George Orwell's 1984 has had a profound effect upon the way people thought during the mid 20th century. The book signified Orwell's most complex novel which told the story o...
George Orwell's 1984 has had a profound effect upon the way people thought during the mid 20th century. The book signified Orwell's most complex novel which told the story...
The Second World War began in September of 1939 and was between the Allies and the Axis. It began with Germany's unprovoked attack and conquest of Poland, and involved Britain...
In midsummer 1943, a year before the Anglo-American invasion of Normandy, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, still occupied all the territory it had gained in the blitzkrieg campaigns...
George Catlett Marshall served as a representative of the public service from 1939 to 1951, proposed the Marshall Plan, and was awarded the Nobel Pri...
The Cold War is the term used to describe the intense rivalry between the United States and its allies and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics and its allies. The Soviet...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is considered one of America's greatest Presidents. He would serve as president for 12 years more then any other president. He would see the nation...
"World War 2 was a war fought in two distinct phases. The first was the last war of a new generation. The second was emphatically the first of a new era" .
Introduction
"Their [Russia's and Americas] starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to...
Introduction
"Their [Russia's and Americas] starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to...
In November, 1943, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met together in Teheran, Iran, to discuss a military plan and post-war Europe. Ever sin...
By mid-1942, World War II was looking bleak for the Allied powers. The German Wehrmacht was blitzing through Soviet Russia, the Luftwaffe had laid waste to much of London, Ro...
1933
Jan 30 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
March 12 - First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin.
1935
Sept 15 - German Jews stripp...
Throughout the early 1950’s, the nation was deeply engrossed in fears of a Communist takeover. At a time when America’s fears were at their very height, Joseph M...
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People
Prince Max von Baden
The chancellor of Germany during the final months of the war. As Kaiser Wilhelm II lost control of the country, Prince Max...
was born in Jamaica, West Indies, in 1889 (there has been much confusion over whether McKay was born in 1889 or 1890, but his birth certificate has been discovere...
I feel the three most important issues or developments in US history and culture in the last century were the U.S involvement in WWII, the civil rights movements, and Vietnam...