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reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...

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

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

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

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

alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...

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...

of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...

end to the long bloody affair and to consequently save countless US and Japanese lives that would have been lost if the war had of...

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

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...

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

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

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...

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

defined either narrowly or quite expansively (Rathbun, 2008). Our historic focus on isolationism has for the most part been based...

This 3 page paper argues that the primary cause of price wars is mismanagement and that this is why there are so few price wars se...

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

At the turn of the twentieth century Japan was just beginning to take its place as one of the...

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...