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The U.S. in the Progressive Era

there was a genuine concern in America at the time over the abuses and injustices ordinary people suffered at the hands of the wea...

US Foreign Policy, Israel & Cold War Era

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

From the Invention of the Automobile to the Kent State Massacre

1. How did the mass production of the automobile affect...

World War I and the East African Conflict Between the British and the Germans

own countries as they had always been. If you are a member of a royal family at this time in Europe, the least you want to do is ...

Europe in the Middle East, an Analysis

The wishes of the Arabs themselves were acknowledged only half-heartedly, which makes this business of carving up sovereign nation...

Treaty of Versailles and the Problems It Caused

Britain (2001). Those were the key players in the war. It was a treaty that was based on an agreement made by the "Allied Nations"...

Radar's Role in World War II

the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

Isaac Rosenberg's and Wilfred Owen's First World War Poetry

poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...

Russia and Tsarism's Collapse

the country based on more equality, not further separation (Lewin, 2002). Russia at this times was quite literally in "the thro...

'February Afternoon' by Edward Thomas

themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

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...

Europe and the Impact of the First World War

power in what was known as the Russian Revolution (1988). The war in chronology appears rather matter of fact. Events happe...

German Foreign Policy and the Impact of Nationalism on it Prior to the First World War

the Native American Indians had a strong bond with their fellow tribal members, people of different ethnic background feel strongl...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

An Interview of a Couple Who Met in the Marine Corps

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

1945 to 1970 Consumer Culture and Women

Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...

The Meaning of the Battle of Stalingrad

come to fruition. In part, good wins out over evil. Even within Hitlers own ranks there was dissention, a lack of resolve, and a t...

Germany's Poor Use of Submarine Warfare During WWII

it should be said that sea travel was quite important during these wars. Submarines, sometimes called U-Boats after the German phr...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

Second World War and Racial Propaganda

In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a...

Warfare and Aircraft Carriers

noted that "Carriers combine great power with extreme vulnerability," which stated the principal perception at that time.4 While t...

Overview of the Pearl Harbor Bombing

to the bombing, however, we note that in the words of one author, following WWI "Japan grew angry with the U.S.A. because they wer...

Second World War and Nazi Germany

said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...

Second World War Navajo Code Talkers Honoring Falls Short in John Woo's 2002 Film Windtalkers

The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...

Post Second World War Capitalism and the Bretton Woods System

The International Band for Reconstruction and Development would be formed as a consequence of the Bretton Woods System in 1945 (Wo...

Second World War Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

Second World War and Contributions of the Tuskegee Airmen

of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...

UK Foreign Policy and Germany During the Thirties

Between the World Wars Germanys formerly great economic triumphs and development were devastated by the end of World War I. Short...

Jean Renoir's Movies

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

Immigration of Jews from 1900 Until the Second World War

and the largest immigration wave still lay ahead." This new immigration was to take place from 1900 to 1924 wherein "another 1.75 ...