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US Foreign Policy, Israel & Cold War Era

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

U.S. Cities Growth

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

Analyzing World Wars I and II

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

Post Second World War Era and its Influences

In four pages this research paper examines what influence the time period following the Second World War in this consideration of ...

U.S. Economy and the Impact of War

In eight pages this paper discusses the U.S. economy in terms of the impacts of the First and Second World Wars and also considers...

1865 to 1920 America and its Emergence on the World Stage

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

Artillery Warfare Innovation

component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...

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...

American Involvement in the First World War

of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...

Warfare Turning Point, The Tet Offensive

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

An Elliott Johnson Interview

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing

reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...

Post Second World War Cold War Rivalry Between the Soviet Union and the United States

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

Modern Nursing Evolution in the United States

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

The Bombing Campaign in World War II

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, and War Leadership, Perceptions, Judgments

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

World War II Russian Politics and FDR's Role

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

Second World War Crimes and Japan

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

History's 'Longest War'

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

Role of Women in WWII/A Research Proposal

alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Generations

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

Hoge, Understanding the War on Terror

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...

George Packer/Assassin’s Gate

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

Women's Role In WWI And The Agricultural Adjustment Act

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

Poland: During and After World War II

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

Politics of the Cold War

textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...

Post 1875 Influence of the West

recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...

The Causative Factors Relating to the Second World War

German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...

Inevitability of the Cold War

p. 31). According to Williams, Stalin was threatened by the prospect of the US imposing a liberal economic order on Eastern Euro...