Essays 541 - 570
broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...
things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
At the turn of the twentieth century Japan was just beginning to take its place as one of the...
1. How did the mass production of the automobile affect...
(Parker, 2005, p. 2). The result was that technological innovation "and the equally vital ability to respond to it, soon became an...
2155 Robert S. McNamara is one of the most memorable twentieth century figures. In "Fog of...
paper properly!...
The writer argues that there are at least two schools of thought about what caused World War II: one that it was caused by World W...
from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...
tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...
1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...
a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...
alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...
was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...
considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
In 2003 the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia invaded Iraq. The war was controversial, justified to many of the ele...
This paper pertains to the War on Drugs and argues that, while this is a real war, it is not one that US authorities can win. Thre...
This paper explores the reasons the US entered World War II as well as the reasons behind the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. T...