Inearly April 1917, with the toll in sunken U.S. merchant ships and civilian casualties rising, Wilson asked Congress for “a war to end all wars” that would “make the world safe for democracy.” A hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, Congress thus voted to declare war on Germany,...
Leonid Brezhnev’s dilemma The Prague Spring created a significant dilemma for Brezhnev for a number of reasons. He considered Dubcek a friend. Dubcek had made no move to leave the Warsaw Pact – unlike Nagy in Hungary – or damage the USSR. On the other hand ……. Fear that the Prague ...
The opposition to the persecution of the unfortunate Captain Alfred Dreyfus (who was Jewish) by Emile Zola in France is sometimes quoted but Zola was primarily an advocate of French naturalism, which was a form of physical determinism -- rather at odds with the usual Leftist view of man as ...
However, after the Victorian era ended and Modernism started, the modern literature’s influence (I believe) was WW1 and WW2. When you read “Gone with the Wind” and read about people like Ashley Wilkes, you begin to question the purpose of fighting wars. They have always written of ...