Essays 211 - 240
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
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...
of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...
are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...
for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...
a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...
the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...
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...
Japanese occupation wanted the end of colonial rule which in some cases wasnt met and started various "wars of national liberation...
The development in terms of warfare has changed the nature of warfare since World War II. One can see this in the types of wars th...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...
relationship with both the government and the people was ordered and cordial. Everyone was aware of his or her place in society, a...
the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...
finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...
component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...
In six pages Tuchman's text on the period just prior to World War I The Proud Tower is examined. There are no other sources liste...
In a paper that consists of five pages the changes that followed the Second World War in terms of economic, military, and diplomat...
In one page the isolationist stance that influenced American policy economically, diplomatically, and militarily is examined alon...
is the most popular one, acting in the face of adversity should mean that the action is strongly supported by the actor. In the ca...
to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...
get it home. Advances in science and medicine have cured diseases and increased life span. The is a phenomenon of the last 30 year...
In eight pages the naval battle plans associated with the Second World War battle of Okinawa are examined in this military overvie...
In ten pages this paper examines the concept of warfare in a consideration of the differing views between men and women regarding ...
In seven pages this paper demonstrates why a second world war was inevitable. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....
themselves did not seem to have any wider-ranging political motivations beyond protesting at domestic conditions; certainly they d...
In five pages this paper discusses how between the years of 1945 and 1998 the ramifications of the Second World War are still bein...