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U.S. Foreign Policy and Occupied Germany 1941-1949
(1988)The nine-year period that I will examine can be separated into two distinct periods of influence, with two men dominating the first and a larger group controlling the second. The first phase lasted from 1941 through 1945 ... -
Uncertainties, Rhetoric and the Military Mobilization of America Leading up to World War II
(2005)Today when we look back at World War II and the part the United States played in it, we almost take for granted our nation's success as if America had a coherent and unified strategy. Yet this does not do justice to the ... -
The Underground Papers of the 1960s & Their Connection to the Youth Movement
(2006)The temporal focus of my paper is from 1964 to 1971. I choose 1971 as my ending point because the youth movement had changed dramatically by 1971. I am concerned with how the "underground press" phenomenon formed, ... -
The United States and the Hungarian Revolt of 1956
(1968)It is necessary to provide a background to the interrelations of the United States of America and the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Hungary in order that one may better understand their respective foreign policies. ... -
The United States and the London Economic Conference of 1933
(1966-01)During the summer of 1933 representatives of sixty-six nations assembled in London for the largest international conference that had ever been held. The delegates to that conference -- The London Economic Conference -- ... -
United States Foreign Relations with Poland: From Nazi Occupation to Soviet Domination
(1972)The reason for this study on United states foreign relations with Poland is due to my interest in post World War II United states foreign policy. By isolating one important area I had hoped to do a detailed. analysis on ... -
The United States Relations with Nationalist China: 1949-1955
(1967)"The United States Relations with Nationalist China" is an attempt to study the people and events of the years 1949 to 1955 in an orderly and comprehensible manner. The years immediately after the Second World War were ... -
Unlikely Allies : A Comparative Analysis of the Political Careers of Willy Brandt and Richard Nixon
(2014)Both Brandt and Nixon took difficult routes to get to the top of their nation's government. Their familial circumstances left much to be desired and though their early political careers were successful, they both entered ... -
The Unstable Strait: How the United States has Ineffectively Managed U.S. - Taiwan - China Relations
(2006)This thesis will focus on how the United States' diplomatic traditions have harmed its ability to effectively execute foreign policy in East Asia, most particularly in regards to Taiwan. Taiwan serves as an optimal case ... -
Unsucessful But Not Unimportant : Analyzing the Story of the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien
(2017)This 1825 treaty was unique because it was one of very few treaties that did not ask the nations who signed it to give up anything to the United States in terms of land cessions or land access. Its purpose, at the most ... -
The Upjohn Company, 1884-1932
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Urban London and Its Housing in the Nineteenth Century
(1970)It was while reading Elman and Fried's reader, Charles Booth's London, that I first had the idea to write this essay concerning London's urbanization and the housing of its working classes. A few months later, I spent ... -
US and British Media Perceptions of Warlord Era China from 1920-1928
(2012)Most warlord historians describe Warlord Era China as a time of great chaos, confusion, and complexity. The chaos that engulfed China during the 1920s made it difficult for foreign nations with economic interests in the ... -
The Uyghur of Xinjiang
(2006)This paper will trace the history of Xinjiang and its Uyghur inhabitants from early prehistory to the present (Chapters 1 and 2). It will also examine the current Chinese government's policies toward the Uyghur and the ... -
Veiled Identities: Arab American Gender Identities Throughout the Twentieth Century
(2009)Arabs have been immigrating to the United States since the late nineteenth century, and there are approximately 850,000 people of Arab ancestry living there today. Arabs arrived in the U.S. in two major waves; the first ... -
Victorian Ideals and Black Upper Class Family Life in Early Twentieth Century Atlanta
(2011)In my paper I will argue that the black upper class over the span of thirty years from the late nineteenth century until World War I hoped that by teaching the working classes values they learned within the home and ...