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Essays 211 - 240

Vietnam War and the Agency Concept

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

Vietnam War and the Themes of Change and Endurance

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...

Analyzing World Wars I and II

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...

Vietnam War's Military Operations and the Roles Played by Government Policies and Public Opinion

spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...

U.S. Foreign Policy and Its Domestic Impact

rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...

20th Century and its 'Dismal State' Captured in Text

this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...

American Involvement in the First World War

of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...

The Bombing Campaign in World War II

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, and War Leadership, Perceptions, Judgments

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Generations

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

Austro Hungarian Empire and First World War's Causative Factors

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

Disillusionment Reflected in Art Between the First and Second World Wars

past, but seeing it through disillusioned, or "cubist," eyes. Picassos other work under examination, Guernica, is his most analy...

World War II Russian Politics and FDR's Role

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

Second World War's Kokoda Campaign in Papua, New Guinea

There were also conflicts between the Australian Imperial Force and the militia troops, who had hastily been drafted when it becam...

Five Centuries Leading Up to the Second World War

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...

First World War's Main Cause

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

Modern Nursing Evolution in the United States

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

An Elliott Johnson Interview

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

First and Second World Wars and Photography Style

romanticized and consistent with literature, which always glamorized warfare and sanitized it. Photography does not allow for sani...

Development of Tank Warfare During the First and Second World Wars

The War Office of Britain placed their first order, which consisted of 150 of these machines, but the production was actually spre...

Second World War Crimes and Japan

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

Poland: During and After World War II

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

The Second World War and U.S. Prisoners of War

In a paper consisting of five pages American prisoner of war camps and the treatment of these prisoners during the Second World Wa...

Second World War Newsreels

In five pages the Second World War's black and white newsreels are examined in terms of their historical importance and also discu...

Early Cold War, the KGB, and the CIA

In seven pages this paper examines the pre Second World War Cold War period in a consideration of CIA and KGB successes with the K...

1941 through 1951 America's Changing Decade A Decade of Change

and done, there were good feelings in the United States. The fifties would soon erupt with its newfound innocence and vigor. Kore...

The Impact of Perspective on Memories of World War II

This 5 page paper discusses current accounts of the Second World War coming out of Japan, Russia and Poland. The writer argues tha...

The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob Walter, and Nationalism

In seven pages this paper traces the emergence of nationalism from the early 19th century until the first World War as portrayed i...

Economic Development in Australia After the First and Second World Wars

In a paper consisting of eight pages the direct and indirect changes that occurred in the Australian economy as a result of these ...

California and Internationalization

In four pages this paper examines California after the Second World War and during the Cold War years in a consideration of intern...