… or signal purposes. Those rockets were exclusively solid fuel. In the interwar period, army ordnance section one had a renewed interest in rocketry with innovations in the field of solid fuels and smokeless powder. The expressed interest…

… forgotten. It is sad to know that so many innocent people were killed for no reason. One group of people that were killed were the children, their families destroyed and their dreams shatterd. Full statistics for the tragic fate of children who died…

… the war and contributed to the war effort by working, in the last year of the war, in what had previously been considered a "man's job". Your father fought in the war and returned unharmed. You are glad the suffering of the war is over but resent the…

… Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American military chiefs had agreed on a common strategy with Great Britain: Germany, the most powerful and dangerous of the Axis powers, must be defeated first. Only enough military resources would be devoted to the Pacific…

… people were desperate for solutions to their political, economical and social problems. By his fall in 1945, he had solved many of the problems which had allowed him to come to power but when Germany surrendered to the allies and the country was…

… 1914, the United States attempted to remain neutral and was a proponent for the rights of neutral states. Isolationist foreign policy was encouraged by Congress's apprehensions about giving other countries a political door into US policies and the…

… physiology of combat shed any light on the experiences of combat soldiers in the First World War? In the modern era and especially since the Vietnam War, a number of scholars have turned their attention to the psychological impact of combat on soldier…

… imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be.' (Foch, 1926) No one had expected the First World War to become the "War to end all wars" as it was hailed at its conclusion. The general…

… World War I. Along with the citizens of many multi-ethnic nations of Europe who strove towards independence and unity with their brothers, were the Great Powers who wished to extend their hand over the greater part of Europe and save their prestige.…

… were two men who were on opposing sides, the men were Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. These men were each triumphant in their rise to power in their countries and they were very comparable in the ways that they succeeded. Their success was mostly…