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,...
The Victorian Period (1837-1901) - published: 29/09/2010
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
The adjective ‘Victorian', often appended to words to describe a way of life, thought, culture and politics, sprang from the reign of Queen Victoria, who ruled over Great Britain from 1837 to 1901. She was the longest reigning monarch in British History. The Victorian period was a prosperous...
The influence of the American Revolution on the French Revolution: An analysis of parallels
Thesis - 4 pages - Modern history
The late 18th century was a period of great societal transformation in both North America and Continental Europe. Inevitably, the ideas of the enlightenment coupled with the social and religious unrest in both the United States and France prompted action on the part of the educated masses....
The dream: American or European?
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Throughout The European Dream, Jeremy Rifkin explains how he believes the American Dream has become out-dated. Ever since World War II, the American Dream has put an emphasis on economic growth, personal wealth, and independence (Rifkin, pg. 13). Rifkin believes that in the new American way of...
Hitler's appeal
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
During the late 1920s, support towards the Nazis grew stronger and stronger. Although the Nazi appeal began with the support of middle class Germans, it quickly became appealing to the German elites as well. Along with this, it was not only the men who supported the Nazis, but the German women as...
Allies forever
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
After the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union allied together to dismantle Nazi Germany, a new war quickly approached the American people. This time, the United States was at war with one of its former allies; the Soviet Union. Although the thought of another war put fear into...
America's new deal
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Historians today consider the Great Depression to be one of the darkest times in American history. The economy was at an all time low and in desperate need of assistance. President Franklin D. Roosevelt devised a plan called the New Deal. The New Deal was a series of government enforced...
Americans and the Second World War (WW2)
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
World War II for Americans was considered by most to be “the good war”, it got the United States out of the depression and American patriotism and pride were at an all time high. Core values of Americans such as honesty, freedom, pride, peace, hope, and liberty were written in streamers...
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...
Roaring twenties (1920's)
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The twenties may initially seem like a time of innovation in terms of technological advances, pop culture's immense growth, and a major boost in the economy along with many other advances that would make this time period seem to make a “roar” to America waking us up and making us better...
The terrible twenties
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
While it is common practice today to refer to the 1920s as the “Roaring 20's”, the reality of the situation in the 20s was that of despair and disparity. Economic inequality riddled the American economy, with the prosperous upper class lording over the middle class and chock-full lower...
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...
"The School for Scandal, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1777) - the eighteenth century and money
Text commentary - 3 pages - Modern history
Sheridan introduces the theme of money as a major theme of the play; he portrays his characters as coming from a wealthy and refined background, and therefore for whom money is important, as it allows them to differentiate themselves from the rest of the population and to maintain a certain...
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 Declaration of Independence of the United States of America - publié le 12/05/2010
Text commentary - 1 pages - Modern history
In the 18th century, the ideas of modernity were spreading all around Europe, while at the same time a revolt is organized against the despotic control exercised by Georges III, the King of England in the British colonies of the New World. This rebellion resulted in the Declaration of...
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...
Who had the right to rule Vietnam?
Thesis - 1 pages - Modern history
After 1,500 years of foreign rule, a self-governing Vietnam began to look promising in the 1950s. With the objective of gaining independence and removing French occupation from Vietnam, a conflict began between the French and the Vietnamese nationalists, known as the Vietminh. When France...
France in World War II
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
France's lack of preparation for World War II led to 4 years of harsh occupation and memories that rather be forgotten. The French were ignorant in the years leading up to the war and the result was a quick victory by the Germans. The speed and ease in which the French were conquered and the...
Motivation for United States to enter the World War II
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
The intervention of the United States in WWII was not caused by the plight of the Jews interned in concentration camps or because of the threat of Japan, but for the purpose of defending Britain and France and stopping the spread of German dictatorship through Europe. The United States adopted...
