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Post Second World War Capitalism and the Bretton Woods System

The International Band for Reconstruction and Development would be formed as a consequence of the Bretton Woods System in 1945 (Wo...

U.S. Civil War and Reasons for the South's Loss

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

Myths and Reality of the U.S. Reconstruction Period

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

Saddam Hussein and the Vendetta of George W. Bush

In five pages this paper discusses how the terrorism war is being fought as a way of satisfying the personal agenda of U.S. Presid...

Cultural and Political Views of the Vietnam War

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

Pilots, Paratroopers and World War II

idea had a great deal of potential, the war ended before he ever really got to try it out (D-Day Introduction, 2002)....

Enduring Legacy of Freedom

against the terrorism in their own nation. The United States with its superpower status sits in the position of setting many of th...

The Individual and Societal Impacts of the Civil War

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

Oil, Finance and the Political Economy of the Persian Gulf

created a transposition route between these different countries, in addition to this other common factors such at the geological l...

Capital Flows into Developing Counties and International Financial and Monetary Systems

place between the developed wealthy countries. Another form of capital flow is that indirect investment. This has been seen in m...

U.S. Movement of Third World War Torn Citizens

contends the U.S. "is not now and never has been a remotely multi-cultural society. The American nation has always had a specific...

America's 'Victory' in the War of 1812

Canada" (The war of 1812, 2001). All of these various forces found voice in a group called the "War Hawks," a "rising young gener...

U.S. Civil War Partisan Influence and Guerrilla Warfare

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

Abuses of Human Rights, Imperialism, and Terrorism

took place due to the better opportunities for Muslims in the Ottoman bureaucracy (John, 2004). This may have been the first hist...

New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

History of Slavery in the US

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

President-Congress Relationship

process of checks and balances. Jackson "saw himself as a guardian of the people, with a mission to protect them from the excesse...

"Flags Of Our Fathers" - A Photograph's Ability To Shape Popular Perception Of An Event

film" (Johnson, 2006). The events leading up to the celebrated were no more monumental to the overall atmosphere than most any o...

Organizational Information Systems

Originally seeking to be a virtual company carrying no inventory of its own (Gruppo, 2000), Amazon abandoned that plan shortly aft...

Stampp: "The Era of Reconstruction"

analysis and interpretation of the material led him to conclude that the Restoration was a success, particularly in light of the p...

U.S. - Native American Relations from 1850-1890

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

African Amercan Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

Asian Immigrants to the U.S. After World War II

been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...

Questions Involving Foreign Policy of the Cold War

NATO. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting a weakened Europe from Soviet aggression. The viewpoint propelled the U...

Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

Intelligence Agencies in World War II

split; the Nazis "created a separate intelligence organization, the Sicherheitsdienst, or Security Service, headed by Reinhard Hey...

The U.S. Move From Isolationism

independent from outside intervention. This establishment was political but it was greatly facilitated by geography. Indeed, the...

Consequences of the Conflict in Darfur

and Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of Congo. This ended the war between the Northern and Southern parts of Sudan that began in 1...

Comparative Analysis of the CIA and the KGB

Stalin and subsequent leaders, going through many name changes, and ultimately becoming the KGB in 1954 (University of San Diego, ...