... 's rampage through Latin America directly, as would be many later forays into Latin America, it did set the stage for future, more direct US involvement in Latin American affairs. The William Walker incident also showed an ugly side to US public sentiment of Latin America; all too often, racism or other factors turn US opinion towards that of lack of respect ... the destruction (and subsequent misinformation) of the USS Maine in early 1898, killing 290 sailors on board. Although now known most likely to be a boiler accident, "yellow journalists" such as William Randolph Hearst misinforme...

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... the foundation of the Cold War, known as Orthodoxy, became the norm for historians between the 1940's and the beginning the 1960's. During this period historians, such as Arthur Schlesinger, William H. McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist ... aimed to revise the story. In the middle of the 1960's, inspired by the writings of many notable researchers and historians on the subject of American Foreign Policy, such as William Appleman Willi...

• Word Count: 1800
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... Peoples, James Meredith filed a lawsuit against Ole Miss, asserting racial discrimination. The lawsuit was ultimately resolved on appeal by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Meredith's favor in September 1962. William Doyle indicated in his book, "An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi," that the NAACP's support was a crucial element in Meredith's ultimate victory. "Doyle also noted ... ...

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... stages of the war, when everyone was desperately waiting for the end, which remained out of sight as the death toll skyrocketed. World War II was part of Ralph Vaughan William's inspiration for his tuba concerto. One of the residual outcomes of World War II was the Cold War, another major historical event that had a great amount of influence over Europe ... ...

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... and America's involvement in these affairs for years to come. The midst of the Korean War, almost all of South Korea was taken over by the north when Major General William F. Dean and the 24th division were captured and taken prisoner (Ferrell 18). The line around Pusan was the last remaining section of South Korea not yet taken over by the ... ...

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... up to his goal of being a defender of the United Nations mandate to maintain collective security. At that moment in time, Canada's defence policy was under review, and Defence Minister William McKnight says, "Canada does not want to be an isolated island in terms of collective security but neither are we are a superpower."" Since the end of the war, Canada has ... ...

• Word Count: 4557
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... up to his goal of being a defender of the United Nations mandate to maintain collective security. At that moment in time, Canada's defence policy was under review, and Defence Minister William McKnight says, "Canada does not want to be an isolated island in terms of collective security but neither are we are a superpower."" Since the end of the war, Canada has ... ...

• Word Count: 4557
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... for dropping the bomb as the military pressures stemmed from discussions and meetings of Truman, Secretary of War Stimson, Army Chief of Staff General Marshal, Chief of Navy Staff Admiral William Leahy, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and others. Truman knew of the ferocious fighting currently taking place in the Pacific, and naturally had a desire to minimize what he felt ... ...

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... Central America. In the wake of the Boland I Amendment and the cap on spending, Robert C. McFarlane, Reagan's National Security Advisor, suggested soliciting support from other third world countries. CIA director, William Casey agreed and made several suggestions as to who should be approached. Contact was then made to solicit said funds. When a one million-dollar contribution was received in 1984, McFarlane ... ...

• Word Count: 2010
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... a safety valve to relieve such pressures. Other forces also stimulated overseas expansion during the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. The lurid "yellow press- of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst whetted he popular taste for excitement broad. Missionaries inspired by books like the Reverend Josiah Strong's Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, (document B) looked overseas ... ...

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... alternatives became. The lesson was learned in 1955 when a little known poet named Alan Ginsberg was scheduled to read his poem HOWL at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. Captain William Hanrahan of the SFPD busted up the reading, confiscated copies of the poem and arrested City Lights owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti for obscenity. Ironically, this made HOWL a best-seller. During Ginsburg ... ...

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... have seized our world in the latter half of the 20th century. The panic of the Vietnam world is applied to the more widespread condition of life with the Bomb. William Cowling, the protagonist, is haunted from a young age by the apocalyptic terror of his world. Despite his awareness that his parents, his wife, and his daughter all think he is ... ...

• Word Count: 781
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate