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had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...
He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...
Imperial rule of the colonies was being demonstrated, perhaps over confidence following the 1857 mutiny which had been put down, w...
a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...
have reacted the same given Gavins situation, or would he have stood by his command and followed through in spite of any personal ...
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...
(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...
It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...
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...
was still mired in the Depression in 1940 when Roosevelt made the speech, and almost overnight things turned around (Faragher et a...
so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...
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...
participation and Germany was prohibited from participating because she was the defeated power. Instead, the so-called "big four"...
in the hopes that the French would lend some support.1 "The primary objective was to utilize ready Allied forces in an operation c...
Women played many critical roles in World War II. Their impact would have long-lasting effects. This is true not just from the...
onslaught of German forces, Russia released their prisoners, asking many Poles to come out in force in support of the Russian acti...
"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...
expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...
by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...
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...
relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...
the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...
easing poverty and supporting economic development; agricultural development and fisheries; education; family planning; emergency ...
film" (Johnson, 2006). The events leading up to the celebrated were no more monumental to the overall atmosphere than most any o...
red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...
it should be said that sea travel was quite important during these wars. Submarines, sometimes called U-Boats after the German phr...