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 discovery of French culture - art, sports, music, fashion
Worksheets - 2 pages - Geography
France must be a high contender to be the country with the most influencing culture in the world. France is the nation of wine, of cuisine, of fashion, of architecture, and of gentleness. Going to France and then coming back without visiting Eiffel tower as well as Arc de Triomphe, or at least...
A history of modern Lebanon, Fawwaz Traboulsi
Text commentary - 2 pages - World geography
Shihab's social and political project shaped the Lebanese political life for at least a decade. After the stabilization of the country and the return to national unity, Shihab's main task was to build 'the State of independence' in Lebanon and to achieve social and economic...
The Cuban revolution and Fidel Castro
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The Cuban Revolution of 1959, at a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for world power, brought the communist threat within ninety miles of the American mainland (Castro, 110). Up to this point, American interaction with its southern counterparts in Latin America had...
Facundo's barbarism vs Armiento's civilization
Thesis - 2 pages - Medieval history
Sarmiento's Facundo presents a biased historical account of Argentine history and the struggle between “barbarism and civilization” taking place during the 17th century in Argentina. Sarmiento's political aims of spreading European culture, which he deems to be civilized, and of uniting...
Wilson's fourteen points: Success or failure?
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The carnage of World War I exposed the failures of the European system of diplomacy. It was in this context and even before the war ended, that American President, Woodrow Wilson, proposed his Fourteen Points, designed to establish and ensure a lasting peace following an Allied victory. President...
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...
Malcolm X: a revolutionary Afro-American at home and in the rest of the world
Worksheets - 4 pages - Modern history
Malcolm X was an Afro-American revolutionary. He dedicated himself to explain the world and find ways to change it. Who was really Malcolm X? What was his impact on the Civil Rights Movement? Malcolm Little is born in 1925 in Omaha (Nebraska). His father, Earl Little was a Baptist priest, a...
Michel Abitbol, "The Jews of North Africa during the Second World War", Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989. Pp. 212
Book review - 2 pages - Modern history
This book deals with the topic of the Jews in North Africa under the Vichy regime. The author is Professor Michel Abitbol, Chairman of the Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem. He is an Israeli orientalist and a specialist in Jew history in Morocco. The Jews situation was different in Algeria, Morocco...
Christopher J. Dodd, "Letters from Nuremberg", New-York: Three Rivers Press, 2007. Pp. 374 ; Karl Fuchs, "Your Loyal and Loving Son", Washington D.C.: Brassey's Inc, 1987. Pp. 163
Text commentary - 3 pages - Modern history
Letters from Nuremberg' by Christopher Dodd, US senator from Connecticut, with the collaboration of Lary Bloom, is an epistolary book. It is a collection of Christopher's father's letters, Thomas J. Dodd, written between July 1945 and September 1946 to his wife. During this period...
Stanley Hoffmann, "Collaborationism in France during World War II" in The Journal of Modern History (Sept 1968), 375-395
Book review - 2 pages - Modern history
This article by Stanley Hoffmann from Harvard University, deals with the collaboration in France during the Second World War. The author enlightens the reader about this complex subject which did not receive sufficient study according to him. Hoffmann discusses the differences between several...
America and the First World War
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The First World War was a tragedy that America entered under false pretenses and exited with lasting wounds. America's involvement was encouraged by those who had the least to lose from the war: industrialists, politicians, and journalists. Their efforts were crucial in shifting public opinion...
Citizen 13660: Race as justification for internment
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
In the aftermath of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, feelings of fear, anxiety and uncertainty were understandably abundant. When the dust had settled, America would officially declare war against not only the Japanese, but also Germany and Italy. As is the case with any...
Possession, exorcism and the medical hysteric in Fritz Lang's M and Fury
Thesis - 4 pages - Medieval history
Gustav Hübener claims that “the fight against demons is found among all peoples” and that “what we would nowadays call mental disease” was previously explained by people “as a demonic obsession.” Hübener's decidedly universal definition of exorcism is left at...
The functionality of the supernatural in Medieval England
Thesis - 5 pages - Medieval history
Peter Brown has observed that, in medieval Europe, the supernatural “was intimately connected with the life of the group on every level. At the same time, however, it was operative because it was thought of as radically different from the human world into which it penetrated.” This is...
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...
The black Thursday - economics and political consequences
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
They built the American way of life based on large consumption and developed a new way of life with vehicles, Medias and home equipment that created high standards of living. Taylorism is implemented in plants and Ford added new procedures like organization of work in 1908 and launched the famous...
Gas warfare during WWI
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
World War One was a war of stalemates. The western front turned to trench warfare quickly after the failing of Germany's Schlieffen Plan and soldiers remained in the trenches for the rest of the war. However, WWI was a war stalemated technologically as well. An example of this technological...
Byzantium during the iconoclastic age
Thesis - 7 pages - Ancient history
In 628 Byzantium's territorial holdings stretched from northern Africa and the southern tip of Spain to the whole of Asia Minor and Syria. In the same year, under the emperor Herakleios, Byzantium won a total defeat over their main rival of the time, Persia. The constant disputes between Persia...
The falsehood of Terry Jones' claims of censorship
Thesis - 3 pages - Medieval history
Terry Jones argues that the Ellesmere manuscript was censored in the early 15th century, suggesting “that there was a nervousness about owning this particular manuscript of The Canterbury Tales.” He focuses on three of the manuscript's pilgrim portraits—those of the Knight, the...
Dachau concentration camp memorial is just one typical example of the many failures of coming to terms with the NS past during the era Adenauer'
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
On 15 September 1949, the conservative Christian Democratic politician Konrad Adenauer was elected to serve as the first Chancellor of the new Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Hence, the Adenauer era started and lasted until 1963. The choice of a conservative Chancellor reinforced the choice of...
Why is the use of the terms 'resistance' and 'collaboration' problematic when assessing African relations to the imposition of French colonial rule in Africa?
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
When assessing African relations to the imposition of French colonial rule in Africa, the terms 'resistance' and 'collaboration' are often used by English literature. They respectively designate the struggle against colonialism and the co-operation between the indigenous people...
Outline some of the key features of the way in which Camus depicts Franco-Algerian relations during the colonial period. To what extent do such visions of Algeria and Algerians continue to be reproduced in France today?
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
Born and raised in colonized Algeria among the Algerian population but educated as a Frenchman by the French education system, Camus had always developed a specific vision of Algeria. Indeed, even if as a humanist he was against many excesses of French colonization, though he truly believed in...
Explain to what causes intellectuals committed themselves during the Algerian War and why. You will illustrate your ideas with clear references to two of the following intellectuals: Camus, Sartre or Fanon
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
The French political establishment, the vast majority of the French population and the pieds noirs denied the existence of an Algerian nationalist movement because, according to them, "there was no such thing as an 'Algerian nation' and that Algérie would always be française" (Drake,...
A critical examination of the roles of Clive, the East India Company and Hastings in the expansion of the empire in India
Thesis - 11 pages - Modern history
The East India Company was originally incorporated as an English Joint Stock company with the overriding objective of initiating British trade objectives in the East Indies. The company's evolution from trading corporation into a central vehicle for expanding the British Empire in India in...
Joseph Conrad and imperialism
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Jósef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, more commonly known as Joseph Conrad, was born in Ukraine in 1857; causing him to grow up in a time when Europeans were focused on claiming territories in Africa. As a young boy, Conrad had aspirations to travel the Congo River in Africa. Conrad found work as a...
The roaring twenties and the fall into depression
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
The early United States was predominately rural. The number of Americans living in cities did not surpass the number living in rural areas until 1920. The economic opportunities brought on by the industrial revolution had people flocking to the central cities, which in turn grew immensely. Prior...
Populism in the United States of America
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
The Populist Party was a political party in the United States in the late 1800s. It was made up of mostly western farmers who were opposed to the gold standard. The Populist Party grew from the Farmer's Alliance which in response to the collapse in agriculture prices after the Panic of 1873,...
The United States reconstruction
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
During the American Civil War the Southern states seceded from the Union. Once the Confederacy was defeated Lincoln and his associates seriously considered tactics on how to reintegrate the Southern states and what to do with Confederate leaders and the freed slaves. Lincoln wanted a mild...
