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that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union (USSR) was at it's height in 1979, the year in which the Iranian Revolution to...

This essay pertain to World War I and discusses how it was different from all previous wars. Four pages in length, four sources ar...

Then writer looks at a 2003 article written by Mearsheimer and Walt in the run up to the war. The arguments of the article arguing...

This essay takes the form of journal entries that an African American soldiers might have written during World War I. Other issue...

This essay presents a review of "The English Civil War: Trial of the King Killers," which is a short video that dramatizes several...

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

cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...

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

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

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

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

This paper pertains to the War on Drugs and argues that, while this is a real war, it is not one that US authorities can win. Thre...

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

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

supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...

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...

little strange, but they are picturesque and sentimental (2002). They are sometimes called "kissing bridges" and they prompt one t...

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

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

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

survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...

history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...

recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...

war on terrorism, people were at first agreeable and like most other "wars" on anything, the cause lost its fervor after awhile. P...

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

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

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