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Gold, Dollars, and Power by Francis J. Gavin

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

Vietnam Explored in Argumentative, Narrative, and Expository Writing

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

Post World War and Cold War Economic and Political Impacts

(5). Therefore, when the wall dividing East and West Germany was finally torn down, it is clear why this was such a powerful symb...

Interwar Years and the Crisis of European Capitalism

Examining how each of these separate entities ultimately contributed to The Age of Catastrophe helps one to gain a significantly b...

Overview of the Pearl Harbor Bombing

to the bombing, however, we note that in the words of one author, following WWI "Japan grew angry with the U.S.A. because they wer...

Warfare and Aircraft Carriers

noted that "Carriers combine great power with extreme vulnerability," which stated the principal perception at that time.4 While t...

Post World War II Great Britain and Immigration

also the issue of the many displaced nationals from Europe, with the Surrender of France to the Germans in 1940, for a while Brita...

World Wars II and II and the Ideological Connection That Exists Between Them

a part of the WWI time period and inherent in Europe. Also, Fascism was something that was fought ideologically. In order to proce...

UK Foreign Policy and Germany During the Thirties

Between the World Wars Germanys formerly great economic triumphs and development were devastated by the end of World War I. Short...

Jean Renoir's Movies

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

US Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cannot be Justified

inhumanities against our fighting forces" (Benson V1-V2). Supporters for dropping the bomb have conveniently skewed the fac...

Anti Semitism History in the United States

such as France, actively participated and even facilitated the deportation of their Jewish citizens to death camps (Grobman, 2005)...

Bombing of Coventry, England and Winston Churchil

of the city of Coventry goes back to the Middle Ages, and was first settled in the seventh century (Longmate 13). Prior to the 194...

Battle Cry by Leon Uris

This paper consists of five pages and presents a book review on the author's stirring account of the U.S. Marine Corps during the ...

Architecture of Japan

In six pages this paper discusses the innovativeness and fluidity of the architecture of Japan that was not adversely affected by ...

Cold War's 'End' Political Essay

In two pages this paper argues that despite its reputed end the Cold War endures in the hearts and minds of those who survived tha...

Wartime by Paul Fussell

In five pages this paper examines the author's contentions regarding the Second World War as they are depicted in the text Wartime...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

Global Stratification and Dependency Theories

Modernization theory proposes that "pre-industrial societies are in a traditional stage" (Norton, n.d.). Traditional means that ki...

The Philippines and Economic Conditions

in many economies to strengthen banking sectors and work on non-performing loans, and also at multilateral institutions. The IMF, ...

Biography of Gen. George S. Patton

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

War Peace and the Presidency by Henry Paoluccis

power of the individual states was making them reluctant to accept federal regulations, and making most fear that the unrest that ...

U.S. and Japan Cultural Memory Influences of the Atomic Bomb

the United States make it as clear as possible that there was to be no more armed conflict. This second attack was instrumental i...

Post 1945 Nuclear Power

history.html). There was no question that nuclear power was the wave of the future. "Nuclear power is one of our most impo...

Revolution Concept of Jacques Ellul

In five pages this paper examines Jacques Ellul's concept of revolution within the context of European history from the sixteenth ...

Prisoners Without Trial by Roger Daniels and Japanese Internment

In ten pages this research paper discusses the U.S. bigotry that was responsible for the internment of thousands of Japanese Ameri...

Casablanca Film's Propaganda and History

In five pages this 1943 film by director Michael Curtiz is examined in terms of both its Second World War period history and how i...

Neorealism of Italian Director Roberto Rossellini

In eight pages this paper discusses the post Second World War neorealist cinema that was characterized by Roberto Rossellini in su...