Essays about War Page 18

From the 1880s until World War II, France governed Vietnam as portion of Gallic Indochina, which besides included Cambodia and Laos. The state was under the control of an emperor, Bao Dai. In 1940 Nipponese military personnels invaded and occupied Gallic Indochina. In December of that twelvemonth, Vietnamese patriots established the League for the Independence…

As usual, our traditional Civil War histories tell us assuring story of the victory, in an unavoidable fight, of the dynamic, free from slavery North over the traditional, enslaved South, demonstrating the freedom norms rooted in the nation’s heart. The Civil War was a complicated event in our history. Therefore historians often tried to describe…

On the morning of June 25, 1876, lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and the 7th Cavalry charged into battle against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians. Custer’s orders were to wait for reinforcements at the mouth of the Little Bighorn River before attacking the Indians, but Chief Sitting Bull had been spotted nearby, and Custer…

            The epic Iliad begins with the anger or wrath of Achilles (Achilleus or Akhilleus) as he withdraws himself and his own private army from the sandy beaches of Troy. The following passages narrate the anger and ‘hesitation’ of Achilles during the war. From the selected lines from the narrative, we find evidence of such…

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…

Born on August 22, 1934 in Trenton, New Jersey, General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf was the youngest of three siblings. His parents were Ruth Alice and Herman Norman Schwarzkopf. He had two older sisters named Ruth Ann and Sally. While Sally and Herman enjoyed outdoor activities together, Ruth Ann preferred indoor pursuits like reading or playing…

How Olanna’s privileged outlook changed by the war? The war is of key significance in “Half of a yellow sun”. Several characters had to adjust their perspective in order to survive the war, Adichie relies on several aspects to develop and change Olanna’s disposition, such as the loss of her family, which in consequence, made…

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…

I think I would be important for the Romans to link their cultural heritage & origins to the Trojan War because the gift of the Greek wooden horse started the war. Staying true to their culture could have resulted in no war at all. To an immigrant or visitor would have perceived a sense cultural…