Essays On War

World War Two and the Vietnam War were reported through, directly led to two different sets of public opinion In the 20th Century. Linda Roman was born on June 5, 1935 In Bantering, NY. She Is a 78 year old Caucasian woman who was married for 30 years, and is now divorced. Roman considers Bantering, […]

A stalemate had developed between the armies of the Central Powers and the Allies. This stalemate lasted for almost four years, taking millions of lives. But in 1918, for whatever reason, the stalemate ended after both armies made effective attacks on the other’s trenches. World War One was the testing arena for a number of […]

In the north of France, in September 1914, German troops dug up a raised location that had a view over the Aisne River. Following their heavy losses in unsuccessful efforts to breach the German line, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) found themselves in a stalemate and unable to reach their enemy, marking the inception of […]

Women’s role in society now, is very different to how it used to be, mainly due to the suffrage movement. In the nineteenth century women couldn’t vote, were not considered equal to men, and also couldn’t even earn a living. Most of the time men would look down at women as they were seen as […]

Following on from the battle of Marne (September 1914) there was a deadlock between the opposing forces fighting it out in France. This deadlock surprised people by making the war carry on for a number of years, until finally ending before December 1918. The majority of people think that this is due to the poor […]

A Stalemate occurs when neither side can win quickly with an outright victory. This is what happened in WW1 between the Allied forces and the Germans for several reasons. One of which was on account of the failure of the Schlieffen plan which was a German movement to take over Paris, however the BEF caught […]

How accurate is the statement ‘Lions led by donkeys’ in relation to British Soldiers and Generals of the First World War? In the First World War, more men died than in any other war before. Some people say this was because the generals, like General Haig were ‘donkeys’ who wasted the lives of their brave […]

The Kennedy Doctrine refers to foreign policy enterprises of the 35th President of the United States. John Fitzgerald Kennedy. towards Latin America during his term in office between 1961 and 1963. In John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address. which took topographic point on January 20 1961. President Kennedy presented the American populace with a design upon […]

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 […]

The advent of the Cold War has brought the “superpower squeeze”1 from the sole control of the European nations to the hands of the United States, battling it out with the last European superpower, the Soviet Union. Holding it out for a few more decades, the Soviets did not last and its demise left the […]

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 […]

Appeasement was the policy which Britain, and Chamberlain specifically, undertook from the mid-1930s in relation to Nazi Germany and the rising diplomatic crisis in Europe. The formation of this policy was a result not only of the problems in Europe, but the domestic situation too. We must weigh up the relative effects of foreign and […]

The Cold War is a drawn-out province of tenseness and ill will held between the two major powers. viz. the Soviets and the Americans after post-world war-two period. The term “turning point” implies that the Berlin encirclement caused a bend of events and instigated the eruption of the Cold War. Therefore. the statement made is […]

There had been a series of failures that led to the destruction of international peace by 1939. The cause for world war two was because of the invasion of Poland by Germany. Britain and France agreed that after the Munich pact, if Germany were to invade Poland , they would start a war against Hitler. […]

This chapter gives us short overview of history of diplomacy, how it developed, what was at the core beginning and what influenced it most. Firstly there were assumptions that foundations of foreign policy were based on changeless national and imperial characteristics, that it is special and beyond understanding of ordinary man, so everyone tried to […]

2. The period of 2005-06 serves as a pivotal turning point in the historical narrative of India-US relations, signaling a significant shift from prior engagements. This timeframe denotes an important diplomatic policy challenge for India, signifying the first occasion in over thirty years that both nations consented to recommence their nuclear energy collaboration. Before this […]

What was supposed to go down in history as the heroic rescue of 52 hostages in during the Iranian Hostage Crisis is now labeled as one of America’s greatest military blunders. The failed rescue mission, known as Operation Eagle Claw, was devised as the result of a climactic point of tension in Iran-US relations. Since […]

Robert “Bud” Carl McFarlane graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1959 (Timburg 213) and served in the Marine Corps throughout the 60s and 70s. He had participated in the White House Fellows program and eventually became involved in the White House legislative office. He quitted his Marine Corps career and entered politics after gaining […]

For a time during the 1970’s it seemed that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union had finally begun to thaw. President Nixon and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev had agreed to SALT I or the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; an agreement to limit the number of nuclear weapons that each nation […]

Some of the Europeans argued for the end of colonization whereas others argued for continued colonization and the exploitation of the existing resources. The decolonization process was challenging as some nations had adapted well to the regions and people they had colonized. China and Asia advocated for communism in the countries they governed. European countries […]

Women’s rights in tang dynasty. The Tang Dynasty has been regarded by most scholars as the most glorious period in the history of China wherein it underwent a form of internationalization through the re-establishment of trade routes, an influx of foreign traders, the flourishing of Buddhism and other religions as well as a sort of […]

The Coronation that Shook the World The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David is imposing in its dimensions. It stands at twenty feet by thirty feet and is displayed in the main gallery of the Louvre museum in Paris. David began this work of art after being orally commissioned by Napoleon in September of 1804. […]