Essays 571 - 600
In short, Linds book presents the theory that the Vietnam War resulted from a complexity of geopolitical factors, factors that Lin...
as well (China, India, and Mexico). Some of these success stories can be attributed to "getting along" with these world organizat...
the commercialism introduced to the Vietnamese during the war, has brought about new economic and political goals. Oliver Stones ...
pursued careers and got married and had children. The veterans of World War II settled down to were raise the children who were to...
"just war" or a "war that had to be fought," given the aggression of both Germany and Japan, and the extermination of millions of ...
American values were the primary motivation of the U.S. participation in the southeast Asia conflict. Author Richard Slotkin expl...
In ten pages this paper examines presidential decision making in these two instances from a sociopolitical theoretical perspective...
the war as manufactured by federal government propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). A...
Invention In regard to invention, Kerry uses three modes of persuasion...
(Kissinger 684). Rather than commit virtual genocide and lose the "soul of the United States," Johnson was finally forced to withd...
In eleven pages this paper examines the conflict in Vietnam and how the public opinion was shaped by the media's depiction of eve...
was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...
also launched aggressive action against Chechnya and court cases against the oligarchs (Popov, 2008). He managed to defeat the sep...
then took this reality and spinned it to contest the uncontestable and knew there could be no definitive answer, which he believed...
Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...
age that are frequently expressed within Western society evolve, at least partially, from the changes in social status that occur ...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...
The development in terms of warfare has changed the nature of warfare since World War II. One can see this in the types of wars th...
I resulted from a variety of causes. The most prominent of these was the rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin...