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Second World War and Vietnam War on Film

In six pages this paper examines how the Second World War and Vietnam War are portrayed in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Hamburger ...

War Beginning, Ending, and the Role of Politicians

In five pages this paper assesses the statement 'Politicians start wars, armies do not. Government end wars, generals do not' in ...

Past, Present, and the Cold War

In eleven pages this paper examines congressional records and presidential papers in a consideration of such Cold War inspired leg...

U.S. Civil War and the Turning Point at the Battle of Gettysburg

In seven pages the U.S. Civil War's bloodiest conflict and its implications are examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliogra...

The Impact of Perspective on Memories of World War II

This 5 page paper discusses current accounts of the Second World War coming out of Japan, Russia and Poland. The writer argues tha...

The Aftermath of the First World War

themselves embroiled in a grinding war of attrition against a powerful coalition of opposing states (http://fas.org/man/dod-101/op...

Tobias Wolff's The End of Illusion In Pharaoh's Army

In five pages the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive is the focus of this overview of the memoir by Tobias Wolff. One source is cited in...

The Civil War and Black Americans Who Fought

6 pages and 6 sources. This paper cosiders the African American experience in the American Civil War. This paper relates the exp...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Overview of the Franco Prussian War

Consequently, Prussia grew bitter over what it viewed as the robbery of two traditionally German provinces. By the mid-1860s, the ...

Justification of War

and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...

US Civil War's Purpose

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

Gulf War Coverage of CNN

that attention. Its coverage would air not only in the U.S. but it indeed would serve as a global influence (Begleiter, 2000). R...

A Life Examined in Alan Taylor's 'William Cooper's Town'

In this 5 page paper, the Revolutionary War is the star of William Cooper's life in a text that continues the trials and tribulati...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

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...

Comparing World Wars in Two Works

of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...

War and Propaganda

rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...

A Speech in Support of the Iraq War

the day before that the threat exists, but had done nothing, if we knew where the source of the threat was, who the terrorist were...

Slave Trade Economics and History

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

Before the American Revolution, King Philip's War

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...

History of U.S. Army Aviation

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

Could the Mexican War Have Been Avoided?

as an independent state, and warned the US that if it should try to annex Texas into the Union, it would break off diplomatic rela...

Pacifism and War as Viewed by Immanuel Kant

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

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...

A Vietnam War Overview

supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...

1st Example of Modern Warfare, the U.S. Civil War

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

Korean War and Its Impact

Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...

U.S. Culture and Societal Impacts of the Cold War

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...