Many have compared the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. They argue that both attacks were just as astonishing, unwarranted and unpredictable. ... The attacks are also similar in that, generally, those who lived through them divide time: time before the attack and time after. ... When analyzing the documents and accounts of the Pearl Harbor attack, historians are not able to avoid the fact that many warning signs of the approaching attack existed. ... The consequences of the attack were devastating. ...

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Wilson wanted to project good, healthy, liberal American values into the heart of world politics. ... This attack on the USA, brought them almost instantly out of isolation and left the US fearful of possible further attacks, angry at the way they were attacked and they felt vulnerable due to the dramatic loss of many of the US Navy's fleet. ...

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These included the renowned Bf-109, the superbly designed and amazingly savage Focke-Wulf 190, and the Stuka divebomber whose familiar drone struck fear into the hearts of those undergoing the blitzkrieg. ... As a result of the provocative British attacks on Berlin on recent nights the Fuhrer has decided to order a mighty blow to be struck in revenge against the capital of the British Empire. I personally have assumed leadership of this attack and today I have heard above me the roaring of the victorious German squadrons" Herman Goring, Luftwaffe Command August 1940 This new policy would...

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These warnings by the Chinese were ignored and on November 28, 1950 so called Chinese "volunteers" (the Chinese called their soldiers volunteers in hopes that it would not seem as if they were "officially" declaring war) made mass attacks sending the UN army back to the 38th parallel. ... The Eisenhower administration decided that if the armistice failed it would attack China using atomic weapons. ... It was indeed a crime that those who attacked from the North invoked violence to unite Korea under their rule. ... The South Koreans were so agitated by the armistice they sometimes attacked U...

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These warnings by the Chinese were ignored and on November 28, 1950 so called Chinese "volunteers" (the Chinese called their soldiers volunteers in hopes that it would not seem as if they were "officially" declaring war) made mass attacks sending the UN army back to the 38th parallel. ... The Eisenhower administration decided that if the armistice failed it would attack China using atomic weapons. ... It was indeed a crime that those who attacked from the North invoked violence to unite Korea under their rule. ... The South Koreans were so agitated by the armistice they sometimes attacked UN t...

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However the direction in which matters are moving today there could very well be another World War with the latest horrifying terrorist attacks on America. ... Its primary function was that if a fellow member were attacked, the rest of the members would strike back at the hostile nation- collective security. ... NATO's policy of defending a fellow member if attacked still stands today though it has not being used, although it is might be used if there is a war, America's and the rest of the world waging war against terrorism. ... By the terms of NATO, the USA took the lion's sha...

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I quickly learned I was researching something that spanned political, historical and religious backgrounds and tapped into the heart of the American attitude most recently seen in Obama's election victory speech of "yes we can".1 Despite this, the president recently appeared to be hesitant to proclaim views of support for exceptionalism. ...

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The Americans had intercepted messages from the Foreign Minister Togo, to Ambassador Sato expressing the desires of the Emperor for a peaceful end to the war, "[h]is Majesty the Emperor, mindful of the fact that the present war daily brings greaterevil and sacrifice upon the peoples of all belligerent powers, desires from his heart thatit may be quickly terminated" (Alperovitz 23). ... The retention of the Emperor was crucial to the surrender, as the Japanese believed their Emperor was a god, the heart of the people and the culture (Long). ...

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Stalin later said: "This creature softened my stony heart. ... During the summer of 1918, Stalin's operations came under military attack by Cossacks and anti-Bolshevik forces from both the Caucasus and the Donets basin. ...

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But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack one another, and granted Stalin permission to take over the Baltic States and eastern Poland, and prosecute a war in Finland. ...

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Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

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It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman ...

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Not only did his work attack religion and morality, but it also presented the idea of a "ubermensch," or the "superman:" I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the out of the dark cloud man. ...

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The year is 1954. That was nine years after the German unconditional surrender, putting an end to the Second World War; the year when the first hydrogen bomb test was announced to be conducted successfully in the U.S.; and the year when the conflict between two schools of psychiatric treatment, tra...

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As stated in a debate on whether or not war brings about peace, Kapoor (2012) explains, "Peace is a meeting of hearts and minds through understanding. ... The rebels decided they had had enough of president Taylor's constantly ignoring the needs of his people and began terrorizing the streets and attacking the national army. ...

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Prior to the 1960s, war films did well at the box-office. Invigorated audiences defined their ideas of combat by watching films that glorified heroic soldiers. Rather than questioning the accuracy of setting, dialogue, or action, audiences gave the film makers freedom to use their imagination. Howe...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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During the 1960's America was ripped apart by a war in a far off country in Asia. Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. The US was faced with the decision, to watch as its friends in other countries fade...

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