Essays 511 - 540
French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...
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...
was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...
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 ...
rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...
Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...
1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...
new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...
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...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
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...
could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...
but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...
to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...
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...
In five pages this report discusses how conflicting ideologies were responsible for soldiers to continue to fight overseas' wars a...
The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...
1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...
those few but powerful pages described how to achieve holism within the esoteric nature of battle. Firing a weapon to kill the en...
neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...
United States has long been in battle with itself in an ongoing attempt to control its rampant drug problem, on that clearly stems...
to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...
to see Bissells point as Kaplan defines imperialism as "a form of isolationism, in which the demand for absolute, undefiled securi...
in world politics illustrates how such groups form out of a need to "right" perceived wrongs. Since they believe their duty is to...