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Japanese occupation wanted the end of colonial rule which in some cases wasnt met and started various "wars of national liberation...

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

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

some historians as the first world war (Ricks, 2000). In Europe, the Austrians were not satisfied with the War of Succession which...

who and what one was (Lee, 1995). In that, he wasnt unique. Thousands of Vietnam veterans experienced it, and dozens of writers ha...

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...

acquire these riches due to the efforts of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, which facilitates the creation of Lisbon as Europes ...

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...

rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...

the day before that the threat exists, but had done nothing, if we knew where the source of the threat was, who the terrorist were...

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

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

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

family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...

the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

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

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...

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

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

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...

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

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...