Essays 121 - 150
but preferred diplomacy, and Germany and Russia were somewhere between the two extremes (Waller ). James Joll, in observing all th...
revoke the three pence tax on each pound of tea(Schwarz 110). This refusal to lift the tax on American sales caused an uproar sta...
Civil War historians believe that a majority of Americans felt that forcing the South to remain in the Union when it felt it was n...
In eight pages this paper discusses the Philippines' acquisition by the United States in an overview of the Spanish-American War o...
In six pages this paper presents a summary and thematic analysis of this text and the author's assertion that the Soviet actions c...
In nine pages this paper examines the causes of World War I in a consideration of Germany's role and includes such topics as treat...
central thesis. This perspective credits, not the governors, for achieving peace, but rather credits the anarchically self-governe...
In 5 pages this text by John Keegan is used to analyze what caused the First World War and the repercussions that followed. There...
general theory of economics in the modern era" (Carson, 2005). Unfortunately, it was "weighted down" by "two assumptions ... whic...
President Bush had in fact stated the obvious and appointed John F. Bolton, a critic of the institution, as the new UN ambassador...
these resources is what has kept a good deal of the people in poverty and misery(Suskind 2002). Most of the civil wars have come f...
Kings inner circle. While government faltered, commerce and prosperity declined and French pirates raided the coast with impunity....
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...
of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...
slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...
This paper presents a comparative overview of these documents and presents the argument that the Treaty of Versailles was a major ...
the outside influence of World War One came along, he had managed to isolate him from all available venues who might have at one t...
be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...
respect as the white soldiers during or after World War I; while black Americans fought just as hard and loyally as their lighter-...
5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the possible or probable causal factors for the first World War. This ...
Then the UN imposed economic sanctions against Iraq and soon after calls for "Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991" (The ...
power of the individual states was making them reluctant to accept federal regulations, and making most fear that the unrest that ...
a prevalent factor in igniting the Great War, as it was Serbias resentment and frustration at the continued rule of Austria-Hungar...
first stage of escalation sees the parties to the conflict shift from the use of light strategies towards heavy tactics. Light tac...
may be social or economic, but the basic formula for revolutionary action remains the same. Von Clausewitz, in his nineteenth ce...
It was never officially declared a war, only a "police action"; it took place in a very limited area; and perhaps a public already...
alliances to protect their interests: the Catholics under Maximilian of Bavaria, and the Protestants under Frederick V....
Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...