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Search results 91 - 100 of 211 matching essays
- 91: Capote Vs. Krakauer
- ... and causing the reader too see the characters in each book very differently. In 1959 the Clutter family was murdered in a tiny Kansas town called Holcomb. Six years later Truman Capote wrote a very detailed book about the whole case, from the day of the murder to the court case prosecuting the two murderers, Dick and Perry. Although he wasn ... a different style, different opinions and different ways of making the truth story like, both are wonderful storytellers and have created great examples of true stories. Bibliography Works Cited Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Random House Publishing, 1966. Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air. New York: Villard Books, 1997 Word Count: 823
- 92: The Cold War: Conflicting Aims and Policies of Rival Powers
- ... the fear and paranoia that gripped American society. This was displayed by the establishment of the C.I.A. to research Communist activities in foreign nations, the commitment to the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan in order to help nations resist the influence of Communist forces, and the continuous arms, technology, and espionage race that dominated U.S.- Soviet politics ... had vast interests. In order to keep small nations from being overwhelmed by Communism, the United States decided to protect themselves by giving those small nations monetary aid under the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. Finally, paranoia also fueled the vicious arms race that brought the advent of the H-bomb, the development of ICBM's with nuclear capability, and ...
- 93: Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombing
- ... the bomb was born out a complex abundance of military, domestic and diplomatic pressures and concerns. The popular tradition view that dominated the 1950s and 60s, put by President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, was that the use of the bombs was a solely military action that avoided the loss of as many as a million lives in ... the Japanese by surprise by destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with two atomic bombs. The attack on Pearl Harbor four years earlier was one of the justifications President Truman gave for his decision. Over 240,000 Japanese civilians died--the attack on Pearl Harbor was returned 100 times over. At 2:45 A.M. local time, August 6, 1945 ...
- 94: Who Was Responsible For The Cold War?
- ... the fear and paranoia that gripped American society. This was displayed by the establishment of the C.I.A. to research Communist activities in foreign nations, the commitment to the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan in order to help nations resist the influence of Communist forces, and the continuous arms, technology, and espionage race that dominated U.S.- Soviet politics ... had vast interests. In order to keep small nations from being overwhelmed by Communism, the United States decided to protect themselves by giving those small nations monetary aid under the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. Finally, paranoia also fueled the vicious arms race that brought the advent of the H-bomb, and the escalation of the space program race. In ...
- 95: The Marshall Plan
- ... the army's highest-ranking general in World War II, was widely regarded then as the Organizer of Victory. "He is the great one of the age," said President Harry Truman, who made Marshall secretary of state in January 1947. Upright, cool to the point of asperity ("I have no feelings," he said, "except those I reserve for Mrs. Marshall"), Marshall ... we would not ask them, we would just tell them what they would get." First, however, Marshall's men had to persuade Congress to provide the money. In October, President Truman tried to appeal to America's sense of sacrifice, urging Americans to eat less chicken and fewer eggs so there would be food for starving Europeans. Urged to "waste not ...
- 96: The Defeat of the Axis Powers
- ... haveit was replaced by what we now call the United Nations. On April 12, 1945, good ol' Teddy Roosevelt had died, which gave birth to a new leader named Harry Truman (who like Teddy, was also love and hated), who literally had to make the most important decision that has affected us still today. The Atomic Age was born. The Manhattan Project was designed to build an atomic bomb before Germany did,but by the time it was successfully tested the war in Germany was over. Unfortunately, President Harry Truman had found an area to test. "The final decision of where and when to use the atomic bomb was up to me," the statement later remembered by the president. The ...
- 97: The Korean War and The Damage
- ... delegate voluntarily absent, invoked military sanctions against North Korea on June 27, 1950 and called on member states to aid the South Korea. Almost simultaneously U.S. President Harry S. Truman ordered American Military Forces into action against the invaders. American Forces, those of South Korea, and, ultimately, combat contingent from Australia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Great Britain, Greece ... a general war with China and the Soviet Union, conflicted with policies established by his civilian and military superiors. As a result, he was relieved of his command by President Truman on April 11, 1951. His successor, U.S. Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway (1895-1993), pursued the limited objective of inflicting maximum personnel loss on the enemy along the fixed battle ...
- 98: People and Events of World War II
- ... yet effective military planning pushed Hitler out of the USSR, and finally, on April 30, 1945, brought the Soviets into Berlin itself. After the war, Stalin negotiated with Churchill and Truman, and more or less succeeded in getting the USSR the most at the least cost. In the end, though he completely politically brainwashed the Russian people and killed thousands of ... 12, 1945 of a stroke. The most important decision of the war, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was made almost four months later by Harry S. Truman, thus ending the war in the Pacific in one stroke. Sir Winston Churchill was born on November 30, 1874, the son of an American heiress and a British lord. He ...
- 99: FDR
- The world has known many great leaders, especially in the post-Civil War era. Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Harry Truman all rank with the most prominent leaders of all time. However, in my opinion President Franklin Roosevelt made the most difference out of anybody in this century. He began a ... of the president's advisors felt he would not live through a fourth term. Because of his condition, the Vice President nomination for the 1944 election became very important. Harry Truman of Missouri was chosen to fill the spot. Again the Republican’s argument was term length. No President should serve for 16 years, they declared. The opposing argument by the ...
- 100: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... blockbusters in or around their target areas, and four found the weather so bad that they were forced to seek alternative targets. ( Stoff 186 ) Back in Washington D.C, President Truman was now finally intending to tell Stalin, Russian leader, about the weapon, although he planned to “withhold all details,” and just merely divulge the simple fact that the United States ... themselves in the history books. On August 9, another nuclear bomb was dropped, but this time on the port city of Nagasaki. Many more bombs were being readied, but President Truman gave orders to halt the attacks, saying he didn’t like the killings of “all those kids.” In the face of die-hard military opposition at home, Emperor Hirohita forced ...
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