Essays about War Page 2

After WWII, the world was captivated by the threat of communism. The fear of communism within Australia was a major political issue during the Era of the Cold War. As a result, the key developments in Australia’s response to the threat of communism consisted of the Forward Defence Policy, signing significant alliance treaties which subsequently…

Abstract The advanced strife between Jews and Middle easterners, the antecedent to the Arab-Israeli strife, started in 1881. At that time, almost 565,000 Middle easterners and 24,000 Jews lived in Palestine; approximately 90% of the Middle easterners were Muslim whereas most of the rest were Christian. 1 Many Zionist Jews from exterior the Heavenly Arrive…

In 1847, a treaty was signed to create the Shatt Al-’Arab waterway as a boundary between Iran and Iraq. Both countries agreed to have navigation freedom in the waterway. At the time, Iran agreed to stop interfering in northern Iraq in exchange for control over Khorramshahr and Abadan. Over the next several decades, the dispute…

Every day, I’ll glance at the news, and stories of war, terrorism, and corruption appear before me. What is shown on the news stations today, is nothing that hasn’t happened once before. From innocent civilians being caught in the crossfire of a war to sexual assault being covered up. At times you feel like the…

World War Two significantly changed Australian life and society in a major way. The war lasted six long years and resulted in conflict between the western Allies and central powers. The Great War, fought between 1914 and 1918, was supposed to have been the war to end all wars, yet once again the world was…

Holocaust is a title that has a lot of meaning to human beings and special ways to be looked at. Before 1920 the whole lot in Germany used to be great, it had an excellent economy had a lot of enterprise until 1933 when the Nazi birthday party bought into power. In these instances, the…

Yemen is the corner of the Arabian Peninsula, located directly next to the Red Sea, making it both a historical and modern port of trade. In the ancient world, Yemen was the source of many precious spices, aromatics, and coffee (Wenner and Borrowes). In May 1990, North Yemen (Yemen Arab Republic) merged with South Yemen…

The First World War was truly ‘the Great War’. Its origins were complex. Its scale was vast. Its conduct was intense. Its impact on military operations was revolutionary. Its human and material costs were enormous. And its results were profound. The war was a global conflict. Thirty-two nations were eventually involved. Twenty-eight of these constituted…

The most dramatic event in U.S. history that took place a century and a half ago was the The Mexican-American War. The Mexican-American War helped fill Americans desire to expand its territory. This event happened from 1846-148, located north of the Rio Grande in the disputed area. Was the United States justified in going to…

After the WW II, the United States and the Soviet union competed for political domination, until eventually the “Soviet military forces occupied all of eastern Europe and the Balkans, while the U.S and other allied forces secured the western part of the continent’ (Duiker). The U.S had a vision of creating a democratic government that…