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

    When asked to envision 1950s America, many today would picture a two to three story home, a white mother and father with 2 children, a dog, and a white picket fence. The family is middle class, the father works nine to five, and the mother takes care of the home. This is the … Continue reading →

After the end of World War One, a new governing body was put into place in order to prevent future wars. This was known as the League of Nations and their policies stayed in effect from 1918 until 1940 when it failed from preventing the world from going to war again. It was not until …

Continue reading “No Backbone: Failures of Human Rights”

World War Two was the war that spawned the Human Rights movement into what it is today.  The gross violations of Human Rights committed by the Nazi’s before and during the war sparked the flame behind this movement.  This movement also led to the influential Family of Man photo gallery which show cased human rights […]

  World War II made human rights an issue that the West believed it was their duty to get behind.  The terrible human rights violations by Hitler and the German Nazi regime were so horrific that even the US and … Continue reading →

We have heard it all of our lives that there are some inalienable rights that all humans have, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The reality is that this has not been true throughout history and, to some extend, remains untrue today. The question of human rights has not always been what …

Continue reading “Human Rights and the Family of Man”

Christopher Jackson The Family of Man Human rights simple sounding and at first glance some would say it is just common sense. These Human rights are supposedly inherited rights belonging to all human beings. This is regardless of nationality, sex, ethnic or racial origin, religion, or any other status. All human beings are said to …

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After World War II which had been preceded by the First World War, the “World” was ready to take a break from hostility. In the postwar period the United Nations was used to create the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 to prevent ethnic squabbles such as the ones that caused the war. […]

 (Two of the Hiroshima Maidens) After World War II, Europe and East Asia were under reconstruction as a result of massive destruction of infrastructure and, in the case of Japan, the atomic bombs. The U.S. played a major role in the reconstruction initiatives, specifically with economic policies, such as the U.S. Marshall Plan.   The …

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When I think of the end of WWII, images of confetti raining from the sky and soldiers riding on floats in victory parades pops into my mind. However, for the people of Hiroshima, Japan their world lay in ruin. The Continue reading Aftermath of the Atom Bomb→

  World War 2 brought destruction to many countries of the world, but none were affected quite as uniquely as the nation of Japan. The dropping of the atomic bombs completely changed history, and forced Japan to rehabilitate from an unprecedented event of immense destruction. This topic has led many historians to consider the ramifications … Continue reading →