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- 281: Book Review: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars.
- ... externalist dichotomy, and develops a more subtle approach which recognizes the place of new ideas within science, as well as the background of the scientists. Nonetheless, it was an external event, the emergence of Nazi Germany, which mobilized a politically active minority to challenge the intellectual foundations of scientific racism. The book is divided into three sections --Anthropology, Biology and Politics. In each section, Ballen compares developments in Britain and in ... the political crisis of Nazism to mobilize the scientists. This need was brought home by the plight of refugee scientists, many of them Jews, whose presence and ideas were no longer acceptable in the new Germany. Although the critique of racism was more advanced in Britain than in America, the British scientific community proved less able to act. Ballen attempts to develop an analogy to appeasement here, but it would appear there was more at stake than keeping on good terms with Germany. The failure of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Race and Culture Committee to come up with an authoritative definition of race in 1935 revealed that racism still retained substantial support within the British scientific ...
- 282: The Effects of the Great War
- ... ways culturally, economically. The Great War was predicted to be a short war, but waged on for four long and bloody years, destroying and reshaping the map of Europe. The war the world powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy known as the central powers. Also known, as the Allies were Great Britain, France, and Russia. The U.S. had many battles to fight before its involvement into The Great War ... that were immigrants. The U.S. was being bombarded with propaganda campaigns from both sides. Great Britain used the advantage of a common language with reports of the Germans looting, raping, and killing innocent civilians. Germany used the propaganda trying to use the tension between the U.S. and Russia knowing that there was no love loss between the two. One very important factor with America trying to stay neutral was the trade barriers between the two sides. At first the neutrality was toward both sides, but with the British placing a naval blockade on shipping to Germany the neutrality became one-sided. Britain and France raised the value of trade from $82 million in 1914, to $3.2 billion in 1916. America saw that increased trade had produced a great economic ...
- 283: D-Day
- ... the shore and instead prepared a puissant counterattack north of the Seine River. This is believed by some as his most fatal mistake. Today we know this colossal invasion as D-Day. Midsummer 1943, Nazi Germany was at its zenith. Their Blitzkrieg or “lightning war” tactics had given the control of all of the mainland Europe except for neutral Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden. At this time Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ... result in an allied victory. This led to Operation “Sledgehammer and Operation “Roundup.” Operation “Sledgehammer” was set for 1942 and would only occur in the event of either a Russian collapse or a weakening in Germany’s strongholds. Operation “Roundup” was to be set for 1943 and was less sperratic than “Sledgehammer.” After adopting the Roundup plan, the British persuaded the Americans to land in North Africa in Operation “Torch.” This ... Roosevelt and Stalin combined against Churchill and set May 1944 as the date of the invasion on Normandy. In return to the US, Stalin promised to join the States in the effort against Japan after Germany was defeated. Being out-voted, Churchill and his Lieutenant General Morgan prepared Operation “Overlord.” This distributed the invasion on the shore between three divisions. Then within two weeks, eleven more divisions were to land. ...
- 284: Social Criticism in Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities
- ... animals with insatiable appetites. Boxer, the overworked, incredibly strong, dumb horse represents the common worker in Russia. The two surrounding farms represent two of the countries on the global stage with Russia at the time, Germany and England. Orwell begins his book by criticizing the capitalists and ruling elite, who are represented in Animal Farm by Mr. Jones, the farmer. He is shown as a negligent drunk, who coneztly starved his ... and apples were appropriated to the pigs, and continued to when the pigs could drink and sleep on beds, until finally the pigs were the "human masters" to the rest of the animals. Orwell criticized Germany, representing it as Pinchfield Farm, which betrayed Animal Farm by paying for lumber with counterfeit money. In real life, this represents the Soviet-Germany non-aggression pact during World War II which Germany eventually broke. Eventually, towards the end of the story, the term, "absolute power corruptsabsolutely," is proven, as the pigs, who retained all the privileges for ...
- 285: Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power
- ... Victor Emmanuel III. Mussolini then threatened to march on Rome. This persuaded King Victor Emmanuel III to invite Mussolini to join a coalition, which strongly helped him gain more power. Benito Mussolini brought Austria on Germany's side by a formal alliance. "In 1937, he accepted a German alliance. The name of this alliance was the Anti Comntern Pact. On April 13, 1937 Benito Mussolini annexed Albania. He then told the ... the war in the Mediterranean, Britain's principal foothold outside its island base, might be turned to her decisive disadvantage. Hitler suggested to Mussolini that Spain might be coaxed on the axis side, thus giving Germany free use of the British Rock of Gibraltar, by offering Franco part of French North Africa, and that France might be persuaded to accept that concession by compensation with parts of British West Africa".4 ... then hurried home to his house in Berlin to arrange visits to Franco and Petan. "Back in the capital Hitler created a letter to Stalin inviting Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, to visit early, when Germany and the U.S.S.R. might then agree among themselves how to profit from Britain not having a defense. A week later, on October 20, he left in his command train, Amerika, to ...
- 286: The Holocaust
- ... in a simple answer. We can, however, tell you what the Holocaust was and - most importantly - where you can read about it. The Holocaust was the effort of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany to exterminate the Jews and other people that they considered to be inferior. As a result about 12,000,000 people - about half of them Jews - were murdered. The murders were done by every means imaginable but most of the victims perished as a result of shooting, starvation, disease, and poison gas. Others were tortured to death or died in horrible medical experiments. Hitler took power in Germany in 1933 and almost immediately began the chain of events that led to the Holocaust. This first phase was the persecution of Jews in Germany and the other countries invaded by Hitler. It lasted until 1941. During this period, while Hitler built his power, Jews were persecuted and brutalized but there was no organized effort to systematically murder them. ...
- 287: The Treaty of Trianon
- ... powers that Central Europe did not fall into the hands of Russia, because it was believed that this would lead to a major clash between East and West. One of the goals was to isolate Germany, who was seen as a threat, and to keep Russia away from the rest of Europe. This plan was not entirely effective with the continuance of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, so it was thought to ... the American model. They envisioned that the collapse of enemy governments would pave the way to peace. These plans were soon discarded though, mainly as a result of French pressure. France felt threatened by both Germany and Russia. The French felt particularly threatened by Germany due to its geographic proximity. If Central Europe fell into the hands of Russia and Germany, then France would be geographically placed in the front lines of a possible East vs. West major conflict. ...
- 288: Lord of the Flies: The Theme of Religious Persecution
- ... references to religious persecution throughout history. Golding uses many religious elements along with metaphors representing the death of Jesus, the torture of Jews in the Holocaust, and the ascent and reign of Hitler in Nazi Germany to present an underlying theme of religious persecution that proves his grim outlook on the nature of man. Golding's use of religious elements allows for the plausibility of the religious persecution theme. The island ... names and called ‘Jew bastard' or ‘kike.' Piggy represented most of the intelligence of the boys' society and the Jews have been regarded as one of the most intelligent groups in the time of Nazi Germany. Both the Jews in WWII and Piggy were constantly ridiculed by a powerful group - the Jews by Hitler's men, and Piggy by Jack's men. Also, just as the Germans followed Hitler's men ... Piggy's "stupid" views of keeping the fire alive. Hitler was a man who wanted power and also didn't care how he got it. He too used propaganda to turn the former leadership of Germany into a group of people who sympathized with the "evil" Jews. Both Hitler and Jack took advantage of stereotypes to assume power and dictatorship. Jack and Hitler spoke of bettering their societies by cleansing ...
- 289: Einstein
- By: Ahmed Alaa Badawi E-mail: Alaadinb@hotmail.com Albert Einstein, the great physicist and philosopher, was born in Germany 1879 in a Jewish family and his life must always be seen within the content of the provincial Swabian-folkways in a rural characteristic. Einstein’s character was so simple that people were astonished that ... German, which he renounced in 1894, to Swiss in1900 because he had been studying at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich since 1896. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Einstein decided to leave Germany and never to return. He then emigrated to the United States to make his home at the Institute of Advanced Studies and became a U.S. citizen in 1940. Prior to World War II, Germany considered Einstein a traitor when he recommended that Europe should re-arm itself and build up its forces, as he was sure that Germany was preparing for a war. Einstein’s theories don’t ...
- 290: Analyze the Triumph and Tragedy of the Manhattan Project
- ... and Tragedy of the Manhattan Project The making of American's first atomic bomb was a long and triumphant journey. The United States set out on the development because of fear-fear that the Nazi Germany would develop the bomb first which would then use it against the U.S. In fact, the Germans had a head start because the underlying scientific fact, the fission of uranium, was discovered by two ... was winding down. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Allied forces under Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower had landed at Normandy and gained the foundation in Europe that signaled the beginning of the end for Germany. Over the next 11 months as Allied armies pushed German forces from the west, the Russians shoved from the east. A desperate Nazi counter offensive launched in December was effectively checked at the Battle of the Bulge. On April 30, as the victors were entering Berlin, Adolf Hilter committed suicide. Germany surrendered unconditionally on May 7, 1945. The war in Europe, which had eaten up the lives of nearly 39 million people, was over. America now turned its full attention to the war in the ...
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