Essays on Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill’s Iron of Curtain speech has been seen in retrospect as one of the first signs of the oncoming Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. In this speech Churchill lays out why he believes that in the wake of the Second World War, Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe was causing a deep divide in the continent and ultimately something much more significant a clash of two global powers for preeminence in the second half of the twentieth century. This speech was one of the most important moments of the twentieth century and it ...

In the history there were various different leaders, which had a very good leadership qualities and leadership styles. The Athenian statesman Pericles is known by its democratic leadership style. He made sure to restrict the office and public distribution in order to make all accountable under the law. Under the democratic rule the freedom of investment as well as trade was accomplished. The leader in the 5th century BC made sure the traditional Greek culture was valued within the economic flourishing with other nations (Buckley, 1996). He was a factual leader with popular policies since he supported education, and ...

The Cold War: Who Shot First?

After the devastation caused by WWII, two of the world's superpowers that emerged after this world war entered into what is commonly referred to as the Cold War. Based on this week’s lesson, I think the it was the Soviet Union that initially started the war. There are people who claimed that the conflict between the US and the USSR was ignited mainly because of the rivalry. However, a closer examination of the events that occurred after the Second World War indicated that USSR caused the initiation of the Cold War. The then US President Franklin Roosevelt has ...

The study of various aspects of the history of contacts between the East and the West in the political, economic and cultural fields contributes to both the development of science and the improvement of mutual understanding and beneficial cooperation between the two civilizations. Implicitly such issues carry immense political relevance. Nowadays, when the questions of self-determination of nations with looming prospects of gaining sovereignty by a large section of public entities, when political leaders often refuse to compromise, it seems timely to apply the lessons of the past. In other words, it is very important to identify what price ...

Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is the king. This saying was proved right during the 20th century. Charismatic, patriotic, and courageous leaders rose to make people realize what in their opinion was right or wrong. The charismatic leaders used many ways to express their views including giving speeches to the public. Winston Churchill is one of the leaders who would not give in during the difficult times, and he used speech to outline his views. Among the greatest speeches by Churchill was the “Iron Curtain Speech.” The speech had a great message to the people ...

There is a common misconception fostered by many Britons that with the growing diversity and the growing influence of globalization in the country Great Britain has become a classless society. This myth is further reinforced by the proclamations made by different political dignitaries like former British Prime Minister John Major who expressed the desire to create a 'classless society of opportunity' after he came into power back in 1990s (Lewis, 2013). Not only John Major, another Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair also proclaimed in his speech in 1999 that "the class war is over" (Marsden, 1999). But in ...

Lasting from 1946 until 1991, the Cold War was the longest of the 20th century s many wars and in many ways the most complicated. The last four links above document aspects of the initial phase the drawing of lines in the sand, so to speak and allow us to see something of the atmosphere of the immediate postwar years. In early 1946 George Kennan wrote a close analysis of Soviet aims and methods of achieving those aims and proposed a multi-phased strategy for the United States. 

The timeline in the first link above provides headings and a list of significant events. ...

Impact of Technology on the Military

Impact of Technology on the Military The American civil war was fought from 1861 to 1865 in many different locations around the USA. Approximately, six hundred thousand soldiers died in the war. In that war between the Union and confederacy, it was the union states that won the battle. The secession of the southern states was due to the differences in ideologies between the slave and free states (Lovelace, 1997). The major forms of weapons used during the American civil war were smoothbore cannons, rifled cannons; crude forms of grenades, and ironclads were also used for naval battles. ...

Introduction

The paper is a review of the writings of Kenneth waltz and Alexander Wendt. The two differ in the approach of discussing the anarchical realms of the world. They agree on the use of force as a method of survival for the states. Thesis Statement The main argument of the paper is the contention that anarchy is relative a states. The paper takes the social constructivism approach is discussing anarchy in the world. International political arena is equated to a jungle where there are no rules.

Body

The paper delves into the discussion of the three principles of political structures ...

Impact of Technology on the Military

The American civil war was fought from 1861 to 1865 in many different locations around the USA. Approximately, six hundred thousand soldiers died in the war. In that war between the Union and confederacy, it was the union states that won the battle. The secession of the southern states was due to the differences in ideologies between the slave and free states. The major forms of weapons used during the American civil war were smoothbore cannons, rifled cannons; crude forms of grenades and ironclads were also used for naval battles. The cold war conflict in Korea started in ...

Adolf Hitler started writing Mein Kampf- My Struggle- while in jail. The book discusses his childhood, aspirations, and the internal conflicts arising from his father’s expectations of him following his footsteps to become part of the civil service. As a child, Hitler did not feel challenged with school; however, he aspired to be an artist or painter but his father is not pleased about it. He gained interest in history; he started to study about the Germany-Austria history. Hitler studied Karl Marx and Jewish race theories, his hatred for the Jews starts to grow. In the book, it is ...

Introduction

History of the Ottoman Empire is saturated with different thrilling events. The release of David Lean's movie “Lawrence of Arabia” made it possible for the general audience to see how the British Empire campaigned during World War I to achieve independence for the Arab countries from the Ottoman Empire. The movie, however, does not answer the question why the British troops supported the Arabs and why the Turkish chose Germans at their allies. The movie also does not explain what the mission of Lawrence of Arabia in the deserts was. Other prominent authors have widely speculated on the themes ...

Cultural reception and understanding have resulted in the birth of classical mythology where various cultures use and understand various myths. Romans and Greeks are the most synonymous with myths although almost each and every society has their own. Mythology has survived antiquities within the western culture over time. In the contemporary world, they are studied wildly especially in the literary world. With the advancement of time, new and ingenious ways of understanding and utilizing mythology have been devised. For instance, this essay uses Greek mythology especially about Hermes to paint out Churchill Winston in the light of a god. The ...

Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is an important aspect in the evaluation and analysis of any type of communication which forms part of our daily encounters. Therefore there is a need for a keen analysis and evaluation of the concepts that form a complete and fully functional communication system. In this paper, a memo written by the vice president of a company is going to be analyzed drawing information and reference from a multi-step method developed by Browne and Keeley in their book, “Asking the Right Questions: A guide to Critical Thinking.

What are the issue and conclusions?

The main issue in the Memo is raised by the Vice President of the Human Resource ...

It is important to observe the times when allegations of witchcraft happened to understand the stories of the Salem witch trials. In January of year 1692 in Salem Village, Reverend Samuel Parris’ daughter and niece became ill. When they did not get well, William Griggs, who is the village doctor, was called. Griggs’ findings of bewitchment caused the power that would eventually become grounds for death punishment by hanging of nineteen women and men. Aside from that, a man was then crushed to death, and seven other men died while in prison, and the lives of many people were ...

Spanning the years from 1940 to 1965, the story in the last lion commences shortly after Winston Spencer Churchill became the prime minister. This is the time when his tiny island nation stood in solitude against the overwhelming power of the Nazi Germany. As conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid, Churchill was a man of lighting fast intellect, indomitable courage, and an irresistible will to action. The thesis of the author is built around the brilliant recount of how Churchill organized his nation’s military response and defense, and personified the so called never surrender ethos. He compelled ...

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Abstract This essay broadly narrates the incidents post World War 2 leading up to the Cold War, how United States of America responded to the events of Cold War and the domestic developments in the United States of America during Cold War years. Post the Second World War; the cold war in the following decades can be summarized as the fight between democratic forces of the United States of America and the communist forces of Russia to establish Global supremacy in all spheres of life including governance, military and technology. On the February 4th, 1945 with ...

Compare and Contrast the Speeches of Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and F. D. Roosevelt

Introduction

Throughout history, there have been many notable speeches given by leaders of various causes and political parties. These speeches are meant to convey a message to the listeners about the goals and ideas that the speaker seeks to accomplish while in a leadership role. As different significant events may have been taking place at that time in history, the speeches are given for different reasons. The leaders that gave the speeches employ some of the same tactics. Additionally, their methods of speaking to their listeners can be ...

Foundation Course –

Winston Churchill, finding a way through I. Introduction to Winston Churchill Who is Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (November 30, 1874 –January 24, 1965) was a British statesman, better known as the most prominent of the prime ministers of the United Kingdom. People remember Churchill for his priceless contribution to the struggle for peace during the Second World War. But at various times of his life, Churchill was a soldier, author, journalist, painter and politician. Still his achievements as a strong leader in the world history are always put in the first place. Though Churchill is sometimes considered a reactionary on several ...

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The Cold War: Its Origin and Effects

The Cold War that dates from 1947 to 1991 refers to the relationship that existed between the United States of America (USA) and the Soviet Union (also known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)) after the World War 2. It began after the two had a short-lived wartime alliance against the Nazi Germany, which left the USA and Soviet Union as two superpowers with distinct political and economic differences. An English author and journalist George Orwell coined the name “Cold War” in his essay, “You and the Atomic Bomb” published in the British newspaper Tribune on ...

Abstract

This paper will reflect on the freedom on the speech on how it affects democracy. It will give a brief history of what freedom of speech is. It will also address how the freedom of speech contributes to society.

Main Body

Freedom of speech is a constitution right that protects to speak their mind and express their opinions through words spoken or word written. This contributes to democracy governance in countless ways and is critical. The freedom of speech gives an individual the ability to stand up. If people or person does not like an event or an organization that is happening, ...

The Gallipoli campaign in the year 1915, involved an invasion by the British forces alongside the French forces into Dardanelles, the northwestern part of Turkey with the hope of taking control of the strait in the area. The naval operation failed miserably leading to heavy casualties in the process. A detailed exploration of the reasons why the amphibious assault went wrong can be ascertained when examined in the light of the Marine Corps philosophy as embodied in the MCDP-1manual. The Manual provides the philosophy which defines the U.S Marine Corps and acts as an authoritative document for indicating how ...

In the months following the Second World War, the United States and Soviet Union could be considered to be allies as they both shared in the victory over Adolf Hitler and his Nazi kingdom. This friendship soon became enemy territory really fast when they got locked in a struggle for prevalence in the new “Cold War.” What would turn out to be the Cold War started off as tensions between the then ‘Big Three’ allied leaders on coordination of strategy. These various issues sky-rocketed border disputes settlement, creation of the United Nations and post-war occupations of Japan and Germany. However ...

The Battle of the Atlantic is known to be the longest military campaign. It took place during the world war II starting from 1939 to 1945 when the Germany was defeated. The Battle of the Atlantic involved U-boats as well as other warships of the German Army (Kriegsmarine) and German Air Force (aircraft of the Luftwaffe) which fought against the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, and merchant shipping considered being allies of the three. The convoys from North America to United Kingdom and other parts like Soviet Union were greatly protected by the Canadian and British navies in conjunction ...

Attack at Mers-el-Kébir The Second World War can be considered one of the deadliest wars in history especially in its early years as both the Allied and Axis Powers tried to subdue each other despite the losses it may incur due to the crossfire from both parties. Despite recovering from the first World War, the Europeans fought the growing fellow European state Germany with the United States while its allies Japan and Italy were also making their own attacks against the Allied Powers. While some of the most notable confrontations had paved the way to the end ...

"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards, our dwellings shape us", so says Winston Churchill (Drmardy.com) in the House of Commons in 1944. Although he said this in various different ways, sometimes referring to "dwellings" as "buildings", this statement has made a profound impact on how much I wanted to be an archaeologist. I share Churchill's view that buildings, or any forms of art or architecture, initially assume the characteristics of the maker. Soon enough, when complete, the makers adopt the meanings the creation depicts. This is exactly what happened to me with the appreciation I have for the Arts. Thus, ...

1). Plato would agree to Winston Churchill’s famous proclamation because Plato had already witnessed ignorance and irrationality of the demos, or voters, during the Peloponnesian War, who had voted for disastrous campaigns and for the execution of Socrates. According to Plato, democracy cannot work because of the demos. Knowledge and understanding to an ample extent is necessary for a good government, and competent demos are necessary for democracy. Based on his agreements, Plato would argue that demos rarely make rational decisions, that most ordinary people are just not capable of governing themselves by pursuing serious education. Plato believed that a ...

The need and desire to strengthen democracy and justice has led to the expansion of civic engagement. This is after along period of loosely defined civic movements that were promoted, to some extent, by leading figures such as Karl Marx, Derek Douglas, Sir Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Che Guevara and Mahatma Gandhi. The civic engagement processes are driven by the principles of engaging the whole society in deliberative dialogues with the main aim of community building. It is through deliberative dialogues that activities promoting peaceful coexistence in the society can be nurtured based on the foundation of conscious ...

The cold war referred to the progressive state of military and political tension between the western World spear headed by America and its NATO allies and the Communist world led by Soviet Union and its allies. The cold war so named because it never featured any direct military action. However, they both threatened each other with nuclear attack and both fully participated in proxy wars through supporting the so called allied nations.

The origins of the cold war began with uncertainty and mistrust between the West and the Eastern blocks countries in Europe. The objective of the Russians was ...

Introduction

Winston Churchill roared like a lion when Britain needed him most. During his long career, he held many positions and was a very accomplished civil servant. He graduated with honors at the Royal Military college of Sandhurst in the year 1984. Later he saw action in India, Egypt, Cuba, Sudan, World War 1 and in history, he even took charge in one of the last Cavalries of Britain.

Discussion

At the age of twenty-five, Winston Churchill represented his people in parliament and began his career as a public official in upper house. Privately he Churchill was a scholar, painter, reader, journalist, author and a correspondent ...

The first suggestion states that “the United Nations Organisation [sic] must immediately equip itself with an international armed force; meaning it should have an army comprising of members of the nations that make up the organization. This type of armed force would be a step by step process; nonetheless, it is imperative for an instant imitation. He recommended that the United Nations Organization should meet and delegate a number “of air squadrons to the service of the world organization [sic].”

Although these squadrons would receive their training and preparation in their own countries, they would rrotate around the different countries. They ...

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was one of the most important figures of the Twentieth Century, leading Great Britain to victory alongside the allied forces against Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and the early 1940s. His diaries have long since been the subject of in-depth analysis and it has been discussed from these that he may well have been a sufferer of Bipolar Disorder, and at the very least, Depression (Mountain, 2003, p3). In spite of this significant setback, Churchill proved himself to be the greatest leader that the United Kingdom has ever seen and remains to this day, an icon of ...

Subsequent to the entrance in into World War I by the Ottoman Empire, the then first Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Winston Churchill constructed a plan for raiding the Dardanelles (Gallipoli). Employing the Royal Navy ships, Churchill considered, partly owing to faulty intelligence, that the channels could be forced through, creating the way for an on spot attack on Constantinople. This arrangement was endorsed and many Royal Navy's battleships were reassigned to the Mediterranean. Actions against the Dardanelles started on February 19, 1915, Admiral Sir Sackville Carden British ships bombing Turkish resistances with small result (Gillam 56). A subsequent ...

The Cold War

The cold war was a period when there was a protracted struggle between the United States and the Soviet immediately after the Second World War. The war was not physical per se, but an ideological, economic and geopolitical struggle which witnessed each country being supported by different allies depending on the ideologies they stood for. The cold war lasted until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The confrontation was called the cold war because there was no direct hostility between the two major super powers at that time that is the US and the Soviet Union. Instead, the war ...