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and East Germans shot for trying to take the route west. In Germany, at least, the post-war years well into the 1970s and 1980s co...

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

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

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

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....

In five pages this paper examines the Cold War, globalization, and communism's collapse in this conceptual view of the 'New World ...

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

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 ...

power of the individual states was making them reluctant to accept federal regulations, and making most fear that the unrest that ...

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

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

Modernization theory proposes that "pre-industrial societies are in a traditional stage" (Norton, n.d.). Traditional means that ki...

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

that rather than being simple distractions, the cartoons offered a means of expression for soldiers to both define and understand ...

of Britain, France and Russia, US President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring American neutrality (Kennedy, 1991). Ho...

meant the sacrifice of thousands of their own men in failed attacks) (MacKenzie, 1990). This also meant that the leadership had no...

the Civil Aeronautics Board to keep the airline industry in stasis. Firstly, they were able to control which airlines could fly wh...

ahs been an acceleration, they are now more common place than in the past and deal with a wide range of diplomatic issues. It may ...

has been written about the role of John Masterson, an agent in the British Secret Intelligence Service who masterminded the use of...

war, pulling in allies from the Near East, Asia and North America, was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the ...