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In five pages this reality text by Remarque on the horrors of war as experienced by young Paul Baumer during the First World War i...

4 million Americans had thronged the streets of Manhattan to see and used an estimated 7,430,000 feet of newsreel to record just a...

In five pages World War II as it is portrayed in Heller's novel is examined particularly in terms of they ways in which themes of ...

use of their forces; hence these organizations tend to support belligerent foreign policies" (pp. 107). On the other hand, one may...

In six pages Tuchman's text on the period just prior to World War I The Proud Tower is examined. There are no other sources liste...

In two pages this essay considers post 1945 socioeconomic and political factors that resulted in the end of European colonialism....

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

arms in Germany, which appeared to Stalin that the US was rearming that country. He was enraged at this perceived betrayal (Vidal...

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

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

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

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...

This research paper considers issues such as nationalism, ethnic violence, and anti-Semitism in regards to Central and Eastern Eur...

In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...

railways were so relatively new that strategists had yet to really utilize their usefulness. With these basic elements in mind the...

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

are as good could be imported into the rest of Europe. The immediate issue in the late 1980s early 1990s was not an immediate dang...

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

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

tanks as well, but the paper is too short. There are of course many other possibilities such as small arms, nuclear weapons, and...

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

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

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

Modernization theory proposes that "pre-industrial societies are in a traditional stage" (Norton, n.d.). Traditional means that ki...

the task becomes difficult. The only way that countries could survive economically was to encourage colonialism. Colonies provided...

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

Examining how each of these separate entities ultimately contributed to The Age of Catastrophe helps one to gain a significantly b...

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

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