History essay samples

The great depression was a period of economic downtown that affected North America, Europe and other industrialized countries between 1929 and 1933. It is noted to have started in America but spread faster to other parts of world. This is longest depression to affect the industrialized nations in ... Read more »

Algerian war implied to the conflict that involved the movements of independence in Algerians and France which took place between the years 1954 and 1962. The end analysis after the war was the gaining of independence in Algeria from France. This therefore implies that the war was a decolonization ... Read more »

America had stayed out of World War II until the Japanese killed thousands of Americans in an attack at Pearl Harbor. It was after the attack that America joined the World War II to battle it out with the Japanese and the Germans. The Japanese controlled the war until the Americans dropped two ... Read more »

The constitution of Japan was propagated on 3rd Nov, in the year 1946 and put into effect on 3rd May in the year 1997. Both American Constitution and the Government had a significant influence on the enactment process of the Post War Constitution. It is frequently known as the Mac Arthur ... Read more »

What forms did human beings’ interactions with the supramundane realm (including gods, spirits, ancestors, natural forces, and Heaven) take and who were the human agents of this interaction from the Shang dynasty to the Period of Disunion that followed the Han? Do you see any patterns or ... Read more »

Racism refers to the belief that a certain racial group is superior or inferior to another, which causes them to be discriminated against based on their various inherent traits (Shah, 2010). Racism has a very long history in the society, infiltrating every aspect of our lives. It is unfortunate ... Read more »

War had significant effect on twentieth-century London. Massive changes occurred in the spheres of economy, industry as well as in the social class structure of the city. These changes have caused long-term effects and have played a crucial role in the marking the beginning of a new era in the ... Read more »

In many years, the Chinese have had great innovations that have helped to bring about major technological developments and globalization all together. The four major innovations by the Chinese consisted of compass, gunpowder, printing and paper. The innovations took place in a number of the ... Read more »

Stuart B. Schwartz in his work Colonial Identities and the Sociedad de Castas emphasizes such concepts as “race” and “class” tracing their functional influences on the multi-racial and multi-ethnic societies of colonial Latin America.Also, the researcher makes attempts to ... Read more »

Globalization entails amalgamation of different universal ideas, economies and cultures and it involves information technology and industrialization. Globalization as a concept has become more defined in the 21st century but it can be traced back to earlier centuries especially during the 19th ... Read more »

The decision made by the U.S. to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War remains one of the extremely controversial issues in Japanese history (Compton 2002, p. 54). Pellegrino (2010, p. 15) indicates that the bombing of these cities is ... Read more »

“Japan before Perry”, is a short history by Conrad Totman. The book explores the history of Japan. It mainly focuses on Japanese civilization as well as its origin. More specifically, the book analyses themes and patterns of Japanese society in various successive ages. Such ages include ... Read more »

Journalism is a wide practice that involves investigation of issues, actions, and events to the audience. The audience is made aware of the situation at hand thus widening its understanding of societal matters. Journalism is a practice that has evolved through the years globally. Various writers ... Read more »

This essay will be organized into three main parts: Introduction, body and the conclusion. The Introduction is a brief cross sectional look into the history of British’s invasion of Ireland. It is in the main body that the essay captures the works of Theobald in relation to Ireland ... Read more »

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a present conflict that has been there between Israel and Palestine. The conflict reaches far and wide. Its history dates back to the times of conflict between the Jewish and the Arab people of Palestine under the British rule. It is also a part of the larger ... Read more »

The Ashikaga era in Japan happened in the years 1336 to 1573, and marked the governance of the Ashikaga Shogunate or the Muromachi. This period was known as the Ashikaga period or the Muromachi period. The governance of the Ashikaga ahogunate was formally established in the year 1338. During the ... Read more »

Marxism is the most intriguing alternative vision in this chapter. This was developed by Marx and Friedrich Engels. For them, history moved through the following stages: feudalism, capitalism, socialism to communism respectively. They came up with “scientific socialism”, which was ... Read more »

But aggression intensified between Mexico and Texas. It was at a level where none could turn back. Polk had not even got the approval of the congress to go to war but he announced war. Thus this was propaganda that the Mexican troops had spilled American blood on American soil as spread by on of ... Read more »

The first units of the US military faced the enemy in the Pacific Theater. The Japanese forces coupled their attacks on the Pearl Harbor. This was mainly by assaulting the American airbases in the Philippines. They used air strikes that were destructive in the attack which commenced on December 22, ... Read more »

The Peloponnesian war refers to a fight that occurred between the Athenian empire and the Peloponnesian. The attack was initiated and led by Sparta. The war has been split into three distinct phases by various historians. The phases are the Archidamian War (or first phase), the Peloponnese Fight ... Read more »

Raphael Lemkin is the figure behind the start of the genocide conventions. He is the person behind the invention of the term genocide. This was well detailed in his book on the imperialism of the Nazi’s, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. The origin stretches far much back. He came up with three ... Read more »

Even after the deadly revolution in France, the King who took power in France set up laws that favoured the rich at the expense of the weak in the society, up to the time when he was overthrown through a revolution. The third republic was set up to restore the lost rights, which the France citizens ... Read more »

Capitalism is a social and an economic system in which the land and capital, means of production or non-labor factors of production are owned by individuals (privately owned). This means that the labor, goods and other resources are traded in the market with the aim of making profit. The profit is ... Read more »

Home protection was advocated for in the US which came as a result of the request of forbidding liquor which led to the considerable irresponsible behaviors in marriage. A more elaborate method of politics and economy-related issues was put in a place where a democratic right to vote was ... Read more »

It is unclear as to what is the cause of the ongoing Syrian protest. Some argue that is largely due to the unrest in the neighboring Arab world that caught on in Syria. Others claim that the protests began after children in Daraa, a Syrian city, endured torture after reportedly writing anti- It is ... Read more »

The battle of New Orleans took place on 8th January 1815. The battle was the greatest final battle of the war of 1812(Howell 1886). In this battle, the United States’ side won against the British. This battle is the greatest American land victory of a war. This paper will discuss the ... Read more »

More than 60 years since the independence of several African states, they are still seen as relying on its former colonies. It is worth noting that several African countries have been depending on their former colonies. Statistics illustrates that this has been caused by the increasing levels of ... Read more »

The Russian economy is ranked as the sixth largest by purchasing power parity and the eleventh largest economy in the world by the nominal value. Russia has rich reserves of natural oil, coal, gas, as well as other valuable metals. Soon after the Second World War as well as the collapse of the ... Read more »

The emancipation proclamation of 1863 was one of the most important decrees issued by the president of the United States. That single declaration set the United States on a path to full integration of her people, and laid the foundation for the success that the nation now enjoys. Life during the ... Read more »

In the article “The German Peasant Rebellion”, Steven traces the origin of the peasants’ war not only the economic and social reasons alone. He claims that the roots of the rebellion were intertwined in religious, political and legal problems other than socio-economic reasons ... Read more »

The great schism is widely believed to be a great rift that separated the church into two, Eastern Orthodox and Western Roman Catholic, during the period of the great Roman Empire. Nonetheless, the term cannot be conclusively examined without studying the subsequent rift that occurred in the Roman ... Read more »

It is crucial to note that people create organizations and firms in order to leverage their collective resources with an aim of pursuing common goals. Hart (2011) argues that as organizations and firms pursue these given goals, they interact with others within the larger context known as the ... Read more »

Developing a clear labor management systems have been an important tool for the effective management of work force, as well as continuous improvement of any given organizations. The need of labor management can be traced back to start of labor movements, where people came together to campaign for ... Read more »

The Holocaust was the period between January 30, 1933 and May 8, 1945, a time when Adolf Hitler was at the helm of Germany. The Holocaust is also referred to as Shoah in Hebrew. The Nazi Germany circulated propaganda that the Jews were responsible for the grievances of the Germans, so they made ... Read more »

During the development of Mesopotamia and Egyptian cultures, other cultures developed in Greece, Italy, Asia Minor coasts, in Cyprus, Crete, and the Cycladic Islands, and the Aegean Sea beaches (McNeese 56). However, the cultures that emerged to be the most developed are Minoan and Mycenaean ... Read more »

The Second World War occurred between the years 1939 and 1945. It is often referred to as the “total world war” since it pitted the whole worlds against each other. Britain and her allies formed the allied forces while Germany and her allies formed the axis forces. It is the roles that ... Read more »

World War I was among the challenging moment in the history of America. As much as United States had a stable government, the war would have destroyed the nation if it were not for the progressive reforms. The war brought division of people in their ethnic groups, economic classes and their line of ... Read more »

The Second World War is no doubt a war of its own kind in history of human conflict. It involved many people and killed many people. The war involved participants from various parts of the world but concentrated most of its activities in the Europe, Far East and North Africa. The Second World War ... Read more »