Essays on World War Ii

“Rosie the Riveter” propaganda poster was produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943. It is an American World War II wartime for Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company for inspirational images to boost female workers morale. The appearance of this poster design is bold and strong...

Traditions would be questioned, debated, and torn to pieces. The way of life once sacred and unquestioned would now be the springboard to a new and improved platform. Women’s rights, women in the workforce, women in war, women having any kind of job or occupation...

During wartime, either side of conflict utilizes propaganda to shape international opinion and respective public outlook. Governments devote considerable resources and efforts on a global scale to produce material to influence attitudes to encourage involvement and action. The declaration of total war and subsequent campaigns...

Imagine you’re celebrating your sixth birthday with your family. As you are about to blow out your birthday candles, a strange man busts down the door shouting at all of you to go outside. He shoots you, father, when he questions what is happening, you...

The concentration camps are a constant reminder of World War II and the Holocaust. Concentration camps varied in tasks and cruelties inflicted upon the prisoners held there. Auschwitz is the main example of a concentration camp; it was partly owned by the company known as...

The fruition of eugenics began with Francis Galton. The term “good creation” was created to produce an elite group based on genetics. The Nazis viewed the population problem as a biological problem, specifically with the Jewish and Gypsy populations. The Nazi transformation of the medical...

During World War II, prisoners held in German concentration camps were victims to many torturous experiences. The Nazi concentration camps have been historically considered as one of the worst examples that prove how low humanity can fall. Not many circumstances show such overt disregard for...

Throughout World War Two, a number of German physicians, geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists performed torturous and often deadly experiments on thousands of unconsenting concentration camp prisoners. These experiments were primarily conducted to research the survival of military personnel, the testing of treatment and drugs, and...

The Holocaust was the World War ll genocide of the European Jews. It was between 1941-1945. Six million Jews were murdered. During the Holocaust, it was a state-sponsored mass murder and millions of Jewish people were killed. On January 27th, it is a remembrance day...

The Holocaust was a horrendous event in our world’s history. In this piece, I intend to explain the impact of the holocaust on Jewish peoples in Europe and Israel, and how extremely impressive it was in our world today. I hope to answer questions like...

This piece of work from Soth is comparable to Arthur Rothstein, who was born July 17th, 1915. He was one of leading founders of photography in The Great Depression period in the 1930s. Rothstein captured many photographs of this historic era; his photographs are incredibly...

Throughout the destruction of World War Two, there was one day specifically that rattled America forever and it was the day December 7, 1941, a day many of us would not remember considering the fact we were not born yet. But the people who were...

Post-World War II tensions were already high due to the cold war and there was the presence of two global superpowers, the United states and the Soviet Union, the main conflict between the two sides was both were trying to gain mass support and influence...

The Japanese Internment Camps is one of the biggest events in U.S. history during the 20th century. With the relocation of the Japanese in the Pacific Coast of the United States, one of ten Internment camps, where they would spend the next 2 years trying...

When we think of the relationship the United States has with Japan today, our first thoughts usually go to their cuisine, technology, pop culture such as anime, and traditions that could be considered the exact opposite of our own. Many of those things have managed...

Prior to World War 2 women had their basic household duties, clean, cook, take care of kids. These and other various activities were done by mostly women in that time period. But this could not last forever, something was bound to happen to make a...

Introduction Images always seem to make arguments to either narrow down to a specific idea or ideas or even point of views to be able to influence others that may be viewing, whether it’d be through a mural, photograph, or even a propaganda. For instance,...

The Allied strategic bombing is a controversial subject, when discussing its importance. It’s hard to say whether it achieved the plans of those who were overlooking it. While it did destroy German morale, it didn’t completely, but what it did do was open doors to...

Allied strategic bombing played an undeniably significant role in the defeat of Germany in WW2, however did not fully achieve its aims until towards the end of the war in 1944. Although immoral, allied strategic bombing terrorised civilian populations, achieving its aim of damaging morale....