Essays 3511 - 3540
important part of scientific and political history and has a great deal of significance. Yet, in delving into the history of space...
any other official militia of the country.4 The Constitution divides the powers regarding war between the President and the Co...
the UN when seeking their approval to go into Iraq. For more than a decade, Iraq had refused to meet the mandates of the UN Securi...
took the lead to coordinate at least their own departments in an effort to decide what diplomatic activities and what military act...
Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...
leads "officials to play a never ending game of narcotic whack-a-mole" (Suddath). Close to half of the marijuana that is smuggle...
the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...
things although it requires approval by both houses to enact any law. The Senate ratifies treaties and must approve any appointmen...
also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...
equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...
would join as slave states and those north of it would come in as free states (Faragher et al, 2000). But there was still no defin...
lands upon which their peoples had lived for centuries was theirs. Britain was actually funding many of the groups of Native Amer...
not only at cases that have been subject to a great deal of debate, such as East Timor and Rwanda, but also at cases where there h...
the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...
a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...
but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...
Reactions of the Libyan forces to the protests have included the indiscriminate aerial bombing of civilians by military aircraft. ...
World War I brought many challenges not just for US soldiers but for our nation as a whole. With our entry...
white they thought they were looking at ghosts or maybe some people who had just fallen into bad luck. Dogs sat on their tails an...
When the Allied powers of World War II are mentioned, many of the history books refer only to the involvement of the United States...
such as bombings of civilians or the "hit-and-run assassination of French policemen," the film is showing actual "recreations of w...
"poor sanitation and hygiene," the homes of Africans, who had been confined to slums by segregationist law, were perceived as a "...
Whitelaw from their hometown, and the narrator imbues this physical artifact with a great deal of emotional significance. In parti...
ahs been an acceleration, they are now more common place than in the past and deal with a wide range of diplomatic issues. It may ...
War; shortly thereafter, representatives of the Allied powers met in Europe for the Potsdam Conference, where territories were div...
War II comes to an end when the United States uses nuclear weapons to force the unconditional surrender of Japan. The magnitude of...
war, pulling in allies from the Near East, Asia and North America, was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the ...
Introduction The cold War was an incredibly volatile time in the world when the Soviet Union and the United States stood at a rel...
has been written about the role of John Masterson, an agent in the British Secret Intelligence Service who masterminded the use of...
properly! In 1968, the Nixon administration declared a "war" on illicit drug use and by 1972, the prison populations experienced...