A People's History of the United States concentrates on the personal experiences and struggles of people who lived in the United States from 1492-present. It is a view of history from the common man's perspective, rather than the view of the leaders and upper class of this cou...

1.) Chapter 21, Review Question What were the major policy initiatives of the New Deal in the Hundred Days? Some of the major policy initiatives of the New Deal in the first Hundred Days included the Emergency Banking Act, The National Industrial Recovery Act, The Economy Act, and Agricultural A...

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy. Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ) In the year nineteen hundred, the center of world power inarguablyresided in Europe. In fact, f...

Causes of the Cold WarThe causes of the Cold War were the precursors which led to the start of the competition in technological advances. The reasons for the Cold War were mainly the simple fact that both sides in the war had different political systems. The U.S was represented by capitalism while...

The Space Race grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful nations after World War II. For a half-century, the two superpowers competed for primacy in a global struggle pitting a democratic society against totalitarian communism. Space was a crucial are...

The Cold War was the period in history in which for 40 years the world was under the constant threat of total destruction, caught between the nuclear stockpiles of the United States, Great Britain, and France on one side and the Soviet Union and the People\'s Republic of China on the other. Any conf...

The Key to a Better World An age old problem that has plagued many people's minds is how to make the world a better place to live. There have been a variety of strategies used by those in power to try to improve the world through out the years such as wars, treaties, and educational program...

The Sixties split the skies. Only Civil and two world wars so neatly divided our history into a Before and After. And the Sixties were more divisive than World War II, which drew more people for the war effort. The Sixties drove people apart - husbands from wives, children from parents, students ...

The national history of Iran is one marked by turmoil and conflict, due mostly in part to foreign influences. As the country grappled for self-rule under the leadership of Mossadegh, Britain, and America each tried to intervene with different motives. In the aftermath of World War Two and the rise o...

In the system of international politics almost everything is strategic. Even the most basic analysis of international historical events can seem like decoding the rules to a complex board game. This is most evident when analyzing grand wars, such as WWI and WWII. Although states and state leaders ma...

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II Even while World War II war still being fought, leaders of the Allied powers began thinking about how to reconstruct Europe after the war. Winston Churchill of Britain, Franklin Roosevelt of the United States, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union a...

The role of America at the end of World War II was where the origins of policing the world originate. America had been engaged in a very costly war in terms of dollars as well as lives. But, despite the expense the United States came out of World War II better than any other nation that was involved...

Some say that it is useless to speak of world peace or world law or world disarmament and that it will be useless until the leaders of the Soviet Union adopt a more enlightened attitude. I hope they do. I believe we can help them to do it. But I also believe that we must reexamine our own attitude ...

WORLD CONFLICT IN THE 20TH CENTURY 1 The 20th century was the bloodiest 100 years in human history. Based on numbers killed, in warfare, the 20th century exceeds all other centuries combined. The three major conflicts between 1901 and 200 were World War I, World War II, an...

The cold war was a time of political and economic insecurities. It was not a battle in the sense of bloodshed but a battle purely of political ideology. It was a battle of political ideas which involved blocs and mini wars fought by the Soviet Unions allies rather than themselves. The United States...

Never before in the history of the United States had a war created such disillusionment as the Vietnam War. From the soldiers who fought in it, and the students who protested it, to the politicians who funded it, they all felt that somewhere along the line that they had been lied to. Whether it wa...

The United States of America was created through warfare. Since then, the U.S. has tried to stay non-militaristic. George Washington once said that a new nation should not entangle itself in alliances, because they could result in wars. In spite of this, as our nation developed, we found ourselves i...

Many people argue that the conservative movement started with an article in the National Review on November 19, 1955. The name of the article was the \"Publisher\'s Statement\", written by William F. Buckley Jr., the magazine\'s editor-publisher. At the age of 30, Buckley declared, \"let\'s face it:...

What were the short and long term effects of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:The Atomic bomb was created using the scientific discovery of Albert Einstein that E=MC2 . When it was dropped, little was known about the actual power in which it contained. During World War Two, two of them were d...

Throughout Russian history there have been many leaders who have tried to implement reforms to help shape the future of their nation. In doing so, some of these leaders have left a legacy for history books and scholars to contemplate. Alexander II, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Gorbachev each sou...

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, more popularly known as Lenin, is arguably the greatest leader in Russian and Soviet Union History. Lenin inspired and led the Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution of 1917, and was the architect and first head of the recently dismantled United Soviet Socialist Republi...

History has shown that strong individuals and revolutionary ideas can have a major impact on a country. Leaders are often driven by what they perceive as a desire to create a more perfect country. Frequently their egos and methods sway them from the realization of the ideals they set out to achiev...

Going After Cacciato- "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." -Orson Swett Marden The dictionary defines a daydream as pleasant visionary usually wishful creation of the imaginations. We all are guilty of daydreaming. We do it during a long, boring lecture or...

1) According to the text, what are the major themes of the 20th Century before WWI? \"The twentieth century opened on a world dominated by the West.\" It was during this period that profound progress and European power led the world affairs from the end of 19th century to world war, revolution, and ...

The Impact of the Vietnam War on the People of America The Vietnam War was one of the most tragic wars in American history. The affects it had on the American people were tremendous. Even today many Americans have the frightening, unforgettable memories of the war. The war was accounted to be o...