Essays 571 - 600
the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...
foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...
noted that "Carriers combine great power with extreme vulnerability," which stated the principal perception at that time.4 While t...
Women played many critical roles in World War II. Their impact would have long-lasting effects. This is true not just from the...
was still mired in the Depression in 1940 when Roosevelt made the speech, and almost overnight things turned around (Faragher et a...
so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...
Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...
contends the U.S. "is not now and never has been a remotely multi-cultural society. The American nation has always had a specific...
participation and Germany was prohibited from participating because she was the defeated power. Instead, the so-called "big four"...
in the hopes that the French would lend some support.1 "The primary objective was to utilize ready Allied forces in an operation c...
them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...
to that war the battleship, for example, had come to be regarded as the ultimate offensive weapon. While Hitlers emphasis was on ...
In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a...
by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...
"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...
onslaught of German forces, Russia released their prisoners, asking many Poles to come out in force in support of the Russian acti...
over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for...
had all the emotional attributes of a film where the audience is cheering for victory. Indeed, the operation did much for morale, ...
Germany. The period of time was one that introduced a period of ethnic intolerance (Kunovich and Hodson, 1999). The object...
Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...
supporting industries and last the firm strategy and rivalry (Porter, 1999, Weller, 1999). Just as with any model the accuracy wil...
straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...
is one of Americas best loved artists. Arguably, no other artist succeed so completely at reflecting the homespun nature of Americ...
A 6 page research paper that discusses 3 posters form the World War II era. The artists profiled in this paper are Martha Sawyers,...
stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...
having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...
a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...
have reacted the same given Gavins situation, or would he have stood by his command and followed through in spite of any personal ...
bellies to escape contact with barbed wire fences. Citizen Soldiers is not a celebration of war as it exists as an ideal but as i...
that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...