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Interview/Living through World War II

out. You didnt know what the future might bring, or if they would survive. "Did you get married during the war?" I asked. "No, ...

Poland: During and After World War II

get their forces together and attack from the west" (The Second World War). Common wisdom says that Germany stomped Poland flat w...

The Relevance of the Air Campaign During the Gulf War

was able to be waged. There are two things that differentiated the air campaign from other prior conflicts. One difference is that...

The War of 1812 Was a Necessary War

being neutrali. While the U.S. did its best to try to use the waters, and maintain neutrality, in 1807, the British would fire at ...

Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

Two Vietnam Books

(Tanenhaus, 1999). The struggle between the two countries was both strategic and ideological, with the "future governance of the i...

Hoge, Understanding the War on Terror

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...

Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

War: Civilians and Soldiers

whats going on" (Kaplan, 2007). Realistically any individual in charge of sending soldiers out must be aware of what is going on....

Causes and Effects of the Cold War

and property and was on the brink of bankruptcy. Only the United States and Soviet Union remained relatively intact. These count...

Artillery Warfare Innovation

component of warfare since its very first introduction in the 1300s (Norris, 2001). During the first years of this countrys histo...

U.S. Culture and Societal Impacts of the Cold War

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

Just War and Operation Enduring Freedom

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

Radar's Role in World War II

the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...

Women's Role In WWI And The Agricultural Adjustment Act

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

Cold War Ideological Separation of the United States and the Soviet Union

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

Consideration of Moral Conflict

family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...

Post Second World War Era and its Influences

In four pages this research paper examines what influence the time period following the Second World War in this consideration of ...

Could the Mexican War Have Been Avoided?

as an independent state, and warned the US that if it should try to annex Texas into the Union, it would break off diplomatic rela...

Pacifism and War as Viewed by Immanuel Kant

for self-defense and that man must rationalize certain behaviors in order to reject common tendencies. Kants viewpoints, argued ...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

The Cold War Superiority of the United States

as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...

Wislawa Szymborska's War Poem 'The End and the Beginning'

cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...

Korean War and Its Impact

Truman proposed to the Soviets a joint occupation of Korea with the Soviets occupying the territory north of the 38th parallel and...

Revolutionary War's Radicalism

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

Technological Differences Between Vietnam War and the Gulf War

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

Crossover Development and George Lucas' 'Star Wars'

past twenty years, the benefit of which was first truly realized with the likes of teen idol lunch boxes; since the advent of the ...

Prisoners of War During the Vietnam War

In seven pages this paper discusses questions involving Vietnam War POWs and considers if there are still MIAs and POWs being held...

Contributing Factors to the Vietnam War's Outcome

In twenty two pages this paper examines the Vietnam War in an overview of various factors that contributed to its outcome. Fourte...

Boeing and Airbus 'Sky Wars'

really doing. Some figures to come from the company are rather dismal and others deceiving. But Boeings problems are out in the op...