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Kennedy's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

Americans on the Homefront and the Impact of the Second World War

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...

Conclusion of the Cold War and American Foreign Policy

disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...

American Hero Franklin Delano Roosevelt

private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...

Pearl Buck's Dragon Seed

"Dragon Seed" details the circumstances surrounding Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during World War II as they...

Saving Private Ryan Film by Director Steven Spielberg and its Importance

did not think the film appropriate for anyone under the age of 14 (Gordinier, 1998). Grown men would weep after being through it. ...

Analogies Used in Business

with analogies for the many different types of business becoming popular titles on the best sellers lists as well as fashion items...

Canada After the Second World War

can be said that the womens liberation movement had, had a shot in the arm and as was happening south of her shores, in America, w...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...

Responsibility for the First World War

a dilemma -- either an advance to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139). Capitalism was at the f...

Second World War and its Cause

Practically on the heels of World War I, where the involved countries had already suffered some amount of loss, they collectively ...

Military Warfare Changes from the American Revolution Until the End of the First World War

abandoned similar policies (Apt, 2002). However, when America adopted the social philosophy of Manifest Destiny, the naval theori...

What Soldiers Experienced During the Vietnam War

end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...

Changes Resulting from the Vietnam War

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

Background and Events of the Wars of the Roses

we start with the last king of the Plantagent line we have a good starting point. Edward III had seven sons, although two died ear...

Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October, and the Cold War

authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...

War and the Economy

government spending increases $75 billion. The effect on domestic investment will be that it decreases. Increase in trade defici...

Discussing Justice and War A Hypothetical Dialogue Between Hector from 'The Iliad' and Socrates from Plato's 'Republic'

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

Cinematic Comparison of Oliver Stone's Platoon and John Wayne's The Green Berets

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

Middle East Development and Democratization

of power and authoritarianism as it relates to the issues surrounding the Iraq war, a battle that looks toward setting a precedent...

International Environmental Treaties and the Effects on Countries At War

primary importance of effective sanctions, which serve to control appropriate activity between and among all participating nations...

Symbolism in the Star Wars Film Trilogy

powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...

War and the Effects of Tanks and Trench Warfare

more despicable methods of death. As soon as soldiers reached the grounds, they knew their lives were in peril. The glow of arti...

Second World War Victory by the Allies

Iwo Jima. The last straw would be the bomb that was let loose at Hiroshima. It was a devastating blow. A lesser, but just as detri...

Country of Vietnam, Apart from its War Presentation

elements that make it worth noticing. It is time to let the Vietnam War become a part of history and start looking at Vietnam for ...

Ten Years After the Second World War, Human Endurance and Human Cruelty

always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something...

War Impacts Upon Great Britain

to reinstate himself. Instead, he was used as a pawn, kidnapped first by one, then the other group and used as bait. How the might...

The Unfinished War Vietnam in the American Conscience by Walter H. Capps Reviewed

national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...

International Conflict, Realism v. Constructivism

when the threat that caused their creation no longer exists. The Constructivists, in contrast, contend that alliances exist becau...

Relations Between Russia and the United States and the Continuing Effects of the Cold War

Russian Revolution was all for naught. Communism was a dismal failure and Russia is now a poor country while the U.S. is seen as t...