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at the time of the Civil War, as suggested by the fact that it only had one slave by 1840 (MacLeod, 2008). It is perhaps also impo...

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

being neutrali. While the U.S. did its best to try to use the waters, and maintain neutrality, in 1807, the British would fire at ...

Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...

There were also conflicts between the Australian Imperial Force and the militia troops, who had hastily been drafted when it becam...

General Washington recognized the problems that were at hand and initiated a strategy to correct them. That strategy involved the...

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

citizens (DeLong, 1997). "The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolie...

spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...

French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...

could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne...

They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

expansion into Southeast Asia, had attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet (moored in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii) the previous day (December 7...

First, it should be noted that the Star Wars myth is also exemplified in other films like K-Pax where an alien who is from the pla...

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...

mere surface appearances. All this opulent beauty will be hidden with the outbreak of World War I. Having already been inv...

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

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