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Second World War Japanese Canadians' Internment and Treatment

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

Post Cold War Future World Visions

well as the permanent deployment of many American troops bases and garrisons abroad were involved (1996). The U.S. military leade...

Gulf War and Military Strategy

the United States, our interests, or our allies" (The Strategy). The National Security Objective - to promote peace and stability...

Peloponnesian War Defeat of Athens in 404 B.C.

turned into tribute to Athens" (Greer, 1977, p. 74). Many neighboring city states were appalled by Athens avarice and abuse of po...

Post Second World War and Global History

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

chocolates. However, whether he realizes it or not, he is still a hero for trying to the utmost of his ability to correct a situat...

Cultural and Political Views of the Vietnam War

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

UK Post World War II Comprehensive Education Development

on the basic skills, such as numeracy, reading and writing (University of Derby, 2002). Most students left the school at about age...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

Nationalism in the United States and the War of 1812

newspaper, entitled Appeal to Reason. When the book was finally published in book form, it instigated a pure food movement, which ...

'Golden Age' of the Cold War Era

served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...

Life of Benjamin Franklin from the Revolutionary War until the U.S. Constitution

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

Rosie the Riveter and Second World War Working Women

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

IHL and the Gulf War

potential harm that may be suffered by those not directly involved must also be considered when planning action (HRW, 2002). Th...

'Over There, World War II,' and 'I Sing, Too, America' by Langston Hughes

at Columbia University in 1920, but left after one year to travel. He drifted for several years, finding employment as a merchant ...

Pilots, Paratroopers and World War II

idea had a great deal of potential, the war ended before he ever really got to try it out (D-Day Introduction, 2002)....

Caribbean Banana Trade Wars and Banana Trade Security

it was estimated that the net worth of the banana trade was about $10 billioniv. These few multinational companies who produce th...

Analyzing Civil War General James Longstreet

"rank and stature in the Confederate command structure" (Hampton, 2002). Longstreet gave the Confederate Army exemplary service (...

Vietnam War and the Differing Policies and Opinions of George Ball and Robert S. McNamara

together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...

Second World War, Nazism, and Fascism

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

Cause of the Biafra War

day is the site of tremendous ethnic conflict. The same can be said of other regions of Africa as well. Secretary-General Salim ...

Thirty Years War and Source Documents

alliances to protect their interests: the Catholics under Maximilian of Bavaria, and the Protestants under Frederick V....

Civil War Fighting and the Need of Manpower

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

Case Study on the Cola Wars Between Coke and Pepsi

these manufactures have a relatively low requirement for investment, a top cost of $50 million for a concentrate plant will servic...

Reconstruction and the Civil War

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

Overview of the English Civil War

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

Confederacy and Union Problems Experienced on the Home Front During the US Civil War

of the problems both Union and Confederate armies faced on the home front. "Confederate soldiers left their wives -- and their mo...

Thematic Conflict in John Nichols' The Milagro Beanfield War

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

Monroe Doctrine to Cold War American Foreign Policy

nations. The 1824 U.S. isolation from the rest of the world would be formalized with the Monroe Doctrine, a foreign policy ...