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  • Recent Unpopular Wars After Wwii and the Cold War

    Recent Unpopular Wars After Wwii and the Cold War

    During the War in Korea, the main intention was to gain South Koreas territory and to stop the spread of Communism. The war never really ended even while the Peace negotiations were currently happening. (Wikipedia) The war didn’t end till South Korea gained back its territory. South Korea built it’s heavily armed border between their side of the country and the North Koreans. The U.S. troops didn’t withdrawal from their occupation in South Korea since

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Jack
  • Daniel Webster Protests the War with Mexico

    Daniel Webster Protests the War with Mexico

    Webster argued that the war with Mexico and the admission of new states would be horrible. This was his own opinion, but many individuals during this time period felt the way that he did. Webster talks of what the president has his mind set on and how that mindset cannot be changed. This is viewed as a problem that Webster can not get over, he feels that the president should listen to the people and

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Going to War

    Going to War

    Going to War The arrival of winter was well on its way. Colorful leaves had turned to brown and fallen from the branches of the trees. The sky opened to a new brightness with the disappearance of the leaves. As John drove down the country road he was much more aware of all his surroundings. He grew up in this small town and knew he would live there forever. He knew every landmark in this

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Edward
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    Americans have really always been independent group of people, from all the information I've gathered. It's just that we really don't seem to like to be told that. This is true now as it was in the past, or will be in the future. It all started in the early colonial period, specifically the 1700's, when we really felt ourselves as "Americans". Before that in the 1600's we were just settlers in the new America.

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Persian Gulf War

    The Persian Gulf War

    Introduction Wars have been apart of this world almost as long as anything else has. Even in the Bible days there are records of wars. There are many reasons that states choose to go to war. Sometimes it is for the expansion of a nation or state, other times it is for financial gains, and it also could be for security or defense purposes. Whatever the case may be, wars have been apart of human

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Conduct of War: Thomas More and Niccolo Machiavelli

    Conduct of War: Thomas More and Niccolo Machiavelli

    Conduct of War: Thomas More and Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas More, in his creation of Utopia, brings to life a world where the best and worst qualities of a society are to be found. Looking at their conduct of war, More paints a picture of society that sees war as being incredibly below humans, even with his claim that "humans are more addicted to it than any of the lower animals." Throughout the narrator's, Raphael, explanation

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Vika
  • Iraq’s War

    Iraq’s War

    ANALYSIS After 12 years from the end of the Gulf War in 1991, the United States and Britain kept up a low-level conflict with Iraq and declared that their goal was to end the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, and insisted that Iraq be disarmed of mass destruction weapons. In early 2002, the Bush administration announced that it considered Iraq to be part of an “axis of evil.” Though United Nations arms inspections made increasing progress

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: David
  • Woodrow Wilson and World War I

    Woodrow Wilson and World War I

    What role did Woodrow Wilson have in World War I? Woodrow Wilson, our 23rd president, became involved in a war that he did not want any part of. Wilson wanted to remain neutral and have peace as in his first term of office. During World War I Wilson’s roles in the war became well known in all countries. Wilson wanted peace more than anything else. In seeking for peace Wilson asked Congress for the U.S.

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Atomic Technology of War

    The Atomic Technology of War

    The Atomic Technology of War: The spread of atomic weapons. Scientists in several countries performed experiments in connection with nuclear reactors and fission weapons during World War II, but no country other than the United States carried its projects as far as separating uranium-235 or manufacturing plutonium-239. The Axis powers By the time the war began on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany had a special office for the military application of nuclear fission; chain-reaction experiments with

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Vika
  • The War of Worlad

    The War of Worlad

    Date: January 10, 2006 The War of the World Final Essay H.G Wells was a scientific thinker and social mystic. One of the most widely read writers of his times; he explored the area science fiction, fought for a new social order, and made about 44 novels. Steven Allan Spielberg is an film director and producer. Steven Spielberg is known for his horror movies. One consistent theme in his family friendly work is a childlike,

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Vika
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War was a time of aggressive war against communist as well as trying to control the peace between countries. The United States was to aid this war yet, back home they were protesting this war. People were losing their brothers, husbands, dads, uncles and grandparents for a fight for what? When the draft came to compliance, many students began to have sit ins and rallies protesting this war. Many including celebrities went on

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Vika
  • King Arthur’s Reasons Concerning War

    King Arthur’s Reasons Concerning War

    Arthur’s Reasons Concerning War Since the beginning of time, the chaotic and barbaric fighting called war has been and will happen until the end of the world, that is, unless mankind smartens up. As T.H. White puts it on pages 631-632,“They were always saying that the present one (war) was to be the last, and afterwards there was to be a heaven. They were always to rebuild such a new world as never was seen.

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • War Details According to Journey’s End

    War Details According to Journey’s End

    Journey’s End The conditions of war. • Wet, muddy and dirty trenches, usually infested with rats. • Shortage of food and water supplies, they have to be disinfected with pepper/alcohol. • Officers lived in poor conditions; in dugouts- they had no proper beds. • Officers rotated every six days between the trenches. • The soldiers need to be ready at all times since the war is ongoing, therefore they are always dressed in their uniforms.

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: July
  • How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphors

    How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphors

    Abraham Lincoln’s ability to speak with eloquence and force is what won the Civil War; there can be no doubt about it. His role as a motivator and often an inspiring teacher to all had more of an effect on the troops and the American people than a loss or a victory of any battle ever did. Lincoln’s speeches are some of the most celebrated in history for many good reasons. He was always

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Artur
  • Let’s End the War on Drugs

    Let’s End the War on Drugs

    Let’s End the War on Drugs Abuse of illicit drugs has been rampant in the United States for close to fifty years. The use of non-medical drugs, now known as recreational drugs, became illegal in 1914 in a law known as The Harrison Act (Charles Whitebread 1). Although this act was implemented to eliminate or at least reduce illegal drug use, it has had the opposite effect. In the year 1970, the estimated arrest involving

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Jack
  • Causes of the Civil War

    Causes of the Civil War

    Causes Of The Civil War The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Jessica
  • President Bush and the War

    President Bush and the War

    President Bush has gotten his congressional mandate to launch a war on Iraq. People around the world see the United States using a swift hand in the justification of war. War wreaks havoc on societies, destabilizes fragile balances of power, provokes others to join the violence and sears itself into the memory of those who survive. The War of Iraq (2003) was the war in the Middle East country of Iraq, which resulted from the

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Edward
  • Post World War II Germany

    Post World War II Germany

    Introduction After The surrender of 1945, Germany was a country in shame, her once proud people, Prussian to Bavarian, were let down. The Third Reich was over, and the series of nations that would rise from the ashes would have much more in store for them. It would be another 40 years or so before she would be once again united, and encounter the taste of prosperity. Part 1, A Divided Germany I. Occupied Germany

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Jack
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    Choices Tim O’Brien was drafted to the Vietnam War. He didn’t want to go to the war. So he went to the northern woods in the northern Minnesota. He had to make a choice whether to go to the war or not to go to the war. After spending six days with guy Elroy he decides to go. Tim O’Brien went to the war for the wrong reasons. He didn’t even think that there should

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: regina
  • War and Feminism

    War and Feminism

    War is a part of the human life that truly is horrific no matter how it is analyzed. It impacts the lives of people everywhere, no matter what their gender, race, age, or any other characteristic is. However in most cases it is women, young children and seniors that experience the largest impact of war. The very essence of war itself is purely competitive and aggressive, this kind of attitude stems in men, generally speaking.

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • Road to Civil War

    Road to Civil War

    COMPROMISE OF 1820 (MISSOURI COMPROMISE) The Missouri crisis of 1820 exposed a political rift between the slaveholding and nonslaveholding states of the Union. The Missouri Compromise in general allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but admitted Maine as a free state, and also prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36 degree 30 latitude border (the southern boundary of Missouri). Thomas Jefferon called the Missouri

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: David
  • World War one Causes

    World War one Causes

    Historians since 1918 have frequently sought for a rational but simplistic explanation for the beginning of World War One, in their attempt to rationalize history. As such, many historians have advanced the argument that it was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that provided the impetus for the war. However, whilst this assassination may have led to the formal declaration of war, a more thorough examination of the years leading up to 1914

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: regina
  • Battles of World War 2

    Battles of World War 2

    Normandy Invasion, D-Day In December 1943, the chiefs of staff of the Allies chose American General Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme commander for the Allies in Europe. British General, Sir Frederick Morgan, developed a number of plans for the Allies, most extraordinary was Operation Overlord, a full-scale invasion of France across the English Channel. This was the code name for the most secret command in the war. The invasion force was to cross the English

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Monika
  • The War of 1812

    The War of 1812

    The War of 1812, also known as the second American war for independence (Bailey pg. 233) was fought between the meager forces of the American government and the supreme power of Great Britain. The war ended in 1815 with the treaty of Ghent, this treaty wasn’t really a treaty but an armistice or surrender of arms. The American military suffered from defeat after defeat during the beginning of the war, these loses could be contributed

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Would Francisco Pizzaro Be Considered a War Criminal Today?

    Would Francisco Pizzaro Be Considered a War Criminal Today?

    Would Francisco Pizarro be considered a war criminal today? Francisco Pizarro, born c. 1471-1478 in Trujillo, Spain, was a Spanish conquistador. He is known as the conqueror of the Inca Empire, and founder of Lima, the capital of Peru. Not only did he participate in the Vasco Nunez de Balboa expedition to Panama that discovered the Pacific Ocean, but he also claimed most of South America for Spain and opened the way for Spanish culture

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Top