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Essays 361 - 390
Japanese occupation wanted the end of colonial rule which in some cases wasnt met and started various "wars of national liberation...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...
1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...
considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...
from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...
new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...
broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...
things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...
survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...
war on terrorism, people were at first agreeable and like most other "wars" on anything, the cause lost its fervor after awhile. P...
Program; to be sure, traits such as intolerance and racism do not merely appear in ones life but rather have to be acquired. It i...
PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...
recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...
tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...
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 ...
to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...
They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...