What were the main factors of the collapse of " Social Democracy " in Britain?
Essay - 11 pages - Modern history
After the Second World War, the British political and economic landscape underwent a radical transformation in its own foundations. Indeed, the previous economic orthodoxy that had characterized the governing of Britain was substituted by a Keynesian form of welfare state. It was the beginning of...
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz steps down as Cuban leader
Worksheets - 1 pages - Modern history
Castro, who is 81, announced on 19th February 2008 that he would not accept another term as The President when the National Assembly meet on Sunday 24th February. Cuba's leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday the 19th February, after nearly half a century in charge. To start with, Fidel...
Finland's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s and its effects on the society
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
In the 1950s, while the Cold War between the Eastern and Western blocks was at its beginning, most of the European countries began to rebuild themselves in order to recover from World War II and Finland was no exception. After this period of reconstruction, most of these countries underwent a...
The French Revolution: Virtue or Terrorism?
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". A great motto, thoughts important enough to live and even to die for. These were the most enduring thoughts on which the French Revolution was based on. Yet, in order to implement these principles, the French revolutionaries sent more than 40,000 citizens to the...
A review of Legacy of silence: Encounters with children of the Third Reich
Book review - 5 pages - Modern history
Silence has always been a persistent theme in Holocaust studies. How did so many people remain silent as millions of their neighbors were taken off and killed? Why did so few people resist, and why did so many otherwise rational people blindly follow orders and not speak up against the atrocities...
The aftermath of the demolition of the Berlin Wall
Thesis - 7 pages - Modern history
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1990 the people of Germany experienced a sense of euphoria and freedom which they had been dreaming about for years. Unfortunately their thrill with life was short-lived. It wasn't long before people began to realize that the reunification of Germany would not...
Assessment of British radicalism during the period 1784 to 1815
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
The assertion that the radical movement was never anything more than a “marginal phenomenon in a broadly reforming polity” is certainly bold; it is easy enough to pick holes in such statements when they are removed from their context and surrounding qualifications. Bearing this in...
Suburbia: Yesterday and today
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
As defined in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, a suburb is “1 a: an outlying part of a city or town, b: a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city, c pl: the residential area on the outskirts of a city or large town, 2 pl: the near vicinity:...
During the Cold War Period, To What Extent is America an Empire?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
As we ponder over whether America was an empire during the post World War II period or not, we must first and foremost, try to define the notion of empire. This will help us analyze the situation of America at that time. "Imperialism and thus the notion of empire resembles Darwinism, in that many...
Reporting the war: Perspectives on the enemy
Thesis - 6 pages - Modern history
War correspondents' writings on the Second World War offer a contemporary perspective to the fighting, the events, and the experience of individuals engaged in the 1939-1945 conflict. From the Front, wire dispatches, radio broadcast, photography, and film recordings returned to educate the...
Hitler's holocaust: Understanding the politics and society of Hitler's Germany
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
Certainly one of the greatest tragedies of human history, much has been done to uncover the complexity of the Holocaust. While many facts remain clear within a historical context, countless others involve the intricacy of the human psyche and must be evaluated among a variety of factors. The...
The fall of the Soviet Empire: Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
The two rebellions in Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968 were interesting times for Eastern and Central Europe. To being to study these, one must put these two events in context. It was a time when the political climate in Easter Europe was very delicate because of the circumstances stemming...
Bulgarian, Romanian and Hungarian involvement in the Second World War
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
The Second World War is commonly misconstrued as an ongoing altercation perpetrated by the singular vision of a power-hungry maniac. Yet to assign accountability to Hitler himself is to ignore the conspiratorial actions of the Nazi's minor allies, whose participation in the war was less about...
A thorn beneath the shining armor: Churchill, Bishop Bell, and area bombing
Thesis - 6 pages - Modern history
No one cares to challenge the idea that Hitler needed to be stopped. I cannot think of a cow more sacred in the common mind—as I have known the common mind—than the righteousness of World War II. The enemy of the Allies was so ghastly, that even much-deplored developments on the part of...
The complexities surrounding the use of atomic bombs against Japan: Einstein's Folly
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
During the 1880's, at Cambridge University, J.J. Thompson, the director of the Cavendish Library and a respected physicist, became the first to discover that atoms had sub atomic particles. In 1896, Antione Becquerel, with the assistance of Marie Curie, discovered the first radioactive particle...
The American West: A clash of social, cultural, and environmental forces
Thesis - 9 pages - Modern history
The character of America was largely shaped by the American experience in the West from the early 1700s until the present day. Although the values of freedom and equality under the law had been established in the East during the colonial and revolutionary periods of American history, the clash of...
The destruction of Ancient Egyptian antiquity
Book review - 5 pages - Modern history
The chapter “The Destruction of the Pharaohs” discusses how much of the heritage of the pharaohs was destroyed by tomb robbers and casual tourism. As the pharaohs were laid in their tombs with considerable wealth, the first tomb robbers were contemporary Egyptians themselves. Later,...
Malcolm X and the Black Panthers
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The Black Panther Party was established by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 to promote Black Power and self-defense through acts of social agitation. While the organization's leaders passionately espoused Malcolm X's theories and socialist doctrine, an ideological consensus within...
Why Was There a Counterrevolution?or Counterrevolutions? - publié le 17/06/2009
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
The term counterrevolution has its roots in the middle of the Eighteenth century. If we have to completely understand why there was a counterrevolution, we have to first define this word properly. Unless properly defines, it could cover diverse realities depending on the context and the period...
Book Report, Olympe de Gouges By Olivier Blanc
Book review - 2 pages - Modern history
This book is a biography of Marie-Olympe de Gouges, a French woman born in 1748 in Montauban. Olivier Blanc, the author, is a French historian born in 1951. He does research about the XVIIIth century and more particularly about the French Revolution and the status of the diplomats during this...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy´s Vietnam policy : a groundwork leading to war ?
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
On November 1st, 1955, Dwight D. Eisenhower deployed the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) to train the South Vietnamese Army, which had about 200 Americans. Ten years later, almost 400, 000 GIs were fighting in Vietnam. 58, 000 of these people never came back. During this period, the...
How useful is the concept of modernisation in understanding the origins and aims of Fascism and Nazism?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
According to Detlev J.K. Peukert in the "Weimar Republic; The crisis of Classical Modernity", Fascism is the result of modernity crisis. Several authors have tried different approaches in order to understand and define what fascism is all about. In fact, there is no clear, objective definition;...
American history: A chart on the causes and effects of the revolutionary war
Thesis - 7 pages - Modern history
Throughout the mid-1700's resistance to British control in the colonies grew as Britain tried to consolidate their empire through a series of ordinances after the Seven Years' War. Although the passage of the Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Sugar Act, and the Townshend Duties did not inevitably hurry...
"The Significance of the Frontier in American History", Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893
Book review - 2 pages - Modern history
Towards the end of the 19th century, the United State grew in puissance. Americans tried to set themselves apart from the European influence. Indeed the need for identity emerged as an important milestone especially since reconstruction had proved to be a failure. It is also the gilded age period...
Hô Chi Minh and the Viêt Minh: a communist revolutionary path to Vietnamese Independence
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
Prior to the Indo-china War I and the Indo-china War II, the French Indo-china was a part of the French Colonial Empire of the South East Asian entity. The interest from France in the South East Asian countries and its affairs initially varied but was on the rise from time to time. This was...
World war I: Timeline
Time lines - 20 pages - Modern history
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from 1914 C.E. to 1919 C.E. Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, called the Central Powers fought Britain, France and later U.S.A., called the Allies. No...
African states were sometimes very effective actors in the 19th century through capitalising on economic possibilities
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The nineteenth century has been a turning point in the West African economic history. Indeed, the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century marked the intensification of commerce and the progressive switch from slave trade to agricultural resources trade; as a result of the...
The African women in the twentieth century
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
Traditionally and historically, women are considered as invisible: wars are fought by men; money is earned by men; nations are led by men etc. The only roles held by women are reproduction and housekeeping. However, since the middle of the 1970s, gender issues have become an important theme....
The new post colonial state and development
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Started in 1957 when Ghana gained its independence from Britain, the process of decolonization of tropical Africa was the inevitable consequence of two main watersheds that both occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century: the great depression and the Second World War; 'if the...
Miners in the colonial and post-colonial Africa
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
After the abolition of the slave trade at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Europeans intensified their capital penetration in the African continent and 'established mercantile links between West Africa and Europe', as part of the 'legitimate' commerce. Indeed, natural...
