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the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

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 ...

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

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...

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

The "Carter Doctrine" was later used to justify U.S. intervention in Kuwait under the first Bush Administration as well as Libya a...

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

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

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...

are an officer - and this included the top noncoms- you went to sleep with your headset at your head" (Terkel 254). Most people ...

forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...