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"I have to decide Japanese strategy-shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts."-Harry S. Truman Many questions have arisen dealing with the need…

constitution in September 1791, a young and still obscure provincial lawyer and member of the National Assembly named Maximilian Robespiere evaluated the work of two years and concluded,‘The Revolution is over.’” (McKay, p. 752) In his statement,…

(the Prime Minister) as “a defining moment in Australia’s industrial relations history”. It represented a change in government strategy from the Labor Government’s partisan stance to the Liberal Government’s provocative stance. Discuss. a) the…

Japanese descent lived in Canada, principally in British Columbia. Three quarters of these people were Canadian born citizens. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Army, the Canadian government put the War Measures Act in effect and interned…

was not a reaction to excesses following the revolution, rather, it was a reaction to inadequacies. The Articles of Confederation gave the United States Congress almost no power in making decisions that would determine the laws of the country and taxatio…

entry into War of 1812 was justified for many reasons. Some reasons include British impressment of American sailors, the lack of success of the embargoes America had put on Britain, the British arming of frontier Indian tribes and encouraging them to…

Right To Vote? During the woman's rights movement one of the major concerns people had with giving women the vote, was the fear that they had not yet obtained a sufficient education to make good use of it. Several people thought that they could…

among the most devastating occurrences in global history. While it came and went in a mere six years of our earth’s existence, World War II is often referred to with the sadness and regret of an ongoing tragedy. More than 17 million members of the armed…

to make any laws "necessary and proper" for exercising the powers specifically granted to it (Nash and Jeffery, p. 249). The Government took this power to the fullest extent in the late 1700's. This is proven by it's wars, revolts, and protests.…

scandal and constitutional crisis that began with the June 17, 1972, arrest of five burglars who broke into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C. The crisis ended on Aug. 9, 1974…