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The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

In eight pages this paper discusses the U.S. economy in terms of the impacts of the First and Second World Wars and also considers...

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

soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...

as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

and parcel of continuing education. In grade school, students learn about history and geography, but it is only when they grow up ...

Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...

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 ...

1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...

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

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...

tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

the Vietnam debacle, and, consequently overlook Johnsons achievements in Europe, which Schwartz feels "deserve consideration as on...

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

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

or hurt is as bad as joining with the abusers. A great deal of the damage thats done in society is done by those who only stand a...

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...