Dr. Robert Caput i America in the 20 th century has tried to avoid war at all costs. The past 100 years has tested the superpower nation to the limits and won by giving America no other choice but to fight. The highly productive nation equipped with its seemingly infinite supply of natural resources makes it an important ally during wartime. America’s exporting of war items such as tanks, guns and other machinery has gotten it into trouble in the second World War. Or in South Vietnam where America is policing the spread of communism also got it into the Vietnam War.
But these actions were not were not aggression, but retaliation or control of the spread of communism. The common theme of these two wars displayed by Philip Caputo in A Rumor of War and Stephen E. Ambrose in The Victors was the age of the soldiers. Both wars were fueled by the young men who, through force or patriotism, fought for their country. The boys in the early 1940’s had seen their fathers and other males relatives fight in World War I and come back to the United States as heros and gods.
This ignited the impressionable minds of the young boys that war was like being a movie star or famous athlete and had few negative connotations. The Veit nam War made many students and young adults question the war it self on why america was sacrificing its own lives to fight another countries conflict. This brought along many protests and intellectual views to not follow our government’s commands blindly.
The Essay on Black Status Post Civil War America
After the emancipation of slaves in 1862, the status of African-Americans in post civil war America up until the beginning of the twentieth century did not go through a great deal of change. Much legislation was passed to help blacks in this period. The Civil Rights act of 1875 prohibited segregation in public facilities and various government amendments gave African-Americans even more guaranteed ...
