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

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

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

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

p. 31). According to Williams, Stalin was threatened by the prospect of the US imposing a liberal economic order on Eastern Euro...

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...

does discuss the difficulties with reporting history as generally speaking, history is not exciting. It is not sensational as are ...

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...

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

NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...

are people today who chant slogans related to peace and give up notions of war, inclusive of defense. This is of course something ...

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

German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...

The development in terms of warfare has changed the nature of warfare since World War II. One can see this in the types of wars th...

A large part of the success of this program is due to the leadership of one man: Byron Price(Sweeny 2001)....

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

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...

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...

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

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

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

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

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

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...

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

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

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...