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to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Consequently, Prussia grew bitter over what it viewed as the robbery of two traditionally German provinces. By the mid-1860s, the ...

of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...

In seven pages this paper examines the realistic portrayal of war in Erich Maria Remarque's First World War novel All Quiet on the...

In five pages this reality text by Remarque on the horrors of war as experienced by young Paul Baumer during the First World War i...

The welfare system and war handling by the United States and the changes that resulted from the Vietnam War are discussed in 5 pag...

In seven pages this paper discusses important historical events during the 20th century including changes resulting from the Cold ...

Lafore. In this text, Lafore gives his interpretation as to the causes of World War I. In this tome, Lafore gives the reader a v...

In seven pages this research paper examines how these Civil War tactics were a harbinger of the total warfare military concept of ...

4 million Americans had thronged the streets of Manhattan to see and used an estimated 7,430,000 feet of newsreel to record just a...

In five pages this report examines Germany's military in World War I and World War II and considers the role played by Prussian mi...

In fifteen pages this research paper examines the reasons behind Martin Luther King's opposition to the war in Vietnam in a chrono...

In five pages World War II as it is portrayed in Heller's novel is examined particularly in terms of they ways in which themes of ...

In six pages this paper discusses the 20th century in an overview of the wars that took place as well as various revolutionary soc...

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...

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...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

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...

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

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

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...

rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...

this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

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...

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...