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for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

the United States make it as clear as possible that there was to be no more armed conflict. This second attack was instrumental i...

creating the United Nations, one of the most powerful organizations that involves itself in promoting the security of all nations ...

the sacrifices were necessary. While the events changed things sociologically as people lived quite differently than they were u...

nations? Or do we continue to have a presence in these nations, despite poor publicity and the risk that mothers may not use the f...

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

heroism and bravery, there is no feeling that he is bragging or presenting the Sterett crew of entirely composed of heroes. Rather...

living arrangements of the indigenous peoples, or under the assumption that they will bring a heightened standard of decency. The...

the propaganda proliferated relied on fear and questionable facts in order to gain the sympathies of the people. In retrospect, th...

the media of the time (i.e. television and movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census...

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

1995). Yet another crucial element to prewar considerations was the fact that there existed a great quest for peace. Democ...

or her to make allowances for the various aspects of the book that seem somewhat sensationalized or overblown. It will also serve ...

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

offered a multitude of incentives to the smaller nations of the world to team up with them. Some of these incentives were positiv...

At the initiation of their invasion of Poland, the British government began to put into place strategies for addressing the defens...

changes, or merely provided the supportive framework after the internal change had already begun. However, one could make the acc...

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

only the greatest difficulty on July 18th."3 This perpetual setback would ultimately abate, however, come the end of July when Op...

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

the waging of war, but by the ability to wage war; not necessarily by the demonstration of our defense capabilities, but by the vi...

in many economies to strengthen banking sectors and work on non-performing loans, and also at multilateral institutions. The IMF, ...

The beginning of the war marked a time that the federal government became far more active in gathering its supplies partially with...

begins by saying that "Francis Fukuyamas vision of a world governed by capitalism and democracy, we can anticipate an earlier, if...

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

and far-reaching of a strategy as that which has proven itself necessary in the wake of the September 11 attacks on America in New...

another of not abiding by the rules, the WTO provides the forum where such cases can be settled ("The Banana," 1999). If the inte...

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

Iwo Jima. The last straw would be the bomb that was let loose at Hiroshima. It was a devastating blow. A lesser, but just as detri...