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Mobilizing the United States Home Front for World War II

was still mired in the Depression in 1940 when Roosevelt made the speech, and almost overnight things turned around (Faragher et a...

United Nations and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

President Bush had in fact stated the obvious and appointed John F. Bolton, a critic of the institution, as the new UN ambassador...

1820 and 1850 Compromises

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

History of Slavery in the US

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

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...

Pre Pearl Harbor Second World War Debate in the United States

to become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

U.S. Reconstruction and Labor Arrangements

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

Relations Between Russia and the United States and the Continuing Effects of the Cold War

Russian Revolution was all for naught. Communism was a dismal failure and Russia is now a poor country while the U.S. is seen as t...

Post World War and Cold War Economic and Political Impacts

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

US and the Iraq War

fear. With the terrorist attacks of September 11th, everything changed - literally. No longer can one simply walk through an air...

Containment Policy of George F. Kennan

because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...

Ethical Issues Associated with the Period from the 'New World' Settlement Until the U.S. Civil War

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

Economy During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

An Article on U.S. Welfare and Poor Programs Reviewed

system assumed that poor people were not finding work because they were parasitic in nature, preferring to be lazy and let society...

Terrorism War's Cost and the Dilemma of George W. Bush

Quaeda is not dependent on the continued existence of its leader. Even if allied forces were able to capture bin Laden tomorrow, ...

Richard Bruce Winder's Mr. Polk's Army

much of that time was spent training them. By the time the training was completed, there was little time left to use the militia o...

Were the Confederate States Manipulated into Striking First by President Abraham Lincoln?

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

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...

Confederate Black Soldiers

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

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...

African Amercan Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

Asian Immigrants to the U.S. After World War II

been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...

Consequences of the Conflict in Darfur

and Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of Congo. This ended the war between the Northern and Southern parts of Sudan that began in 1...

Civil War Era and Black Emancipation

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

Questions Involving Foreign Policy of the Cold War

NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...

Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

1847 Mexico and US War

reason for the war and Texas, "In the 1820s and 1830s, Mexico, newly independent from Spain, needed settlers in the under-populate...