… was the glamour of Hollywood, yet families piecing their lives back together following the depression. An unforgettable period, the 30s and 40s has helped to shape America into what it is today. The 30s/40's was an era of sophistication. It was…

… presidency and several years after his presidency, the power which had once been centralized in rich southern planters and northern merchants now shifted down to the lower and middle class white males. The visual gap in appearance between the two…

… it has attempted to go by the words in President Washington's farewell address. These words were interpreted to mean, "Do not form permanent alliances". So the US generally stayed out of European conflicts unless the conflict was brought to the…

… War I, the Allied powers were left with the task of figuring out the conditions to end the war. Germany would have to agree to whatever the Allied powers came up with, or face the threat of being occupied by Allied powers. Each nation submitted…

… was rapidly growing. Despite the growing need for expansion, there was still opposition to the acquisition of new land. At first constitutionally during the Louisiana Purchase, and then later over the issue of slavery in the 1850s. The issue…

… was a time of great economic advancement in the United States. The United States was out-producing Europe, including Great Britain, France and Germany by overwhelming margins. This capitalist economic machine was powered by thousands of industrial…

… in balance of power equations is a relatively new phenomenon in world history. New military technology coupled with increased global integration has allowed the United States to reinvent the fundamental assumptions of international diplomacy while…

… after President John Fitzgerald Kennedy died of gunshot wounds on November 22, 1963. He formulated many policies and carried out many others that Kennedy could not finish. He faced many foreign problems as well, including the Vietnam War and…

… the history of North America. It was a conflict that pitted the Northern states of the American union against the Southern states. The war raged for four years, from 1861 to 1865, and was marked by some of the fiercest military campaigns in modern histor…

… Strategy According to Sarkesian, America experienced four distinct conflicts that helped shaped their present day participation and relations when dealing with revolutions/ counter-revolutions. One such conflict was the Seminole Wars, specifically,…