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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...

Five Key Events in One of the Most Horrendous Wars in History, The Vietnam War

French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...

U.S. Cities Growth

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

Pharr/Losing Face, Status Politics in Japan

cultural heritage of Confucianism (Pharr xiii). In Confucianism, supreme emphasis is placed on maintaining harmony, which is seen ...

John Okada/No-No Boy

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

Contemporary Warfare and Changes in Ideology

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...

War and Media Coverage

A large part of the success of this program is due to the leadership of one man: Byron Price(Sweeny 2001)....

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

Inevitability of the Cold War

p. 31). According to Williams, Stalin was threatened by the prospect of the US imposing a liberal economic order on Eastern Euro...

Post Second World War Relations Between the United States and Thailand

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...

The Causative Factors Relating to the Second World War

German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

War and its Impact

are people today who chant slogans related to peace and give up notions of war, inclusive of defense. This is of course something ...

Cold War Origins and its Cultural Implications

Japanese occupation wanted the end of colonial rule which in some cases wasnt met and started various "wars of national liberation...

A Speech in Support of the Iraq War

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...

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...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing

reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...

Post 1875 Influence of the West

recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...

Client Wars And Surrogate Armies

was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...

Canadian Consumer Culture & the Environment

was not, as it had been during the Depression, a function of what the consumer could afford, bur rather what the then could find (...

Nazim Hikmet/Human Landscapes from My Country

portrait of Turkish society at that time. Drawing on Hikmets ability as a screenwriter, as well as a poet, his free verse form e...

Women's Role In WWI And The Agricultural Adjustment Act

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

Consideration of Moral Conflict

family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...

Cold War Ideological Separation of the United States and the Soviet Union

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

1865 to 1920 America and its Emergence on the World Stage

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

Artillery Warfare Innovation

component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...

Price Wars and Mismanagement

This 3 page paper argues that the primary cause of price wars is mismanagement and that this is why there are so few price wars se...

Three Decades of U.S. Foreign Policy from 1945 until 1975

In five pages this paper considers the direction of American foreign policy from the end of the Second World War into the Cold War...

Crisis Situations, Public Opinion, and Government Policy

In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...

Books on America's Racism Problems

In five pages this paper examines racism in America as it pertains to the Native Americans and the Japanese during the Second Worl...