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Kennedy's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

Power of Nation States Eroded by Multinational Corporations

to say that while multinational corporations competed "in a world of national states" in the 20th century but in the 21st century,...

Postwar Success of Japan

Emperor was stripped of his rank and power, most would say that he and the nation of Japan lost much face because of it. In Japane...

Post 1945 the Netherlands

of the Labour Party and Kok was also the Prime Minister (The Economist, 1998). His opponent was Frits Bolkestein from the Liberal ...

Second World War and Nursing

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

Second World War and the Role Played by Adolf Hitler

was putting to death. So then, in defining the Aryans he must also define those that were not acceptable. This is where his di...

Post Second World War European Politics and Christianity

and social forces in Europe. The European Union is more actively supported it is found, by the more affluent and economically sou...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Louis de Berniere's 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' and Cultural Perspective Differences

throughout the novel. Although they try and maintain their cultural identity through music, they are morally lost in environmental...

Lt. Gen. James Maurice Gavin

have reacted the same given Gavins situation, or would he have stood by his command and followed through in spite of any personal ...

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...

Before and After the Second World War

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...

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...

Second World War Japanese Canadians' Internment and Treatment

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

Hydraulic Pressure Intensification and Industrial Fluid Power

such as would be found at a construction site in their backhoes, tractors, graders, etc. Industrial uses for fluid power include ...

Construction and Military Operation of the Bismarck German Battleship

secondary battery of six-inch guns also mounted in twin turrets, which were intended for use against enemy surface destroyers. She...

'The Plague' of Albert Camus

Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of on...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 "...

Fictitious Oral Interview with a Second World War Wife

hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

Porter's Diamond of National Advantage and Japan's Development

supporting industries and last the firm strategy and rivalry (Porter, 1999, Weller, 1999). Just as with any model the accuracy wil...

U.S. President or British Prime Minister, Who is Most Powerful?

absent, in contravention to the United Nations resolutions for several years. Here, the threats from the US resulted in a climb do...

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...