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1989's Spanish American War

noted how relations between U.S. and Spain had seriously deteriorated, and that with increasing unrest of the Spanish-Cuban War no...

Europe and the Impact of the First World War

power in what was known as the Russian Revolution (1988). The war in chronology appears rather matter of fact. Events happe...

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...

Recruitment Techniques in the U.S. Military Since the Civil War

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

US Continued Involvement in the Vietnam War and the Decisions Responsible for this Involvement

two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....

Vietnam War and Soldiers' Good Luck Charms

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

Combating Philosophies and the U.S. Civil War

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

Symbolism in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

United Kingdom and the War Against Terrorism

events of September 11th affected British interests, it would be fair to say that the way in which the attacks on the WTC and the ...

Trade in the Aftermath of the World Wars: A Comparison of Post-WWI and Post-WWII

throughout the twentieth century played a role. In examining the differences between trade before and after each world war, there ...

The Fundamentalist Middle East Society and Anti-Westernism

on greed for middle east resources, notably oil. They fear that the western culture, with modern conveniences and popular culture...

War as a Business

There are a number of other factors that influence a war economy - and many of these are simply not predictable without knowing th...

Post 9 11 and Civil Rights

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

How Would American History Be Different Had John F. Kennedy Lived?

the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...

Wartime and the Rights of the Individual

a great deal of ability to open doors, but this impedes the freedom of the people of the United States. While it has happened in r...

Sigmund Freud And Jose Ortega y Gassett

prone to violence if left on its own. Freud began his essay by acknowledging that the existence of a war leads to confusion within...

Slave Life in the South before the Civil War

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

Lincoln and the Second Revolution

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

Iphigenia at Aulis and The Trojan Women As Seen Through the Eyes of Euripides

to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife...

The Injustices of World War II: Japanese American Internment and Atomic Bombs

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

World War II Battle of Iwo Jima

the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...

Unification and Africa

for resources is another of the more prominent reasons for conflict. Closely aligned with the issue of intertribal conflict is ...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

The Canadian Nation, the Boer War and the Conscription Crisis

Transvaal (The background to the conflict). Tensions, already high, were exacerbated by the annexation and the conflict finally ex...

President Polk and the Mexican/American War

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

Florida in the Civil War

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...

Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam War

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

Colonization, Economic Development, Geographical Distinctions and the American Civil War

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

McDonald's and Its Marketing Tactics

chain Burger King would introduce the Big King (Branch & Gunn, 1997). The Big King was a hit and did much better than the Arch Del...

Argument: Children Without Siblings Should Serve in Combat

end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...