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Marshall Plan and Defensive Realism

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

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...

Secession and Issues of Slavery

into the White House (Brooks, 2003). The Brown raid took place in South Carolina, a state where the slave population was higher th...

The Philippines and Economic Conditions

in many economies to strengthen banking sectors and work on non-performing loans, and also at multilateral institutions. The IMF, ...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

American Women's Movement and the Impact of the Second World War

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

History of WMDs in Iraq

2002). The threat of nuclear capabilities was so great that the president and other analysts believed the threat to be significan...

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Reasons Behind Them

The assumption was that Germans were working as feverishly on atomic power as was the U.S. - and it was only late in 1944 that the...

New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt and its Influence on Cyclical American Presidential History

In three pages FDR's New Deal is considered in an examination of U.S. presidential cyclical timing and how it both defined and con...

Federal Express and the United Parcel Service

of corporate warfare. Both companies seemed to almost burst on the scene, but in reality both have the histories that make ...

Three Decades of War

force from farm to factory, from country to city. They were also aware that the United States lagged behind Europe in its struggle...

Review of the Post World War II Film The Bicycle Thief

In six pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the realities confronting Italy after the Second World War as featured in Vitto...

Antiwar Sentiments of Crane, Twain, and Howells

In five pages the reactions against war and imperialism that began materializing at the turn of the 20th century are examined in a...

The Civil War, Augusta County Virginia, and Franklin County Pennsylvania

square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...

Terrorism and Globalization

and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...

UPS Case Study on Organizational Behavior

might have in the past taken a hard line against absences, but with so many religious holidays amongst various groups, the organiz...

The Common Philosophies of the American and French Revolutions

Introduction The period of western civilization that we typically refer to as the Enlightenment spanned the...

Beowulf & Aeneas

past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...

International Relations and Economics

United States was not always at the center of this development, particularly in the beginning. It came to be at the center, howev...

U.S. Global Hegemony after WWII

Introduction World War II was the deadliest conflict in mans history and when it was over, most of the nations of the world were ...

War Contrasts and a Review of Living in the American Century 1940-1950 Exploding Into a Brave New World by Henry Allen

In two pages this September 1994 article featured in The Washington Post is reviewed as it pertains to the Second World War. Ther...

Development of Tank Warfare During the First and Second World Wars

The War Office of Britain placed their first order, which consisted of 150 of these machines, but the production was actually spre...

Ideology and Technology of the Second World War

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

An Examination of Bacon's Rebellion

him. Soon released, Bacon gathered his supporters, marched on Jamestown, and coerced Berkeley into granting him a commission to co...

War and Ernest Hemingway

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

Joseph E. Persico's Roosevelt's Secret War

NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...

Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

Bomb and Hiroshima II

In five pages a book review of The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by Herbert Feis is presented in an examination of the a...

Cold War Outcome and the Impact of Nuclear Weapons

In five pages this paper discusses how another World War was prevented by the inclusion of nuclear weapons by the Americans and th...