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Deteriorating European Security as a Result of the Cold War

which, in reality, should have been their own responsibility. They viewed the USSR as their greatest threat and the U.S. as the s...

Cold War and Bipolarity Between the United States and Soviet Union

U.S. has largely led while European representatives followed passively. By the fall of 1944 during World War II, Allied sol...

First and Second World War Similarities

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 ...

Lessons Learned From The Failure of Prohibition

enhancing family life, and creating a safer society, crime increased. There is a great deal of evidence to show that organized cri...

Post Second World War Era and Late Industrialization's Effects

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

Overview of Major Events of Western Civilization

of nobles, officials, merchants and peasants alike. Even more importantly Henry the Great cared about his people and his country....

Randall Wallace's Film We Were Soldiers and the Depiction of the Vietnam War

coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...

Appeasement, Antagonist, War, and the Foreign Policy Between Germany and the United States During the 1930s

society where mankind was neither chained to the past nor condemned to a deterministic future."5 On the other side of the w...

Theodore Roosevelt's Early Life and the Rough Riders

area in 1649 (The Archives: Theodore Roosevelt, 2002). His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia native who supported th...

Comparative Analysis of the 1908 and 1909 Bosnian Crisis and 1912 and 1913 Balkan Wars

of the essential events leading up to the war were confined to Europe. Why then, was the conflict not contained in Europe? Why di...

War Films Made by the Soviet Union

the USSR, World War II served as "the great patriotic war," and filmmakers would often examine the war from the human perspective ...

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...

Nationalist and Not Communist Sentiments Fueled the Vietnam War

Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...

Free Speech and J.S. Mill

According to Mills adversaries, if utilitarianism is, indeed, wrapped around the concept of emotion instead of common sense, then ...

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...

Our War by David Harris

the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...

Cinematic Neorealism

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

History and Impact of the Cold War

slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...

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...

The Changes Following the Second World War

of postwar survival -- that a person who learns a trade and can take care of himself is not only an asset to his own family but to...

Pearl Buck's Dragon Seed

"Dragon Seed" details the circumstances surrounding Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during World War II as they...

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...

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 ...

Conclusion of the Cold War and American Foreign Policy

disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...

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...

Saving Private Ryan Film by Director Steven Spielberg and its Importance

did not think the film appropriate for anyone under the age of 14 (Gordinier, 1998). Grown men would weep after being through it. ...

Analogies Used in Business

with analogies for the many different types of business becoming popular titles on the best sellers lists as well as fashion items...

Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October, and the Cold War

authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...

Changes Resulting from the Vietnam War

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

Background and Events of the Wars of the Roses

we start with the last king of the Plantagent line we have a good starting point. Edward III had seven sons, although two died ear...