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… June sixth 1944, a strange armada of ships was coming near the coast of Normandy. All the decks were crowed with soldiers, tanks, armoured vehicles, bulldozers, guns and small landing crafts. These were the allied forces invading to free Europe from…

… of children who died during the Holocaust will never be known. Some estimates range as high as 1.5 million murdered children. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of institutionaliz…

… carried on between nations, states or parties."1 War is a familiar concept to everyone in all its harsh brutality, endless chaos, and not always an adequate peaceful end. Some wars are political, some racial, and some just utterly disarray of destructi…

… and Communist Soviet Union escalated to which is now known as the Cold War. On March 5, 1946, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain delivered a speech at Westminister College in Fulton Missouri known as the "Iron Curtain". In his speech,…

… It introduces new methods and tools of warfare. The two regions have developed in two different ways. The South is primarily an agricultural area, with an economy based mainly on the growing of cotton. While the Northern landscape is filled with…

… it started and the events that led up it. It talks about the growth of nationalism, imperialism, and the massive build up of armies and weapons prior to the outbreak of World War I. And lastly the formation of strategic alliances between countries.…

… I was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 (Baldwin, 1962). He was heir to the Hapsburg or Austro-Hungarian Empire until his untimely death at the hands of a Serbian nationalist by the name of Gavrilo Princip. However, prior to his assassinati…

… World War Two the United States was the only country not directly affected by the destruction the war had caused. In Europe the economic structure and infrastructure were totally destroyed by the German armies. Europe was in shambles. The United…

… to be angry and resistive as America entered the war. Many were initially reluctant to support the war because they could not forget the unfulfilled promises generated by World War I. African Americans were dealing with segregation, lynching and…

… Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Tibbetts, was chosen to make the mission. The mission was recorded as successful by Capt. William S. Parson at 9:20 A.M. This was an extremely controversial military strategy in the…