YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Cold War
Essays 601 - 630
the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...
progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...
past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...
considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...
a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...
noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...
They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...
alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...
rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...
from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...
could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...
of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...
Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...
to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...
et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...