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the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

the children to do. Families moved to the cities and the transition was difficult. Still, this larger change resulted in a reduced...

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

it" (Zelnick, 2005). There was also some dissent at this time, but it didnt come from protestors, but from professional military p...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

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

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

states, in his Second Treatise of Government, Chapter XI, the following: "THE great end of mens entering into society, being the e...

Iraq fares will determine the direction of the global war on terrorism" (Zuckerman, 2007). Zuckerman concludes that because of th...

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

upon as wholly overwhelming. II. SUMMARY The individual conjures up a traumatic memory while the therapist counts from ...

as necessary and correct (Crockatt, 1995). However, the "second wave" of historians, writing perhaps 20 years later, and informed ...

Another loss of life associated with war is the loss of wildlife and the destruction of nature. War creates battlefields that rese...

to investigate if the residents of a bioship are being brainwashed. (The term "padawan" is the Jedi term for "apprentice.") Obi-Wa...