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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 ...
that brought the political tensions to a head was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand...
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
as necessary and correct (Crockatt, 1995). However, the "second wave" of historians, writing perhaps 20 years later, and informed ...
to investigate if the residents of a bioship are being brainwashed. (The term "padawan" is the Jedi term for "apprentice.") Obi-Wa...
United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...
to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...
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...
military action in the province if the tribal leaders would promise not to give shelter to foreign elements or allow border attack...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...
family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...
in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...
contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...
the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...
Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...
was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...
et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...
get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...
World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...
component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...
finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...
cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...
as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...