Essays 481 - 510
spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...
rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...
In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...
and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...
of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...
to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...
In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...
as an independent state, and warned the US that if it should try to annex Texas into the Union, it would break off diplomatic rela...
for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...
to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...
reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...
that attention. Its coverage would air not only in the U.S. but it indeed would serve as a global influence (Begleiter, 2000). R...
In this 5 page paper, the Revolutionary War is the star of William Cooper's life in a text that continues the trials and tribulati...
The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...
The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...
In four pages this research paper examines what influence the time period following the Second World War in this consideration of ...
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...
the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...
Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...
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...
forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...
are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...
However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...
of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...
Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...
contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...
the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...