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Essays 541 - 570

Was the US Justified in Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki

When the news reached America that our planes had...

The Airline Industry - Effects of Deregulation from WW2 to Today

the Civil Aeronautics Board to keep the airline industry in stasis. Firstly, they were able to control which airlines could fly wh...

The United Nations: Overview

easing poverty and supporting economic development; agricultural development and fisheries; education; family planning; emergency ...

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

Fleming's View on America's Rise to Power

But it raises a lot of questions for the future. How did events alter the perception of Americans as the U.S. started its journey ...

Nazim Hikmet/Human Landscapes from My Country

portrait of Turkish society at that time. Drawing on Hikmets ability as a screenwriter, as well as a poet, his free verse form e...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

Why Germany Lost the War in Spite of Technological Advantage

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at the German loss of World War II. It is explained how strategic blunders outweighed t...

Discussion Questions on American History

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at American history. Discussion questions are answered in short essays about civil righ...

Effects of World War I

This essay discusses how the Fist World War changed different things like society of the winners and losers. The essay comments on...

The Vietnam Wars

The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...

World War II Innovations and Tactics

This 3 page paper gives an overview of both radar and vaccines as technological advances during World War II. This paper includes ...

Social and Political Change During the Progressive Movement

This paper considers the social wrongs that spurred the Progressive Movement and our justification for entering World War I. Ther...

The Treaty of Versailles and Wilson's 14 Points

This paper presents a comparative overview of these documents and presents the argument that the Treaty of Versailles was a major ...

Common Vision Shared by the United Kingdom and Japan

the economy develops in the way most economic forecasters expect this will rise to between 250,000 and 380,000 by 2003. However, ...

Poetry, Literature: Influence of Victorian Society, World War I

This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, as well as the influence t...

Successful and Least Successful Post Second World War US Presidents

had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...

1930s' Decline of Great Britain

Imperial rule of the colonies was being demonstrated, perhaps over confidence following the 1857 mutiny which had been put down, w...

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...

Postwar France and Democracy

very much dominated by the French who were in favour of alliances with Germany and of undertaking large scale technology projects:...

Pre Second World War, Adolf Hitler, and the Nazi Party

possible to the party, so he changed the name to the National Socialist German Workers Party" hoping "that the word National would...

In the 21st Century Alliances Are Still Alive

begins by saying that "Francis Fukuyamas vision of a world governed by capitalism and democracy, we can anticipate an earlier, if...

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...

Justifications for the Use of Atomic Bombs in World War II

is to argue that while we might have been misguided in our decision to utilize the newly devised atomic weaponry against Japan, ou...

Evolution of the Russian Family Institition

however, in the 1930s to 1950s when the Bolshevik state worked actively towards disbanding the traditional family unit and transfo...

War Contrasts and a Review of Living in the American Century 1940-1950 Exploding Into a Brave New World by Henry Allen

In two pages this September 1994 article featured in The Washington Post is reviewed as it pertains to the Second World War. Ther...

Technology and the Works of H.G. Wells and Stanley Kubrick

In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of technology upon humankind as considered in H.G. Wells' novels The War of the Wor...

Peace Legacy Left by US Secretary of State Warren Christopher

put him into a position which had not been occupied for over half a century. Christopher as Secretary of State was confronted wit...

Social Conflict in Western Canada from the Settlement Period to World War II

the Canadian culture comprised two stages first involving the marginalization of indigenous peoples that commenced during the earl...

Before and After the Second World War

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...