YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Our Fondness for the Civil War
Essays 1921 - 1950
power of the individual states was making them reluctant to accept federal regulations, and making most fear that the unrest that ...
and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...
and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...
was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...
length or breadth to accurately cover his subject matter. In fact, the first twenty pages read more as a propagandist pamphlet tha...
the creation of organizations. NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is perhaps the best known group that...
most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...
have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...
ideal for battle. In the late Middle Ages, two developments in respect to the conduct of warfare had been combined to reduce the c...
a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...
(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...
the United States, our interests, or our allies" (The Strategy). The National Security Objective - to promote peace and stability...
turned into tribute to Athens" (Greer, 1977, p. 74). Many neighboring city states were appalled by Athens avarice and abuse of po...
well as the permanent deployment of many American troops bases and garrisons abroad were involved (1996). The U.S. military leade...
fronts if our own national security is to be preserved. While the EU is presently regarded as a friend to the U.S., history testi...
for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....
no political science degree is required to understand the theory and ideology behind the assertions of this author. There is a we...
Then the UN imposed economic sanctions against Iraq and soon after calls for "Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991" (The ...
as well, however. South Korea had been in favor of reuniting with North Korea under one government from the time of...
with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...
some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...
rule, and foundation of this country changed - and changed dramatically. What is so impressive about the American Revolution is...
nations. The 1824 U.S. isolation from the rest of the world would be formalized with the Monroe Doctrine, a foreign policy ...
In addition, it was...
writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...
the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...
to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...
and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...
of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...
at least, among nations during the late 1950s, but as well see, a lot of Waltzs theories are still in consideration, even close to...