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Was the US Justified in Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki

When the news reached America that our planes had...

British Empire's Colonial Power Loss and the Catalyst of World War II

In nine pages this paper discusses how World War II served as a catalyst for the decline in British imperialism with examples of A...

US, Japan, and the Causes of World War II

In six pages this paper examines the events that led to the discord between the United States and Japan that ultimately culminated...

US Foreign Policy Since World War II

creating the United Nations, one of the most powerful organizations that involves itself in promoting the security of all nations ...

Landings at Normandy and D-Day

only the greatest difficulty on July 18th."3 This perpetual setback would ultimately abate, however, come the end of July when Op...

Federal Bureaucracy

order to coordinate the Union war effort (Federal Bureaucracy) It was in the nineteenth century that Western democracies began ...

The Injustices of World War II: Japanese American Internment and Atomic Bombs

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Second World War Hero Audie Murphy

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

Second World War's Personal Impacts

exceptions, but there were not many. WWII changed all that. As every able-bodied man not involved in defense development o...

A Review of the Essay From Rosie to Lucy

the media of the time (i.e. television and movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census...

Great Britain and Medical Provision Between 1845 and 1954

pioneering hygienist. Here they were able to prove a different reason for the death rate of the patients at the hospital. The hosp...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

Australia's Recreation and Leisure

Bicentennial Authority, designed projects based on the theme of "Leisure in the Age of Technology" (Editor, 1990, p. 3). The diffe...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

Post World War and Cold War Economic and Political Impacts

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

Salvage Law and Government Property in US Waters

is agreeable to turning the plane over to the Navy but only if he is at least reimbursed the money that he has been out recovering...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Reorganization Of National Security, Post-WWII

took the lead to coordinate at least their own departments in an effort to decide what diplomatic activities and what military act...

EUROPE, POST WORLD WAR II AND TODAY

and East Germans shot for trying to take the route west. In Germany, at least, the post-war years well into the 1970s and 1980s co...

Intelligence Agencies in World War II

split; the Nazis "created a separate intelligence organization, the Sicherheitsdienst, or Security Service, headed by Reinhard Hey...

Truman Proclamation/Continental Shelf

over activities off its shores," which pertain to the utilization of these resources (Truman). Having laid out the rationale for...

An Overview of the Battle of Dunkirk

had all the emotional attributes of a film where the audience is cheering for victory. Indeed, the operation did much for morale, ...

Tokyo Story as a Reflection of Conditions in Post World War II Japan

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

Freud And Malaparte

stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...

AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

American Policy in Japan, 1948-1952

pictured Japanese soldiers as monkeys in military garb and machine guns, swinging through the trees (Dower 183). Likewise, the Jap...

World War II Artists & Posters

is one of Americas best loved artists. Arguably, no other artist succeed so completely at reflecting the homespun nature of Americ...

World War II Artists & Posters

A 6 page research paper that discusses 3 posters form the World War II era. The artists profiled in this paper are Martha Sawyers,...

Justifications for the Use of Atomic Bombs in World War II

is to argue that while we might have been misguided in our decision to utilize the newly devised atomic weaponry against Japan, ou...