Kaiser William II“Kaiser William II of Germany, 1888-1918, by his personalityand actions, contributed to the outbreak of World War I,”Discuss. William II came to power prematurely, on the death of his father, atthe age of 29. He lacked discipline, was arrogant and bad-tempered. He lacked political experience and maturity and . . . Read more
Civil War ? The Road to AppomattoxCivil War End of a Tragedy: The Road to AppomattoxThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans . . . Read more
ter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Urged by Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Wingner, and Edward Teller, Einstein told Roosevelt about Nazi German efforts to purify Uranium-235 which might be used to build an atomic bomb. Shortly after that the United States Government began work on the Manhattan Project. The . . . Read more
Introduction In the middle of the 19th century the United States was engaged in oneof the bloodiest conflicts in the history of the nation known as theAmerican Civil War. The U.S. was at war with a first time enemy known asthe Confederate States of America. The southern states had succeeded . . . Read more
AmericanParties from the Civil WarThis essay conains American party systemsfrom the end of George Washington’s first term as president through theCivil War. Included are the creations, the building up of, and sometimesthe break down of the various parties. As well as the belief in which theparties stood for. The Origins . . . Read more
The Frequency of Armed International Conflict In the 20th CenturyIn 1962 there was a conflict between three nations so grim their actions could have affected the entire world. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 was a very tense moment in history; these nations were almost at the brink of nuclear . . . Read more
e Unites States of by any country. It was never officially declared a war (Knowll, 3). It had no official beginning nor an official end. It was fought over 10,000 miles away in a virtually unknown country. The enemy and the allies looked exactly the alike, and may by day . . . Read more
None of the European power wanted World War I, but they feared Germany. Germany was newly unified, and was beating the European powers in population and Industry. France wanted to recover the Alsace-Lorraine. Britain was a country used to being on the ocean, so they felt threatened by Germany’s colonial . . . Read more
Human Rights and the Most of us can remember the day vividly when our nation became victim to an act of unspeakable terrorism. September 11, 2001, for our generation, will be our version of ?A date which will live in infamy.? (Franklin D. Roosevelt) As the years have passed and . . . Read more
St. Augustine’s Just War Theory and the Persion Gulf WarOn August 2nd, 1990 the first Iraqi tanks crossed into Kuwait, as part of an invasion that marked the start of a six-month conflict between the United States and Iraq. These tanks were ordered to invade Kuwait by Saddam Hussein, the . . . Read more
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