The Holocaust: Tragedy In The 20th Century
.... the holocaust have firsthand knowledge of the evil people, which so unfairly struck and deprived them of what was rightly theirs.
To refer to the holocaust as a “monstrous, inhumane event” is to miss the point. The Holocaust was imposed by men and women on other humans. “It was a time when there were people, not only the Germans, but the others too, who wanted to kill all the Jewish people. After they killed off the Jewish people, they weren’t satisfied yet. They started killing the black people, then the brown, and then the yellow people. People with blonde hair and blue eyes were the “perfect race.” When one survivor .....
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How The Decision To Declare War Was Influenced
.... supplies from getting to Great Britain. The U-boats destroyed many goods and supplies headed for Britain. On May 7, 1915, Germany fired on a passenger liner, the Lusitania. There were 1,198 passenger deaths, of which 128 were Americans. This prompted President Woodrow Wilson to push Germany to agree to naval warfare restrictions. By September, they agreed they would not attack passenger or non-threatening ships. In February, Germany returned to unrestricted submarine warfare. They knew this might prompt the United States to enter the war. They thought they could starve Britain into surrendering before the United States g .....
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Mound Building Cultures
.... of an effigy mound. This mound, in the shape of a twisting serpent, extends more than 1,300 feet long. Pottery, tools, pipes, stone sculptures, wood and shell, masks, ornaments, weapons, and jewelry made from shell, copper, mica, and other materials are buried with the dead in mounds. Some burial chambers after 5000 B.C. had a central chamber for the remains of important Native American leaders.
Platform mounds, also known as temple mounds, served as bases for public buildings, houses of tribe leaders, and temples. Platform mounds started being built by Native Americans after 800 A.D. The height of the mound is the result of .....
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Argument For Caesar To Be The King
.... that Caesar is not yet ready for the title of an absolute king because his power can cloud his judgment making him a different person. Julius Caesar is in fact a great general but that is a military position not in relation to a king. I can already see that Caesar will change completely if he becomes king. When the senate came over to him he did not stand to greet them but when they did not greet him he was not pleased with it. In that you can already see that Caesar will be a changed man when he comes to power. If his power is not limited and it stays absolute I see that he is not fit to be king. The people will like him n .....
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Apartheid In South Africa
.... it also became as accepted practice making coloreds inferior. The coloreds were denied an education on the grounds that field workers didn’t need an education. The minority readily accepted the majority to be ignorant. The coloreds were made to give up their cars on the whims of the minority; along with whatever else they wanted at that time. They were told where they could eat and where they could live.
The self-respect and dignity where stripped from the majority when the minority declared itself the superior race. The coloreds were made to carry a pass indicating where they were allowed to go or live. They were treated as .....
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The Discovery Of The New World Changed European Conceptions, Views, And Material Conditions
.... The price of wheat and other basic foods increased before the arrival of American gold and silver. Evidence shows there was a population increase. Therefore, the demand for food rose faster than the production did.
The inflation had a negative effect on all of society. Much tension existed in all levels of society. “Without doubt, the Price Revolution and the defensive policies of the upper class contributed to two of the most disturbing problems of the sixteenth century” pauperism and vagrancy”. (Schlisinger, p. 3)
Another change in the economy, which affected all aspects of European life, was the “Commercial Revolution”. O .....
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Indus Valley Civilization
.... exposed an impressive defensive wall, some 9 meters (30
feet) high and 14 meters (46 feet) wide at the base. The great walls of the
citadel emerged for the first time in their majesty as picks cut through
the blocking debris, The historical character of the Indus civilization
was changing and developing.
At Mohenjo-daro - better preserved than Harappa - the buildings of
the citadel were erected on a massive mud brick platform 6 meters (20
feet) high that covered 8 hectares (20 acres). The structures included a
large, ventilated granary, a 3-meter (10-feet) deep asphalt-lined pool,
the so-called Great Bath, probably used for .....
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US Intervention In Haiti
.... Clinton both
focussed constantly upon short range goals such as winning the election in
1993 and they were willing to sacrifice long term interests in the pursuit
of these goals. The US would be far better served by a democratic, stable
and prosperous Haiti than one that is mired in civil unrest and abject
poverty. This was not the first time the US had attempted to impress its
will upon the tiny nation and undoubtably it will not be the last.
The US called in international organizations to legitimize its actions.
Specifically the OAS in 1991 and the UN in 1993. By using the UN the way it
did, the US has given the impression t .....
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D-Day: The Invasion Of Normandy
.... thousands of Allied resistance fighters in
Nazi-occupied countries of western Europe.
American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named supreme commander
for the allies in Europe. British General, Sir Frederick Morgan,
established a combinedAmerican-British headquarters known as COSSAC, for
Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander. COSSAC developed a number
of plans for the Allies, most notable was that of Operation Overlord, a
full scale invasion of France across the English Channel.
Eisenhower felt that COSSAC's plan was a sound operation. After
reviewing the disastrous hit-and-run raid in 1942 in Dieppe, .....
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Russia In 1910
.... desperation brought on
shortly thereafter by the first world war, and there was no confidence left
in the government. Liberal constitutionalists wanted to remove the Czar
and form a republic; social revolutionists tried to promote a peasant
revolution. Marxist promoted a revolution among the proletariat, or urban
working class. The people were fed up with Russia’s state of affairs and
ready for change.
Change was presented in the form of Vladimir Lenin, a committed,
persuasive visionary with a grand plan. Lenin became hardened in his quest
at an early age when his older brother Aleksandr, a revolutionary, was
executed in 1887 .....
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Weapons Of World War 1
.... Triple Entente Powers. Later called the Allies. The States sided
with Serbia and the Allies. Serbia's enemies were on the side of the
Central Powers.
The Industrial Revolution with its large, manufacturing ability,
massive assembly-line production , and expanded shiping distribution had
a powerful influence on the development of weapons. The navy was the first
to make use of the improved weapons. Breech loading firearms increased
firepower, and the invention of repeating hand gun, rifle, and early
machine gun increased the volume of small arms fire. Two completely new
weapons for the navy evolved. The underwater mine .....
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The Causes Of World War 1, And The Battles
.... issue of The Clock magazine published on the Internet the
author writes: "It is thought that this war that is been ongoing for over
a year, began with the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
However, many other reasons led to this war, some occurring as far back
the late 1800's. Nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and the system of
alliances were four main factors that pressed the great powers towards
this explosive war."
According to the article above, the author stresses that the nationalism
was one of the primary causes of the war. In the ninetieth and twentieth
centuries, especially after the French Revolution .....
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