Essays about War Page 12

During the Holocaust, many people had died but the Jews were hit the hardest as 6 million of them were killed during the Holocaust. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, he writes about his experience at concentration camps during the Holocaust and wrote about the rough conditions and things he and his father had…

The Vietnam War, Americas first defeat in a war and extreme embarrassment of withdrawing its forces. A very ugly war, as everyone knows, and it turned out to be an extremely unpopular war with the American people. The American people backed its government and the quest to stop communist growth, but by the late 60s…

This young lady was a woman full of bravery, kindness and of course, a large amount of perseverance. Her name is Irena Stanislaw Kirzyanowska and she is very significant due to the way she would handle her past. I believe Irena is very courageous by the way she didn’t let her past interfere with her…

In July 1936, Francisco Franco led the first revolt that sparked the start of the Spanish Civil war. After the election of February 16, 1936 and the election of Republican Manuel Azana, things began to heat up between the Republican and Nationalist side of Spain. This was mainly because of the controversial new reforms Manual…

The attack on Pearl Harbor is the main event that triggered the United States’ involvement in World War II. A surprise attack taking place at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii, the Japanese Navy managed to destroy 20 American Naval vessels, eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes (A&E Networks). Although it lasted no more than two…

The sad thing about the Vietnam war is that it took good-old, ordinary, American boys and changed them forever. Tim O’Brien vividly describes in great detail the horrific day to day occurrences of the war, his fellow soldiers and friends’ characters, their deaths, their thoughts, and their actions. He takes us through an emotional journey…

The Volksgerichshof (VGH) and Roland Freisler both had an important role in the criminal justice system of Nazi Germany. The VGH was meant to be a court for treason cases, but under Roland Freisler, its purpose was to remove those who did not obey the system of Nazi Germany. In Freisler’s mind, the law was…

On April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, this action started the Civil War. The war lasted four years and over 620,000 people were killed. The three primary causes of the of the Civil War were slavery, states’ rights, and secession. Slavery was the leading motivation for the Civil War….

Gladdis argues that the conflicts of the Cold War were not the sole responsibility of one side but rather the result of an overabundance of diverging concerns between the two superpowers, that pushed domestic politics and bureaucratic lethargy. While Gaddis does hold the Soviets marginally more liable for the obstacles. He argued that Stalin’s Western…

Vietnam, a Southeast Asian country along the side of the China Sea, has a long and tragic history that can be dated all the way back into 1887, in which the French took over it. To shake the French off their land, many Vietnamese started to fight back in the First Indochina War. In 1954,…