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US Civil War's Purpose

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

Justification of War

and sets things straight in the world politically, war can also prevent future devastation. Sometimes measures have to be taken to...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Overview of the Franco Prussian War

Consequently, Prussia grew bitter over what it viewed as the robbery of two traditionally German provinces. By the mid-1860s, the ...

Could the Mexican War Have Been Avoided?

as an independent state, and warned the US that if it should try to annex Texas into the Union, it would break off diplomatic rela...

Pacifism and War as Viewed by Immanuel Kant

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

War and Ernest Hemingway

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

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...

Radar's Role in World War II

the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

Artillery Warfare Innovation

component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...

Just War and Operation Enduring Freedom

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

Wislawa Szymborska's War Poem 'The End and the Beginning'

cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...

1st Example of Modern Warfare, the U.S. Civil War

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

1865 to 1920 America and its Emergence on the World Stage

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Brazil and Civil Wars

Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...

A Fictional Young Mexican Living in Texas During the 19th Century

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...

European Changes Following the First and Second World Wars

As a result, the effects and meaning of post World War II are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War; havin...

Roles of South Korea, North Korea, the Soviet Union, and the United States in Korea's Imperialism

the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...

'War on Drugs' and its Negative Societal Impact

that the crime that goes with it is only relevant because drugs are illegal. If drug use was decriminalized, then there would be n...

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...

The Best War Ever by Adams

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

Nationalism and War's Horrors in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...

Terrorism and War

war on terrorism, people were at first agreeable and like most other "wars" on anything, the cause lost its fervor after awhile. P...

The Central Reasons for the Onset of the First World War

history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...

World War I, Fascism, Nazism, and the Causes of World War II

Program; to be sure, traits such as intolerance and racism do not merely appear in ones life but rather have to be acquired. It i...

The 9 Years War of 1688 to 1697 and Policies of Great Britain and Fance

PG), the Nine Years War was the result of significant - and many say unwanted - change. King William III and Queen Mary held cour...

'Just' Revolutionary War According to Thomas Jefferson

to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing

reveal, American sentiment during the three day period in August 1945 leading up to the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima ...