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in the hopes that the French would lend some support.1 "The primary objective was to utilize ready Allied forces in an operation c...

Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...

contends the U.S. "is not now and never has been a remotely multi-cultural society. The American nation has always had a specific...

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...

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

to that war the battleship, for example, had come to be regarded as the ultimate offensive weapon. While Hitlers emphasis was on ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...

indelible scar on Wells psyche, which eventually led the young Darwinist to embrace the "cosmic pessimism" offered by the philosop...

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...

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

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

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...

the other countries the Marshall Plan did not necessarily aim toward feeding individuals or building individual houses, schools, o...

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

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

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