The Best Years of Our Lives All wars, regardless of the magnitude of its loss of life or the geographical breadth of its destruction, posses a number of defining characteristics. One of these traits actually takes place after the war. Almost all soldiers, upon returning home, engage in an emoti...

The Battle of the Bulge The Ardennes offensive was a last ditch effort by the Germans to achieve an advantage in the war, but it turned out to be an acceleration of GermanyÕs ultimate demise. Previous to the offensive the Allies had managed to achieve a beach head and advance toward Germany...

Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man. –Catechism of the Catholic Church. Since June 1940 tension had been mounting between America and Japan. The Axis Power, Germany and Italy, made ...

For thousands of years, countless lives have been lost in battles over disputed territories. While the primary, tangible point of contention in most border disputes is an easily identifiable piece of land on a map; such disputes are often far more complex than what can be measured in square miles. ...

Japanese-American Relocation Camps On December 7, 1941, the Japanese made a surprise attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. (Fremon 6) Right after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war against Japan. (Fremon 7) On February 19, 1942, as the U...

Introduction Prejudice. Discrimination. Hate. Genocide. Concentration camps. Ethnic cleansing. Throughout the course of the history of the world, it has experienced many dark and evil times. From the Nazi's of Germany, to the recent tragedies of September 11th, we as a society have come togeth...