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Pacific War Essays and Term Papers
Atomic BombThesis: The research for the first Atomic bomb was done in the United States, by a group of the best scientists; this research was given the name of �The Manhattan Project�.
On Monday July 16th, 1945, a countdown for the detonation of the first atomic bomb took place near Los Alamos, New ...
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A Brief History of the FBIThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has been around since 1908. It was created by former Attorney General Charles Bonaparte during Theodore Roosevelt�s Presidency. The FBI�s focus has changed due to world tragedies shifting their focus. President Roosevelt approved the creation of the federal ...
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WW2World War II, or the Second World War[3] (often abbreviated as WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, which involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers: eventually forming two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was ...
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The Japanese Immigrants' Experience In CaliforniaThe Japanese Immigrant Experience in California
The Nineteenth Century was a time of great change for Japan and the Japanese people. In 1853, an American naval flotilla under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry appeared suddenly in what is now called Tokyo Bay. Perry carried with him a ...
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Immigraton LawsThe first immigrants to the territory now the United States were from Western
Europe. The first great migration began early in the 19th century when large
numbers of Europeans left their homelands to escape the economic hardships
resulting from the transformation of industry by the factory system ...
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Lyndon B. JohnsonEarly Life. -----------
Johnson was born on Aug. 27, 1908, near Johnson City, Tex., the eldest
son of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines Johnson. His father, a
struggling farmer and cattle speculator in the hill country of Texas,
provided only an uncertain income for his family. ...
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Tom Clancy's GeniusThe Cold War and post Cold War eras have brought with them many interesting aspects. New technologies initially meant for mass destruction filter down into the civilian world, making current lives easier. One example of this is the anti-lock braking systems of today�s cars. Originally designed to ...
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The History Of General MotorsOne September evening in 1886, a young businessman in an old lumber town in
Michigan hitched a ride in a friend's horse-drawn cart. The cart's spring
suspension made it a more comfortable ride than usual--so comfortable, in
fact, that the young businessman bought the rights to manufacture the ...
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Kamicaze PilotsDuring World War II in the Pacific, there were pilots of the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy who made suicide attacks, driving their planes to deliberately crash into carriers and battle- ships of the Allied forces. These were the pilots known as the Kamikaze pilots. Because right-wing ...
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United States And ImperialismDuring the time period including the close of the nineteenth century, with the climax of the industrial revolution, the United States had become an industrialized and more sophisticated nation. The United States now had the resources, technology, and political organization to hold the status of a ...
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Foreign PolicyAmerica's founding fathers have always earnestly urged the United States to keep to a of isolationism. Before leaving office, President Washington warned the budding nation of the dangers of entanglements and potentially implicating treaties with other nations. President Jefferson, taking a ...
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Tom ClancyThe Cold War and post Cold War eras have brought with them many interesting aspects. New technologies initially meant for mass destruction filter down into the civilian world, making current lives easier. One example of this is the anti-lock braking systems of today�s cars. Originally designed to ...
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The Battle Of Little Big HornWhen I think back of the stories that I have heard about how the Native American Indians were driven from their land and forced to live on the reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that the Oglala Sioux made ...
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Kamicaze Pilots 2During World War II in the Pacific, there were pilots of the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy who made suicide attacks, driving their planes to deliberately crash into carriers and battle- ships of the Allied forces. These were the pilots known as the Kamikaze pilots. Because right-wing ...
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Ernie PyleBy: Jenny Trembath
March 20, 2000
Ernie Plye
When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of Ernie Pyle in
the final days of World War II, Americans spoke of him in the
same breath as they had Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the
loss of him was as great as the loss of the ...
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The Manhattan ProjectOn the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over
the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb
ever. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to
about 20,000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. They were ...
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Thesis: Show How Mexico Lost An Enormous Territory To The U.S. In 1848.Henry Polk was President of the U.S.A. from 1845, and was an
imperialist. He wanted his country to expand by seizing Mexico's land. His
goal was to try to make the States stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Polk first offered 30,000,000 dollars to Mexico for California and New
Mexico, but ...
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Walt Whitmanwas looked upon as the forerunner of 20th Century poetry, praising democracy, and becoming a proclaimed poet of American democracy. He was known as the "Son of Long Island," and he loved his country and everything about it. (Current, Williams, Freidel- page 292-293). Whitman lived ...
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The Manhattan ProjectOn the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay
flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first
atomic bomb ever. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power
equal to about 20,000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. They were
an ...
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