YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Our Fondness for the Civil War
Essays 661 - 690
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...
are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...
forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...
The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...
of deterrence is often confused, as Jaime Garcia Covarrubias notes. Many believe deterrence means wiping all weapons off the plane...
In three pages this paper examines how in the Star Wars' trilogy George Lucas incorporated elements of myth. Two sources are cite...
but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...
to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...
of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...
Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...
alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...
was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...
get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...
tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...
1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...
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 ...
out. You didnt know what the future might bring, or if they would survive. "Did you get married during the war?" I asked. "No, ...
the conflict in Iran is not over, the Cold War is, and when looking back from a twenty-first century perspective, the U.S. looks a...
Ionian Greeks under Persian rule, with the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or la...
42 that give the Security Council the authority to determine if there is cause to use acts of aggression (Dorf, 2003). These Artic...
is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...
In 5 pages this paper examines Vietnam War vet Oliver Stone's films about the war Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. There are ...
troops and frontier riflemen under Jackson had inflicted "appalling casualties on the British line," killing or wounding over two ...
In six pages this paper discusses the social problems associated with the US interment of Japanese Americans during World War II a...
4 million Americans had thronged the streets of Manhattan to see and used an estimated 7,430,000 feet of newsreel to record just a...
Small, local, decentralized, weak-kneed affairs, where nearly every individual felt his importance, was jealous or suspicious of h...
The welfare system and war handling by the United States and the changes that resulted from the Vietnam War are discussed in 5 pag...
for example seemed to have been swept into a war which it would ultimately lose. But in a sense, Germany can be seen as the aggres...
and done, there were good feelings in the United States. The fifties would soon erupt with its newfound innocence and vigor. Kore...