In July, when the general learned that Japan had asked Russia to negotiate surrender with United stated, he told his staff: "This is it. ... (Takaki 4)" A tremendously significant event had occurred. ... Most of them would become victims of a new way of killing, radiation. ... Ever since the first contact between the English settlers and the Powhatans in Virginia in 1607, a then the arrival of Africans in 1619, race has been significant in our history. ... The increasing effects of sea blockade and cumulative devastation wrought by strategic bombing, which has already rendered millions home...

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• Grade Level: High School

Some consider war to be a necessary consequence of the state system. ... Events in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere signaled that global politics were entering on a new and uncertain phase. ... The great wars of world history have tended to be at once political, economic, and ideological struggles. Hegemonic wars were preceded by an important psychological change in the temporal outlook of people. ... For the United States, freedom, democracy, and national independence are the most powerful forces in the world. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the first part of that fateful decade, America would see a transition unlike any it had yet experienced in its history "and in the face of a most terrible war, would succeed in protecting not only its own safety, but the entire world's. ... Once again, history had begun to repeat itself. ... America could no longer turn a blind eye to the events in Europe and around the globe "we had to fight back. ... Most clearly, it is a prime example of how history repeats itself, and, if one heeds the warnings of the past, how that same history can be avoided. Perhaps we could al...

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But, even with this threat fading into history with the fall of the once grand Soviet Union, this book looks back at what then, could have been, and now what once might have been. ... With in a short time most of the major cities in the United States Are little more than Mushroom clouds in the mourning sky and the entire Russian mainland has been obliterated. ... This two chapter synopses of the "war of all wars" is the only time that Pat Frank in any of his science fiction novels shows victory (for what its worth in a nuclear war to the United Sates) because he made it a point in most of his ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It also proved the United State's strength. ... The United State's isolationism in the 1930s, ended in 1941. ... I could not worry about what history would say about my personal morality. ... The nuclear bombs were the most important, and influential products of the second world war. ... For the first time in human history, there are weapons that can destroy all of the human race....

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• Grade Level: High School

The defense of a nation has come a long way in the span of history. ... Missiles have come a long way though out history. ... This is important with chemical, biological, or nuclear weaponry, which could prove catastrophic if allowed to strike. ... After the ABM treaty of "72 missile defense became a less important issue. ... The next significant event came during the Gulf War when the United States suffered its first casualty from a long-range missile care of Iraq's Scud missiles. ...

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To understand why a dictator like Saddam Hussein is a threat to the international community, it is important to understand his brutally insane nature that has made him comparable to the likes of some of the most atrocious dictators in world history. ... Known as the "Saddam Diet-, Hussein would order his ministers to exhibitions at government events where graphic weapon demonstrations were used to show what would happen to dissenters of his cause (Kaplan 7). ... An Iraqi defector told the New York Times that "We were training these people to attack installations important to the United States....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate