Essays 1 - 30
about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...
Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...
Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...
first and second worlds, or the free world and the communist bloc. Many equated the U.S. as a major force of the first world and...
be issued an invitation" (Krahmann, Terriff and Webber, 2001). Despite the opposition, the U.S. position won the day (Krahmann, Te...
work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...
the human omnipotence and the genuinely powerless. The books grim analysis of totalitarianisms origin leads the author to ass...
Caputo's Vietnam War memoir is reviewed in a paper consisting of two and a half pages....
In five pages this 1983 memoir on soldiers' Vietnam War experiences is summarized, reviewed, and critiqued....
that agreement. The Conference at Yalta was the last meeting the United States, Great Britain and Russia would have under...
disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...
arms in Germany, which appeared to Stalin that the US was rearming that country. He was enraged at this perceived betrayal (Vidal...
In five pages this paper examines the Cold War, globalization, and communism's collapse in this conceptual view of the 'New World ...
The many aspects of the Cold War as examined in Berkin's text are discussed in this paper containing six pages and include not onl...
Barry Zorthian was the "official voice of America" in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 as director of the Public Affairs Office (290). In...
be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...
In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...
has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...
In five pages this paper examines the First and Second World Wars and the wars in Korea and Vietnam in order to determine their so...
democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...
1. How did the mass production of the automobile affect...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...
Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...
there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...
In fifteen pages this research paper examines the reasons behind Martin Luther King's opposition to the war in Vietnam in a chrono...
that the country had been annexed by the two major powers, protesting, sometimes violently, about political decisions being made w...
the relationship between North and South Korea. The deteriorating relationships between North and South Korea was particu...
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...
as necessary and correct (Crockatt, 1995). However, the "second wave" of historians, writing perhaps 20 years later, and informed ...
with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...