Essays On War

done in the United States, by a group of the best scientists; this research was given the name of “The Manhattan Project”. On Monday July 16th, 1945, a countdown for the detonation of the first atomic bomb took place near Los Alamos, New Mexico. This atomic bomb testing would forever change the meaning of war. […]

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist and known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb. A charismatic leader of rare good qualities and commonplace flaws, Oppenheimer brought an uncommon sensibility to research, teaching, and government science. After help creating the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project he was banned from the U.S. Government during […]

Michael Levin is a philosophy professor at City University of New York. As a scholar, his works are mostly related to philosophy and one of his masterpiece is the article The Case for Torture, which was published by Newsweek in 1982. In this article, he argued that using torture as a means to save many […]

The Clan of One-Breasted Woman by Terry Tempest Williams is a story that describes the tale of the family of a young girl that has struggled with cancer. Terry says that her mother, grandmother and her six of her relatives had mastectomies. Only two survived, she and her aunt and they had to go through […]

During the 1920’s the League of Nations primary desire was to end war across all fronts and to promote international co-operation. Therefore the best criteria that can be used to classify a success, was whether war was avoided and a peaceful settlement formulated after a crisis between two or more nations. Although this aim was […]

‘The behaviour of any human system, whether it be a single person or a complex society, results in part from cumulative weight of past experience and in part by current stimuli.'(Rosenau, 1972, p145) When foreign policies are formulated three central determinants are integral: the international, domestic and governmental context. These represent the fact that foreign […]

The demands for post-war actions included: no foreign troops in Belgium and restoration of their independence, Germany relinquishing all French territory including Laces-Lorraine, Italy’s expansion to areas where Italian was spoken and territories promised in the London-Treaty, self-determination for ethnic groups in the Status-Hungarian area, foreign troop removal from the Balkan region, Serbia’s expansion to […]

The application of Appeasement to British Foreign policy post World War One remains a highly debated topic amongst historians, mainly regarding the use and reasons for the policy and its ineffectiveness. Appeasement generally refers to ‘The policy of settling disputes by peaceful means and compromise rather than by resort to war’1. It is mostly associated […]

In 1919, when the League of Nations was first created, it specified one of its main objectives as being ‘to ensure a just and lasting peace’. Despite having several successes in the 1920s, it failed to uphold this statement on numerous accounts in the 1930s, eventually leading to its loss of credibility, followed by its […]

After the long and deadly First World War, of which the U.S. had been embroiled in for over a year, people were finally ready for their soldiers to come home. Some were even ready for peace. However, many Europeans had lost everything in the war and were not ready for peace. They were ready for […]

The League Of Nations Was A Great Force For Peace In The 1920’s In this essay, I am going to look at the successes and failures of the League of Nations (LofN) in its struggle for peace throughout the 1920’s. The LofN was the ‘brain child’ of American president Woodrow Wilson. The four other main […]

1991 DBQ In the aftermath of World War I, during the years 1917-1921, President Wilson advocated the Treaty of Versailles, which called for the principle of self-determination, the formation of a League of Nations, and general amnesty towards Germany, as the solution for peace. However, his unwillingness to compromise led to widespread disagreement. The opposition […]

The League of Nations was an organisation designed to maintain peace throughout the World. It was created during the Paris Peace Conference. The League of Nations was the idea of Woodrow Wilson, the president of the USA. The League’s main aims were to bring together all nations in a parliament to discuss and settle disputes, […]

The League of Nations, located in Geneva, Switzerland, was established between 1920 and 1946. Originally consisting of 42 nations, it later expanded to include 58 member countries. Its main objective was to peacefully settle disputes among nations while upholding their territorial rights. The failure of the Versailles Treaty prompted many nations to seek an organization […]

The objective of this paper is to explore four distinct elements of the Civil War, as discussed in Professor McPherson’s Ordeal by Fire. The paper aims to assess the significance of Antietam and Emancipation, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga as pivotal moments in the war. Additionally, these occurrences will be ordered based on their level of […]

Slavery, simply defined means ‘the state of a person who is a chattel of another’. But slavery is much more than this. It is the basic denial of human rights, the oppression of one person due to another, an ‘inhumane form of legalised inequality’. In America, Africans had suffered this inhumanity for centuries, under the […]

The Civil War, which commenced on April 12, 1861, due to the attacks on Fort Sumter and culminated on April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army resulted in a catastrophic loss of over 620,000 lives. Infectious diseases accounted for twice as many deaths as those lost in battle while amputation […]

War A war that originated because the nation was divided ultimately marked the beginning of a truly unified United States. The Civil War put to rest the increasing sectionalism that divided the North, the South, and the newly colonized West. At the root were the issues of slavery in the South, and the attempt of […]

The book, Civil War Tennessee: Battles and Leaders, provides an overview of the battle tactics employed and battles fought in Tennessee during the Civil War, emphasizing their significance. The Union and Confederacy both encountered challenges during the war, discussed in the book. Connelly introduces the major regions in Tennessee and highlights their importance. For instance, […]

During the Civil War and its aftermath, various government institutions attempted to address the economic, political, and social issues that arose. Nevertheless, this period resulted in disorder and uncertainty. From 1865 to 1877, the Reconstruction era experienced numerous riots as Southern whites refused all types of equality and blacks demanded complete freedom and land ownership. […]

Books rarely have the power to change history, and it is even more rare for them to cause a major conflict. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin had a significant impact on the perception of slavery in the early 19th century. Abraham Lincoln acknowledged the book as a catalyst for the American Civil War and […]

According to Davis Jefferson, the Doctrine of Secession grants states the right to nullify the constitutional northern way of life and supports South Carolina’s secession from the union. He believes that the Confederacy and union could achieve solitary peace, although they would face difficulties arising from the conflicting interests of separate nations. Jefferson considers the […]