Essays 181 - 210
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...
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...
progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...
past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...
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..." (...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...
French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...
considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...
new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...
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...
the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...
forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...
are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...
the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...
However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...
had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...
Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...
the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...
1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...
rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...
was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...
a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...