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- 5421: Cost Of Wwii
- ... as Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been leveled by atomic bombs. Numerous cities in both Europe and Asia that had very little or no military significance at all were totally destroyed. For example, the British with American aid deliberately destroyed Dresden with bombs. Dresden, like many other cities, had little military importance and in this particular case was filled with refugees. In Central Europe the mass destruction of cities and towns left ...
- 5422: Cuban Missile Crisis 2
- ... Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal. The NATO agreement said that an armed attack against one or more of its members in Europe and America shall be considered an attack against them all. To ward off aggressors, American forces and nuclear weapons were to be kept in Western Europe. In response to NATO, the Soviet Union formed a similar pact between seven Eastern European countries called the Warsaw Treaty Organization, or Warsaw Pact ...
- 5423: Calvin And De Las Casas
- ... stop there. He them returned to Spain to get a decree prohibiting the enforcement of slavery in Peru in 1530. At around 1537, he received support from Pope Paul III in Sublimis Deus declaring "...the American Indians as rational beings with soul and that their lives and property should be protected."8 In 1542, he returned to Spain and convinced Charles I once more to support him by signing "New Laws ...
- 5424: Cuban Missile Crisis 4
- ... political. He states that yielding to the Soviets would seriously undermine United States' credibility. Also, yielding to the Soviets would have been political suicide because it would have been unacceptable to a large number of American voters (1). I believe, along with all the authors mentioned above, that Kennedy did the right thing. I have found no authors of text that disagree with Kennedy's decision, and I do not believe ...
- 5425: Cost Of The Golf War
- ... This was the last straw and the US, with its allies, set up to end Operation Desert Storm. The US was prepared and ended the war with a victory. US intelligence had notched up the American coalition a few weeks prior to Operation Desert Storm (US News & World Report staff 2). The US General Schwarzkopf first led F-117 stealth bombers through Iraq to clear the way for more conventional fighter ...
- 5426: Kosovo and US Involvement
- ... damp. If, once again, history prevails, Serbia, the country with the most passion, and the most at stake, will defeat the United States and NATO, the stronger power. This was shown in history through the American Civil War and Vietnam. Serbia is fighting in defense of its sovereign territory, which involves the highest stakes for which a nation can fight for. If Serbia loses Kosovo, it will also be losing its ...
- 5427: A Heritage Denied
- A Heritage Denied In this fast paced American, society little regard is given to the importance of ones family heritage. Family traditions and the efforts made to preserve them in generations past are taken for granted by the current heirs. In Alice ...
- 5428: Crusades 3
- ... case. As power hungry leaders tried to recapture the magic of the First Crusade, using religion as a means to foster there own prestige and power. The Crusades played a vital part in the religious revolution of the middle Eleventh Century. It gave the Pope a means of securing the position of the church in Western Europe as a major power. The conditions were right and when Pope Urban II made ...
- 5429: The Titanic - History of a Disaster
- ... Charles. Her Name Titanic. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1988. PP 20-21. Marcus, Geoffrey. The Maiden Voyage. New York: The Viking Press, 1969. PP 35-128. Lord, Walter. A Night To Remember. Mattituck: American House, 1955. PP 152-170. Ward, Kaari, ed. Great Disasters. Pleasantville: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1989. PP 180-87.
- 5430: Comparison Of Creation Of Whit
- ... land by means of a boat and a white man. The manner in which each group handled the "treasure" was different, though. The first piece of literature, "Creation of the Whites," dealt with the Native American culture and how the white people made visits to the Indian's land on a few different occasions, the first time leaving behind whiskey. The Indians found the whiskey to be very pleasurable and were ...
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