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

The International Band for Reconstruction and Development would be formed as a consequence of the Bretton Woods System in 1945 (Wo...

and the largest immigration wave still lay ahead." This new immigration was to take place from 1900 to 1924 wherein "another 1.75 ...

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...

control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...

The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...

of admission was the fact that expectations were kept just as high for the black airmen as they were for the whites, inasmuch as "...

those who want to help the poor, such as in the 1930s. There was relatively little opposition to Roosevelts New Deal because times...

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 ...

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...

and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and everyone went home (The Korean War: Setting the Stage and Brief Overview, 2002). Roosevelts b...

Krugman focuses on the cause of the collapse, noting that defeating inflation (i.e., using more dollars to buy products) is one re...

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

and Medicare. With these policies people were no longer destitute if they were to lose their jobs. Legislation also sprang forth t...

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

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

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

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

newspaper, entitled Appeal to Reason. When the book was finally published in book form, it instigated a pure food movement, which ...

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...

and far-reaching of a strategy as that which has proven itself necessary in the wake of the September 11 attacks on America in New...

always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something...

Russian Revolution was all for naught. Communism was a dismal failure and Russia is now a poor country while the U.S. is seen as t...

Interestingly, what most people dont realize is that U.S. prisoners of war who were being held captive by the Germans died at a ra...

Iwo Jima. The last straw would be the bomb that was let loose at Hiroshima. It was a devastating blow. A lesser, but just as detri...

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

living arrangements of the indigenous peoples, or under the assumption that they will bring a heightened standard of decency. The...

U.S. has largely led while European representatives followed passively. By the fall of 1944 during World War II, Allied sol...

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 ...