Non-Aggression Treaty to War: Documenting Nazi Soviet Relations, 1939-41 Geoffrey Roberts Explains the Fateful Sequence of Events from the Nazi-Soviet Pact to Hitler's Invasion of the U.S.S.R. History

Post-orld ar II Photographers
Because post-modernism does not have a standard definition or set of common characteristics it is basically best described as the rejection of modernism (http://members.tripod.com/ambro32/postmod.html).The world has been changing in terms of politics, economic and social systems since orld ar II as it rapidly moves into the Information Age (http://members.tripod.com/ambro32/postmod.html).Modern photographers recorded life from their perspective, while advocates of post-modern photography claim that photographs simply confirm the power relationships in a society (Norfleet 1995).

Post-orld ar II modern photographers challenged the "existing notions of what a photograph should look like, what it could contain and what it might mean" (Turner 1987). Gone were "all the woolly, successful photo-sentiments about human-family hood" of the previous half a century of photography. Modern photographers were not replacing the old, they merely had a new landscape to view, one that was of "concept, where what was photographed took on a lesser role when…...

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Lacayo, Richard. "Visionary Voyeurism: In illuminating the marginal, Diane Arbus became one of the most influential artists of her time. Time. November 03, 2003.

Norfleet, Barbara. "Photography and life: pictures depend on attitudes of viewer and Maker." Nieman Reports. September 22, 1995.

Turner, Peter. History of Photography. Exeter Books. 1987.

Europe Faced After World War II
The objective of this work in writing is to examine the challenges that Europe faced following World War II. This work will examine the fall of communism in 1991 and answer the question of how Europe has managed to transition away from communism.

World War II ending in Europe officially in May 1945 and although the war did come to an end the challenges faced by millions of individuals who were homeless "who had been displaced as a result of military action, deportation into labor or concentration camps, local racism and discriminiation or the relocation of national borders, were large ones indeed. (Gale Cengage Learning, nd, p.1) It is reported that the Allied governments and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) relief groups were stretched to the limit in their "attempts to administer, feed and house a moving people searching for their lost families and a permanent home."…...

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Brown, Archie (2000) Transnational Influences in the Transition from Communism. Working Paper #273. April 2000. Kellogg Institute. Apr 2000. Retrieved from:  http://nd.edu/~kellogg/publications/workingpapers/WPS/273.pdf 

DeLong, J. Bradford (1997) Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century XIX. Present at the Creation. Feb 1997. University of California at Berkeley and NBER. Retrieved from: http://econ161.berkeley.edu/tceh/Slouch_Present19.html

McFaul, Michael (2002) The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: NOncooperative Transition in the Postcommunist World. World Politics. Jan 2002. Retrieved from:  http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/bmoraski/Democratization/McFaul02_WP.pdf 

Stone, Dan (nd) Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement 1945-1950. Gale Cengage Learning. Retrieved from:  http://www.tlemea.com/postwareurope/index.htm

ideological relationship between WWI and WWII. The writer explores the ideological relationship between the two wars and then moves into the arena of contrasting the differences between several war germane terms. The comparison includes Fascism and Nazism. There were three sources used to complete this paper.
Should the U.S. launch an attack on Iraq? Nations of the world have been lining up on both sides of this question for the last few weeks. The world is used to divisions when it comes to military action. World War One and World War Two both provided training grounds for the world nations drawing lines in the sand and choosing sides. The World Wars were ideologically related in several ways with the most important ideal being personal freedom.

Each of the world wars stood for freedom. The freedom to choose one's lifestyle and the freedom to choose one's government style and participants were the…...

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There was an increase in the human right agencies that fought for the protection of their rights. Multiple efforts such as recognition of their contribution and minimal exposures to traumatic experiences were adopted to ensure their protection (Parker 113).
Gaines (58) recognized that significant variability is traceable in the roles of the human rights bodies in the orld ar I and II. The First orld ar was characterized by minimal activity of the black press. The orld ar II witnessed a significant change, as there was a transformation in the representation of the Africans taking part in the orld ar For example, the Second orld ar saw an increase in the black press that offered a forum for the expression of contemporary issues affecting Africans in the ar. orld ar II also witnessed the transformation of civil right efforts with more focus on opposing discrimination of Africans on issues related…...

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Gaines, K. "The Civil Rights Movement in World Perspective." OAH Magazine of History 21.1 (2007): 57-64

Parker, Christopher S. "When Politics Becomes Protest: Black Veterans And Political Activism In The Postwar South." The Journal of Politics 71.01 (2009): 113

U.S. eliance of the National Guard
The National Guard is a private army (militia) of the United States of America. The United States' Constitution has authorized this militia and has also specified the different functions and roles of the National Guard in the federal and state governments. According to the Article 1 of the Section 8 in the United States' Constitution, the Congress has been granted the authority "to call forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions" ("National Guard," 2013). The power to organize, arm and discipline the militia was handed over to the Congress. However, it was the responsibility of the states to appoint the officers and train the militia. The second Amendment consisted of further provisions regarding the regulation of militia ("National Guard," 2013).

In general, the National Guard is answerable to the state jurisdiction when there is peace. The governors have…...

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Cooper, J. (1997). The Rise of the National Guard: The Evolution of the American Militia, 1865-1920. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Doubler, M.D. (2001, Summer). The National Guard at War. Joint Force Quarterly, 1, 63+. Retrieved October 23, 2013, from  http://www.questia.com/read/1G1-84544982/the-national-guard-at-war 

Doubler, M.D. (2003). Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636-2000. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas.

Seuss and WWII
The political themes exposed in the WWII political cartoons of Dr. Seuss, or Theodor Seuss Geisel, influenced a number of his later works of children's literature.

Seuss' Editorial Cartoons in WWII

PM Magazine

Seuss and Japanese-Americans

First PM Magazine Cartoon, Virgino Gayda

May 19, 1941 Hitler Cartoon

July 16, 1941 Isolationist Cartoon

F. The Influence of Seuss' Editorial Cartoons

Political Aspects of Seuss' Children's Literature

ecreation of PM Magazine Characters in Children's Literature

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories and Totalitarianism

The Sneetches and Other Stories and Tolerance and acism

The Butter Battle Book and the Cold War

E. Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now! And ichard Nixon

F. The Influence of the Political and Social Content of Seuss' Children's Literature

Conclusion

Introduction

The political themes exposed in the WWII political cartoons of Dr. Seuss, or Theodor Seuss Geisel, influenced a number of his later works of children's literature. Known primarily for his children's books, Seuss wrote a series of over 400 political…...

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Minear, Richard H., Geisel, Theodor Seuss and Spiegelman, Art. 2001. Dr. Seuss Goes to War: World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel. The New Press.

Internment of Japanese During WWII
The Internment of Japanese-Americans During the Second World War

Between 1942 and 1945, the United States federal government forcibly interred more than 100,000 immigrants, most of them American citizens, in what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called "concentration camps." At the time, supporters of the this program argued that this was a necessity because Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans were threats to the American war effort. In reality, the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War did not emerge "out of thin air," but rather was the result of outrage over the attack on Pearl Harbor mixed with nearly a century of anti-Asian sentiment.

Undoubtedly, the catalyst for interning was Pearl Harbor but, as TenBroek, Barnhart, and Matson make clear on page 86: "The decision to evacuate all Japanese-Americans from the West Coast… was reached in a context of gathering fear, suspicion, and anger on the part of the…...

Instead of acting on the intelligence firmly and avert the crisis, the government introduced some reforms that were just cosmetic to cover up the real situation. The politicians and the government made people have a false hope that they were secure and that the counterterrorism measures were well in place, only to get a shocker.
If the ideas of odney Stich who was a specialist in air safety were implemented in time and the cockpit doors secured as well as placing an air marshal on board or arming the pilots with basic weapons, may be the danger could have been averted and lives saved on that particular day. These are researches that cost a lot of taxpayer's money and the recommendations were neither implemented by the government nor acted upon by the private air transport companies until it was too late.

The FBI also knew the whereabouts of Khalid Al-Midhar and…...

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Gradually, though, the war effort eroded the practical and theoretical underpinnings of racism in the United States. The war stimulated the domestic economy, particularly in the industrial and manufacturing sectors. Jobs were opening up rapidly, and because so many white men were fighting the war, many black men were available to work. "For black workers orld ar II opened up opportunities that had never before existed," (O'Neil 1). The same was true for women, as the war left gaping holes in the labor market that needed to be filled in untraditional ways. At the same time as the war exposed American prejudice, "orld ar II gave many minority Americans -- and women of all races -- an economic and psychological boost." (Harris 1). The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded, and overall, the war "jump-started the civil rights movement" in the United States (Harris 1; "Identify the impact…...

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Diversity -- with the exception of homophobia -- was beginning to be commonly accepted and praised. Technology -- such as the use of DNA in criminology and the introduction of the PC -- was becoming more prominent in the lives of everyday Americans. In the Cold War, President Gorbachev asked for openness and economic freedom, while President eagan asked him to tear down the Berlin Wall, which he did. However, the discovery of AIDS had a far more profound impact on the American people than any of these events. In 1981, the first case of AIDS was reported in the United Kingdom, and this eventually caused quite a crisis in the U.S., as it was first noticed among gay men, and then in women and children as well. People became scared because they were not sure what was causing the disease. esearch continued throughout the 1980s, but the fear…...

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May 30). Retrieved August 12, 2009, from the Great Idea Finder: http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/internet.htm

WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino
History has been known to repeat itself. Today in Iraq for example, United States and Allied troops are torn when drawing up plans to win the war in the holy land. The problems stem from their not being able to directly attack certain Muslim holy locations or shrines even though Iraqi insurgents are constantly utilizing these positions as sanctuaries and initiation points for waging battles against the allied forces or the new Iraqi government. During World War II, the Axis powers with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi army also attempted to use similar tactics to fend off attacks by Allied forces.

This report discusses the Battle of Monte Cassino and the pros and cons of the Allied Forces' actions during World War II. A historic shrine was completely destroyed by the events of the Allied forces during the Battle of Monte Cassino in the Italian campaign of…...

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WWII
Without a doubt, the expansionist policies of Germany, Italy and Japan and a direct attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor necessitated the need for America to enter World War II. However, the real question is not whether America should have entered World War II, but could it have prevented it from happening. As the world's new super power following World War I, America should have done more to restore stability to Western Europe, particularly Germany, a country saddled with huge reparation payments. And, the United States could have taken a more active role in the League of Nations to discourage aggression. Instead, America enjoyed the spoils of World War I and became isolationist in response to the Great Depression. Economic and political instability caused by World War I led the rise of fascism. The Nazi goals of reversing the Versailles Treaty and the establishment of a German Empire by means…...

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Wilson, a student of public administration, favored more governmental regulation and action during a time when large monopolies still existed. He saw the role of public administration as "government in action; it is the executive, the operative, the most visible side of government, and is of course as old as government itself" (Wilson 235). The pendelum swung, though, and the government was blamed for many of the ills that caused the Great Depression. Franklin oosevelt, despite being called draconian, knew that he had to launch programs that would have a quick effect upon the struggling economy; resulting the New Deal -- a complex, interlocking set of programs designed to produce jobs, economic recovery, and fiscal reform of banking and Wall Street -- exactly what was needed, it seems to turn the Titanic in a new direction (Badger). Then, of course, came the war, which stimulated the economy like nothing…...

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1. The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler: A Study in Tyranny

2. Hitler's Impact on World History: A Critical Analysis

3. Hitler's Leadership Style: Authoritarianism and Propaganda

4. Understanding the Psychology of Adolf Hitler: Roots of Hatred and Manipulation

5. The Holocaust and Hitler's Final Solution: Examining the Darkest Chapter of WWII

6. Hitler's Role in the Axis Powers: The Axis Pact and its Consequences

7. Hitler's Legacy: Lessons from History on Preventing Dictatorship and Genocide

8. Hitler's Military Strategy: Blitzkrieg and the World War II Campaigns

9. Hitler's Ideology: Nazism, Anti-Semitism, and the Quest for Aryan Supremacy

10. Hitler's Downfall: The Battle of Berlin and the End....

## Outline for an Essay Comparing and Contrasting World War I and World War II

I. Introduction
- Define World War I and World War II
- State the thesis statement: Discuss the similarities and differences between World War I and World War II, focusing on their causes, strategies, and impacts.

II. Similarities
- Causes
- Imperialism and nationalism
- Arms race and alliances
- Economic tensions
- Strategies
- Trench warfare in WWI, Blitzkrieg tactics in WWII
- Use of propaganda and espionage
- Mobilization of civilians and economies
- Impacts
- High casualties and devastation
- Political and territorial changes
- Economic hardship and social....

Thought-Provoking Essay Topics on Bruce M. Russett's "No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States' Entry into World War II"

1. The Role of Public Opinion in the U.S.'s Decision to Enter WWII:
- Analyze how public opinion shaped the Roosevelt administration's policies and decisions leading up to the war.
- Discuss the influence of isolationist and interventionist sentiments on U.S. foreign policy.
- Examine the impact of events such as Pearl Harbor on public perception and the subsequent mobilization for war.

2. The Question of Surprise: Was the U.S. Adequately Prepared for War?:
- Assess the intelligence....

1. While national security is paramount, the erosion of individual freedoms in its name can lead to a society where the very essence of democracy is compromised, suggesting that a balance must be struck where security measures do not infringe upon the core rights of citizens.

2. The argument that national security should take precedence over individual freedoms is flawed because history has shown that unchecked governmental power often leads to abuses, as seen in the surveillance scandals of the early 21st century, advocating for stringent oversight and protection of civil liberties.

3. In the post-9/11 era, the trade-off between security and....