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America's Involvement in the First World War

of Britain, France and Russia, US President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring American neutrality (Kennedy, 1991). Ho...

Global Theory and the Cold War

enough tinder on the firebox to light a conflagration. During the early days of the war, American policy was focused on co...

Post American Revolution Minority Creditors' Oppression

After the British left the shores of America, the young country was faced with how to keep their economy afloat. Credit became one...

First World War and British Military Leadership

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

Algerian War and Albert Camus

the limited liberty that they offered was not sufficient to the majority of Arabs in Algeria (Gildea 17). Albert Camus wrote, in...

Pilots, Paratroopers and World War II

idea had a great deal of potential, the war ended before he ever really got to try it out (D-Day Introduction, 2002)....

Vietnam War and the Differing Policies and Opinions of George Ball and Robert S. McNamara

together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...

Second World War, Nazism, and Fascism

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara

eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...

Caribbean Banana Trade Wars and Banana Trade Security

it was estimated that the net worth of the banana trade was about $10 billioniv. These few multinational companies who produce th...

Saddam Hussein and the Vendetta of George W. Bush

In five pages this paper discusses how the terrorism war is being fought as a way of satisfying the personal agenda of U.S. Presid...

Personal Political Perspectives

original American colonies. In that case a federal system would undoubtedly be best and should be patterned after United States,...

Florence Nightingale's Work

the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...

Cultural and Political Views of the Vietnam War

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

UK Post World War II Comprehensive Education Development

on the basic skills, such as numeracy, reading and writing (University of Derby, 2002). Most students left the school at about age...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Paul Revere's Ride,' Its Inaccuracies, and the Real Paul Revere

slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...

Nationalism in the United States and the War of 1812

newspaper, entitled Appeal to Reason. When the book was finally published in book form, it instigated a pure food movement, which ...

Vietnam War and Individual Actions

the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose

bellies to escape contact with barbed wire fences. Citizen Soldiers is not a celebration of war as it exists as an ideal but as i...

Post Second World War and Global History

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

Cinematic Comparison of Threads, The Day After, and Testament

(originally produced to be shown on PBS, but later received theatrical distribution), which starred Jane Alexander and focused upo...

Overview of On the Beach

that a the protagonist will meet his or her demise, and adventure novels too often will show men and women risking their lives in ...

Projecting What U.S. International Relations Will Be Like in The 21st Century

cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...

Gordon Wood and Bernard Bailyn on the Revolutionary War

In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...

Revolutionary War and Propaganda Uses

In ten pages this paper discusses how in Canada propaganda was used for Hessian mercenary defections during the Revolutionary War....

America's Enlightenment

In five pages this paper considers America's Enlightenment era in a consideration of the Revolutionary War and such important thin...

US War Technology from 1770 to 1870

the Revolutionary war, but not used until the War of 1812 (Wright, 1991, p. 519). A lack of interest in building war technology...