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The Great Depression and the Policies of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt

consumer buying power (Barber, 1997). Businesses were growing at a much faster rate than wages. In hopes of supplementing their ...

World Leaders During WWII

Secretary of the Navy, New York Governor, and President (Whitney, 2012). FDR has been referred to as one of the most powerful ora...

A Social Problem That Cannot be Solved, Drugs

This paper argues that the US War on Drugs is a total failure and that this social problem will not be solved using this approach....

US Intelligence After WWII

principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...

The U.S. Move From Isolationism

independent from outside intervention. This establishment was political but it was greatly facilitated by geography. Indeed, the...

United Nations And U.S. National Security Policy

the UN when seeking their approval to go into Iraq. For more than a decade, Iraq had refused to meet the mandates of the UN Securi...

Salvage Law and Government Property in US Waters

is agreeable to turning the plane over to the Navy but only if he is at least reimbursed the money that he has been out recovering...

AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

Sun Tzu and the War in Iraq

in Iraq is not meeting these objectives. First, a majority of Americans are now solidly against the war, meaning that Bush no lon...

The Individual and Societal Impacts of the Civil War

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

Intelligence Agencies in World War II

split; the Nazis "created a separate intelligence organization, the Sicherheitsdienst, or Security Service, headed by Reinhard Hey...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Unnecessary Victims of the Cold War

Conclusion Introduction When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan in August, 1945, it brought a swift end to the S...

Isolationism An Evolving US Philosophy

defined either narrowly or quite expansively (Rathbun, 2008). Our historic focus on isolationism has for the most part been based...

The Second Revolutionary War

lands upon which their peoples had lived for centuries was theirs. Britain was actually funding many of the groups of Native Amer...

Torture and the War on Terror

Americans were using torture in hopes of extracting information from suspects about putative terrorist attacks. Suddenly the price...

Rice and Kings and All That Jazz

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

U.S. - Native American Relations from 1850-1890

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

Stampp: "The Era of Reconstruction"

analysis and interpretation of the material led him to conclude that the Restoration was a success, particularly in light of the p...

President-Congress Relationship

process of checks and balances. Jackson "saw himself as a guardian of the people, with a mission to protect them from the excesse...

"Flags Of Our Fathers" - A Photograph's Ability To Shape Popular Perception Of An Event

film" (Johnson, 2006). The events leading up to the celebrated were no more monumental to the overall atmosphere than most any o...

Sputnik Shock

less than a month later with Sputnik II, in which a dog was successfully launched into orbit, it appeared as if the Soviet Union w...

The 54th Massachusetts

based on the regiments history, was a success and may indicate more greater in future. The student is facing a significant amount ...

Tank Technology between the Wars.

First World War; this, the mythology goes, explains why the Germans exhibited such striking superiority in the field in 1940. end ...

The United States at the Time of the First World War

al, 2000, p. 648). It appears that Wilson saw American industry as a way to spread democracy; he told a group of salesmen that the...

World War II Battle of Iwo Jima

the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...

President Polk and the Mexican/American War

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

Florida in the Civil War

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...

America's 'Victory' in the War of 1812

Canada" (The war of 1812, 2001). All of these various forces found voice in a group called the "War Hawks," a "rising young gener...

U.S. Movement of Third World War Torn Citizens

contends the U.S. "is not now and never has been a remotely multi-cultural society. The American nation has always had a specific...