|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 821 - 830 of 8016 matching essays
- 821: Wilson’s “War Message”; Bush’s “War With Iraq”
- Wilson’s “War Message”; Bush’s “War With Iraq” Wilson: “The Imperial German Government… put aside all restraints of law or humanity and use(d) its submarines to sink every ship that tried to approach Great Britain and Ireland, the western coast ... statements (in addition to what was already said in the respective speeches) allowed each President to make it clear that peaceful measures have been exhausted and that America has no choice but to go to war. Wilson: “…we fight without hatred and without selfish objectives, seeking nothing for ourselves but what we wish to share with all free peoples…” Bush: “Our goal is not the conquest of Iraq. It is ...
- 822: American Revolutionary War
- American Revolutionary War Compare the strength and weaknesses of the American and British sides in the American Revolutionary War. Explain why the Americans were successful in winning. In comparing the British and the American strength and weaknesses, the reason the American were successful in winning the war was due to non-military factors and some geographic reason as well as foreign support. The non- military reasons included their ability to unite, use of propaganda like the one in the book Common ...
- 823: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Where do you go if someone is threatening your personal rights? Do you go to the police, or maybe to the government? What if the police and government are the parties threatening your rights? All you have to do is just call the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). Sounds like a commercial doesn't it. The ACLU blankets the United States with its legal protection. It is involved in so many aspects of the fight for civil liberties that it is difficult to cover it all. To fully understand what the ACLU has done for the United States would take much longer than I have. Therefore, I have picked a couple ...
- 824: The Significance of the Franco-Prussian War on Europe
- The Significance of the Franco-Prussian War on Europe The significance of the Franco-Prussian War was that its results effected the entire group of European Countries. This started a domino effect which culminated in World War I. The nation that benefited the most from the Franco-Prussian War was Germany. The main objective of the Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War was to unite the southern and northern states into ...
- 825: Vietnam
- After thinking about all the things we would learn this year in American history I decided to do my project on the experiences of Vietnam War veterans. There is a lot of controversy as to whether or not the Vietnam War veterans are given enough recognition for what they went through. I have heard horrible stories of US soldiers dying from US bombs, shell shock, and soldiers returning to America and not being able to function as active members of society due to the horrors of the war. All I really know about the war is what I have seen on television. I wanted to learn about the war through the firsthand accounts of those who were there. The Vietnam War was ...
- 826: Tradition and World War 1
- Tradition and World War 1 Tradition can be defined as ‘a custom, opinion, or belief handed down to posterity esp. orally or by practice.’ It could be said that France has upheld a tradition of change, due to the ... centuries, France has altered in various ways, politically and socially. It may also be proposed that France has lent greatly on the aspect of tradition during its various Republics and most importantly, through times of war. There are vital moments in French history where tradition has led to change and times where change has been eased by tradition. To understand more thoroughly what French tradition actually is we must first look ... the Declaration of the Rights of Man (Declaration des Droits de l’homme et du Citoyen) and various new views and ideas. These ideas were first expected and used at the time of the European War. We see tradition more closely followed during the time of the Jacobins vs. the Girondins. The Jacobins operated in powerful, authoritarian means, while the Girondins were less centralised and more federal. At this time ...
- 827: Battles Of World War One
- World War One dominates the history of the 20th century. Its effects were felt long after it ended. Its uneasy outcome paved the way for a second and worse conflict. World War One had many bloody battles and campaigns, but in this essay I will discuss which battle was the most important. Which battle was the most important one in World War One? The theme of the war was a huge military effort that involved many battles and about 70 million soldiers, 9 million of which were killed. It is extremely difficult to decide which battle ...
- 828: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... to first look at the area as a whole as it developed, in the briefest kind of way, then shoot forward in time to examine each of the three Baltic countries separately prior to World War II and after, and then an examination of the situation as it is today and in the recent past of the past two decades. "Until the twelfth century the marshes and forest-lands along the ... into the hands of Russia, although Memel remained part of Prussia, in which it had been incorporated in the sixteenth century. The period of Russian domination, which lasted down to the outbreak of the World War, opened ominously, although conditions improved somewhat during the first half of the nineteeth century." (11) "In Lithuania the partition of Poland was followed by a period of Russification; the Orthodox religion was introduced, and Catholic ... into exile, however. The general cultural relaxation after 1906 and the elimination of restrictions against the press in the native languages allowed national conciousness to grow steadily among the three peoples." (17) The first World War broke loose the chains of Russian domination over these "countries" and they became independent for the first time in centuries in the days after the revolutions of 1917 in February and October. "All three ...
- 829: The Spanish-American War
- The Spanish-American War The war between the United States and Spain was caused by unsettling tension between the two countries; Spain, at that time, one of the world's great powers, maintained colonies including Cuba, which lay only ninety miles from U.S. soil. Lasting from April until August, 1898, the war was fought to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule. During the course of the war the United States acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and emerged as a world power. In 1823, James Monroe ...
- 830: The Persian Gulf War
- The Persian Gulf War On August 2nd, 1990 Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied the small Arab State of Kuwait. The order was given by Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein. His aim was to take control Kuwait’s oil reserves ... of billions of dollars in Iraq’s annual revenue. By invading Kuwait, Iraq succeeded in surprising the entire world. The USA ended her policy of accommodating Saddam Hussein, which had existed since the Iran-Iraq war. Negative attitude toward Iraq soon became a worldwide occurrence. The United Nations Security Council passed 12 resolutions condemning the invasion. The ultimate decision was to use military force if Iraq did not withdraw by January 15, 1991. When the deadline was set, it was time to start preparing for war. President George Bush confronted little difficulty in winning Americans’ support for the potential war against Iraq. However, the government found it difficult to decide upon a reason for going to war. It was either ...
Search results 821 - 830 of 8016 matching essays
|
