According to this article most of the people that believed in war have changed their mind after the speech of the Senator Kerry. They were once a supporter of the decision of President Bush to go to war but now, they have been rethinking it and they think US must brig their troops back to the countr...

Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War And The Battle For America's Hearts And Minds. By Melvin Small. (Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources Inc, 2002. pp. 163). The antiwar movement during the Vietnam Conflict was the most effective and long lasting of all the antiwar movements in American history. Up t...

Just War – The Iraq War 2004 In order to name a good example of a Just War, it must meet the requirements of the principles of a Just War. I will summarize the seven main points of these principles: 1. A Just War can only be fought as a last resort. All other non-violent options must have...

Theodore Roosevelt once said that the U.S was to "walk quietly and carry a big stick". Today there is no walking quietly about it. The United States is still caring that big stick but we are lumbering over the other countries like Paul Bunion. President Bush has gotten his congressional m...

When I think of the tradgedy that occured three years ago on September 11th, it brings back memories of anguish, sadness and despair. I cannot stop mourning for the thousands of innocent lives that were lost and the other thousands of people that lost their loved one's. Regretadly, it seems imposs...

War In Literature In war soldiers go through traumatizing experiences. Some go insane in battle, those who live through the war often suffer from post war syndrome. They wonder daily whether they are going to live or die, and how their wife and family are. Many often hope for a "cushy&q...

Morality of War In the wake of the destruction of September 11th, 2001, the United States of America were faced with an insecure future. With massive amounts of anti-American sentiments present all over the world, along with the growing threat of more terrorism against the US, President George W. ...

The war in Iraq has many people in America and around the world questioning America's intentions. Some might speculate that America went into this war to obtain oil. Others might see America as power hungry by wanting to overthrow Saddam Hussein. There are many different speculations about w...

As America prepares for a vicious battle with Iraq, the country is held within a battle of it's own. The country is spilt with supports on one side and anti-war mongrels on the other. The only division between to two well-meaning groups is that the current republican government is stressing ...

The War of 1812 was not just a battle against an external foe but stemmed from internal problems as well. The external enemy that the United States was facing was Britain, but that was not the most severe dilemma that they faced. The real problem that was occurring during this time was the interna...

In times of great hostility throughout Europe, America sought to remain neutral allowing Europe to handle its own affairs. In these times of uncertainty came the preparation of a country. With this call for neutrality caused a situation to erupt where the war ended up being fought on two differen...

Bush's Cold War For fifty years, the total purpose of American foreign interaction was to stop the spread of Communism. Only the threat of annihilation could prevent the citizens from rolling back into their traditional isolationism. George Washington himself preached that the United States ...

As the news of the individual surrender spread, fellow Germans saw that they were losing the war and started mutinies. Many people told the Kaiser to seek an armistice with the allies. However, he did not show any intensions of giving up. With the end so close, many American newspapers started to cr...

In the early days of the First World War, the United States was desperate to stay out of the European war and institute a neutrality policy. However, the two sides fought for U.S. support, often even at a danger to the U.S. The passive stand that America took in involvement in World War I only pr...

Many ultra conservatives and republicans claim that George W. Bush's administration has been the best this country has seen in years. Since President Clinton and Bush Sr.'s administrations did not properly interrogate Saddam Hussein, George W Bush felt it was his duty to dispose of the evi...

War of Deception Newspapers are a major influence on the way people perceive the world. It is a source which connects readers to many different topics of interest. Newspapers have also become a competitive business. With a desire to increase circulation and obtain more advertising re...

As Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney was at the center of Bush's "War on Terror." Along with then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, he was the chief architect of the plan and attack against Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Cheney advised and convinced President George W. Bush to inc...

Jason BeaulieuEnglish 10130 January 2002The Drug WarHow many people have heard about the Drug War the US is supposedly fighting? A few months ago in another class we were asked whether we thought Marijuana should be legalized in class and seven people were against legalizing it, six were for it, and...

A.P. History Essay on the War of 1812The War of 1812 also know as "The Second American War for Independance" (Bailey pg. 233) was fought between the meeger forces of the American government and the supreme power of Great Britain. The war ended in 1815 with the treaty of Gehnt, this treaty wasnt real...

When Dick Cheney "was presenting the rough game plan and sequence" for the invasion of Afghanistan with timing that was "totally up in the air," Colin Powell pressed for a more definite strategy (Woodward, 2002). As Woodward points out in Bush at War, the former Secretary of State advocated a clear-...

With the \"War on Terror\" lasting about five months, it has moved on from Afghanistan to many other locations. In his State of the Union speech on Wednesday January 30th, President Bush said that the war was not over and that we should not expect a short war. Bush and the rest of the United States ...

From the onset of war, the North had obvious advantages. Over all, in terms of both the population and productive capacity, the North had a commanding edge over the South. The North has two and a half times the South's population (22 million to 9 million, of whom 3.5 million were slaves) and en...

The two of the problems that caused the Civil War were secession and slavery which Abraham Lincoln eventually started to send soldiers and started the civil war. Even though there were still many problems left after the war, the Federal government came up with a number of solutions to them. Due to ...

Reconstruction It was 1865, the Civil War had ended and President Abraham Lincoln has been assassinated. Lincoln had been the moderator between the extreme beliefs of the Republican majority in Congress and the liberal ideas of the Democrats or Confederate sympathizers. None the less Rec...

Marci CunninghamHistory 1054:30World War II and the Effects on African-Americans and Japenese-AmericansIt really is not a outstanding statement to say the World War II affected many American lives. How could an all encompassing war not affect every person in America? The extent to which the war in...