Essays 691 - 720
The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...
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...
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...
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 ...
This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...
The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...
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...
to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...
World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...
Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...
of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...
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...
1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...
time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...
them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...
some historians as the first world war (Ricks, 2000). In Europe, the Austrians were not satisfied with the War of Succession which...
rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...
the day before that the threat exists, but had done nothing, if we knew where the source of the threat was, who the terrorist were...
to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...
already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...
does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...
Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...
As a result, the effects and meaning of post World War II are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War; havin...
are people today who chant slogans related to peace and give up notions of war, inclusive of defense. This is of course something ...
German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...
that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...
the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...
PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...