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Background to the Case In June 1999, the Democratic Republic of Congo had filed its application to the International Court of Justice in which it had alleged that Uganda had carried out “acts of armed aggression” on its territory and that this was a “flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the Charter of…

Known as “Old Blood and Guts,” was one of the most colorful commanders in the US Army. The famed commander of the Third Army during World War II displayed courage and daring as prominently as the pair of ivory handled revolvers he wore. In 1897 Patton entered Stephen Clark’s private academy for boys. He gained…

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, discusses the author’s ambitious strategy for a Euro-Atlantic community which would encompass the Ukraine, Central Asia and the Caucasus independent republics. The following essay is a critical review of The Grand Chessboard. According to the author, the thesis of The Grand Chessboard is that…

Herbert Feis, a Special Consultant to three Secretaries of War, has written this book as the final installment in his series on the history of World War II from a government perspective. One of his previous books in the series even received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. In this particular book, Mr. Feis offers strictly factual…

The ongoing debate among contemporary historians about the importance of the pre-World War I alliance system in Europe as a war cause persists. Some contend that the war resulted directly from the establishment of alliances between prominent European nations, while others argue that these alliances were an expression of longstanding conflicts, disputes, anxieties, and rivalries…

ww1rld. The fight had been raging for years because of militarism, the belife that a nation should have a large military force, nationalism, the belife in ones nation, aliances, the joining of nations, Imperialism, when one large country takes control over a weaker one. The spark that caused ww1 was the assaination of the archduke…

George Bush brought to the White House a dedication to traditional American values and a determination to direct them toward making the United States “a kinder and gentler nation.” In his Inaugural Address he pledged in “a moment rich with promise” to use American strength as “a force for good.” Coming from a family with…

– Cuba 90 miles off the cost of Florida3. Rejection of open skies proposal- Eisenhower left for the summit conference4. Powers tried and convicted of espionage by the supreme court of the USSR- Castro seized all American-owned propertiesD. Summary of The Inspector General’s Survey of The Cuban Operation 1. Freedom of Information Act to the…

In the span of time after World War II, during the explosive increase of new nations, one nation’s strive for independence sticks out to me and that is the nation of Guinea. This nation in particular emulates our classes definition, as well as most definitions, of the word globalization for many reasons including the ways…

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. which came into consequence on 2 February 1848. ended the Mexican-American war and officially resolved territorial differences ensuing from that struggle. The pact required the U. S. authorities to pay the Mexican authorities $ 15 million dollars. this in return for an sweep of district that subsequently became the provinces…