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World War II
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been known by many names throughout history. This is partly because it had been often failed to be comprehensively understood. In the late 18th Century,...
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World War II
The main positive effect of World War II was that the Allied powers won and the totalitarian regimes in Japan, Germany, and Italy were stopped. Another positive effect was that World War II...
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World War II
To a large extent, World War II arose out of various consequences of the post-World War I settlement. The Versailles Agreement, which imposed harsh penalties on Germany for starting the War, caused...
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World War II
When Hitler became German Chancellor in 1933, the Nazis were still a minority party in the coalition government they'd formed with conservatives. Conservative members of the cabinet foolishly...
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The answer to this would be substantially different if you are asking about the impact of World War II as a whole than if you are asking about the economy during the years 1941 to 1945. In other...
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Adolph Hitler became the leader—and eventual dictator—of Germany in 1933. He was determined to avenge the Versailles Treaty. The Versailles Treaty had severely punished Germany for its role in...
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World War II
World War II had a much greater impact on American society than World War I did. One major impact of WWII was the movement of women into the labor force. This happened much more in WWII than in...
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The immediate cause of the outbreak of WWII in Europe in 1939 was the German invasion of Poland. England and France had guaranteed that they would protect Poland’s borders as they were in 1939....
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This can be argued both ways. On the one hand, WWII can be seen as a war against racism and intolerance. This was particularly true of the war in Europe and American propaganda tended to emphasize...
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The invention of tanks made defenisve trench networks in the style of WWI obsolete. It returned mobility to the battlefield and helped to bring about the "blitzkrieg" style of warfare that worked...
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World War II
This quote comes from World War II in HD, episode 10, "End Game." In the documentary, Rockie Blunt gives an interview as a survivor of World War II. He was in the army and fought during the Battle...
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Joseph Stalin was a Soviet political leader when he delivered his speech at the Red Army parade. He used rhetorical devices like anaphora, metaphor, allusion, and hypophora to connect with his...
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There are at least three major similarities. First, both wars were caused by the efforts of some countries to change the international order and the efforts of other countries to prevent that. For...
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On August 19, 1942, the Allies attempted an assault on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in France as part of WWII. The event is thought of as one of the most overwhelming failures on the part of...
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World War II
The Allied Powers during World War II (1939–1945) were Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Those three nations held a number of conferences during the conflict to coordinate...
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Australia was geographically close to Japan and its territories. Japan occupied what are today Indonesia and the Philippines. Both are located to the north of Australia. This proximity made...
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World War II
Arguably there are no "good wars." But World War II is seen in this light because of the clear menace represented by the Nazis and axis powers. Hitler was genuinely bent on world domination and the...
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The common factor that led to aggression by these three countries was unhappiness with the status quo. All three countries felt that they were being treated badly in the years after World War I...
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Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, there was serious debate as to whether or not the United States should take an active role in the conflicts in Europe and Asia. Many Americans were not...
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None of the epic battles of World War II happened on American soil. (Hawaii, which is where the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor took place, was not yet an American state). This meant that the...
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"The Good War" is an expression most popularly used in the United States. The term emerged soon after the end of the war and has been the subject of academic and popular debate. Studs Terkel’s...
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World War II (1939–1945) was extremely destructive for the nations of Europe. The conflict had started in Poland and ended with German surrender in Berlin six years later. Almost all of...
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The Nazi party began as a semi-reactionary party specifically responding to the "stabbed in the back" myth, which stated that Germany was winning World War I until the Social Democrats betrayed the...
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1929 was the year of the Wall Street Crash, which led to the worst worldwide economic depression in history. Germany was especially hard hit as its economy was built almost entirely on foreign...
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Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass, took place on November 10, 1938 in German territory. It was a response of extreme vengeance—one of the hallmarks of Nazism—to the killing of a Nazi,...
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World War II
The end of WWII shaped the postwar world by laying the foundations for the Cold War. At the end of WWII, the Allies essentially split the world between them. In Asia, the USSR was allowed to keep...
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World War II
The Treaty of Versailles helped contribute to the start of World War II. The Treaty of Versailles was very harsh on the Central Powers, and especially on Germany. Germany was required to pay $33...
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Some of the short-term effects of World War II are the end of imperial aggression, the end of the Great Depression in the United States, and the division of Germany into four parts. Italy and...
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There were several causes of World War II. Some of them were underlying causes while others were immediate causes. One underlying cause was the anger that was created by the Versailles Treaty....
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The Potsdam Conference had a few different results. One result of the conference was that the Allies agreed on what would happen to Germany. They agreed to divide Germany up into four parts, with...
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The primary events which led to the outbreak of World War II in Europe were German aggressive expansionary policies in Eastern Europe, primarily the invasion of Poland, which triggered the...
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The Battle of Okinawa took place between April 1 and June 22, 1945. What was meant to be the Allies' final push toward the Japanese mainland quickly devolved into disaster for combatants on both...
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This is really a two-part question. Regarding “freedom” during World War II, many Americans were technically not really “free.” Racial discrimination was widespread in many parts of America in the...
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In general, the Nazis wanted to kill all Jews, but they were not able to. Many Jews lived in places outside of the reach of the Nazis like Britain, and they were safe. Others who lived in places of...
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The most important thing that we can conclude from World War II is that modern wars are won by industrial capacity. In WWII, the Allies started the war in a very disadvantageous military position....
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The D-Day assault on the French beaches of Normandy was "the largest amphibious invasion of all time," and the successful attacks against the undermanned German forces eventually led to the Axis...
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Numerous factors contributed to the support of the German people for Adolf Hitler during World War II. In assessing the causes for this support, it's important to look back to the rise of Adolf...
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This incident did not really have much of an impact, if any, on the actual outcome of World War II. And it did not have much of an impact on how the war was fought. The only real importance of...
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In late 1924, Hitler was released from prison and reestablished the Nazi Party. This version of the party was meant to be less violent and revolutionary. It became part of the political system...
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During World War II, the United States mobilized for a massive war effort. Many men from the agricultural sector were going off to war, meaning it would be difficult to do as much planting and...
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Yes, they certainly did. In early World War II, Nazi Germany was incredibly powerful, taking over much of Europe and terrorizing Great Britain with air raids constantly. Leadership and technology...
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After World War II, there was great concern that without war production fueling jobs, the country would fall back into a depression, raising unemployment to levels everyone dreaded. Eager to have...
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The Japanese were successful because they devoted so much attention and money to their military. Their investments in air and naval technology paid huge dividends against the colonial and local...
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Western Europe faced numerous threats both in the immediate aftermath and in the long term after World War II. One of the most immediate threats it faced was the chaos and lawlessness once the...
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Japan had successes early on because it was not fighting anyone who was particularly well prepared and/or armed. Japan's armed forces were well-trained and had good plans. They were were ready to...
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I agree with the first post. There are actually a kind of people that are referred to as Aryans. However, many of these people are not the sort that Hitler would have called Aryan. In fact, the...
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There were many causes of World War II. The most significant cause was the rise of Nazism in Germany. This itself had causes reaching back to the end of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles,...
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The policy of appeasement was to blame for Hitler's early successes because it allowed him to build power while simultaneously preventing France and Britain from doing the same. Hitler was able to...
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One problem with this is that World War II is not something that can really be affected socially or economically. You could talk about Pearl Harbor's impact on how the war went or you can talk...
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The German invasion of the USSR is seen, in hindsight, as one of Hitler's biggest mistakes. When you see books or shows about mistakes that lost World War II, this one is always included. When...