LHA History Society

Welcome to Issues of the Twentieth Century, an ongoing project of the the Grade XI-Twentieth Century History Class of LaurenHill Academy. This project began in 1996 as a normal research initiative consistent with the requirements of the course. In the spring of 2001, it expanded into a web based project with the help of a grant from Canada's Schoolnet GrassRoots Program.

Many thanks to the Twentieth Century Class of 2000-2001, the first Class of the Twenty First Century

Some of the projects posted here are standard research type essays. Others are more web oriented study aides.

The Main Cause of World War One

• Build it and They Will Use It by Debbie Inniss [LHA `98]
• The Corrosion They Call Nationalism by Mandeep Dhillon [LHA `98]
• The Main Cause, by David Klein [LHA '99]
• The Main Cause, by Stephen Kwong [LHA '99]
• The Main Cause, by Stacie Maier [LHA '99]
• Deadly Alliances with War, by Rajen Patel [LHA '03]

On other issues relating to World War One

• The Faliure of Peace, 1919 by Wendell Leitner [LHA 98]
• The Failure of Peace by Nancy Chui [LHA `98]
• The Russian Revolution by Chloe Zidel [LHA `98]
• A Never Ending War by Christina Gattuso [LHA `00]
• France's Fears after World War I by David Carozza [LHA `01]
• Late for the Century: How World War One Marks the 'True Beginning of the Twentieth Century by Daniel Corber [LHA '06]

 Issues Relating to World War Two 

• The Necessary Evil by Robie Praw [LHA `97]
• The Turning Point of World War Two, by Chris Parker [LHA '99]
• Should the US have used the Atomic Bomb? by Heather Hall [LHA '99]
• Accounting for the long peace after World War Two by Kevin Cogland [LHA `01]
• The Rise of Nazism in Germany by Reesa Packard [LHA '02]
• The Atomic Bomb by Matthew Pizzicarola [LHA '04]
• Mushrooms of War by Fariduddin Rifai [LHA '04]

 The most important change in the Twentieth Century,  

• The Ball-point Pen: The Significant Small Achiever by Basil Teebi [LHA `97]
• Barbie:Now and Then by Wendy Kaufman [LHA `97]
• The Scarlet Beast by Richard Burian [LHA `97]
• Straight Laced Architecture by Heather Hall [LHA `99]
• Can't Live Without my Cell Phone by Matrona Mavrakis [LHA `99]
• Let Us Pray -- Not! by Andrea Elder [LHA `99]
• We're Listening! by Catherine Tsouvaltsidis[LHA '02]
• A Century of Change by Stephanie Gabos [LHA '04]

 Significant Figures of the Twentieth Century,  

• Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, by Stephanie Douranos [LHA `00]
• Charles De Gaulle by Melissa Wiebe [LHA`01]
• Joseph Stalin by David Carozza [LHA `01]
• General Douglas MacArthur by Tiffany Wong [LHA `01]
• Working Class Hero by Reesa Packard [LHA '02]
• Margaret Sanger by Mehek Mehta [LHA '03]
• Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement by Kevin Galise [LHA '05]

  Issues in Twentieth Century Asia 

• The War in Vietnam , by Pang Tralong [LHA 02]
• Communism in China (1920 - 1939), by Thomas Lee [LHA `00]
• A web site on Japan's Role in World War II, by Michael Ya [LHA `01]
• Japan's Role in World War II, by Ridhim Mehta [LHA `01]

 Other Issues of the Twentieth Century,  

• Gangsterism in the United States in the 1920's, by Niki Batzakis [LHA '02]
• The Causes of the Spanish Civil War, by David Carozza [LHA `01]
• Lessons not Learned , by Emma LeGault [LHA 02]
• Try these links for more information on the Spanish Civil War
• Triumph of her Will-The Life and Times of Leni Riefenstahl by Mat Perron [LHA '02]
• Comparing the 1920's to the 1950's by Niki Batzakis [LHA '02]
• The Post-War Decades, by Ann Korkidakis [LHA '03]
• The Cold War in Outer Space by Catherine Tsouvaltsidis [LHA '02]
• Causes of the Cold War by Lauren van den Berg [LHA '03]
• The Gulf War by Athar Mohammed [LHA '03]
• Hedonism in the 1920's by Annie Harroch [LHA '04]
• Credere, Obbedire, Combattere By Carol Te [LHA '06]

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