The World Wars are inarguably some of the greatest conflicts in human history. With roots going back to the earliest years of the twentieth century‚ what is now known as the Army Air Defense Artillery branch played an integral role in the Second World War. Initially called the Coast Artillery Corps‚ rebranded as the Anti-Aircraft Artillery‚ and finally becoming the Air Defense Artillery‚ the branch maintains a storied history of action through several key battles of World War II. The basis for
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The Spanish-American War was a four-month conflict between Spain and the United States‚ provoked by word of Spanish colonial brutality in Cuba. Although the war was largely brought about by the efforts of U.S. expansionists‚ many Americans supported the idea of freeing an oppressed people controlled by the Spanish. At war’s end‚ America emerged victorious with newly acknowledged respect as a world power. Reasoning for war Until the 1890s‚ ambivalence about overseas possessions had restrained
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Cold War Recipe Cold War Recipe A cup of communism A cup of capitalism Half cup of Iron Curtain Half cup of Truman Doctrine A piece of Berlin Wall 1/4 cup of Korean War 1/4 cup of Vietnam War 1/4 cup of Arab-Israeli conflict 1/4 cup of Soviet War in Afghanistan Two spoon of nuclear weapon 1/2 spoon of KGB 1/2 spoon of CIA A spoon of other weapons (for example: missiles‚ tanks‚ battleships) First put 1 cup of communism and 1 cup of capitalism into the pot‚ and then pour
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While no war is a “good” war‚ sometimes to maintain the security that is necessary for the residents of the country war has to break out or be joined. In the case of the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor‚ German U-Boats attacking our vessels‚ and Italy protecting the other two countries‚ these “evil” powers were indeed risking the safety of the citizens of the United States. As any parent would want to protect their children the best they could‚ Eisenhower knew that declaring war was the only way to
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caused the Spanish-American War. The USS Maine was one of the first American battleships out there in this time and it weighed more than 6‚000 tons. Two weeks before the Spanish-American War‚ the Maine was sent out to Cuba to protect the interests of Americans due to Spanish ruling broke out in Havana. The USS Maine blew up in HAvana Harbor on February 15 1898. While travelling to Cuba‚ the USS Maine mysteriously blew up by going over a mine. Congress and most of the American public knew that Spain
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Monday 28th of January‚2013 War of the Worlds How does Wells present mankind in the lead up to and the aftermath of the first heat-ray attack? War of the worlds was written by H. G. Wells in 1898. This book shows how naive humankind is in comparison to the martians. It exemplifies how what people thought about martians‚ undeveloped‚ silly and a joke‚ is completely wrong. They are shown as powerful and strongly developed. Wells uses a very wide range of vocabulary in his writing. He uses many words
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measures which were adopted by the major powers in trying to avert the coming of the Second World War in the period 1919-1939. Rafts of several measures were adopted by the great powers to prevent another world war after the end of the First World War. However‚ the chief crux of this write up will critically evaluate these strategies‚ closely analyze strength and weaknesses of each measure and explore factual justification engulfed it. Meanwhile‚ punitive measures against German were staged whereby
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Chapter 9 – World War II The first essay G.I Joe: Fighting for Home by John Morton Blum and the second essay American Liberals: Fighting for a Better World by Alan Brinkley both ’look at the experience of the war from different vantage points: that of the soldier fighting for his own elemental survival as well as for his country‚ and that of the society back home.” John Morton Blum retiree of Yale University depicts “combat soldiers as largely disconnected from the geopolitical goals articulated
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again after the First Punic War (264 to 241 BC). There was no clear victor and the terms set by the Romans were extremely harsh. Even though the main cause of the second war was the war on Saguntum you must go back all the way to the ending of the First War. The war on Saguntum was seen by Polybius to be just the first incident in the war. In this essay I will look into the causes of the Second Punic War with the intention of backing up Polybius argument that the war on Saguntum was just the first
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Germany before and during the Second World War” As we all know‚ Second World War was underway by 1939 and ended in 1945‚ talking about World War II‚ Germany is one of the must mention nation. Hitler created a totalitarian single-party state led by the Nazis and started the war. But how did he prepare Germany before he started the war? He armed Germany‚ improved the economy of Germany‚ and created an army. Most importantly‚ he prepared German’s mind for the war. By what method? By propaganda. In my
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