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that was more accommodating to the US. At its height, the congress for Cultural Freedom had offices in 35 countries, which frequen...

in 1947, started with the single incident of granting Israel a portion of land which was held by the Palestinians. Historical e...

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...

There were many thousands of Palestinians who were forced to make their home in Jordan after they were run out of their own countr...

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

Superpower nations have a number of different types of pressure which they can bring to bear on countries in conflict; apart from ...

most important and fascinating of them were fashioned by black and white revolutionists who saw race as the great American dilemma...

the conflict in Iran is not over, the Cold War is, and when looking back from a twenty-first century perspective, the U.S. looks a...

The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...

Lehman Brothers (History of Lehman Brothers, 2009). And soon after its founding, Lehman Brothers went from a general merchandising...

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whe...

and about 700 allies, were to delay the invading Persians for as long as possible. The idea was that an elite force, willing to s...

insecurity "swept away all regimes from Vladivostok to the Rhine" (Hobsbawm, 1995, p. 67), which originated in Central Europe. Be...

In seven pages this paper examines the post Gulf War in an assessment of the strategic situation involving Iraq and Kuwait with a ...

In fact, the movement was headquartered in Boston. This city was one that contained support for the freedom of slaves. The slave...

In five pages this paper analyzes the reasons behind the ongoing Lebanon and Israel war. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...

The Sierra Leone Special Court is an Ad Hoc court set up to hear the cases of those most responsible the atrocities in the Sierra ...

Barry Zorthian was the "official voice of America" in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 as director of the Public Affairs Office (290). In...

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

War I, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Russia all opposed Germany which was aligned with Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Otto...

opting to abstain from joining the League of Nations when it was formed. If one had to point at a single cause of World War II and...

period of three or four years after each of these short wars, despite the fact that millions of women were unemployed after World ...

workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...

crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...

to be an an armed attack that is being directed at a peaceful society (Raymond, 2005). The second type is the development of any i...

joined the crowd lining the Archdukes route to City Hall" and were successful in killing not only Franz but his wife Sofia, who wa...

materiel that were used during each war. The first war to be fought by Americans, and on American soil was the American...

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

was a large-scale economic collapse throughout the world following World War I, which led to the rise of fascism throughout Europe...