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Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

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

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

and parcel of continuing education. In grade school, students learn about history and geography, but it is only when they grow up ...

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

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

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

it" (Zelnick, 2005). There was also some dissent at this time, but it didnt come from protestors, but from professional military p...

deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...

free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

things. Resulting in 200,000 deaths, "The Nanjing Massacre is one of the best documented of Japanese atrocities because independen...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

or hurt is as bad as joining with the abusers. A great deal of the damage thats done in society is done by those who only stand a...

broke down and even when they were working, "were not capable of performing on a real battlefield" (Tank history, 2004). French ...

success in World War II. While both had their strengths, both also had their weaknesses. It was the combined effort that finally...

process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...

the Vietnam debacle, and, consequently overlook Johnsons achievements in Europe, which Schwartz feels "deserve consideration as on...

was integral to getting rid of Hitler and rendering what he did something that will likely never happen again. And while there wer...

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

the children to do. Families moved to the cities and the transition was difficult. Still, this larger change resulted in a reduced...

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

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...