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Germany's William II

(Columbia PG). In 1881, he married a princess by the name of Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (PG). He was a healthy man, fo...

Terrorism and Special Operations Forces

Navy Seals and the Green Berets underwent rigorous screening and training before they were admitted to these Forces. Their trainin...

Second World War and Mexican Americans

removed from the shores of the U.S. itself. Never-the-less, these years became a time of tremendous opportunity for Mexican Ameri...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

A Civil War Personal Account

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

First World War and Significance of Women's Roles

Among the most interesting aspects of these considerations are the apparent differences in meaning the war had for men verses thos...

A Fictional Young Mexican Living in Texas During the 19th Century

me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...

Brazil and Civil Wars

Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...

War and its Impact

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

A Civil War History of Devil's Den Action

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

United States, Harry S. Truman, and the Korean War

and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and everyone went home (The Korean War: Setting the Stage and Brief Overview, 2002). Roosevelts b...

IHL and the Gulf War

potential harm that may be suffered by those not directly involved must also be considered when planning action (HRW, 2002). Th...

War in the Nineteenth Century

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

Overview of the 'New South Africa'

comparison of the two works, illustrating what one can learn of South Africa through having two different sources of information, ...

1st Example of Modern Warfare, the U.S. Civil War

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Responsibility for the First World War

a dilemma -- either an advance to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139). Capitalism was at the f...

Military Warfare Changes from the American Revolution Until the End of the First World War

abandoned similar policies (Apt, 2002). However, when America adopted the social philosophy of Manifest Destiny, the naval theori...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

1865 to 1920 America and its Emergence on the World Stage

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

American Civil War: Just or Unjust?

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

Athens and the Peloponnesian War

relationship to one complaint and event prior to the war: "the complaint of Corinth was that her colony of Potidaea, and Corinthia...

A History of Values and Attitudes in America

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

Terrorism and Globalization

and Iraq today definitely constitutes a terrorist threat and a major challenge to the war on terrorism. Of course, it should be ...

Desmond Seward’s Wars of the Roses

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

Palka, Galgano, and Corson's Operation Iraqi Freedom

and resources for Iraqis, and helping the Iraqi people create the conditions necessary for a rapid transition to representative se...

Lincoln’s War

he unravels the various people involved that served under, and aside from, Lincoln. While one could argue that his work, and sourc...

Kentucky During the Civil War

In ten pages this paper discusses the Civil War in a consideration of the impact of events that took place in Kentucky before and ...

President Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative

initiative depended on the use of not just ground-based systems but also space-based systems for the protection of our national ho...

The Years Leading Up To World War I

The years leading up to Word War I were full of clues...