The Long and Short-Term Causes of WW2

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Ulysses S. Grant led a six-week and massive three-pronged Union Army offensive now known as the Overland Campaign, intended to crush Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army, while capturing the rebel capital at Richmond before sweeping farther south toward Atlanta.

Leopold and Loeb were intelligent sons of wealthy families in Chicago but decided to use their intellligence to commit a self-described “perfect crime.” Far from perfect, the murder of Bobby Franks was quickly solved, leading to confessions by Leopold and Loeb.

The Second Middle Passage was the exchange of slaves from the upper south to the lower south as cotton overshadowed tobacco production. Many of the slaves sold during this period would be separated from their families.

James Dean was a struggling actor in Hollywood working as a parking lot attendant before starring in three popular films released within a two-year period, leading to two posthumous Academy Award nominations.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags were both publicly criticized in the south for their part in the post Civil War reconstruction era. Carpetbaggers were northern opportunists looking to fill the slave labor gap and Scalawags were southern whites that supported civil rights.

The Brusilov Offensive was led by Russian General Aleksei Brusilov and was intended to divert Germany’s troops from Verdun. Beginning on June 4th, 1916, the summer offensive would cost nearly 2 million lives, one of the deadliest military events in history.

Ernest Hemingway was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning author who served in both World Wars, lived a life of adventure, and ultimately committed suicide in 1961.