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secondary battery of six-inch guns also mounted in twin turrets, which were intended for use against enemy surface destroyers. She...

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

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

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

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

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...

cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

onslaught of German forces, Russia released their prisoners, asking many Poles to come out in force in support of the Russian acti...

participation and Germany was prohibited from participating because she was the defeated power. Instead, the so-called "big four"...

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...

For international terrorists, anything American is fair game. Either way, the methods employ a paradigm of death and destruction a...

to that war the battleship, for example, had come to be regarded as the ultimate offensive weapon. While Hitlers emphasis was on ...

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...

supporting industries and last the firm strategy and rivalry (Porter, 1999, Weller, 1999). Just as with any model the accuracy wil...

the other countries the Marshall Plan did not necessarily aim toward feeding individuals or building individual houses, schools, o...

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

Between the World Wars Germanys formerly great economic triumphs and development were devastated by the end of World War I. Short...

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

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...

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...

in the hopes that the French would lend some support.1 "The primary objective was to utilize ready Allied forces in an operation c...