The turning point of the war in Europe is clearly the Battle of Britain since if Germany had defeated the Royal Air Force and conquered Britain, Germany could have taken over control of Europe. In 1940, most of Europe was under the control of Germany. After France had fallen, victorious German soldiers paraded down the [...]
Rasputin, the image alone is pretty horrifying, creepy. This man was able to do the impossible, social escalating isn’t very common or easy, especially amidst royal blue blood. The rural man who was Gregory Rasputin: no education, no money and no faith; known only as a pervert, criminal and drunken behavior. Born in January of [...]
Hiroshima is a true story about the lives of survivors after the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. It was written by John Hersey, who was born in China to missionaries, but spent most of his life in the United States. As a Journalist during World War II, [...]
The main objective behind the United States’ involvement in Vietnam was to contain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. It was in the 1950′s when the United States began to send troops to Vietnam, during the following 25-year period, the ensuing war would create some of the strongest tensions in US history. Almost 3 [...]
In 1879 two Georgian peasants conceived what would be USSR’s most cruel, power-hungry and diabolical ruler for 25 years, Josif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. During his childhood he had to endure an abusive father, a bout with smallpox and a freak accident that resulted in an arm deformity. ‘Soso’ as he was referred to by his mother [...]