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Global Theory and the Cold War

enough tinder on the firebox to light a conflagration. During the early days of the war, American policy was focused on co...

First World War Field Psychology in Pat Barker's Regeneration

example, are real-life characters. Rivers was a well known psychologist during the war. Serving in Scotland and England he treat...

Algerian War and Albert Camus

the limited liberty that they offered was not sufficient to the majority of Arabs in Algeria (Gildea 17). Albert Camus wrote, in...

Napoleon and Kutuzov in War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

kind of holistic pattern, into which all experiences must be forced to fit....

Registered Nurse First Assistant Programs and RNs During the Korean War

military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

1980s' War Between Iraq and Iran

In ten pages this 1980s' war is examined in an application of systems theory. There are sources cited in the bibliography....

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order by Ellis Hawley

kicked off something else that was interesting - the worlds first mass consumption economy. The Industrial Revolution had been und...

Art in the Caribbean between the Two World Wars

to the Caribbean. Caribbean art has always been, and still is, a very private thing that truly relates to the region itself. In mo...

First World War and British Military Leadership

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

Iraq War and Coverage by the Media

sporadic unless something major happens (like the killing of American civilians or the capture of Saddam Hussein). But critics hav...

Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

U.S. Presidents and Executive War Powers

in this regard. Although as we shall see there are some temporary exceptions, the legislative branch typically approves o...

Pacifism versus Just War

nature of war in relationship to what may be perceived by some as the just nature of the terrorist acts waged against the United S...

'How to Remember the Forgotten War' by Stanley Weintraub

inadequacies compiled by Weintraub is impressive. While Weintraub portrays the US as narrowly avoiding another "Dunkirk" -- tha...

Aftermath of the Second Gulf War and the Middle East

various minority groups, the most notable being the sustained campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Kurds in the north of the c...

Persian Gulf War and Iraqi Portrayal by the Media

were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...

Stock Markets During Times of War

FTSE 350 all show similar trends over the same period (Financial Times, 2004). Figure 1; FTSE All Share Index 1994 - 2004 (Fina...

Revolutionary War Caused by Mercantilism

the task becomes difficult. The only way that countries could survive economically was to encourage colonialism. Colonies provided...

'War on Terrorism' and September 11, 2001

with the attack fading, the results of the administration continue to be with us. The hunt is still on for Osama bin Laden who, ac...

Second World War and Mexican Americans

removed from the shores of the U.S. itself. Never-the-less, these years became a time of tremendous opportunity for Mexican Ameri...

National Identity of France and the First World War

that rather than being simple distractions, the cartoons offered a means of expression for soldiers to both define and understand ...

Images of War in Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Now here, now there, he hunted hem so faste, Ther nas but Grekes blood; and Troilus, Now hem he hurte,...

Second World War Hero Audie Murphy

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...

Randall Wallace's Film We Were Soldiers and the Depiction of the Vietnam War

coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...

Appeasement, Antagonist, War, and the Foreign Policy Between Germany and the United States During the 1930s

society where mankind was neither chained to the past nor condemned to a deterministic future."5 On the other side of the w...

Deteriorating European Security as a Result of the Cold War

which, in reality, should have been their own responsibility. They viewed the USSR as their greatest threat and the U.S. as the s...

Cold War and Bipolarity Between the United States and Soviet Union

U.S. has largely led while European representatives followed passively. By the fall of 1944 during World War II, Allied sol...

First and Second World War Similarities

were in fact two peas in a pod or two halves of the same coin. In general, historians like to compartmentalize World Wars One and ...

The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...