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Second World War's Nazi Death Camps

need at the front lines. The special death squads were responsible for killing about two million people (Weiss, 1996). Because ...

The Activities and Crimes of Adolf Karl Eichmann

In five pages Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, his activities during the Second World War, escape, capture and subsequent trial a...

How the First World War Set the Global Stage for the Second World War

A treaty with Austria was signed on Sept. 10, 1919, at St-Germain. Treaties were signed with Bulgaria at Neuilly Nov. 27, 1919, an...

Factors Leading to the First World War

In six pages this paper discusses the factors that led to the First World War, the U.S. involvement, and how these issues would al...

Philip Caputo’s Policy Paper to Richard Nixon’s 1968 Presidential Campaign on Vietnam

The following represents what Caputos policy paper to the Nixon campaign about the conduct of the conflict might have looked like....

Book Report on William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (Vol. 1)

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

Was the Cold War in Europe Inevitable?

as necessary and correct (Crockatt, 1995). However, the "second wave" of historians, writing perhaps 20 years later, and informed ...

Developing Identity: Gender in the 50s and 60s

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

O’Brien: “If I Die in a Combat Zone”

United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...

Why the West Is Losing the Wars in the Middle East

(Parker, 2005, p. 2). The result was that technological innovation "and the equally vital ability to respond to it, soon became an...

Brief Essays on U.S. History

This 14 page paper comprises brief essays on various topics in U.S. history from 1877 to the present. Topics covered include Roose...

American Revolution and New Jersey

In three pages this paper examines the Revolutionary War role of New Jersey and its crucial war 'turning point' involvement. Ther...

Weapons and Their History

in time between release of the hammer and the subsequent explosion, which resulted in inaccuracy (Reid 167). After a number of exp...

Vietnam War and First World War Compared

(1991). Serbia was allied with Russia and France (1991). When Austria declared war, Russia and France made preparations for an all...

Bomb and Hiroshima II

In five pages a book review of The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by Herbert Feis is presented in an examination of the a...

America's Longest War by George C. Herring

nature of international politics is that they are often relatively impracticable because of the size, scope and number of players ...

Difficulties Associated with Fighting the Vietnam War

Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...

Tragedy of the My Lai Massacre

In sixteen pages the Vietnam War's My Lai massacre is discussed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Events of the 20th Century

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

What Caused World War Two?

The writer argues that there are at least two schools of thought about what caused World War II: one that it was caused by World W...

Laying the Grounds for Revolution: The Seven Years’ War

the French and Indian War-or at least that part of it fought in North America goes by that name. This paper is a first-person narr...

History's 'Longest War'

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

Terrorism and a 'New Cold War'

but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...

Warfare Turning Point, The Tet Offensive

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...

Causes Initiating the Civil War

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

The Sudanese Civil War

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

Silence as Weapon in Vietnam by Herrington

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

An Elliott Johnson Interview

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

'Just' Revolutionary War According to Thomas Jefferson

to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...