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The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw

in eight categories: ordinary people; home front; heroes; women in uniform and out; shame; love, marriage and commitment; famous p...

Ineffective Alliance Between Germany and France

Today the world is a different place, the EU is performing its tasks and biding countries together to war is unlikely. The global ...

Journalistic Perspectives on World War II

onslaught of German forces, Russia released their prisoners, asking many Poles to come out in force in support of the Russian acti...

Mobilizing the United States Home Front for World War II

was still mired in the Depression in 1940 when Roosevelt made the speech, and almost overnight things turned around (Faragher et a...

1865 to 1945 American Economy

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...

Discussion Questions on American History

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at American history. Discussion questions are answered in short essays about civil righ...

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...

Landings at Normandy and D-Day

only the greatest difficulty on July 18th."3 This perpetual setback would ultimately abate, however, come the end of July when Op...

Second World War Hero Audie Murphy

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...

Australia's Recreation and Leisure

Bicentennial Authority, designed projects based on the theme of "Leisure in the Age of Technology" (Editor, 1990, p. 3). The diffe...

Great Britain and Medical Provision Between 1845 and 1954

pioneering hygienist. Here they were able to prove a different reason for the death rate of the patients at the hospital. The hosp...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

Postwar France and Democracy

very much dominated by the French who were in favour of alliances with Germany and of undertaking large scale technology projects:...

Canadian Policy and Racism

the effect was similar in that the vast majority of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to the 1960s were from the British Isle o...

A World War II Submarines History

crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...

Student Argument on the 2 World Wars

the Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a serb and the beginning of World War I in 1914 ("World History" PG; Mather 4). Some suggest th...

Racism in Colonial America

Racism has been part and parcel of American society since its inception, and the colonial period featured racism in its most virul...

Weapons and Their History

in time between release of the hammer and the subsequent explosion, which resulted in inaccuracy (Reid 167). After a number of exp...

Jonathan S. Petrikin's The Third World

their positions within the country, many who do are consistently hindered from achieving any form of success at bettering their pr...

Reasons why 'Virgin Queen' Elizabeth I Never Married

This paper examines why Elizabeth I never wed Spain's Philip II, Robert Dudley, or Thomas Seymour in this historical overview cons...

Global Consequences of the Spanish American War

This paper examines the 1895 to 1898 Spanish American War in an overview of its global consequences past and present in 10 pages....

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...

California's Migrant Mexican Farm Workers

CUOM, which is a group of Mexican workers who worked in the Imperial Valley (2005). In 1933, a strike was called and three quarte...

Second World War Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States

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

Past and Present War Propaganda and the Media

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the Fugitive Slave Act

examine the realities of the time and thus see the attitudes of Twain. First we see that Huck is very disturbed by the fact that J...

Twentieth Century Leisure and Social Change in Great Britain

agriculture is a priority and employment patterns are dependent upon it, leisure is not only constrained by the amount of "spare t...

The Issue of the Extension of Slavery Reported in the American Whig

may be ill-timed or inhumane; it may be constitutional and yet smack of arbitrary power-of oppression: it may ... carry with it a ...

Development of Cape Town Through the Middle Nineteenth Century

This paper examines the South African city of Cape Town, the writer covers the city's development trends from its beginnings up to...

Compromise of 1850/3 Speeches

perspective on the political realities of the era, reviewing the political climate and history of the South. He states that this h...