During the next three years East Germany steadily declined and a steady flow of refugees were fleeing to West Germany (Danforth). The Cold War came next. A nuclear face off between two opposing world superpowers, USA and USSR began. Berlin being itself divided, was the front line in a war that wasn’t a war. In 1948, Communist East Germany, frustrated with the exodus of hundreds of thousands of young skilled laborers, closed all border crossings in and out of East Germany, trapping over a million West Berlin citizens with little food, money, or fuel over a hundred miles inside East Germany.
The war had created the division of two superpowers; The Soviet Union and The United States. After 1945, the United States had become the leading power due to it’s military strength and economic advantages after the war and Soviet Union play it’s role to challenge the state’s power (Young & Kent: 2) due to it’s ideology of communism and wanted to expand their influence globally, in which the United States wanted to prevent this from happening because their idea was absolutely conflicted with the Soviet Union; capitalism (Young & Kent: 6). These two countries reshaped Europe and the world. In contrast, World War II also weakened Britain’s and France’s powers because both of these countries faced a devastated loss by the war especially Britain. Likewise, both of the powers had to dismantle their colonies and ended their overseas and territorial empire.
Some Specifics of the use of Japanese codes were JN – 25 and Purple. The vulnerability of Japanese naval codes and ciphers was crucial to the conduct of World War II and had an important influence on foreign relations between Japan and the west in the years leading up to the war as well. Every Japanese code was eventually broken, and the intelligence gathered made possible such operations as the victorious American ambush of the Japanese Navy at Midway and the shooting down ofIsoroku Yamamoto in Operation Vengeance. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) used many codes and ciphers. All of these cryptosystems were known differently by different organizations.
earA Rhetorical look at Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation Given by Franklin Delano Roosevelt David Thayer English 112 This speech was in relations to the horrible and reprehensive attack on Midway. It was the start of the Unites States in World War II (WWII). The influence this speech had on the American people was of great importance to the acceptance of our entrance to the war. It showed that by allowing the people to know the gravity of this incident it would get their approval. President Roosevelt used Pathos and Logos to attract the nation to the idea that if we did not act swiftly with force we would get attacked again and many more innocent lives would be taken.
• Was a way of loweing morale and hindering German progression in the war, targeting their resources and factories. • There was some great success: 1943 Hamburg and Rhur had a serious impact on German war productin and took vital planes away from the Russian Front. • Was a major factor in German defeat. - Was Churchill justified in using the strategic bom 2 of 20 1 of 20 • Churchill felt uneasy about the bombing campiagn • The ruthless policy of total war had moral implications- Churchill could be seen as a war criminal. • Half a million Germans lost their lives in the bombing, way more civillian lives than were lost in Britain during the Blitz.
In the Treaty, Germany was forced to accept all the blame for war, and was also forced to pay reparations amounting to about 6.6 billion dollars, which was finally all paid off in 1989. The absence of money from the German economy caused extreme hyper-inflation, which in turn caused many Germans to lose their jobs. In the infamous Great Depression of the 1920s, the US was not the only hard-hit country but Germany too and even more severely so. This was because Germany had lost over 2 million men in the war, and many of those who did come back were crippled and could not work. Germany had also lost trust with many countries who were their trading partners, causing them to lose even more money as they could not export their goods.
Valuable weapons were lost and the army was running short of ammunition and medical supplies. The Russian army started deserting their posts. The situation in Russia got worse and the Russian people rebelled in 1917 and the Tsar was overthrown. The overtaking Government surrendered to the Germans after two days of being in power. The Germans transferred all of the soldiers in the Eastern Front over to the Western front to fight the British and the French.
Losing the war angered and shocked German people as they felt stabbed in the back, additionally they were looking for someone to blame. German soldiers believed they did not lose the war and that the army was cheated. It also badly affected businesses and workers within Germany. Farmers were short of labourers to bring in the harvest as men had been in the military. By 1918, Germany was producing only 50% of the milk it had done before the war.
All those who are working in the entertainment industry are building and maintaining national morale both on the battlefront and on the home front. (Franklin Roosevelt, June 12, 1943) In general that is a true statement for both WWI and WWII. For the most part most of the popular music produced during both wars was generally supportive of the troops and the government that sent them off to war. The music in both instances followed a similar pattern. First the music reflected a period of isolationism or pacifism and then there was an event that changed public opinion in favor of the war.
Although more peace conferences were held none achieved end to the war. By the Christmas of 1969, the end of the civil war was near. After countless years of fighting the Commander of the Biafran Army surrendered to the Federal Government on 14th January 1970 bringing an end to the war. In the end the people of Biarfra lost the war, and many casualties both civilian and military. Nigeria, cut off food and other supplies to be imported into Biafra, resulting in massive