1. Long-Term Consequences of World War II
The first shot is out the windshield of the car on a road along the shore that explores infinity. ... As the car drives along the shore, the Captain remains motionless and focused on the road ahead. ... The shot then cuts back to the shot of the road as the camera travels along it. ... The camera cuts back to the shot from the back seat of the car, as we approach a group of sailors who are lined up on the side of the road, they are obviously intoxicated. ... The camera sticks with the shot of the road ahead as the Captain explains: "That's their fireboat drill." ...
As Germany searched the world for band-aids and tissues to heal her national wounds after a brutalizing treaty of Versailles, a young man was lurking in the shadows plotting his rise to power. This young man by the name of Hitler planned to bring Germany wealth and world power. Soon he would lead...
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn along the Bavarian-German border. His father, Alois, was an Austrian customs official who had come from a poor peasant background. Hitler's early youth was spent in the city of Linz in upper Austria that lies beside the Danube River. Hitle...
Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler was a wealthy German industrialist, who made much of his wealth by employing Jewish men and women in his various factories. In the Movie "Schindler's List" it starts off with Schindler is a restaurant with many high ranking Nazi officers eating there. He starts off ...
In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, life is precious and worth fighting for, under any conditions. While Eliezer and his father went through the torture of the Nazi concentration camps, they never gave up hope that they were going to get out of there alive. If one of them every thought that they we...
Schindler's List Oskar Schindler was a wealthy German industrialist, who made much of his wealth by employing Jewish men and women in his various factories. In the movie Schindler's List,? it starts off with Schindler in a restaurant with many high ranking Nazi officers eating there. He start...
The events that occurred before and during the time of Adolf Hitler's political career played a huge role in his rise to power. There are speculations as to whether or not he would have come into power without these particular circumstances. The economics and sentiments that were brewing during the ...
The holocaust during the early 1940's caused much destruction. The film The Pianist is a historically based film that captivates the audience with its intense, riveting scenes. The film outlines Hitler's policies against the Jewish race during the holocaust. It focuses on one particular Jewish famil...
The name Adolph Hitler sends a chill down any person's spine, no matter what religion or ethnicity. A household name, Hitler led the genocide, or mass killing of a specific group of people, in a movement known as the Holocaust. How did Hitler gain the support of so many Germans and turn a liberal democratic government into a totalitarian dictatorship? How did Hitler convince people that he was the right man to lead Germany to victory? Germany's chaotic period worked to Hitler's benefit and allowed him to make severe changes, which was virtually most of the reason that Hitler cam...
They also had to be accurate in order to reach the crossroads towns and take them quickly as well as to find the roads large and passable enough for their tanks to pass through (Ambrose2). ... Accuracy also failed, as the critical roads and cities he needed were well defended and held by U.S. ...
"All the roads of the Gestapo lead to Ponar. And Ponar is death. Let us not go like "sheep to the slaughter. "Brothers! Better to fall as free fighters than to live at the mercy of murderers."- Abba Kovner, leader of Nakam The Holocaust was the deliberate, bureaucratic, state-supported oppression a...
Hitler brought Germany out of the darkness of the depression of the First World War and Lenin started Russia on the road to Communism which may have been a lost cause but he set Russia on track for industrialisation and modernisation and is still seen as a national hero in Russia. ...
In 1933 the Nazis were the strongest party in Germany and had gained ultimate power with Hitler under their command. Hitler was a hell of an dictator who spread his message of racial hatred through politics. While poverty and unemployment were at an all time high he launched a campaign of anti-Jewi...
The conditions after World War One left Germany in a vulnerable state. The Great Depression and the Treaty of Versailles proved to weaken the once world super power immensely. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party offered a new direction for Germany. This vulnerable state helped aid Hitler in his grasp f...
To what extent can Hitler be held responsible for the outbreak of world war two? It seems that Hitler did have consistent aims and plans which would be carried out when he came to power. His dream was to build a "new Germany" under his own leadership, to overturn the treaty of Versailles and to ...
As Hitler and the Nazi's power rose in Germany during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, after World War I, we begin to see how this happened and compare it to the concepts of Democracy which we live by today. We can explore how Democracy had failed in Nazi, Germany and relate it to the events, which surround...
Soldiers working at concentration camps committed horrible acts of cruelty and brutality against Jews and others. Most soldiers enjoyed their job while a few others actually tried to help the prisoners. The soldiers working at the camps were called the Schutzstaffel, or SS for short. The SS began a...
My name is Fredrick Colwaski, my family and I live in Poland, Germany. I am eleven years old, the oldest child in my family. I have two younger brothers. Their names are Daniel and Kendall. My parents are Mary and Phillip. We live in a small apartment in Germany. My father works in a factory making ...
'The internal world on the outside. The genesis of violence and aggression.' (First slide) No horror you can imagine has not already been done by someone to somebody else. Similarly there is no horror you could perform that has not been enacted in imagination or fantasy by somebody. Man is a d...
The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...
As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing could happen is to go back to where it all started. At the end of World War One, Germany had many problems. ...
World War II Nazi soldiers who worked at concentration camps committed horrible acts of cruelty and brutality against Jews and others. Most soldiers enjoyed their job while a few others actually tried to help the prisoners. The soldiers working at the camps were called the Schutzstaffel, or SS for s...
The Treaty of Versailles was not the only cause of World War II, however was one of the important factors. The treaty was neither severe enough to keep Germany from once again being a significant power, nor was it lenient enough for the German people to meet its terms and move on. Instead it was only harsh enough to make life incredibly hard for a few years, just long enough to fester hatred for the Allies, especially the French. The main reason the treaty failed to keep the peace is because the Allies all had separate agendas. Britain wanted increase their colonial power all over the wor...