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that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...

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...

stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...

Mass Market makes it easy to understand the growth pattern of gender-based consumerism that occurred throughout the twentieth cent...

supporting industries and last the firm strategy and rivalry (Porter, 1999, Weller, 1999). Just as with any model the accuracy wil...

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

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

Germany. The period of time was one that introduced a period of ethnic intolerance (Kunovich and Hodson, 1999). The object...

had all the emotional attributes of a film where the audience is cheering for victory. Indeed, the operation did much for morale, ...

over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for...

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

took the lead to coordinate at least their own departments in an effort to decide what diplomatic activities and what military act...

is agreeable to turning the plane over to the Navy but only if he is at least reimbursed the money that he has been out recovering...

and East Germans shot for trying to take the route west. In Germany, at least, the post-war years well into the 1970s and 1980s co...

split; the Nazis "created a separate intelligence organization, the Sicherheitsdienst, or Security Service, headed by Reinhard Hey...

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

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...

the economy develops in the way most economic forecasters expect this will rise to between 250,000 and 380,000 by 2003. However, ...

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...

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...

private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...