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

progress: ambiguity in definition and measurement of what leadership actually is; whether or not leadership has perceivable effect...

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...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

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...

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

to do? A student writing on this subject also asks: "Is there an arbitration process and how does it work? Are the arbitrators f...

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...

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

There were also conflicts between the Australian Imperial Force and the militia troops, who had hastily been drafted when it becam...

General Washington recognized the problems that were at hand and initiated a strategy to correct them. That strategy involved the...

citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...

expansion into Southeast Asia, had attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet (moored in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii) the previous day (December 7...

First, it should be noted that the Star Wars myth is also exemplified in other films like K-Pax where an alien who is from the pla...

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

mere surface appearances. All this opulent beauty will be hidden with the outbreak of World War I. Having already been inv...

exceptions, but there were not many. WWII changed all that. As every able-bodied man not involved in defense development o...

Quaeda is not dependent on the continued existence of its leader. Even if allied forces were able to capture bin Laden tomorrow, ...

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...