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38 Th Parallel Republic Of Korea
1,712 wordsBegun as a war between South Korea (Republic of Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), after the North's invasion of the South, the conflict swiftly developed into a limited international war involving the U. S. and 19 other nations. From a general viewpoint, the Korean War was one of the by-products of the cold war, the global political and diplomatic struggle between the Communist and non-Communist systems following World War II. The motives behind North Korea's decisi...
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Second World War Bomb Was Dropped
3,349 wordsAt 11: 02 a. m. , August 9, 1945 an atomic bomb exploded 500 meters above this spot. The black stone monolith marks the hypocenter. The fierce blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand degrees, and deadly radiation generated by the explosion crushed, burned and killed everything in sight and reduced this entire area to a barren field of rubble. About one-third of Nagasaki City was destroyed and 150, 000 people killed or injured, and it was said at the time that this area would be devoid of...
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Spanish American War United States Navy
1,343 wordsMost may think that the Spanish-American War was a war between the Americans and the Spanish. Most are right, but only to a point, because the Spanish-American War also included wars between the Americans and the Filipinos, as well as between the Americans and Puerto-Ricans. Reasons for these wars occurring are obvious to the history connoisseur, but to the normal individual, they may not be so distinct. America has been a country of great power for years, and that power has come not only from y...
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Machine Gun Fire North Africa
1,700 words... division of X Armoured Corps from breaking through the bridgehead and into the enemy's communications before dawn. The failure to penetrate the minefields lost an exceptional opportunity because dawn on 24 October saw the German forces without direction as the barrage had dislocated their communications and the German commander, General Summer, was missing and was later found to have died of a heart attack. Furthermore, the German armour was dispersed across the desert and the German command...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder World War Ii
2,009 wordsIt was not until World War I that specific clinical syndromes came to be associated with combat duty. In prior wars, it was assumed that such casualties were merely manifestations of poor discipline and cowardice. However, with the protracted artillery barrages commonplace during "The Great War, " the concept evolved that the high air pressure of the exploding shells caused actual physiological damage, precipitating the numerous symptoms that were subsequently labeled "shell shock. " By the end ...
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38 Th Parallel End The War
1,459 words... ous Manchurian region. The Chinese troops lay coiled like a viper, and as the UN. pushed forward, they encountered Human Waves of Chinese troops. Combined with poor equipment and the brutal North Korean winter, the UN. forces had no choice but to retreat. The allies retreated back 130 miles to the North Korean border. Along with the UN. retreat, followed millions of North Korean refugees trying to escape Chinas assault. The situation was described by one G. I. , There were literally millions...
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Gulf War Syndrome President George Bush
1,097 words... to use air power with logistic and raiding strategies. The second and third phase was combat and raiding strategies that would use standoff air power, close-in power, ground artillery and naval artillery. The fourth phase used a combat and persisting strategy, which was set out to remove Iraqi forces. During all four phases the Coalition concentrated on the Iraqi weaknesses. The greatest weakness was their underestimation of the Coalitions capabilities. The Iraqi strategy was based on things...
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America Decision To Drop The Atomic Bomb
1,497 wordsPerhaps the most controversial and heavily scrutinized issue of the twentieth century was President Harry Truman's decision to unleash atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945. While the sequence of events preceding that fateful summer morning of August 6, 1945 are fully understood, the motives behind Truman's actions are shrouded in controversy. Top military officials publicly denounced the use of such a horrendous weapon, while the obvious advantages to the bomb, traditiona...
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The Anzac At Gallipoli Campaign
528 wordsFor todays essay I will talk about why the Anzac involve in the Battle of Gallipoli. Actually the plan is planned by the British to attack the Western Front e. g. Germany by attacking Turkey, Germany's new ally. The plan is to force the battleships entering the Dardanelles strait and to attack Turkeys capital Constantinople. The Gallipoli campaign for the Anzac's is very important because they were helping their ally Britain to defeat Germany. They arrived at the Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915. The...
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The Atomic Bomb In World War Ii
1,913 wordsThe atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the end to the world's largest armed conflict. Many debates have surfaced over the ethics of such an attack. The bomb itself caused massive amounts of casualties while the unknown effects of radiation caused many more deaths amongst the survivors of the blast. Despite the ghastly effects of such a weapon, it offered the best choice for a quick and easy defeat of Japan. President Truman, who authorized the use of the atomic bomb, made a wise de...
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First World War World War One
1,330 wordsThe Battle of the Somme started in 1916 following the battle at Ypres in 1915. After it went on over a long period of time, it was to become one of the most famous battles of the First World War. It was a protracted engagement, which resulted in appalling carnage. The Battle of the Somme is proclaimed to be such a great battle because of the certain strategies and the specific objectives used, the tragic results of the battle, and the consequences of the battle concerning the many conflicting po...
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World War Ii And The Atomic Bomb
1,353 wordsThe names Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known around the world yet most people remain ignorant of the reality and the meaning of atomic destruction. (Hiroshima 3) A controversy exists over the use of the atomic bomb to end World War II. Many people believe that the atom bomb should have been dropped. It reduced the number of casualties that took place. Also, it required much less time than an all-out invasion. The Atomic Bomb August 6 th, 1945, 70, 000 lives were ended in a matter of seconds. The U...
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World War Ii August 6 1945
1,212 wordsAt 8: 15 am on August 6, 1945, approximately 300 to 500 feet above the highly populated city of Hiroshima Japan, the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was detonated. Only minutes later 60, 000 to 100, 000 people were dead, most were vaporized leaving only an eerie shadow of carbon behind. In the year and months that followed hundreds of thousands of people died of radiation poisoning and radiation provoked disease. Children born in months immediately following the bombing were occasionally ...
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American Red Cross Clara Barton
1,893 wordsMedical Care and Nursing in the US Civil War Introduction -The Civil War was horrific and bloodiest warfare. During the Civil War, medicinal knowledge was tremendously primordial. Doctors were not aware of seriousness of infection, and did not put much effort to prevent it. These issues created interest to know about cure of soldiers in battlefield. Thus the main objective of this paper is to focus on the treatment of wounded soldiers, their nursing and medicines used during civil war. Medical c...
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U S S Political And Social
1,756 wordsAs I thin the President had surely two reasons for using these new and, as it turned out, enormously destructive weapons. 1. The way in which the Japanese armed forces, principally the Japanese army, had conducted World War II. The barbarities of the war had their beginnings in Japan's war against China, which began in 1937. That same year, when Japanese troops occupied Nanking, the human cost was extraordinary: Between 100, 000 and 200, 000 people were killed by the occupying troops for no reas...
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U S Embassy Terrorist Attacks
1,379 wordsThreat Maintenance and Prevention in the 21 st Century Despite the US success in Afghanistan and elimination of the Hussein's order in Iraq, heavily marked by social hysteria and media hype, the actual threat of terrorism has a significant tendency to grow. The decline, which commenced during the late 1980 s and includes reductions in the number of incidents, groups, and fatalities contrasts with increase in the number of people injured in terrorist attacks of the 1990 s. Radical Islamic groups ...
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Machine Gun Fire World War Ii
4,307 wordsD-Day D-day is the term for a secret date on which a military operation is to begin. Peacetime planning of military operations is also based on supposed D-days. Terms such as D-plus- 3 (three days after initial attack) and H-hour (the hour of an attack) are used to plan the sequence of operations. The term D-day became current during World War II. , when it defined dates set for Allied landings on enemy-held coasts. The most famous D-Day is June 6, l 944, when the Allies invaded Normandy. (World...
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World Trade Center Chemical And Biological
3,864 wordsIntroduction It was another calm early morning on the subway train. Many of the passengers were napping on their way to work. The train slowed to a stop to allow more passengers on, then sped along to its destination, the central government dist right in Tokyo. Many of the passengers found it strange that a man who got on at the last stop was wearing sunglasses, but soon dismissed it remembering how safe the subways and their homeland have always been. Well, they were mistaken. The man with the ...
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Glory Of God Love Of God
5,822 wordsPuritan as a name was, in fact, mud from the start. Later, the word gained the further, political connotation of being against the Stuart monarchy and for some sort of republicanism; its primary reference, however, was still to what was seen as an odd, furious, and ugly form of Protestant religion. In England, anti-Puritan feeling was let loose at the time of the Restoration and has flowed freely ever since. In North America it built up slowly after the days of Jonathan Edwards to reach its zeni...
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