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Cold War and the Russian KGB

Russian and U.S. Intelligence alike were characterized by two distinct components. These were technology and people. Sometimes i...

19th and 20th Century Naval Power

is particularly noteworthy in the period spanning from 1862 to 1914. It was during this period that many ships underwent a transf...

Questions Involving Foreign Policy of the Cold War

NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

Second World War and Japanese Internment in the US

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

First World War and British Military Leadership

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

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...

Civil War Changes in North and South Politics and Society

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

Second World War Photography Propaganda

the propaganda proliferated relied on fear and questionable facts in order to gain the sympathies of the people. In retrospect, th...

1980s' Soviet Union

Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...

Change Through War

Years War, the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years War (Cunningham and Grell, 2000). The fact that warfare was such a p...

U.S. Civil Liberties, the 'Red' Scare, and the Cold War

been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...

Persian Gulf War and Iraqi Portrayal by the Media

were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...

Confederate Black Soldiers

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

American Patriotism and Europeans

devastation wreaked on their homeland in those wars. Countless examples of this sort of cultural awareness are not going to be neg...

Warfare and Aircraft Carriers

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

First World War and Significance of Women's Roles

Among the most interesting aspects of these considerations are the apparent differences in meaning the war had for men verses thos...

POWs in the Second World War

Interestingly, what most people dont realize is that U.S. prisoners of war who were being held captive by the Germans died at a ra...

Civil War and Reconstruction Social Welfare Programs

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

Second World War Torturing of US Prisoners of War by Japan

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

Perspectives on the Cold War

Cold War possessed many instigators from American paranoia to a lack of mutual cooperation to the outright compromise of foreign p...

Analyzing Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May

This 1988 text is analyzed in six pages and include the factors that fueled the enforcement of traditional and gender roles that r...

Cold War and Propaganda

a profound psychological impact. But hindsight is always twenty twenty. One must look back at history in order to grasp why there ...

The First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg

During the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was very important. Yet, each day, different events would occur and the focus of th...

The Black Experience Before and After the American Civil War

6 pages and 5 sources. This paper outlines the experiences of Black Americans before and after 1865, relating to the changes that...

Post Second World War and Development of Sexual Liberalism

a middle-aged Indiana University professor of entomology who had a compulsion for collecting enormous amount of data (McLaren 144)...

Global Security and Safety Following the Cold War

in the Cold War, therefore, would not come without a great expense to both powers. When the Cold War...

Florida and Education Prior to and Following the U.S. Civil War

In five pages education in Florida during the nineteenth century is examined in terms of the implications of social, economic, and...

'1676' by Stephen S. Webb

central thesis. This perspective credits, not the governors, for achieving peace, but rather credits the anarchically self-governe...