SEARCH RESULTS

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

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

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...

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

tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...

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...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

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

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...

A treaty with Austria was signed on Sept. 10, 1919, at St-Germain. Treaties were signed with Bulgaria at Neuilly Nov. 27, 1919, an...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

In six pages this paper compares these two classical works in terms of plot, characterization, setting, thematic portrayals of war...

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

In five pages the Second World War's Battle of the Atlantic is analyzed. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

In seven pages this paper examines the realistic portrayal of war in Erich Maria Remarque's First World War novel All Quiet on the...

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

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

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

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of The Civil Wars by Julius Caesar. This relates the central themes a...

This paper examines World War II tribunals in terms of how war crimes are defined from legal and ethical perspectives with chain o...

In five pages this paper considers how many of Hemingway's works are rooted in his own wartime experiences and observations as a c...

In five pages this paper examines racism in America as it pertains to the Native Americans and the Japanese during the Second Worl...

In eighteen pages this paper examines the possible causes for the War of 1812 including war hawk pressure, 1807's Embargo Act, the...

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

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