The New Deal: Response to FDR's Folly by Jim Powell - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
What Can We Learn from FDR's Mistakes? The title and content of the last chapter of the book FDR's Folly illustrate the real purpose of Jim Powell through this book. It defended a laissez faire approach to today's economic problems. This aim led him to emphasize the downside of the...
Media in Germany after World War Two - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The development of media in the Western Germany during the period of the Allied Occupation (1945-1949) and in the first decade of the Federal Republic (1949-1959) The media is present all around the world. The media tries to express facts, entertainment, opinion, and other information. In this...
The fall of the Oyo Empire - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The Oyo kingdom is located in the south of the actual territory of Nigeria. It expanded from the 16th to the 18th century to become the Oyo Empire, reaching its peak (around 47570km2) in the middle of the 18th century. Less than a century later, in 1836, its capital, Oyo Ile, had been abandoned,...
Why has the historical development of the EU been so uneven? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
On the 28th of March 2001, Lionel Jospin, the French Prime Minister made an interesting declaration: 'Europe is more than a market. It stands for a model of society that has grown historically.' . This statement refers to the development of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in...
Debate about the treatment of Indians in sixteenth-century Spain - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Since the discovery of the Caribbean and South America, these territories had been progressively ruled all along the sixteenth-century by Spanish settlers, who looked for labour forces to exploit the new lands for revenue of the Crown and for themselves; and also by missionaries sent by the Crown...
The impact of the Suez crisis on Britain, Egypt and Israel - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Suez Crisis of 1956 has been commonly seen as a turning point in post war world history, the moment when Britain's pretension to world power status was stripped away, and when Egypt became the leader of the Arab world, an event which triggered a radical change in the relations between...
The portrait of John F. Kennedy - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. The youngest ever elected to the presidency and the first of the Roman Catholic faith, John F. Kennedy won the election of...
Racism and discrimination against the Black population in the US - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
The blacks in Africa lived together in tribes and with the families staying together in the village and leading a life based on strong morals. Each tribe had developed a culture and their native language. According to most Europeans, the Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be...
Desegregation and civil rights movements in the USA - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Although the Civil War had abolished slavery, the black people still suffered from racial discrimination, particularly in the Southern states. Not only did they often feel discriminated against, but were continually looked down upon by their white counterparts in many genres like education, at...
The Frontier - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
During the 19th century the American economy grew rapidly. New inventions and capital investment led to the creation of new industries and led to economic growth. With the development of various modes of effective transportation the opportunities for new business ventures increased. However,...
Essay analysis on sexuality, identity and homosexuals
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
In Halperin's “Is There a History of Sexuality”, he explains that sex as an act is a natural and universal phenomenon and thus has no history. On the other hand, he clarifies that there is a history of sexuality, although it is a fairly recent history and is socially constructed. By...
The Troubles in Ireland
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
The Irish War of Independence was a guerilla war between the Irish, who wanted their independence against the British Empire. For many centuries, Ireland had been under the British domination, and many a times, the Irish fought in order to get their independence, but unsuccessfully. The British...
To what extent metropolises were welcoming cities during the 19th century?
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
During the 19th century, the size of the cities in Europe changed dramatically. While in the 1800s, twenty-three cities in Europe could have been considered as major cities, one century later, the number of major cities reached one hundred and thirty-five. This evolution is curious when one...
Vichy's Responsability in the Holocaust : The Failure of the Integration of the Jews of France ?
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
On July 16th 1995, President Jacques Chirac officially recognized for the first time, the responsibility of the Vichy regime in the genocide of the Jews. This statement was heralded as a break from the past as it had been traditionally asserted that no French governmental authorities had taken...
The Dreyfus Affair.
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Dreyfus is capable of treason, I conclude from his race', wrote Edouard Drumont, a notorious antisemit figure, in La Libre Parole. Such a statement is representative of the tone of a certain press, at the time of the Dreyfus Affair. In 1894, Captain Dreyfus was prosecuted and convicted guilty...
Great Britain during the Second World War
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Since 1933, the UK and France were not weren't ready economically and financially to wage war against Germany. In 1933, its leader Adolf Hitler, seized power lawfully, and wanted to take revenge after the humiliation of the Versailles Treaty. Indeed, after WWII, France, the UK and the USA decided...
Communism and Fascism : Two ideologies of the 20th century
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Communism and Fascism have both played a very decisive role in the 20th century. They had a big impact on all the major geopolitical issues of this century; the Russians Revolution of October 1917, the Spanish civil war, WWII, Cold War, Vietnamese's wars, Cuba's regime etc. It is commonly...
What is the most important event during the Cold War ? - Author's opinion
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
The Cold War is an ideological clash between the Western capitalist block - the "Free World" led by the USA- and the Eastern communist block lead by mother Russia USSR. The two blocks fought by proxy from 1947 to 1990, through violent crisis, such as the Korean War from 1951 to 1953, the Vietnam...
The artists in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes
Essay - 1 pages - Modern history
Art has always provided an outlet to express feelings, creation or freedom, to denounce abuses, to throw light on human nature or natural phenomenon. That's why most of the time it gets controversial because it always implies subjective judgments and critical opinions. If we take the example...
Great Britain, the United States and the Commonwealth
Essay - 14 pages - Modern history
The aim of the lecture is to determine whether there is really a special relationship between Britain and the US. It was only in the aftermath of the Second World War that the term of special relationship came to be used to describe the partnership between Britain and America. Indeed, despite the...
Compare the contribution of Jews to metropolitan culture pre- and post-World War II.
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Second World War and the Holocaust altered in an irremediable way, the Jewish contribution to metropolitan culture. Before the beginning of the Second World War, Jews had had an extremely important part in the cultural life, with many contributions in the musical life, in literature, in...
Racial segregation in the United States throughout history
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Sadly, racial segregation has a long history in the United States. The separation between the blacks and the whites is deeply-rooted in American history because of its constitution, which established in 1787 that the weight of a black man was three-fifths of a white man. It also marked slavery as...
La participation des États-Unis à la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The beginning of the Second World War marked a change. The German victories in France and Poland, occupation of Belgium and still defying, but exhausted Great Britain led President Roosevelt to sign the Lend-Lease Act on March 11, 1941. It committed U.S. to supply Britain with military equipment...
The construction of 'territorial sovereignty' in France
Essay - 10 pages - Modern history
In 1797, after long negotiations, Bonaparte, then general of the French army, and Cobenzl, the Austrian representative, agreed on the following deal: Austria recognized France's rights on the Belgium territory and was granted in exchange the Venetian Republic. By selling Venice, Bonaparte did...
The US-Soviet conflicts in World War II
Essay - 1 pages - Modern history
There were many conflicts between the U.S. and the USSR during World War II as the alliance between the two countries was held together only by their common desire to defeat Germany and Japan, not by any common ideology. A new conflict arose from the question of security. At the Yalta Conference...
The period from 1948 to 1953 was a phase of high intensity in Cold War history and decisively shaped the future of the European continent. Analyse the events in Europe in this period and their meaning for European integration.
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
After World War II, Europe was destroyed and two superpowers emerged; the United States and the USSR. The United States was the only state to have the atomic bomb and used the massive weapon against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and the USSR was important because of the fight against Nazi...
The figure of communism and Us-USSR bilateral diplomatic relations during the cold war : a conflict analysis
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Cold War is, together with the World Wars, probably the most important episode in Europe's and the United States XXth century diplomatic history. The conflict has an impressive amount of dimensions, motives and outcomes, most of which are probably still unknown. This being said, one...
The Irish revolutions 1916-1923: The way to Independence
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
Since the beginning of the Middle Ages, Ireland had been under the control of the English. Irish people resisted and tried to rebel in spite of the constant strengthening of the English domination. However, from the 19th century onwards changes took place, eventually leading to a revolution at...
The USA in 1968: the top of disrupt decade, the beginning of a period of uncertainties
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Like in the transatlantic countries, the year 1968 played a huge role in America's History. Sure enough at the same time France had to face the student discontent and important strikes took place in many countries and the Czech saw the entrance of the Warsaw Pact's tanks in Prague. What...
The role of the Catholic Church as a key opponent since the 1970s against the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
Essay - 12 pages - Modern history
One can observe that, among the different opponent actors who played a role in the opposition, the Catholic Church took a greater place in Eastern and Central Europe until the collapse of the communist regimes in the countries, by encouraging and aiding political opposition to authoritarian...
