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late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...

all they could do8 . While Germany did not win, their tactics involved in the blitzkrieg strategy were brilliant. What is a blitz...

romanticized and consistent with literature, which always glamorized warfare and sanitized it. Photography does not allow for sani...

a middle-aged Indiana University professor of entomology who had a compulsion for collecting enormous amount of data (McLaren 144)...

caused by rival ideologies of fascism and communism and liberalism, nor good great ideals vs. bad evil Hitler,nor any blueprint fo...

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

the sacrifices were necessary. While the events changed things sociologically as people lived quite differently than they were u...

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

to the Caribbean. Caribbean art has always been, and still is, a very private thing that truly relates to the region itself. In mo...

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

Practically on the heels of World War I, where the involved countries had already suffered some amount of loss, they collectively ...

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...

He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...

was putting to death. So then, in defining the Aryans he must also define those that were not acceptable. This is where his di...

and social forces in Europe. The European Union is more actively supported it is found, by the more affluent and economically sou...

1995). Yet another crucial element to prewar considerations was the fact that there existed a great quest for peace. Democ...

to become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...

by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...

At the initiation of their invasion of Poland, the British government began to put into place strategies for addressing the defens...

on a number of factors. The intent of this paper is to explore those factors and to consider how they have changed since the end ...

order to develop at a faster pace. However, the neo-liberal perspective argues for less state intervention, and it is argued that ...

were in fact two peas in a pod or two halves of the same coin. In general, historians like to compartmentalize World Wars One and ...

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...