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On January 20, 1942, at a villa in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee, 15 men, all high-ranking Nazi Party officials and members of the German government, met to discuss what they called the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question. ” The head of this conference was a man named SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the…

Overlord is a war horror film that takes place during the day before D-DAY when allied military forces invaded Normandy during World War II. The goal was to liberate France from German occupation. The film follows the main protagonist soldier paratrooper Boyce and his comrades as they attempt to complete their mission of destroying a…

World War II, which spanned from 1939 to 1945, was not the longest lasting war in our history but it was the deadliest. Between fifty to eighty million military and civilian died people in just six years. While World War II brought about massive fatality it also ended the Great Depression, the greatest economic crisis…

In its early history, the United States was primarily an isolationist country for 125 years. However, after two world wars, America shifted from being isolationist to becoming one of the world’s two superpowers. This position was held for almost fifty years until the collapse of the Soviet Union, which left America as the only remaining…

The Franks were once just a normal family, but when Hitler came into power things took a turn for the worst. The Frank Family consisted of Anne, Margot, Otto, and Edith. They resided in Amsterdam during WWII. In fear for their lives from the Nazis the Franks went into hiding with the Van Daans. At…

In history, numerous acts of atrocities have shocked the world and caused people to wonder how governments and citizens can be so ignorant towards minority races. For instance, the use of concentration camps in the killing of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust has thoroughly disgusted generations of people to this day, and caused…

In 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. This prompted the United States to enter World War II. Four years later and still at war, the President Franklin Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein explaining efforts in Nazi Germany to build an atomic bomb. The United States Government soon after began a very secretive project known…

A Day Which Will Live in Infamy Franklin D. Roosevelt asked for a Joint Session of Congress in which only the most important issues are discussed which gives the American People an idea of the magnitude of the matter at hand; this establishes credibility or Ethos right off the bat. The speech’s audience is undoubtedly…

My name is Makino Toshio, a second generation Japanese-American. My father migrated to Hawaii before settling on the mainland, like many others of Japanese descent. Before World War II, I worked on a Japanese truck farm. The attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan increased tensions for all individuals of Japanese ancestry in the United States….

The dropping of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 was a very devastating period in time. It changed many lives of civilians and families. All though many people died and suffered because of the bomb, I believe that it was necessary. In other word I am considered to be “PRO” about the…