Ally Sheedy

The Darkest Hour presents the British government during World War II and how Winston Churchill became a significant player in winning the war and saving many soldiers from Dunkirk. The movie is a partial biography of Winston Churchill, personality interpreted by Gary Oldman, who also won an Oscar as the best leading role. The movie shows different sides of the same character. Winston travels from an angry and indelicate personality from an understanding and feverous leader one by the end of the…

The Great War or First World War broke out on 28th July 1914. It took more than nine millions combatants and seven millions civilian’s lives. Many intellectuals of the time grieved over the catastrophe and expressed their views, trying to analyze the possible causes of such a great and unprecedented catastrophe. In Lenin’s words The war is a product of half a century of development of world capital and of its billons of threads and connections. It is impossible to escape from the imperialistic…

Soviet Union entered WW2 On September 1st, 1939, the World War II started by Germany's attack to Poland. The World War II ended on September 2nd, 1945 by Japanese's surrender. Soviet Union entered the World War II on June 22nd, 1941, and joined Allies. I believe there are three reasons to support why Soviet Union entered the World War II. These three reasons are Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, want more territories, and Hitler attacked Soviet Union. The first reason is that on 23 August 1939,…

The Great War In 1914, an assassin’s bullet initiated a series of events which swiftly engulfed nearly all of Europe in armed conflict. Eventually, a majority of the nations of Europe allied themselves with one of two alliances. One alliance, the Triple Entente, originally consisted of France, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Empire, whereas the other alliance, the Central Powers, included Germany and Austria-Hungary. The equity of the two alliances prolonged the war over several years…

The invasion of Normandy was one of, if not the most important victory the allies ever had during World War II. With this victory, the United States, British and Canadian forces began pushing inland towards Germany to suffocate Hitler and his forces from the West while Stalin and his troops attacked from the East. Without this victory in Northern France, Europe and the rest of the world could look much differently than it does today. The plan for an offensive to attack Germany by crossing the…

Gold beach is between Port-en-Bessin and La Riviera. Dangerous cliffs at the west of the beach meant landings had to be under taken on the eastern side. The British 50th Division was tasked to capture the beach and move west to capture Arromanches and connect with American forces at Omaha. Then reinforcements would land safely into Normandy. In command of the beach was Major-General Douglas Graham, he was supported by the 8th armoured brigade. They were against parts of the 352nd infantry…

One early influential decision by Bradley was to recommend that Eisenhower take Major General Lloyd Frendendall out of command of II Corps due to their inadequate performance at Kasserine Pass. After conferring with Bradley, Eisenhower replaced Frendendall with George Patton and assigned Bradley to be the corps deputy commanding general. When Patton left in April of 1943 to continue with plans in Sicily, Bradley assumed command of the corps. While they had gained a renewed sense of confidence…

and around Italy from 1943-1945 According to Webster's Dictionary a crusade is "a military operation for a particular target." The Italian Campaign was a progression of fights that occurred in and around Italy amid WWII from 1943 to 1945. After the Allies won in North Africa they chose to continue going in their development. They began with the attack of Sicily in July of 1943. It was a Canadian, American and British attack and occurred by both sky and water. Sicily Campaign, caught in two…

On June 4, 1940 (The Churchill Centre), war in Europe had been raging for eight dreary months and the House of Commons had met to discuss the war. Operation Dynamo, which was the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, had happened on May 26, bringing over 338,000 men to safety with the help of the Royal Air Force (The Churchill Centre). Even though they had managed this small victory, Germany had taken over much of Europe in this short amount of time and people were fearing that even Great Britain…

armaments and the travel to foreign nations that were in war. President Franklin Roosevelt’s goal in the speech was to get the Neutrality Acts dropped so the Untied States could become involved in the war. With the Untied States able to help the Allies in the war by bringing supplies. But overall the Four Freedoms speech was a key factor that got the United States involved in World War…