YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Why Nations Go to War by Stoessinger
Essays 661 - 690
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..." (...
First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...
been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...
war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
to investigate if the residents of a bioship are being brainwashed. (The term "padawan" is the Jedi term for "apprentice.") Obi-Wa...
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...
them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...
rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...
the day before that the threat exists, but had done nothing, if we knew where the source of the threat was, who the terrorist were...
to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...
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...
suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...
the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...
I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...
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...
order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...
the singing of cell phones. Nature has somehow gotten away from those who live in this brick and mortar and cyber society. Many ...
argued that insecurity has been "one fundamental factor affecting Soviet policy" (Diplomatic Telegrams) since the beginnings of th...
textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the ...
are people today who chant slogans related to peace and give up notions of war, inclusive of defense. This is of course something ...
with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...
NA). We find, through reading Persicos book, that Roosevelt was perhaps an incredible manipulator. He was also a man of great i...
there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...
German aggression. German aggression started World War II, and this is evidenced in Germanys invasion of Poland, which mar...
Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...
me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...