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Florida in the Civil War

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

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...

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...

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...

Intelligence Agencies in World War II

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

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...

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...

U.S. Global Hegemony after WWII

Introduction World War II was the deadliest conflict in mans history and when it was over, most of the nations of the world were ...

No Civil War: a Retrospective

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

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...

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...

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...

Richard Bruce Winder's Mr. Polk's Army

much of that time was spent training them. By the time the training was completed, there was little time left to use the militia o...

The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...

Pre Pearl Harbor Second World War Debate in the United States

to become involved in this large, European action. In the early thirties, prior to 1941 when the U.S. was attacked, the European...

U.S. Reconstruction and Labor Arrangements

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

An Article on U.S. Welfare and Poor Programs Reviewed

system assumed that poor people were not finding work because they were parasitic in nature, preferring to be lazy and let society...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

Economy During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

Terrorism War's Cost and the Dilemma of George W. Bush

Quaeda is not dependent on the continued existence of its leader. Even if allied forces were able to capture bin Laden tomorrow, ...

Were the Confederate States Manipulated into Striking First by President Abraham Lincoln?

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

Appeasement, Antagonist, War, and the Foreign Policy Between Germany and the United States During the 1930s

society where mankind was neither chained to the past nor condemned to a deterministic future."5 On the other side of the w...

Confederate Black Soldiers

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

U.S. Presidents and Executive War Powers

in this regard. Although as we shall see there are some temporary exceptions, the legislative branch typically approves o...

Vietnam War Failure of the United States Observed

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...