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textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...

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...

German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...

p. 31). According to Williams, Stalin was threatened by the prospect of the US imposing a liberal economic order on Eastern Euro...

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

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...

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...

recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...

reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...

spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

There were also conflicts between the Australian Imperial Force and the militia troops, who had hastily been drafted when it becam...

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

exceptions, but there were not many. WWII changed all that. As every able-bodied man not involved in defense development o...

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

Park Zoo were soon repaired, something that was a danger, and the rats commonplace in the zoo were taken care of (551). Clearly, M...

the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on th...

money gaining the favor of the general public. He had only one true political rival, Nicias, who had secured a treaty of peace fo...