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World War Ii U S Army
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General Douglas MacArthur was born on Jan. 26,
1880 at Little Rock Barracks, Arkansas. He died
April 5, 1964 in Washington, D. C. He was the
general who commanded the Southwest Pacific
Theatre in World War II, administered postwar
Japan during the Allied occupation that followed,
and led United Nations forces during the first
nine months of the Korean War. MacArthur was the
third son of Arthur MacArthur, Jr. , later the
army's senior ranking officer, and Mary Hardy
MacArthur, an ambitious woman ...
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Ho Chi Minh Tet Offensive
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The Tet offensive was certainly the decisive
campaign of the war, but lost in these set of
battles was the real underlying reason why the
grossly underestimated NLF and North Vietnamese
army could actually succeed in this undermanned
set of attacks. I think the real success of this
campaign was not the effectiveness and the
planning of the NLF and NV army, but the lack of
preparation of the US forces. The NLF and NV army
have received too much credit on this suicide
mission. The credit should ac...
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Britain And France North Africa
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The racist and fascist ideals of Nazism have long
claimed to be based on and supported by the
writings of the German philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche. In actuality however, Nietzsche's ideas
could not be more opposed to those of the Nazis.
The blatant racism, oppression, and mass mentality
of the National Socialists in no way fits with
Nietzsche's writings or ideals. Knowing this, it
is difficult to understand how Adolf Hitler
managed to warp Nietzsche's individualistic,
anti-racist, and anti-Ger...
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Greece And Turkey Policy Of Containment
1,188 words
... sacred. (Op. cit. P. 397) What the Allies
could not agree on was the normalization of the
rest of Europe, since Stalin had taken immediate
steps to see that could not happen based on
Russian security needs. The response to this new
form of political aggression would trumpet the
first salvos of the Cold War. The trigger, which
prompted action, was the chaotic economic
situation in Greece. As stated earlier, Churchill
proposed and Stalin accepted the division of
territory on the half sheet of ...
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Larger Scale Gang Members
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This first hand account shows the cycle of
violence between gangs in south central Los
Angeles during the late nineteen seventies and
eighties. From age 11 to 27, a young black man
lived the life of a gangbang. Monster Kody, or
more accurately "Most", repeatedly killed his
hood's bordering territorial enemies. As Kody
matured, he increasingly questioned this racial
suicide and eventually found a way out. Today, he
is a father, husband, author and leader promoting
Afro-American self-identity and ...
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June 6 1944 Landing Craft
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... of the few missions that the Rangers completed
that day. Because of the great break downs in
planned assaults, the day started to look like a
chaotic day with the only missions being that of
individual survival. Most divisions managed to
stay organized and plan their survival and attack
plans. Col. George H. Taylor of the 16 th Regiment
said, Two kinds of people are staying on this
beach, the dead and those about to die. These sort
of speeches sparked other soldiers to continue
with their sl...
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World War Ii Russia And Austria
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... end taken seemingly overnight. Nearly the
whole of Africa had been carved up by European
powers (30 % of the continent ended up in British
control) over the course of less than 30 years,
while it had taken over 300 years for Europe to
control the Americas. During the early 1900 's the
global industrial revolution was in full swing and
a naval arms race began between Great Britain and
the United States. A treaty is eventually signed
limiting the numbers and size of ships that the
two countrie...
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Should We Have Dropped The Atomic Bomb
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The atomic bomb killed many innocent people, but
it was necessary to end World War II. After World
War II began in 1939, President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United
States. Many people in the United States thought
that their country should stay out of the war. The
people wanted the Allied Forces to have the
victory. President Roosevelt also wanted an Allied
victory because an Axis victory might endanger
democracies everywhere. The United States equipped
nations fig...
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Mao Tse Tung Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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The history of the 20 th century can be defined by
the biographies of six men: Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Vladimir Lenin,
Adolf Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, and Josef Stalin. Each
of these men had a lasting significant involvement
in world affairs. This essay will focus on the
significance each individual had on the ideologies
of Democracy and Totalitarianism. Four of the six
individuals were leaders of a totalitarianistic
state, and three of these led a communist country.
Also four ...
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Austro Hungarian Empire First World War
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World War One or 'The Great War' as it became
known, occurred due to many causes, some of which
still remain unexposed today. The obvious trigger
for the war was the assassination of the heir to
the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz
Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on 28 th June 1914.
The assassination occurred during the Archduke's
visit to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The Archduke was targeted due to the
general feeling amongst Serbians that, once
appointed to the th...
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Atlantic Charter United Nations
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... ower in favor of the Allies. The year 1942 saw
the turn of the tide for the Allies. In June,
Japanese naval airpower was decimated by the
United States Navy in the Battle of Midway. Having
been repulsed at Moscow, Hitler turned to the
Caucasus, but the Germans were severely defeated
and turned back at Stalingrad (now Volgograd) by
the Russians in the closing months of the year. At
the same time the British dealt the Germans and
Italians a defeat at El Alamein that sent them
reeling in retrea...
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Lend Lease Declare War
511 words
A democratic government is designed to protect the
will of the people. At the same time, it is
designed to protect the lives and wellbeing of
those who live in the said nation. In the early
1940 s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was faced with
the enormous burden of preparing America to join
the war, which he felt was inevitable, and to help
out his Allied friends until the inevitable event
occurred which would allow him to formally declare
war on Germany. FDR managed to do this through
policies, sec...
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Britain And France Eva Braun
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... imitator, he made Eva Braun, a clerk, his
mistress, but refused to marry her in order to
preserve his image as a self-denying public
servant. In 1932, with Germany close to anarchy,
Hitler's career approached its crisis. He narrowly
lost to the incumbent Paul von Hindenburg in the
presidential elections in April, and the Nazis
polled their highest vote (37. 2 %) in the July
elections. In the November elections, however, the
Nazi vote decreased to 33. 1 %. Hitler had lost
prestige through his...
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Waffen Ss Three Days
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The summer of 1944 saw the beginning of long
awaited battles begin. The Allied landings in
France, and the Soviet offensive against Army
Group Middle. From now till the end of the war the
Waffen SS would be in constant action and its
strength would dwindle accordingly. Replacements
and refits were few and far between, and always
inadequate. At the time of the Normandy landings
the four Waffen SS divison's in the West were
widely scattered. LAH was in Belgium, Hitlerjugend
[HJ] west of Paris, Get...
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Matter Of Time Soviet Union
1,768 words
War beyond Europe In order for us to understand
what enabled Hitler to achieve easy victories, in
early stages of war, we will need to analyze a
geopolitical situation in Europe, before 1939. In
years 1930 - 1940 Communism was at its strongest,
while striving for no less than taking over the
whole world. Up until collapse of Soviet Union in
1991, its emblem used to be hammer and sickle over
the globe. Today it became customary to accuse
Hitler of dreaming about globe domination, yet he
never ope...
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War Against Japan Japanese Military
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Several Theaters of War The Pacific War started in
1937, when Japan initiated an undeclared war
against China, which did not have a central
government at the time. The reasons for Japan to
get involved in the conflict with China were very
prosaic it simply need the access to Chinese
market and wanted to insure the steady flow of raw
materials from the continent, which was crucial
for the effective functioning of Japanese economy.
The reason why Japanese army was able to score
early successes in ...
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War In The Pacific Allied Forces
297 words
The island of Truk was 800 square miles of
sheltered lagoons and strong defensive
capabilities. (1) In 1944 the island became
vulnerable to allied attacks. (2) All of the
warships were subsequently moved away from the
island leaving all the forces on the island
without warship protection. Truk was still
considered one of Japan? s greatest naval bases.
Vice Adm. Church Hara was in command of the forces
on the island. At this point in the war the allied
forces were just moping up the Japanese as t...
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House Of Representatives Greatest Military
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Few individuals have come along that have
captivated the imaginations of their
contemporaries and of historians. Perhaps the most
prolific of these characters is Napoleon
Bonaparte. The part of his life often found most
intriguing was his humble beginnings. Here, like
some Hollywood movie is the tale of an exceptional
man whose intelligence and rise from the bottom is
eventually defeated by his flaws, which cause him
to fall from power. He was born in Corsica just
off the coast of Italy. France ...
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Constitutional Monarchy Peoples Party
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Pridi My Hero Pridi Banomyong Pridi Banomyong was
born on May 11, 1900 in Ayudhya, the former
capital of Thailand. He was the eldest son of a
relatively well to do farming family. Pridi became
interested in revolutionaries when he was very
young. At the age of 14, he completed his
secondary education. Too young to enroll in any
institution for higher education, Pridi stayed
with his family for an extra two years, helping
them in rice farming before darting off to law
school in 1917. Pridi was a ...
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World War Ii Gross National Product
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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
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