Essays 721 - 750
Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...
hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...
get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...
(Parker, 2005, p. 2). The result was that technological innovation "and the equally vital ability to respond to it, soon became an...
2155 Robert S. McNamara is one of the most memorable twentieth century figures. In "Fog of...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...
supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...
the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...
in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...
component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...
In eight pages the ASEAN countries' upheaval since the Second World War is assessed in terms of nuclear proliferation, the Korean ...
In twelve pages this paper examines the Cold War, US policy of containment, the presidential campaign of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower...
In five pages the Persian Gulf War's impact upon the economy of the United States in terms of residual effects is discussed. Seve...
the conflict in Iran is not over, the Cold War is, and when looking back from a twenty-first century perspective, the U.S. looks a...
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...
to the United States. II. The location and terrain were vastly different from one another, requiring different strategic maneuvers...
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 ...
paper properly!...
The writer argues that there are at least two schools of thought about what caused World War II: one that it was caused by World W...
defeating Al-Qaeda (Council on Foreign Relations n.d.). But there are critics who believe that the window for securing Afghanistan...