Essays 451 - 480
broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...
things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...
II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...
finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...
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...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
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 ...
the singing of cell phones. Nature has somehow gotten away from those who live in this brick and mortar and cyber society. Many ...
However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...
I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...
the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...
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...
order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...
rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...
Japanese occupation wanted the end of colonial rule which in some cases wasnt met and started various "wars of national liberation...
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...
them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...
to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...
some historians as the first world war (Ricks, 2000). In Europe, the Austrians were not satisfied with the War of Succession which...
the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...
5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of The Civil Wars by Julius Caesar. This relates the central themes a...
contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...
in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...
In five pages this paper compares China and Japan's developmental differences since the Second World War and considers the impact ...