The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. ... From there, the war protest began. ... Whole companies and naval units mutinied and refused to carry out orders. ... The Legislative composed of anti-war elective officials handcuffed the Executive by laws which progressively made President Nixon lose power in the war. ... The war also left behind a painful America. ...

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Before Wilson's announcement of war, the United States had taken several social, military, and economic steps to ensure the United States was prepared to fight the "war to end all wars." ... Quick effective action was needed to win the war. ... The War Industries Board met all these needs. ... For example when strikes threatened telephone and telegraph companies, the government simply seized the company and ran it. ... Only nominal actions were taken prior to Wilson's actual declaration of war to organize the United States for their war against Germany. ...

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Nineteen forty-five set the end of World War II. ... Nonetheless, the war had left its mark on numerous countries, especially the USA. ... The war not only affected whites, but also affected black people in America as well. ... The war also shaped the economy in various ways both during and after the war. Companies that had been previously dormant were now overflowing with activity. ...

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By August 1899, Ford had raised enough money to start his own company, the Ford Motor Company. ... On the outbreak of the First World War in Europe, Ford made it clear he opposed the war and supported the decision of the Woman's Peace Party to organize a peace conference in Holland. ... After the war Ford became increasingly interested in politics. ... Although he was against war and the fast enclosing Second World War, after Pearl Harbor, Ford turned over his vast production resources to his country. During the war the Ford plant at Willow Run produced over 8,000 Liberator bombers for t...

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Winter's men now excel through training and quickly become the Army's best unit of the war. ... This victory, though critical in the course of the war, came with a heavy casualty and death toll on E Company. ... The men drink, celebrate the war, and enjoy their stay in the luxurious houses. ... Post war relationships last the rest of their lives, and slowly they pass, one by one. but nothing can describe the bonds of the men and loyalty to one another that the man of Easy Company had. ... These men helped win the war against a purely evil enemy, and without them, we might not be he...

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Weyerhaeuser's business was booming before the First World War and, after the onset of the war Weyerhaeuser began making sending spruce from Weyerhaeuser forests to build World War I airplanes. ... Post-war Weyerhaeuser paper company continues to grown expanding there ability to ship all over the world after the construction of the Panama Canal. ... When the country was again hit with hard times during the Second World War and the company turned to the women to step up and keep the mills running while the soldiers were away. ... The company continued to turn out new products during t...

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Attack on Cuba Would Mean Nuclear War, the Soviet government speaks to all governments during the Cold War in 1962. ... Cuba was affected socially by the cold war. ... " Guatemala was affected politically by the Cold War. ... Operation PBSUCCESS occurred when, In response to the expropriation of idle farmland assets, the United Fruit Company asked the US Governments of presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower to act diplomatically, economically, and militarily against Guatemalan President Árbenz Guzmán. ... Guatemala was economically affected by the Cold War. ...

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The worlds first working machine gun was invented by an engineer named Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, the founder of Maxim Gun Company. ... Sir Maxims guns came in many different sizes and were primarily used during world war one. ... Can you picture war today without a rapid firing weapon? ... Since the 1800's to present, this weapon has been the key ingredient to successful war-time strategies. ...

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After a while he was assigned as the assistant adjutant because the former one, Lieutenant Schwartz, was going to take command of a rifle company. ... Not long after, he volunteered for a line company in the First Battalion. There, he was put in charge of a Platoon leader for C Company. ... These things all display how war can affect man; war truly is a nightmare. ... A Rumor of War is one ...

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His family moved to Winnipeg shortly before the war started. ... He then accepted an offer from a local Canadian company. ... He seemed to prefer the company of girls as well. ... Bishop decided to continue on as a pilot in the war. ... Bishop served all through the First World War. ...

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Calverley 6 May 2003 History Essay: Final Draft The Foreign Policies of Woodrow Wilson: Why America Entered the First World War After Declaring Neutrality in 1914 The Great War was an incredible landmark in the history of mankind. ... The American government was also of the view that entering the war in Europe would not be economically beneficial because the war potentially meant that America might be prevented from trading with opposing countries. The economic savings of not entering the war were significant as well; by not entering the war, the United States did not have to be...

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He loved having company and talking about the old times. ... Because Poppaw served in World War 2, and the Korean War, the family expected to hear his usual inspiring, and heartbreaking stories of War Times. ...

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After two weeks Paul's Company returns from fighting with a 150 men. A group of new recruits are sent to join the Company. ... The Company gets caught in a gruesome battle. ... He is separated from his Company and hides in a shell hole. ... They try to make him realize that this is War and these are the incident and accidents of War. ...

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Band of Brothers is a recollection of stories showing how an elite group of paratroopers, the E Company, played a decisive role in almost all of the major battles that took place in the later part of World War II. ... One point Ambrose reinforces to the reader is that many of the soldiers of Easy Company were not career soldiers but ordinary citizens torn from their everyday lives by the war. ... Ambrose also makes a strong point that many of the horrific battle scenes would not end with the War for many of the men in E Company. ... By making these various strong points, Ambrose is su...

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With our world soon at war, our country faced racial controversies that would later accompany its victories at war into the history pages of the year 1952. ... The 65th would later own its fair share of victories during the world campaigns of World War I, II, and later the Korean War. ... War Department until the 1898 Treaty of Paris. ... It was not until the mass court martial of Company G during the Korean War that the Regiment suffered a devastating blow by the actions of its American Commanders. In the wake of the Korean War, the Regiment was reorganized into three Infantry Battalions, a...

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During the French and Indian War of 1754, British troops provided blankets that had been infected with smallpox to the American Indians. ... During the 19th century, when President Lincoln and 12 other public officials were assassinated, these were acts of terrorism connected to the Civil War. ... Because of the global concern about terrorism, the U.S. war on terrorism is justified. ... Moreover, economist feel that once the worst of the war is over, the stage would be set for a healthy recovery, probably even sometime next year. In the past, wars have ha...

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Two companies dealing with basically the same businesses as Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin is a merged company that was formed in March of 1995 when two of the worlds largest technology companies Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation combined. ... Lockheed was the first company to put a plane in flight over the San Francisco Bay. ... Another development of the Lockheed Company was the first power operated revolving gun turret that was made in 1937 and used on more then a dozen types of aircrafts during World War II. ... Right now as we speak Lockheed Products are being use...

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All Quiet On The Western Front (AQOTWF) was written by Erich Maria Remarque and is set in world war one, beginning in 1916 and ending in November 1918, when the armistice called a halt to the war. Remarques aim is to illustrate the horror and senselessness of war. ... The men in the company have just finished a heated argument with their training master Himmelstoss, and are reflecting on what the got them into. ... These descriptions proved to the reader that war is worthless. The 5 strong examples of the horror and senselessness of war prove that Remarques aim was "to illustrate the horror an...

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Therefore, people would rather have the company of people who makes them happy. ... Therefore, my grandfather and his neighbor were friends because they enjoyed each other's company. ... Although they started as strangers in the beginning of the war, they ended becoming friends as they went to repetitive meetings about the war and to stop the world war from getting worse. Churchill and Roosevelt became friends as they plotted to end the war even though they had different perspective in politics and battle strategies. Therefore, by working together for the common good, they became frie...

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Therefore, he was capable of producing a beautifully written novel about a geisha in Japan during the times of before and after World War II. ... We later learn in the story that he was the head of an electricity company. ... Some time afterwards, World War II erupted and the geisha houses were forced to close. ... Overall the book gives a compellingly detailed story of a geisha's life during the times of World War II. ... I've learned a lot about geisha, Japanese culture, a little bit about World War II, and even several Japanese terms. ...

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It sells shares of stock, a piece of the company. ... The people holding shares can make profit if the company makes money or loss money if the company does not do well. ... When the soldiers returned to the United States after World War 1. ... His campaign saying was "return to normalcy" after the war. ... Companies could not sell their products. ...

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If you want to see the capital, the globalization of goods, the free flow of labor and services all over the world, by a very large business company, it has a huge control world economy, beyond national boundaries. ... Economic globalization has greatly encouraged the introduction of free trade agreements, such as GATT (tariff trade agreements) since the Second World War. ... For example, after World War II, the United States worried about the rise of communism, to encourage and support the interests of film advertising and effective capitalism in the global scope of the United States of Ameri...

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Sometimes, rich and powerful nations need to go to war, and sometimes those wars are unpopular. In 1941, the United States went to war with Japan, and while it's unlikely that will ever be the case again, the results of having vehicle manufacturing outsourced to Japan in 1941, as would likely be the case if the big three U.S. makers were allowed to implode, World War II might have ended far differently. ... In fact, the reason that the companies are struggling is more closely tied to the subprime mortgage meltdown than one might at first recognize. ... Unfortunately for the auto industry,...

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Sometimes, rich and powerful nations need to go to war, and sometimes those wars are unpopular. In 1941, the United States went to war with Japan, and while it's unlikely that will ever be the case again, the results of having vehicle manufacturing outsourced to Japan in 1941, as would likely be the case if the big three U.S. makers were allowed to implode, World War II might have ended far differently. ... In fact, the reason that the companies are struggling is more closely tied to the sub prime mortgage meltdown than one might at first recognize. ... Unfortunately for the auto industry...

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She attacked and finally won; world war (ii). ... Roosevelt, America did not want to participate in the war. ... This marked the end of the war in Europe. ... Her military resources had dwindled too, but then her people had learnt to be efficient, Simple home-gadgets manufacturing companies began manufacturing firearms. ... The war claimed more than 300000 lives. ...

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