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to that war the battleship, for example, had come to be regarded as the ultimate offensive weapon. While Hitlers emphasis was on ...

had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...

He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

of postwar survival -- that a person who learns a trade and can take care of himself is not only an asset to his own family but to...

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

was putting to death. So then, in defining the Aryans he must also define those that were not acceptable. This is where his di...

and social forces in Europe. The European Union is more actively supported it is found, by the more affluent and economically sou...

number of lives lost as a result of the atomic bombs. This paper will seek to illustrate that there are, therefore,...

can be said that the womens liberation movement had, had a shot in the arm and as was happening south of her shores, in America, w...

Practically on the heels of World War I, where the involved countries had already suffered some amount of loss, they collectively ...

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...

and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...

were in fact two peas in a pod or two halves of the same coin. In general, historians like to compartmentalize World Wars One and ...

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

removed from the shores of the U.S. itself. Never-the-less, these years became a time of tremendous opportunity for Mexican Ameri...

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

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

on a number of factors. The intent of this paper is to explore those factors and to consider how they have changed since the end ...

order to develop at a faster pace. However, the neo-liberal perspective argues for less state intervention, and it is argued that ...

by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...

Interestingly, what most people dont realize is that U.S. prisoners of war who were being held captive by the Germans died at a ra...

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...

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

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...

always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something...

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...