POSTWAR: A Global History of the Second World War's Legacy

This is the Kompaund Steam Engine. This steam engine and the many others like it were instrumental in Soviet History. Before railroads and efficient steam engines much of Russia was completely rural, and not easily accessible. The introduction of such steam engines and the many miles of railroad allowed for people, and more importantly raw … Continue reading Importance of Early Steam Engines and Railways

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Fighting through Peace

Nuclear Surgery: Post-War Japan

Reconstruction Europe: The Victor’s Burden

Capitalizing on the Holocaust

Post-Empire Morality

Selective Amnesia

The fact that World War Two was a brutal, costly, total war campaign is well-known to even some of the youngest historians still in grade schools across the United States and aboard, with topics from the European, North African, and Pacific theaters covered in units, semester- and year-long classes. What is much more rarely discussed, […]

In 1948, after six decades of waves of immigration, or aliyah,  from Europe to the British Mandate in Palestine by the Jewish population, the Jewish Agency, which had been functioning as the government for the Jewish population in Palestine, declared the independence of the Jewish state of Israel, claiming the territory of Palestine as the territory […]

Several decades before World War Two, a movement began in Europe among its Jewish population known as Zionism, which believed that the Jewish people were a separate one, and had the need for a state to govern the Jewish nation within it. This came as a result of the rampant antisemitism in Europe at the …

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Following the destruction of World War Two, the European continent needed to be rebuilt almost in its entirety, however, due to the enormous costs of the war that had just concluded, Europe was largely unable to fund these reconstruction efforts, and indeed it appeared that recovery from the war would take years, if not decades …

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In early August, 1945, the United States deployed two nuclear bombs against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all but obliterating the cities and large parts of their populations, with survivors scarred mentally, emotionally, and physically for the rest of their lives. While the debate about the deployment of nuclear weapons is somewhat complex …

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After World War Two, millions of people across Europe had lost their homes due to combat, capture, conscription, or outright removal throughout the war, including hundreds of thousands of children. These people, searching for their homes, wondering if they had homes to return to, were labelled as “displaced persons,” or DPs, and this also applied …

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Christopher Jackson Displaced Persons The common theme for these articles involves people being displaced. This displacement was a result of war and the after affects. War has always been troublesome in the past and even to this very day. These articles however focus on the after math of World War II and its effect on …

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A Holocaust and a massacre are ideas that have been intrinsically imbued into the social conscious of our society. No serious conversation about these topics can be had without emotionally charged rhetoric emerging and for good reason. The 1900s produced some of the most horrific displays of human violence and destruction that the world has …

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