SEARCH RESULTS

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...

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

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...

order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...

supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...

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

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

to the United States. II. The location and terrain were vastly different from one another, requiring different strategic maneuvers...

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

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

In five pages this paper considers the autobiography of a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War and son of a Second World War hero i...

Bien Phu ended French control of Indochina. (Anonymous PG). Ironically, French General Henri Navarre had wanted this batt...

In five pages this paper examines the First and Second World Wars and the wars in Korea and Vietnam in order to determine their so...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

The U.S. military involvements in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War are analyzed within the context of this book in 5 pages. The b...

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

1. How did the mass production of the automobile affect...

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

In eight pages the ASEAN countries' upheaval since the Second World War is assessed in terms of nuclear proliferation, the Korean ...

In five pages the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive is the focus of this overview of the memoir by Tobias Wolff. One source is cited in...

In six pages this paper examines how the Second World War and Vietnam War are portrayed in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Hamburger ...

spread of communism globally. The French government had been in authority over Southeast Asian theater, but when it looked as if t...

rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...