A self-portrait tells much more than just the condition of its artist. It gives us insight into the state of the society in which they live and their relationship to the conditions of the time. In the Neue Gallerie’s exhibition “The Self Portrait from Shiele to Beckman,” displays Austrian and German self-portraits made from 1900 to 1945. Many of these...
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Barak Goodman and Jamila Ephron’s documentary, Woodstock; Three Days that Defined a Generation highlights the making and delivery of the festival that was to become a quintessential part of the counterculture revolution of the 60s. Woodstock epitomised a generation’s stance on civil rights, the Vietnam war, woman’s liberation, gay rights and environmental movements. While it started as an idea by...
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Before World War ll Vietnam had been part of the French Empire. After World War ll Ho Chi Minh captured Hanoi in 1945 and declared Vietnam independent. The French tried to take control again, but this was unpopular with the people. They were defeated by the Vietminh at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Peace was discussed at Geneva in 1954...
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The Cold War A hot war has physical fighting. In a cold war, there is not. The Cold War refers to the time after WW2 when there were tensions between the USA and its allies and the USSR and their allies. USA Capitalism vs USSR Communism The Soviet Union and the USA had different ideologies (a system of ideas and...
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Engerman claims that… which, to some extent, is similar to J.L Gaddis’ core argument - it was the differing ideas of security and with that the building of two very different empires that caused the Cold War- , as both are post-revisionist. However J. L Gaddis reveals a strong anti-communist rhetoric throughout due to his political affiliations… Issues of national...
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Introduction: The Complexity of Blaming a Single Entity for the Cold War To try place blame on someone is as human as breathing. We always tend to look for a specific cause to any sort of problem, be it in everyday life, historical events, or politics. However, trying to assign the moral responsibility of an event as complex as the...
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On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima. For the Americans, it was a ray of hope. Many believed that dropping the atomic bomb flashed a light and peace was secured. But for the people that were under the atomic bomb, it was a terror. A terror that no one...
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In early 2018, in the idyllic southern English city of Salisbury, two Russian citizens Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia fell dangerously ill. After extensive investigation, the British government accused Russia of using a type of Novichok, which it said was developed by the Soviet Union, to poison the Skripals. Russia has vehemently denied these allegations and claimed that the...
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There were a series of events that led to the inevitable Cold War. Prior to the Cold War the United States and USSR fought together against a common enemy, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis of Germany. USSR were stricken, and arguably still struggle, with the notion that they cannot trust anything or anyone that is not Russian. Some would argue...
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The definition of a nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its power from nuclear reactions. The nuclear reaction is a result of fission or a combination of fission and fusion. More specifically they are called fission bombs (for fission) and thermonuclear bombs (the combination of fission and fusion). The active element in most modern nuclear weapons is plutonium....
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In order to fully understand the reasons as to why the US lost its war against Vietnam, one must fully understand the events and key factors before and during the war itself. The war itself took place between 1961 and 1975, resulting in US defeat. Vietnam had been an independent nation until the French conquered the country in 1887, renaming...
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The First warfare had profound social, psychological, economic and political consequences that arguably formed the twentieth Century. it's troublesome to place a time-frame on its impact. Assessing the aftermath of the war will vary between the Nineteen Twenties and therefore the Nineteen Forties and even go as way because the conflict. but regardless of the scope of the conflict is,...
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Introduction The Vietnam War, a protracted conflict from 1955 to 1975, remains one of the most contentious and debated wars in modern history. Rooted in the Cold War dynamics, the United States' involvement was primarily motivated by the desire to contain the spread of communism, a doctrine that had already entrenched itself in Eastern Europe and China. The war's justification...
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the United States joined Southern Vietnamese forces to help combat the spread of communism from Northern Vietnam. In 1961 President Kennedy sent in helicopters to help aid South Vietnam, which marked one of the first combat missions. In March of 1965, the first troops drafted were sent to Southern Vietnam. In the following...
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Introduction As many as 220,000 people may have been killed in the Allied nuclear attacks upon the Japanese cities of Kiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War. With such a tremendous loss of life, it is right to question whether or not it was a necessary act, given the general success the allies were having in...
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Introduction The Cold War, a geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States, shaped much of the latter half of the 20th century. It was characterized by ideological conflict, nuclear arms race, and proxy wars. Scholars have long debated whether this prolonged period of tension was an inevitable outcome of post-World War II dynamics or a preventable series...
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Why do states, as individual actors in the international context, want nuclear weapons? This essay is to apply a neo-realism analysis to the sino-soviet case towards the question. Realists reckon power as a means to the end of security. Therefore an argument is drawn here that states pursue nuclear weapons to guarantee state security. Neorealists subscribe to a three ss...
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Introduction The Treaty of Versailles, signed on June 28, 1919, was intended to bring an end to World War I by imposing peace terms on the defeated German Empire. While its architects envisioned a treaty that would secure lasting peace, the reality was starkly different. The treaty is often criticized for its punitive measures, which many historians argue sowed the...
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The US Sectary of State, Dean Acheson, considered the events of 1949 to have changed everything, forcing the Truman Administration to review both the goals and tactics of American policy towards the Soviet Union. The NSC 68 exemplified the consistent objectives of US diplomacy, from contrasting Communism with Democracy in areas that were viewed as swing nations, the gradual erosion...
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World War I resulted from an unsettlement in the international system that began in the 1870s, when the German Empire was created after France lost the Franco-Prussian War. The power that Germany achieved was sustained through a series of alliances (whose goal was to isolate France and neutralize Russia to secure German strength [49]), and through Otto von Bismarckєs Realpolitik...
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The First World War lasted from July 1914 to November 1918, a war that some historians argue was the fault of Germany’s Imperial ambitions. Others disagree presenting it as the inevitable fault of strained international relations, some arguing that the countries “slipped” into the war. This essay will attempt to evaluate the extent and significance of Germany’s aggressive policies and...
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For decades, Russia had been a smouldering cauldron of discontent, bubbling over occasionally in strikes, riots, and assassinations. However, it was The Great War which was to be the tipping point for three of the most powerful dynasties the world had ever seen; The Hohenzollerns of Germany, the Hapsburgs of Austria-Hungary, and the topic of this presentation the Romanovs who...
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When employing historiophoty as a methodology to analyse the construction of history through images and films, it is evident that the American Civil War is insubstantially represented. This is due to the powerful influence of various director’s context, motives and personal bias, resulting in antithetical interpretations. Consensus history has constructed the American Civil war in a superficial manner lacking complexity...
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The Cold War was a state of political hostility between the West and the USSR which was formed through a number of economical tensions, geographical tensions and propaganda between the two nations. Over the years, the concept of the origins of The Cold War have been heavily debated amongst historians thus resulting in different schools of thoughts gradually emerging. The...
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The Treaty of Versailles have become written and signed in 1919 to punish Germany and to finalize the surrender of the warfare; however, the Allied Powers in no manner expected it to spark a warfare even worse than the remaining. international struggle I started out as a conflict for economic and political power which grew in period as more countries...
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The Vietnam war which ran from 1955 to 1975, had a huge and devastating impact on both the north Vietnamese people and the South Vietnamese people. Vietnamese civilians endured the tragedies inflicted on them by a war not of their making. It is estimated that approximately 2 million civilians were killed or wounded during the conflict. Much of the death...
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In 1914 the world became plunged into a conflict that would be known as the war to end all wars. World War I was a transformative crossroads in African American history. What started as an apparently far off European clash soon turned into a war with progressive ramifications for the social, monetary, and political eventual fate of black people. The...
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The Cold War was, at it’s core, a conflict of good versus evil, showcasing a clear death-match between the forces representing freedom, and the forces representing totalitarianism. Lasting from 1947-1991, the Cold War’s countless costs such as lives, money, pride and national security still take a heavy toll on the world we live in today. There are a multitude of...
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Russia and America had competition over power which started the Cold War, both affecting the world socially, politically, and the economy. Both Russia’s and America’s society were affected from their competition of power and advancement in technology. Both nations tried to assert dominance over one another through political means, they showed it through bombs and new technology that was astounding....
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Would World War II have happened if the United States has supported the Treaty of Versailles? Many factors attributed to the world powers once again being drawn into another world war. One of those influences was the “The Treaty of Versailles”. Germany had no choice in drafting the treaty which included loss of territory, severe restrictions regarding limits to a...
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