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Essays 481 - 510
At the turn of the twentieth century Japan was just beginning to take its place as one of the...
fighters was the response of the British government, which included the execution of the insurrection leaders and thousands of arr...
This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...
The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...
defeating Al-Qaeda (Council on Foreign Relations n.d.). But there are critics who believe that the window for securing Afghanistan...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...
was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...
considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...
1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...
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 ...
from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...
tyranny, with scarcely anyone considering independence (Burns, 1969). It escalated into the birth of a nation, but the primary thr...
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...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...
things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...
moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...
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...
to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...
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...
are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...
The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...
of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...
had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...
Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...
but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...