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- 31: ... author of Lord of the Flies was born in Great Britain in 1911 and throughout almost his entire lifetime, he has lived and witnessed the true evil within all men. During his childhood the first World War beginning in 1914, and was followed many years later by the savagery of World War II. He has seen powerful dictators rise and fall; he has witnessed entire nations crumble, the massive slaughter of the Holocaust come and go, weapons of death destroy entire cities, and he has ...
- 32: People and Events of World War II
- People and Events of World War II The Axis Powers World War II was started by the Axis Forces, which were comprised of Germany, Italy, and Japan. They fought against the combined might of almost the entire world, and, but for a supreme combined effort ...
- 33: Origins Of The Cold War
- Origins of the Cold War The Cold War can be summed up as a lengthy period of high tension and rivalry between the two world dominating superpowers, the USA and USSR, although which never involved direct conflict between the forces of the two powers. Starting around 1950, the Cold War kept all mankind and society on the brink of ...
- 34: The Persian Gulf War
- The Persian Gulf War War was inevitable in the Gulf and it was a war in which Iraq was inevitability to lose. There were several reasons why this was and became a reality. How, when, where did this process of self destruction begin? It was quite evident that Saddam ...
- 35: Cost Of The Golf War
- How much did the Gulf War cost the US How much did the US pay for the Gulf War above and beyond the yearly cost for supporting its military? The US Department of Defense estimated the incremental cost at $61 billion. This additional cost included deployment, construction and operations in the Gulf. However, $54 ... all "In-Kind" contributions. The US paid roughly $7 billion, less than 12% of the total US cost and less than half what Saudi Arabia and Kuwait paid. Why is the cost of the Gulf War to the US and how the US paid for the war, interesting? Along with the large scale engagement of international forces (the US had over 500,000 troops while non-US Coalition forces were ...
- 36: The Invasion Of Poland 1939
- The Invasion of Poland in 1939 The invasion of Poland took place on September 1,1939. This invasion marked a change in history for the whole world. It started World War II. There were many reasons for the start of the war, and one it started the world would never be the same. Cities and people were destroyed. Unimaginable things took place in Poland during ...
- 37: Will There Be a World War III?
- Will There Be a World War III? As the new millennium approaches, there is more and more talk of apocalyptic type events. Y2K, world wide famine, diseases that will wipe out 70% of out population, giant meteors bringing upon us the fate of the dinosaurs. These all seem highly unlikely. The only threat that ever seemed possible to ...
- 38: Cyril Falls, "The Great War"
- Cyril Falls, "The Great War" This report will summaries the book "The Great War" written by Cyril Falls. The book is mainly about the cause and the course of the most costly war of casualties related to battles. Book One -1914 Chapter I, Vultures in the skies: This chapter deals about the cause of World War I. At a Sunday morning in June 28 1914 the Archduke ...
- 39: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... doer. Roosevelt was and still is an everlasting symbol of the American dream. In truth the man would do little to raise America to economic greatness, he symbolically raised it to impossible heights as a world power. He was the hero that the country needed after years of low morale. He was the dreamer and the doer that mad America great. His obsession with greatness led the country in pursuit of ... would be manly virtuous and great. There was no greater accomplishment in his eyes. All of his aggressive tendencies proved to have a downfall though. TR suffered from anxiety. He constantly worried about how the world perceived him and how weak he appeared that he consumed his world with fear and anxiety. Heartlessness also arose from his obsession with physical dominance. When his wife and mother died on the same day, he only wrote a journal entry expressing his remorse. After that ...
- 40: A Separate Peace And A Real Wa
- A Separate Peace and A Real War In his book A Separate Peace John Knowles communicates what war really is. He uses a number of complex characters in a very complicated plot in order to convey the harsh, sad, cruel, destructive forces of war. The Characters Gene and Finny are used as opposing forces in a struggle between that cold reality of war-that is World War II in this story-and a separate peace. A peace away ...
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