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Consequently, Prussia grew bitter over what it viewed as the robbery of two traditionally German provinces. By the mid-1860s, the ...

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

was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...

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

the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...

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...

The U.S. military involvements in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War are analyzed within the context of this book in 5 pages. The b...

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

that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...

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

mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

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...

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

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

argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...

textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...

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

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

As a result, the effects and meaning of post World War II are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War; havin...

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...

with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...

supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...