i have 2 do a history project and the theme is "Triump and Tragedy", any ideas for me???

Question

thanks for all your suggestions!

srry because i seem 2 have upset some people the correct spelling of "trimp" would be "triumph" srry for my error. i suck at spelling

Answer 1

With a theme like that, you have one perfect choice, in my opinion.

Winston Churchill wrote a 6-volume history of World War II, and Volume 6, as I recall, was entitled "Triumph and Tragedy"!

Somewhere around here I have those books in paperback, but I'd really have to do some digging to find them. Anyway, his history was very famous, and those books should be easy to find in any library. Get your hands on Volume 6 and skim through it ... probably just through the Table of Contents for the first pass.

Although I don't have the book in front of me, I'm pretty sure it deals with the end of World War II, mostly in Europe. The "triumph" would be the Normandy Invasion (D-Day), the liberation of France, and the defeat of Germany.

The "tragedy" might be the devastation of Europe and the liberation of the Holocaust death camps.

Certainly the A-bomb will be in there too, and some stuff about the Eastern (Russian) front.

There will be more than enough material there (and from the internet) to do a great job on "triumph and tragedy". One thought is to pick and choose the WWII stuff, and add as part of the "tragedy" the establishment of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of the Cold War. That was a legacy of the war.

If I had your assignment, I'd certainly pick this topic, and I'd start with Churchill.

Answer 2

The history of flight would work, there are many tragic ends to some flights like the downed planes, 9/11, the plane over Lockobee Scotland, the space shuttle that blew up there are plenty of air tragedies throughout history).. the triumph side would be the advances in air travel, space travel, .. the advances in speed, making the world and its goods more within reach of the consumers... speed records.. the space station etc. (history also has many triumphs in flight stories as well) Lots of material for you to pick and choose from with this subject.

Answer 3

Napoleon
US in Iraq
Roman Empire
China under the Mongols
Tokugawa Japan
Great Britain in NA up to the American Revolution
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
National Socialists in Germany in the 1930s-40s

The list goes on and on. These are all examples of great triumphs that ultimately end in Tragedy.

have a nice day.

Answer 4

'Triumph and Tragedy' is actually the title of the final volume of Churchill's History of World War II. The triumph, of course, is the victory over the axis powers. The tragedy is that another power, the USSR, was allowed to subjugate a great part of Europe. This subjugation was actually a part of the Triumph of the allies. Churchill was very bitter about that, as he had opposed it, but hadn't felt he could oppose too strongly out of gratitude to the US president. Then much of his influence declined when he fell from power in Brittain, and he was no longer able to participate in the international arena.

Answer 5

Napoleon is one of the best examples of triumphing just to fall to tragedy, a tragedy of his own making no less. There's also great love story which helps push Napoleon to his tragic downfall.

His story really has it all, he comes up from nothing to become the King of France by using a hellva military mind; he just about conquered the whole world but in the end that is what brings him down. France tired of war turns against him, but not until after he gave up the love of his life, Josephine to marry a younger woman who could produce an heir to the throne. Check it out!

Answer 6

I would do Captain John Sutter. They found gold on his land and that started the California Gold Rush. That was his Tragedy, he didn't get any of the gold. Before the gold was discovered, he built a small empire in central california, and saved countless settlers as they struggled over the Sierra Nevadas to reach CA. In order to establish Fort Sutter, he had to escape debtor's prison in Switzlerland, trade along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails, sail to Hawaii in order to Sail to Sitka Alaska so that he could reach Monterey, CA. Establishing the Fort and making it a power base in California, that was his Triumph. Once the gold was found, his land was overrun with squatters, and he spent the rest of his life in genteel poverty trying to get restitution from the US Governement.

Answer 7

You could do a report on how Mary Tudor Ascended the throne.She had to overthrow her young cousin,Jane Grey[The nine day's Queen],who was merely a pawn.She triumphed in taking back the throne but she was forced to execute her cousin to keep her throne,which she really didn't want to do,thus a tragedy.

Answer 8

hahahah, when I first misread your question, I thought it was Trump and Tragedy. I thought what an interesting question, but I believe you are trying to ask aboput Triumph and Tragedy....? You could research the whole Trojan horse thing, that fits, or maybe the Hiroshima bomb????

Answer 9

You could always try the South Sea Bubble, one of the worst financial disasters, where fortunes were amassed and lost. I don'd know how to paste the link, but you can find the info on the website.

Answer 10

I think you need to learn how to do your own research and stop trying to get others to do a very important part of your homework for you.