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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...

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

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

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

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

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of The Civil Wars by Julius Caesar. This relates the central themes a...

This paper examines World War II tribunals in terms of how war crimes are defined from legal and ethical perspectives with chain o...

In five pages this paper considers how many of Hemingway's works are rooted in his own wartime experiences and observations as a c...

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...

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

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

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

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

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...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

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

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

In five pages this paper examines how war's realities and intrusions have cemented contemporary society's philosophical foundation...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

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

They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...

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

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

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...

Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...

use of their forces; hence these organizations tend to support belligerent foreign policies" (pp. 107). On the other hand, one may...

Small, local, decentralized, weak-kneed affairs, where nearly every individual felt his importance, was jealous or suspicious of h...