Search Essays

…The Vietnam War The Vietnam War was the longest war in United States history. It lasted from 1957 to 1975. The U.S. got involved in this war to stop communism from spreading; first in individual countries and then hopefully in the world. Vietnam…

…World War II was fought across more land and involved more men than any other war in the history of human civilization. Never before or since has there been a war of such vast importance and of such a large scale. The United States had an absolutely…

…, it was a question of survival; for the Persians, on the other hand, occupation of Greece was simply part of their imperial plan. Nonetheless, the Persian Wars are significant because they resulted in a separation between Greece and the Near East after centuries…

…The War of Roses lasted from 1455 until 1485. It was a series of dynastic civil wars and civil unrest. Oddly enough the name was not given to the war until many years after it was finished, named by the badges of the two fighting parties; the white…

…THESIS : “ The United States didn’t want to get involved in the Spanish-American War, but was dragged into it due to yellow journalism, they wanted to control the seas, and wanted complete control over Cuba.” The Spanish-American War…

…Vonnegut’s Illustration of Destructiveness of War Slaughterhouse-Five was written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in 1953. Whether the book is an antiwar novel or a science fiction novel is ambiguous, but after writing this book, Vonnegut insists…

…The War of the Roses was a war for the thrown of England. When Edward III died in 1377, he left no direct heir to the throne of England. It was decided that his son, Edward III's grandson, should inherit the throne. However Henry, Duke…

…No Civil War? There may not have been a Civil War if the Northern colonies had the same agriculture as the South . Even the Revolution may not have taken place if this was true. It took a long time before the North convinced…

…War of the Worlds By H.G Wells In the novel "The War Of The Worlds" The writer H.G. Wells describes an attack on the earth by Martians from…

…Gary W. Gallagher. The Confederate War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. viii + 218 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-16055-X. Reviewed by Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University. Published by H-CivWar (March…