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Trade in the Aftermath of the World Wars: A Comparison of Post-WWI and Post-WWII

throughout the twentieth century played a role. In examining the differences between trade before and after each world war, there ...

Vietnam, America’s Lost War

United States had not invested the situation in Vietnam with rivalry with Communist powers, the tragedy might have been avoided. B...

Life of a Roman Soldier: Persian Wars

a man with shield and spear and lance and ultimately all the metal protection they could possess. The cavalry was incredibly succe...

Tank Technology between the Wars.

First World War; this, the mythology goes, explains why the Germans exhibited such striking superiority in the field in 1940. end ...

Cold War History/Role of Geo-Political Motives

rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...

The United States at the Time of the First World War

al, 2000, p. 648). It appears that Wilson saw American industry as a way to spread democracy; he told a group of salesmen that the...

United States and War with Spain

to grant Cuba religious and civil rights, without removing Cuba from Spains control (Volume I of The Great Republic by the Master ...

Art and Recruitment: World War I, Flagg, and Christy

This was all before he had received any formal training in the arts other than his studies at the Art Students League in New York ...

The War In Iraq: Our Troops Should Not Leave Too Quickly

- are the nations that have single-handedly caused Americas ideals to be brought into question. Moving forward into the twe...

Evolution in Aircraft Design in the World War II Era

drag cleanup. Howard Hughes racing plane was the fastest thing going in the U.S. during this time and one of the most important f...

Harris: Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches

"How can we ever hope to understand people so different from ourselves?" (Harris, 1989, p. 11). The answer, of course, is that t...

The Injustices of World War II: Japanese American Internment and Atomic Bombs

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...

World War II Battle of Iwo Jima

the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...

The Canadian Nation, the Boer War and the Conscription Crisis

Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...

President Polk and the Mexican/American War

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

Henry David Thoreau and the War in Iraq

to expand, he says, or else they will be misunderstood. He applies this to nations as well: "Individuals, like nations, must have ...

Can We Win the "War on Terror"?

consider the real grievances that help terrorists recruit" (Dickey, 2006). It also means that the U.S. will be locked into a strug...

Drug War in Mexico

to internal corruption. Therefore, Calderon turned to the military and declared war on drug traffickers (Bonner 14). This policy...

Winston Churchill: An Effective War Leader

1930s about the coming of the war" (Harmon). Churchill served in various posts throughout the war; he was minister of defense, the...

Three Wars and Their Impact on History

forever banned and the other so useful it is still in production. The first is gas, the second, the tank. Gas attacks were so dead...

Emerson and Thoreau and the War in Iraq

personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...

Generalship And George S. Patton

in an abundance in Col. Patton. The first example we have of Pattons intelligence is his experience in various educational/academi...

Chamberlain, Appeasement and the Road to War

Chamberlain came by his caution; his father "served as Colonial Secretary (1895-1903) in the government of Conservative Prime Mini...

Argumentative Essay Opposing the Iraq War

trillion.6 The severe economic effects of this war in terms of costs that include war zone operations, troop deployment, equipmen...

Trans-Mississippi West And The Spanish-American War

as people were filling in where buffalo used to be. Right along side this forward motion was the Trans-Mississippi, which wasted ...

Woodrow Wilson and Word War I

as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arthur, 2004). ...

The Crimean War and Florence Nightingale

that by instituting improved sanitation and nutrition, there was a corresponding decrease in morality (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003...

Justifications for the Use of Atomic Bombs in World War II

is to argue that while we might have been misguided in our decision to utilize the newly devised atomic weaponry against Japan, ou...

Dynamic Midwest Campus Against the Vietnam War

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...