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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

the hands of her leader, Saddam Hussein, a man who now has finally been captured and is under American control. During the origin...

except Venezuela where Pepsi had a 42 percent share to Coca-Colas 11.6 percent share. In fact, in terms of market share, Pepsi cam...

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...

of deterrence is often confused, as Jaime Garcia Covarrubias notes. Many believe deterrence means wiping all weapons off the plane...

In three pages this paper examines how in the Star Wars' trilogy George Lucas incorporated elements of myth. Two sources are cite...

rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...

spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...

it was too late. Molina and his family also controlled a number of other enterprises, including sugar. PepsiCo then made another h...

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

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

to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...

be a most applicable means by which to render attack on the enemy; however, what ensued was not so much of a protecting agent as o...

and instead of taking the lead, Presidents were being relegated to the role of follower. Policymakers envisioned themselves as th...

that the country had been annexed by the two major powers, protesting, sometimes violently, about political decisions being made w...

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...

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

forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...

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

Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...

but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...