Douglas MacArthur

reputation for his military prowess. From 1927 to 1929, Eisenhower reported the war department under General John Pershing. After Eisenhower finished his tour in 1928, he was appointed chief military aide under General Douglas MacArthur. From 1935 to 1939, Eisenhower served under MacArthur as an assistant military advisor to the Philippines. In 1940, Eisenhower returned to the United…

Yesterday, June 6, 1944, from 6:30 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. , the American, Canadian, and British Allied powers invaded Normandy. They decided to do this when it was undeniable that Hitler wasn’t going to surrender to the Allies. General Douglas MacArthur finally decided it was time to do something big that would lead to Hitler’s surrender. So, like a stampede of water buffalo, the powers rushed onto Normandy’s land. They spread out over a 60 mile coast, covering 5 beaches, codenamed Juno, Gold,…

The Atomic Bomb was created because America felt they needed to possess this kind of weapon in defense against an enemy similarly armed. During World War II every major industrial nation began its on nuclear program: the British, the Germans, the French (before they surrender), the Soviets, The Americans, and the Japanese. There was no trust between the government and the Scientist, so many nuclear programs stalled out except Americas. American scientist went to the President directly and he…

control. Li Cunxin, Mao’s Last Dancer young readers' edition, 2T003 demonstrates effective representations of propaganda, portraying the hardships and ordeals that Li arose under the reign of Chairman Mao Zedong and his beliefs in communism. Douglas MacArthur 'now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear' and this China had become. Chairman Mao Zedong was a significant figurehead among the…

Brenda Joyce (Tucker) Archie was born on 09/10/1962, in Brownsville, Tennessee, to L.V. and Joyce Tucker. Brenda's parents were married for fifty two years before her mother passed away of pancreatic cancer in December 2013; she was 68 years old. She was extremely close to her mother. Brenda's father, XX years old, is single, retired, and lives in Decatur, Illinois. Brenda is the oldest of six siblings. L.V. Jr., 50 years old and lives near Chicago, Illinois, Michelle Tucker, age 43 and lives in…

Douglas MacArthur once said, “The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war”. War protects us, our beliefs, and our freedom from those who wish to take is away, but like everything in the world it comes at a price. Men lose their lives or loses good friends on the field of battle and those who come home are never the same. The men who fought in the war are the victims that are most negatively affected by the it.…

Albeit General Douglas MacArthur caught almost the whole Korean Peninsula after his splendid Inchon finding, his strategic miscount at the Yalu River brought China into the war and constrained United Nations troops down to the 38th parallel, where they had begun. Both sides…

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Americans flocked to their local shopping centers to purchase the latest and greatest consumer goods. Thanks to higher wages, the GI Bill, and a booming job market, consumers used their new spending power to purchase a wide array of products including televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, toaster ovens, and vacuum cleaners. Among the most desired of these postwar products was the latest in bug-killing technology, a chemical known as DDT…

unnecessary as Japan was already on the losing end during the war. He also claimed that it was not right for America to use the weapon that they knew that it would have led to a long-lasting devastation in the world. In fact according to the General Douglas MacArthur, the decision was unnecessary. He proofed that by saying that the battle was to “end sooner than some think,” (Zinn, 2002). It was clear that Japan was already beaten. It is, therefore, a fact that the decision was not justified at…

The topic of the impending doom of America is a popular one among writers today. Numerous articles claim that America’s rivals increase in power and influence while America itself is on the decline. As evidence of this gradual, but inevitable decline in American power, one writer claims that the US military has experienced nothing but stalemate, frustration and loss since its victory in World War II in 1945. Nevertheless, the author fails to distinguish between failures in war and failures in…