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Second World War Atomic Bombs Usage Justifications

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

Major Post 1945 Conflicts and the Involvement of 'Superpower' United States

Superpower nations have a number of different types of pressure which they can bring to bear on countries in conflict; apart from ...

Nations and National Wealth Accumulation

In five pages this paper examines how North America, Europe, and Japan accumulated their national wealth in an historical consider...

Modern East and West Germany

refugees from the Soviet zone to where some had fled during the war ("Germany"). Also among the refugees were individuals who had ...

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Reasons Behind Them

The assumption was that Germans were working as feverishly on atomic power as was the U.S. - and it was only late in 1944 that the...

Second World War and its Cause

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

Canada After the Second World War

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...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Louis de Berniere's 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' and Cultural Perspective Differences

throughout the novel. Although they try and maintain their cultural identity through music, they are morally lost in environmental...

Americans on the Homefront and the Impact of the Second World War

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 ...

American Hero Franklin Delano Roosevelt

private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...

Kennedy's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

verified in the CIAs own records.) At the last minute, Kennedy called off the air strikes but that message did not reach the more...

Post 1945 the Netherlands

of the Labour Party and Kok was also the Prime Minister (The Economist, 1998). His opponent was Frits Bolkestein from the Liberal ...

Second World War and Nursing

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

Second World War and the Role Played by Adolf Hitler

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

Post Second World War European Politics and Christianity

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

Economy Growth and Employment of Japan

In twelve pages this paper discusses the post Second World War creation of the Japanese Employment System and how it is currently ...

Common Vision Shared by the United Kingdom and Japan

the economy develops in the way most economic forecasters expect this will rise to between 250,000 and 380,000 by 2003. However, ...

Postwar Success of Japan

Emperor was stripped of his rank and power, most would say that he and the nation of Japan lost much face because of it. In Japane...

1930s' Decline of Great Britain

Imperial rule of the colonies was being demonstrated, perhaps over confidence following the 1857 mutiny which had been put down, w...

Successful and Least Successful Post Second World War US Presidents

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

Post Second World War Presidential Assessment

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...

Post World War II Great Britain and Immigration

also the issue of the many displaced nationals from Europe, with the Surrender of France to the Germans in 1940, for a while Brita...

Pre Second World War, Adolf Hitler, and the Nazi Party

possible to the party, so he changed the name to the National Socialist German Workers Party" hoping "that the word National would...

Postwar France and Democracy

very much dominated by the French who were in favour of alliances with Germany and of undertaking large scale technology projects:...

An Overview of the Battle of Dunkirk

had all the emotional attributes of a film where the audience is cheering for victory. Indeed, the operation did much for morale, ...

Truman Proclamation/Continental Shelf

over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for...

Croatia; Political Aspects and Change During and Immediately Following the Second World War

Germany. The period of time was one that introduced a period of ethnic intolerance (Kunovich and Hodson, 1999). The object...

The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill

but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...