Essays 121 - 150
in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...
maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...
the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...
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 one page the isolationist stance that influenced American policy economically, diplomatically, and militarily is examined alon...
In a paper that consists of five pages the changes that followed the Second World War in terms of economic, military, and diplomat...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the American Civil War. Modern aspects such as civic participation and the use of a...
support that does not contain any expressed or implied limitations; an agreement to offer unlimited aid. Significance: In the cont...
hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...
defined either narrowly or quite expansively (Rathbun, 2008). Our historic focus on isolationism has for the most part been based...
arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...
and that it matters little whether the person filling that office can be moral or has any acceptable level of personal integrity, ...
In five pages the reasons behind the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the Second World War are examined with a conclusion ...
(1991). Serbia was allied with Russia and France (1991). When Austria declared war, Russia and France made preparations for an all...
need at the front lines. The special death squads were responsible for killing about two million people (Weiss, 1996). Because ...
In ten pages this research paper discusses the profound influence the First World War had in terms of the music, literary, and art...
In five pages the contemporary world's utilization of experimental economics is examined in this overview of its history and varie...
may have taken creative liberties with contemporary fact. At the outbreak of World War One (1914-1918) reports flooded the ...
In five pages this paper discusses how between the years of 1945 and 1998 the ramifications of the Second World War are still bein...
In eight pages the naval battle plans associated with the Second World War battle of Okinawa are examined in this military overvie...
expansion into Southeast Asia, had attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet (moored in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii) the previous day (December 7...
relationship with both the government and the people was ordered and cordial. Everyone was aware of his or her place in society, a...
of technological and scientific gauges of human potential . . . has also vitally affected Western policies regarding education and...
forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...
(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...
use of their forces; hence these organizations tend to support belligerent foreign policies" (pp. 107). On the other hand, one may...
exceptions, but there were not many. WWII changed all that. As every able-bodied man not involved in defense development o...
the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...
rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...
could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...