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…The holocaust is generally regarded as the systematic slaughter of not only 6 million Jews, the primary victims, but also 5 million others, approximately 11 million individuals wiped off the Earth by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Holocaust…

…-bomber. This weapon, which the Americans had developed and the Japanese copied, settled the issue in five fateful minutes. Midway was such a decisive battle, that the Japanese Navy never gained the offensive again. Within hours after the attack on Pearl…

…thousand four hundred British sailors lost their lives in the attack and the loss of three capital ships was embarrassing to the British Navy. Naval establishments around the world sat up and took notice at that point. The sinking of the British cruisers had…

…in Spain. In 226 B.C. Hasdrubal signed a treaty with the Romans. The treaty stated that neither army could cross the Ebro River in northern Spain (Charles-Picard 11). When Hasdrubal was killed in 221 B.C., the Carthaginians unanimously elected twenty-six…

…to the Americas. In 1519, Cortes was the general of an expedition to the Indies. In March, he landed in Cozumel with 11 ships, 580 armed Spaniards, 17horses, crossbows, dozens of guns, and 10 cannons. Cortes and his men fought their way up strong Mayan resistance up…

…. “Within, unholy Rage shall sit on his ferocious weapons, bound behind his back by a hundred knots of brass; he shall groan horribly with bloody lips.” (Virgil p.11) This sounds incredibly barbaric. This shows that the urge for war in ancient Rome is so strong…

…Heinrich Böll uses his novel, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, to attack modern journalistic ethics as well as the values of contemporary Germany. The structure of this novel is important to conveying his message. He uses a police report format…

…attacks on American embassies throughout the world, including the infamous attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The worst product of the Cold War, Osama Bin Laden, is relentless in his conquest to punish the US for coming into Muslim…

…in the village. The other diggers thought the gold should stay in Australia. On a number of occasions the Australian miners attacked the Chinese and drove them from the goldfields. In 1861 more than a thousand Europeans attacked a few hundreds at lambing Flat in New…

…its people under attack, without relaying on others. According to Machiavelli a powerful state is well fortified and ready for attack from within or abroad at all times. Chapter 11: Kingdoms of ecclesiastical principalities are bound by ancient…