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The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

At the turn of the twentieth century Japan was just beginning to take its place as one of the...

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

This research paper considers issues such as nationalism, ethnic violence, and anti-Semitism in regards to Central and Eastern Eur...

German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...

on a specific product, rather than trying to produce many products for which it has no resources. This would end up being a more c...

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...

textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...

are people today who chant slogans related to peace and give up notions of war, inclusive of defense. This is of course something ...

p. 31). According to Williams, Stalin was threatened by the prospect of the US imposing a liberal economic order on Eastern Euro...

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...

There were also conflicts between the Australian Imperial Force and the militia troops, who had hastily been drafted when it becam...

of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

a formidable presence in Afghanistan we are beginning to pull troops back from around the world and to more efficiently consolidat...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

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...

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

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...