Adolf Hitler wasn't always a cold-hearted dictator. He, believe it or not, was a regular little boy who rose to a monster. He was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunua, Austria. He was the fourth child of Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. His father was a very strict man and demanded the highest respect f...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler were both very powerful men, yet at the same time they were from two different worlds and two completely different men. The one thing they did have in common was that they were the leaders of their country. Although Hilter was a sadistic dictator who almost too...

Freedom in a World of Conformity (The Matrix)John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill and Pierre Elliot Trudeau were visionaries of the free world that drew the populace into their dreams. These great leaders did not have to thrive off conformists or tell their followers how to act, function and behave. ...

Winston ChurchillOne of the most famous and loved men on the allied power side was Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill's full name was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. He was born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England on November 30, 1874. Churchill was the oldest son. His father was Lor...

Political Life before World War II Churchill assumed the position of prime minister in 1940, a few daysafter the German army pushed into Belgium and Holland. Though he was onlyappointed after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Churchill was by nomeans a newcomer to warfare or public servi...

D-Day, June 6 1944.Air-Power: Significant or not?A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: "I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself int...

D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: "I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself i...

D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: "I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself i...

The tank, together with the airplane, opened up modern warfare, which had been immobilized and stalemated by the use of rifled guns. It was developed by the British and first employed in World War I in the battle of Flers-Courcellette, on the Somme (Sept., 1916), but it was used piecemeal, without ...