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The Horrors of WWI

often referred to as a trench war. And, as one author notes, "There had never been anything like it before and there wont ever be ...

Evolution of the Russian Family Institition

however, in the 1930s to 1950s when the Bolshevik state worked actively towards disbanding the traditional family unit and transfo...

Social Conflict in Western Canada from the Settlement Period to World War II

the Canadian culture comprised two stages first involving the marginalization of indigenous peoples that commenced during the earl...

Gold, Dollars, and Power by Francis J. Gavin

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

Events Associated with the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Second World War and Its Chronological History

"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...

Logical Vietnam Argument Perspectives

precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...

Why Did the United States Lose the Vietnam War?

could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

Firebrand of Liberty

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Unnecessary Victims of the Cold War

Conclusion Introduction When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan in August, 1945, it brought a swift end to the S...

Crane and Bierce

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Case

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

Lessons Taught by the First World War

that had to be destroyed. Smoter also wrote that Hitler that "propaganda played a large role in the German failure." He learned t...

Changing the World

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

Vietnam War and the Movie We Were Soldiers

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

Civil War Technology

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

Thucydides and his accuracy as a historian

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

Blacks and Their History as Guided by Reconstruction

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

The 1st and 2nd Gulf War - Have the Allies Committed Genocide?

not only at cases that have been subject to a great deal of debate, such as East Timor and Rwanda, but also at cases where there h...

Kansas and Slavery

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

An American Shame - The Ku Klux Klan

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

Greece's Stance on Staying Neutral in World War I

Even when it appeared that World War I was inevitable, however, Greece was very reluctant to enter the fray. She restrained from ...

Mexican American War/Lincoln's Slavery Position

soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...

War as a Triumph of Technology

all over Asia proved far more effective" (Parker, 2008, p. 2). However, archers such as these rarely came into contact with the We...

Vera Brittain and the Death of Youth

found herself trying to heal German boys that her brother and his friends would later try to kill (Brittain). The idea of patching...

World War One Causes and Effects

self-fulfilling prophesy. Who was responsible? Although theres plenty of blame to go around, the blame for the war would seem to ...

Suspicion and the Civil War

slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...

James Longstreet and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...