Essays 181 - 210
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...
Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...
military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...
Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...
et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...
was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...
the conflict in Iran is not over, the Cold War is, and when looking back from a twenty-first century perspective, the U.S. looks a...
the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...
II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...
cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...
as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...
of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...
with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...
textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...
the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...
Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...
exceptions, but there were not many. WWII changed all that. As every able-bodied man not involved in defense development o...
determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...
mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...
that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...
argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...