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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...

At the initiation of their invasion of Poland, the British government began to put into place strategies for addressing the defens...

to become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...

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 ...

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...

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

the propaganda proliferated relied on fear and questionable facts in order to gain the sympathies of the people. In retrospect, th...

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

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

hard time. What was going through your mind at this time, Rosa? A: Well, I know that most of us girls used to make up little ditti...

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

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

North Africa - Operation TORCH: TORCH represents the first combined Allied action of the war, when British and American troops lan...

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

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

States power and security position? Many questions linger. Since the cold war has ended, many thought that it was the end of secu...

caused by rival ideologies of fascism and communism and liberalism, nor good great ideals vs. bad evil Hitler,nor any blueprint fo...

to the Caribbean. Caribbean art has always been, and still is, a very private thing that truly relates to the region itself. In mo...

removed from the shores of the U.S. itself. Never-the-less, these years became a time of tremendous opportunity for Mexican Ameri...

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

the sacrifices were necessary. While the events changed things sociologically as people lived quite differently than they were u...

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...