Chosen for is with business and financial experience; Hoffman was the president of Studebaker automobile company and was appointed head of the Economic Cooperation Act, which operated the Economic Recovery Program (Chambers). ...
Europe was the center of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century. All Europeans thought that their nation would continue to be the leader of the world. Europe's technological advances, economic resources, military might and political influence gave the country a sense of superiority th...
Andy Warhol Andy Warhol constantly warned people not to look any deeper than the surface of his art and life-and he insistently connected the two. He aggressively advertised his superficiality in both spheres in a carefully deadpan performance of innocent unconcern. From this, he left us with ...
In the 1890's, antisemitism in Europe took the form of violent oppression in Eastern Europe. It was a political movement in western Europe, and eventually because of a deplorable economic situation, reached its peak of brutality in the form of Nazism. In Eastern Europe, Jews were seen as outcasts an...
The Cold War was a war that literally wasn't your typical war. There weren't any fighter planes flying over countries dropping bombs, no tanks no ground troops, no actually deployment of missile, and no ground troops. However there were a stockpile of nuclear weapons, money was being spent like an...
Fixing Blame for World War I As with all international conflicts, there can be no easy answer to questions of blame or guilt. Historians continue to debate the causes of World War I nearly a century after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand; the event that most agree was the spark wh...
Prejudice and the Holocaust. Prejudice has existed in endless social, historical, political and cultural contexts but the possibly the most notable and horrific embodiment of these principles of hatred, fear, and discrimination were present in the holocaust, which took place during the Second Wor...
The Allied Powers had chosen Nuremberg because it then was the least affected by the war and also because of the significant symbolic reason that it posed, being that this was annual site for Nazi propaganda rallies and it symbolically showed that the Nazi regime was finally destroyed and a new type of government was going to replace it. ...
Germany should be mainly held accountable for the outbreak of World War 1 in 1914. However, one cannot ignore that fact that it was also due to the involvement of numerous other countries which lead to blood shed all over Europe. During 1870, French military declared war on Prussia marking the begin...
The theory of democratic peace is supported through several factors. One factor is that public figures of democratic nations are more inclined to create diplomatic organizations to relieve international tensions. For example, according to usip.org, The United States Institute of Peace was establishe...
The decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki put an immediate end to World War II. While some may view it to be a necessary evil, such as author Robert P. Newman, who believes that Truman had carefully considered all of the options, the bombs were the fastest way to end the war. and t...
1941 was a very significant year in the AAP (Australia, Asia and the Pacific) region. This was the year in which World War 2 began in the region, during the period of Japanese expansion. From this point onwards, things such as the war, foreign affairs (such as the period of communism), immigration a...
As Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "(1) - Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (2) - Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. (3) - The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures" (Universal Declaration of Human Rights). ...
He begins his assault against Jews in the chapter "Transformation into an Anti-Semite": "By their very exterior you could tell that these were no lovers of water[]all of this could scarcely be called very attractive; but it became positively repulsive when, in addition to their physical uncleanliness, you discovered the moral stains on this chosen people." ...
