... addition to the troops, 32-million civilians swore to fight for the emperor with everything they had, including "Sherman carpets," which were children with dynamite strapped to their bodies and trained to throw themselves under American tanks. To defend against Japan, the United States planned to invade initially with 770,000 ... give your life for your country and emperor, then to surrender to defeat. With Japan's Homeland Battle Strategy Plan, the citizens were to fight "a decisive battle in the homeland even at the cost of self-destruction of the entire Japanese race" (Loebs). Before...

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... both sought ways to manipulate foreign policy and gain greater dominion. Eventually, their efforts crossed, and what resulted is the Cuban Missile Crisis. This conflict between Russia and the United States was an intense event, from its beginnings, to the roles of Russian and American leaders, and finally to its non-violent conclusion. In discussing the Cuban Missile Crisis, there are several events that made this ... we (the French) are being informed but never consulted in such an issue of so great importance to the whole world" (Doc I). Letters between Kruschev and Kennedy also show ...

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... although he meant well, I suppose President McKinley forgot Catholics are Christian too, and that's precisely what the vast majority of the Pilipino were, Roman Catholic. This native Pilipinos didn't take kindheartedly to the American invasion. They wanted independence, period. They fought Spain for it, and why would they stop there? They figured hell, we"ll fight those damn Americans too (Doc C.) ... were far too primitive and savage to effectively govern themselves gave the US more than sufficient explanation to make themselves at home and comfortable, and then refuse to end their stay...

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... people say: "You could find truth anywhere except in Pravda and the news anywhere except in Izvestia." This was then pushed to extremes by the "war on propaganda," which was carried out by none other than the USSR's enemy, The West. As gruesome horror stories about Chernobyl and the nuclear radiation poisoning that followed began to spread among the ... wheat farmers and belt buckle factory workers, the citizens of the Soviet ... , they wanted food." By introducing Perestroika (the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Gorbachev during the mid-1980s), and Glasnost (a ...

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... say: "You could find truth anywhere except in Pravda and the news anywhere except in Izvestia."5 This was then pushed to extremes by the "war on propaganda," which was carried out by none other than the USSR's enemy, The West. As gruesome horror stories about Chernobyl and the nuclear radiation poisoning that followed began to spread among the ... wheat farmers and belt buckle factory workers, the citizens of the Soviet ... , they wanted food."7 By introducing Perestroika (the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Gorbachev during the mid-1980s), and Glasnost (a Sovi...

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... that. Later, he begins to think about how he had come into the army as a kid and how the war didn't mean anything to him then. He was immature and had no idea of what war was really like. And now with all the dying going on around him made him curious about the man he would be ... if he didn't die himself. By the end of the book he has seen all there is to see of war ... . In his last few months in country, he was wondering why he was even there in the first place. When Peewee and Perry were hiding in a VC spider hole he began to think again. He was thinking of back home and realized non...

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