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Foreign Policy Decisions Leading to US Involvement in WWII

This paper addresses foreign policy decisions made by Roosevelt and relevant to Great Britain that lead up to a certain involvemen...

Axis Strategies in WWII

If the Axis powers had used different tactics, they might have won WWII. This paper considers strategies they could have used to s...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek by Bierce

point out that the subject of death and dying has taken on new meaning in recent times. There is now recognition of similar events...

Warfare and the Role of the Howitzer

In five pages the Howitzer's role in contemporary warfare dating back to the Vietnam War is examined in an evolution that includes...

Overview of the Vietnam War and its Impact Upon America

fierce protection of ancestral land was nothing new to the people trapped in between warring factions. The names given geographic...

A Review of Freedom Road

A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

1938 Remarque lost his citizenship, and he left Germany. He moved to Switzerland and later to the United States. All Quiet on the ...

Liberia Civil War and Charles Taylor

that the colony would serve at least two purposes: the first to spread the Christian gospel in Africa, and the second to serve as...

Thucydides' Views of Sparta and Athens

In a paper consisting of 10 pages the ways in which Thucydides depicted Sparta and Athens in terms of their cultural and social sy...

American Slavery

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

Morris County, New Jersey's Civil War Contributions

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

US Civil War and Reasons for the North's Victory

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

Nationalist and Not Communist Sentiments Fueled the Vietnam War

Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...

Civil War Turning Point of the Battle Of Gettysburg

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, the Civil War, and 'the American Dilemma'

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

Our War by David Harris

the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...

United States During the 1860s

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

War Films Made by the Soviet Union

the USSR, World War II served as "the great patriotic war," and filmmakers would often examine the war from the human perspective ...

Theodore Roosevelt's Early Life and the Rough Riders

area in 1649 (The Archives: Theodore Roosevelt, 2002). His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia native who supported th...

Ending Slavery with the Civil War

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

Analyzing a History of Yugoslavia from 1918 until 1991

of which was regarding the Istrian peninsula with Italy. This dispute continued despite the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920, the Memoran...

Writing Style and Protagonist of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...

Exploring War Poetry

see how he views war - both admiring the bravery of the soldiers while also acknowledging their certain death. There is evidence ...

History of War Crimes Committed by Soldiers

Nazi assassins were brought to justice at the Nuremberg Trial and were themselves sentenced to die (Special Report: Yugoslavia War...

United States, Harry S. Truman, and the Korean War

and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and everyone went home (The Korean War: Setting the Stage and Brief Overview, 2002). Roosevelts b...

War Generation, Depression, and Infochild

with little respect for or understanding of any other generation that did not share in the same advancements. Harv just thinks Ma...

Post Civil War South Carolina

out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...

Argument Opposing the American Involvement in the Vietnam War

this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...

Wartime and Ethical Considerations

the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...

U.S. Civil War Gen. Joseph Hooker

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...