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Crisis Situations, Public Opinion, and Government Policy

In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...

Overview of the Franco Prussian War

Consequently, Prussia grew bitter over what it viewed as the robbery of two traditionally German provinces. By the mid-1860s, the ...

Defining War Crimes

This paper examines World War II tribunals in terms of how war crimes are defined from legal and ethical perspectives with chain o...

Comparing the Second World War and the Cold War

the masses; and the inspiration by some other outside cause. With respect to one whose actions instigated World War II, all of th...

War and the Human Psyche Impact According to Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper considers how many of Hemingway's works are rooted in his own wartime experiences and observations as a c...

War Deterrence

of deterrence is often confused, as Jaime Garcia Covarrubias notes. Many believe deterrence means wiping all weapons off the plane...

Star Wars Trilogy and Mythology

In three pages this paper examines how in the Star Wars' trilogy George Lucas incorporated elements of myth. Two sources are cite...

Michael Klare's Resource Wars and War Over Oil Reserves of the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and South China Sea

The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...

Comparing World Wars in Two Works

of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...

Justification of War

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

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

History's 'Longest War'

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

Revolutionary War's Political and Socioeconomic Causes

They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...

Role of Women in WWII/A Research Proposal

alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...

Terrorism and a 'New Cold War'

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...

Political Questions Pertaining to Asia

Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...

An Elliott Johnson Interview

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

Silence as Weapon in Vietnam by Herrington

forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...

First Century of American Foreign Policy

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

World War II Russian Politics and FDR's Role

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

NSC 68's Effects

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

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Generations

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...

Analyzing the Iraq War through Works by Plato and Aristophanes

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper examines how war's realities and intrusions have cemented contemporary society's philosophical foundation...

First World War and Global War Sources

use of their forces; hence these organizations tend to support belligerent foreign policies" (pp. 107). On the other hand, one may...

Labor Unions and War

Small, local, decentralized, weak-kneed affairs, where nearly every individual felt his importance, was jealous or suspicious of h...

Oliver Stone's Films

In 5 pages this paper examines Vietnam War vet Oliver Stone's films about the war Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. There are ...

Welfare System Since the Vietnam War

The welfare system and war handling by the United States and the changes that resulted from the Vietnam War are discussed in 5 pag...

SDI or 'Star Wars'

a fairly recent advertising campaign - this is not your fathers battleground. Ironically, thirteen years after Reagans introducti...

Lindbergh Falls From Grace After Many Years Aloft

4 million Americans had thronged the streets of Manhattan to see and used an estimated 7,430,000 feet of newsreel to record just a...