The Marshall Plan
.... communism.
With sureness of purpose, some luck and a little convincing, these men persuaded Congress to help rescue Europe with $13.3 billion in economic assistance over three years. That sum--more than $100 billion in today's dollars, or about six times what America now spends annually on foreign aid--seems unthinkable today. The European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan, was an extraordinary act of strategic generosity. How a few policymakers persuaded their countrymen to pony up for the sake of others is a tale of low politics and high vision
Yet their achievement is recalled by many scholars as a hist .....
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The Conquest Of The Aztec Empire
.... were. The major difficulty in studying wars is the fact that their accounts are generally recorded by the victors. The losers are usually not in a position to challenge the victors' accounts or even to plead their case. This is the situation we face when we study the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The majority of the material on this subject has been taken from the Spanish accounts, such as the True History of the Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, and the Letters from Mexico by Hernando Cortes. This makes it difficult to get an objective view of this important historical event. For this reason, a testimony such .....
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Mien Kempf: The Great Canadian Edition
.... cars, chainsaws, computers, and military equipment. There are two words to prove it; The Arrow.
We are not a violent people but we will have to recognize that the rest of the world will want what we have. We can not let them take it. We may be the only country able to build nuclear weapons entirely with our own domestic materials. We are the only country that mines uranium 234, and that uranium is necessary to create the radioactive uranium 238 for nuclear warheads. Furthermore, with us having all this muscle the only way to take what we have is to destroy us. They will not do that unless they wish to destroy the only reso .....
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Florence, Italy
.... Constantinople to Florance, some of which have never been seen before. Another man, Giovanni de’ Medici, organized the bank of Florance. Which helped finance much of the trading be done at this time. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince which was a handbook for the rulers of the city states. It told rulers to choose a “realistic course of action”, to stay in power. Many of the rulers needed some guidance.
Art is an ideal way to express ideas and started to be brightened during this time. Many painters started to use lighter colors and paint more lively pictures. Back in the middle ages when pictures were painted of people .....
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The French Revolution
.... of the United States shall be divided or appropriated- of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace- appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of Congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
The United States in Congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more States concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause .....
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The Arab's Responsibility For The Arab-Israel Conflict
.... Arab guerrillas attacked Jewish settlements. Jewish forces prevented seizure of most settlements, but Arab guerrillas, supported by the Trans-jordanian Arab Legion under the command of British officers, besieged Jerusalem. By April, Haganah, the principal Jewish military group, seized the offensive, scoring victories against the Arab Liberation Army in northern Palestine, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. During the 1950s there was considerable tension between Israel and Egypt, which, under President Nasser, had become a leader in the Arab world. His nationalization of the Suez Canal 1956 provided an opportunity for Israel with Britain and Fr .....
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Reasons For The Fall Of Socialism/Communism In Russia
.... However, Hitler violated this treaty in an effort to dominate all of Europe and was denied at the expense of millions of Soviet lives who fought for freedom against his tyranny. Not only did this lead to millions of deaths and a severe decrease in productivity. Stalin eventually passed away in 1953, and the conservative trend would now shifted to a more liberal form.
The Reasons for the fall of Socialism/Communism and the Troubles of Starting the New Democratic System in the Russian Federation "Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky." Boris Yeltsin (b. 1931), Russian politician .....
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The New Imperialism
.... all done in a way that it seemed as beneficial for the colonized, as for them. Technological Advancements were very important in the development of the new imperialism. Inventions such as the maxim machine gun and the steamboats were key for the Europeans too reach their objectives in Asia and Africa. Steamboats were essential for the transport of goods and provisions, all the way from Europe to the colonies. Macgregor Laird states the importance of steamboats at this time, "By this invention every river is laid open to us, time and distance are shortened."(Tools of Empire, pg.17). The greatness of this invention and the possib .....
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Bystanders Are The Real Criminal
.... these innocent victims resulted in the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Jews and this shows the guilt of the bystander. Also, another instance showing bystanders’ guilt occurred during World War II, when German bystanders did not act by still supporting their leader Adolf Hitler - or acting as if they did in an attempt to protect themselves from the government they elected. They supported Hitler by attending his rallies, serving in the German military and disclosing the locations of hidden Jews. If, perhaps, more bystanders acted, the German government would have collapsed and provided a resolution to the problem. By refusing .....
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The Treatment Of Prisoners By Nazis
.... Auschwitz III. Inside the camp resembled jail. Auschwitz was in the general shape of a rectangle. The larger portion of the camp was designated for sleeping area. In all there were about 26 small rooms to house all the prisoners. Also in the camp was an eating area such as a cafeteria. It was a room equivalent to the size of four bunkers. The number of Jewish people in the camps was too large for comfort. One bunker was a designated shooting area where prisoners were shot if they became unproductive. Just off the side of the building was the Gas Chamber. The chamber was the root to all the horrifying stories that came about durin .....
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The Dropping Of The Atomic Bomb: Was It The Best Way To End The War?
.... with the atomic bomb for the first time, and they realized that they succeeded inventing the first atomic bomb. How was it a milestone? I will explain the mechanism and the power of the atomic bomb. Ronald Takaki explains the principle of it in his book. "There is an atom that releases two neutron at the same time absorbing the one, when a neutron causes a nuclear fission. Much uranium causes a chain reaction of such a nuclear fission, and huge energy is released."(26) The atomic bomb is the weapon that utilizes the energy. According to Takashi Hiraoka, the energy par one kilo ton of uranium corresponds to it par fifteen kg of TNT .....
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The Holocaust
.... was a signal to the Jews in Germany and Austria to leave as soon as possible.
World War II began on September 1939.
By September 1941 the Jews of German were forced to wear badges or armbands marked with a yellow star.
Concentration camps were one of the most tragic things about the Holocaust. Many horrible things happened at these camps usually involved death. One of the things that happened was the Nazi soldiers told the Jews to take showers, but when they got there, it wasn't water it was a poisonous gas called carbon monoxide which killed them instantly. The Jews were beaten, starved and tortured in many ways. But .....
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