Essays 121 - 150
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...
Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, with the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or la...
rhetoric; this is the charismatic leader theory (A summary of the causes of World War II). The mob mentality theory is supported b...
This 3 page paper argues that the primary cause of price wars is mismanagement and that this is why there are so few price wars se...
German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...
Program; to be sure, traits such as intolerance and racism do not merely appear in ones life but rather have to be acquired. It i...
determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...
could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...
themselves did not seem to have any wider-ranging political motivations beyond protesting at domestic conditions; certainly they d...
In five pages the book Eagle's Talons The American Experience at War and article 'When Did the Sixties Happen? Searching for New...
In eight pages this paper discusses the U.S. economy in terms of the impacts of the First and Second World Wars and also considers...
be a most applicable means by which to render attack on the enemy; however, what ensued was not so much of a protecting agent as o...
include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...
In five pages this paper considers the autobiography of a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War and son of a Second World War hero i...
In five pages this paper examines the First and Second World Wars and the wars in Korea and Vietnam in order to determine their so...
In five pages the Persian Gulf War's impact upon the economy of the United States in terms of residual effects is discussed. Seve...
A treaty with Austria was signed on Sept. 10, 1919, at St-Germain. Treaties were signed with Bulgaria at Neuilly Nov. 27, 1919, an...
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...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
the French and Indian War-or at least that part of it fought in North America goes by that name. This paper is a first-person narr...
Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...
War that followed seemed like fighting through one nightmare only to wind up in the middle of another one, only the second one las...
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...
military might, and the entire nation, paralyzed (Weisberger, 1985). Among those who wanted Germany virtually destroyed was Stalin...
War; shortly thereafter, representatives of the Allied powers met in Europe for the Potsdam Conference, where territories were div...
as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...
War II comes to an end when the United States uses nuclear weapons to force the unconditional surrender of Japan. The magnitude of...
give the U.S.S.R. a presence in the region to counteract the American influence. The two nations also differed in their interest...