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The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

In four pages this research paper examines what influence the time period following the Second World War in this consideration of ...

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

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

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...

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...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

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

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

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

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

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

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...

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...

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

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

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

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

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

not be the disarming of law-abiding citizens. It should be to reduce the number of people who carry guns unlawfully, especially i...

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

fighters was the response of the British government, which included the execution of the insurrection leaders and thousands of arr...

defeating Al-Qaeda (Council on Foreign Relations n.d.). But there are critics who believe that the window for securing Afghanistan...

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...