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Economic Stimulation of War

period of three or four years after each of these short wars, despite the fact that millions of women were unemployed after World ...

The Reasons Cited for the Onset of World War I

Russia and Britain signed a treaty, Russia joined the Entente. Russias entrance into the war was due to this Entente and their goa...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

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

Second World War Crimes and Japan

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

World War II Russian Politics and FDR's Role

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

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

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...

The Activities and Crimes of Adolf Karl Eichmann

In five pages Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, his activities during the Second World War, escape, capture and subsequent trial a...

Vietnam War and First World War Compared

(1991). Serbia was allied with Russia and France (1991). When Austria declared war, Russia and France made preparations for an all...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Book Report on William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (Vol. 1)

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

Philip Caputo’s Policy Paper to Richard Nixon’s 1968 Presidential Campaign on Vietnam

The following represents what Caputos policy paper to the Nixon campaign about the conduct of the conflict might have looked like....

California and Internationalization

In four pages this paper examines California after the Second World War and during the Cold War years in a consideration of intern...

Labor Unions and War

Small, local, decentralized, weak-kneed affairs, where nearly every individual felt his importance, was jealous or suspicious of h...

Societal Impacts and Influences of American Warfare

In nine pages the ways in which war influenced and impacted the society of early America are considered in a discussion of the Ame...

The Vietnam War and the Attitudes That Drove the Conflict

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

Why the US Fought in the Vietnam War

Bien Phu ended French control of Indochina. (Anonymous PG). Ironically, French General Henri Navarre had wanted this batt...

Just War Concept of Thomas Aquinas and the Vietnam War

the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...

U.S. Foreign Policy and Its Domestic Impact

rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...

How the First World War Set the Global Stage for the Second World War

A treaty with Austria was signed on Sept. 10, 1919, at St-Germain. Treaties were signed with Bulgaria at Neuilly Nov. 27, 1919, an...

Difficulties Associated with Fighting the Vietnam War

Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...

Post Second World War Relations Between the United States and Thailand

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

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

Three Decades of U.S. Foreign Policy from 1945 until 1975

In five pages this paper considers the direction of American foreign policy from the end of the Second World War into the Cold War...

First World War as Portrayed by the American Government

In four pages this paper discusses how the American government positively portrayed the First World War as addressed in Lights, Ca...

Prisoners of War During the Vietnam War

In seven pages this paper discusses questions involving Vietnam War POWs and considers if there are still MIAs and POWs being held...

1941 through 1951 America's Changing Decade A Decade of Change

and done, there were good feelings in the United States. The fifties would soon erupt with its newfound innocence and vigor. Kore...

The Cold War: Causes and Ongoing Tensions

that agreement. The Conference at Yalta was the last meeting the United States, Great Britain and Russia would have under...

War and Escalation of Violence Such as Rape

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

The Impacts of World War I and World War II on American Society

I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...

Client Wars And Surrogate Armies

was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...