Douglas MacArthur

Many refugees that were scientist were already concerned about nuclear weapon research that was being conducted by the Nazi’s in Germany, before the outbreak of war in 1939. After the United States entered into World War II they began funding their own atomic weapons development program. The Office of Scientific Research and Development and the War Department shared joint responsibility of the program. Huge facilities were required to conduct this top secret program that was codenamed “The…

The four different types of presidential foreign policy, which are known as the Hamiltonian, Wilsonian, Jeffersonian, and Jacksonian, can be found in Jonathan Haidt’s book called The Righteous Mind. Four presidents’ are used to classify the foreign policy strategy of the past and future presidents of the United States. These classifications of policy assist in the understanding in the way that the president will shape the world that would benefit American ideologies domestically and in the…

After the World War II (WWII), a new and strange war started. As Dunn (2009) writes, this so called Cold War was between the eastern Soviet Union (SU) led communist block and the United States (U.S.) led democratic block. In 1947, President Truman issued his doctrine; that the U.S. would keep back the Soviet threat. U.S. would contain SU. Firstly, this war occurred in Europe, the Greek, and Turkey communist actions, the Berlin Blockade, and airlift and the establishment of North Atlantic…

When World War II finished, most American authorities concurred that the best barrier against the Soviet risk was a system called "containment." The Cold War was a military and political tension between the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The Western Bloc contained of the NATO powers such as the United States, while the Eastern Bloc contained of members of the Warsaw Pact including the Soviet Union. The “war” lasted for forty-four years and took place mainly in Asia, Europe, and North America…

Veterans and Benefits From the end of the Civil War into the 1880s, Congress debated soldiers’ pensions. After the civil war, the Union army veterans, allied with the Republican Party and jolted the government to provide the northern soldiers and their widows with pensions. The North had already spent two million to fight the Civil War, and the veteran’s pensions had cost them eight billion dollars, it was one of the largest welfare commitments the federal government had ever made. However…

Denton D. Humphrey Professor Suzanne Newsham ENGL101: Proficiency in Writing 14 November 14, 2015 Courage – From a Soldier and Leader’s Viewpoint Courage can be defined in many ways, by many people, each with its own meaning without being a textbook definition. In this paper, the word courage will be defined coming from the writer’s point of view. With the changing ways of the world today and the never ending threats that face the nation today one should always remember the people who have…

General MacArthur thought that it was important to cut supporting lines, and he recommended generals to attack Inchon, the city near the Seoul, through the ocean. Many generals opposed him because the tidal current was strong, so that they couldn’t get any support…

The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Abhorrent but Necessary On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima, Japan went up in smoke when “Little Boy,” an atomic bomb developed in the secretive Manhattan Project, was dropped. Three days later, the atomic bomb dubbed “Fat Man” obliterated another Japanese city, Nagasaki. The bombing itself and its effect on survivors’ health was devastating, and President Truman’s decision to drop the bombs remains highly controversial 71 years later. In fact, Naji…

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it” - Douglas MacArthur. You must be able to risk things in order to have a gain. He was born on January 17, 1921 and passed away on March 6, 2007 at the age of 86. Louis Ted Seith was the commander of the 483rd Bomb Group which destroyed the only flying prototype of the Nazi Long Range Bomber and lots of fighter jets while more than 200 enemy fighters opened fire on the bomb squadron without an escort from ally fighter jets. He may have…

Douglas Coupland's novel, Generation X is written in a unique and ironic way. Throughout the novel the reader is being told a story while the characters tell stories of their own. Andy, the protagonist, speaks to the audience through his narration of tales known as “bedtime stories” which are made up stories that he shares with his two acquaintances, Dag and Claire. The trio perhaps share these stories in order to refrain from revealing their “truths” to one another and alas fail to acknowledge…