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but a few."2 On the home front, during World War I, it was considered imperative to ensure that a system of "elite decision-making...

Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...

French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...

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

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

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

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

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

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

They also vote on issues pertinent to liberty. For the colonists both issues loomed large. There is much argument as to what cau...

alive during the time period are still alive. And, perhaps through further research women can begin to be seen more diversely as i...

rise of nationalism. People of common geographic origin, language, and history began to see themselves as members of large cultur...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

1950 (Gaddis, 1982). What is the NSC-68 exactly? It seems that this report would outline national security strategy during a time...

a shrew mouse" (Remarque, 1987, p. 10). He observes that much of the misery in the world is caused by little men (not an original...

noble. Socrates was doing the right thing. Today, as people wrestle with unjust rules and laws, there are some who simply follow ...

considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

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

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...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...