The Cold War
.... the Russians before the conference and by the end of the conference in August Truman had developed an even larger distrust towards Russia. He felt the Russians had been given too much at Yalta and he was adopting a harder attitude. He also felt that with the power he held with the Atomic bomb, USSR were under control. The relationship between the superpwers worsened considerably at Potsdam.
On the 6th of August 1945 Truman authorised an Atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima, a city in Japan and ano .....
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The Effects Of The Industrial
.... that the positive aspects completely outweigh the negative aspects.
The job opportunities and price decrease definitely improved the lives of the people, giving them a chance to be a part of the society and be able to purchase products at a price that wasn't too bad.
Many lives changed outside work. There were many national benefits of this revolution. One very important thing was that there became many more goods available because of the mass-production. Due to this mass-producing, the goods .....
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Brown V. Board Of Education
.... "separate education facilities are inherently unequal" and that racial
segregation violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. In a
moving passage, the chief justice argued that separating children in the
schools solely on racial grounds "generates a felling of inferiority as to
their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way
unlikely to be undone." Although the decision did not bring about total
integration of blacks in the schools, it re .....
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Causes Of The Civil War
.... internal improvements sponsored by the federal
government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the
other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted
to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer.
It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade
its cotton for foreign goods.
The North also wanted a good banking and currency
system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal im .....
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Civil War Journal
.... my family, horses, plantation, and slaves to fight for the pride. The proudest of keeping those elements intact. Keeping those in order is a war in itself.
-Jonathan Cort
Dear Journal, August 17, 1863
The war front is quite an unimaginable experience unless you go through it yourself. We have little rations of horrid food. Hard tack full of meal worms and chicory coffee. Our Mamie's collared greens is what I miss most right now. I do not feel kindly towards the food, but .....
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Ww1 From Begining To The Us En
.... plan witch had been prepared by Alfred von Schliffer in 1905. Schliffen was the chief of the German General staff; witch was a group of officials who provided advice on military operations. The plan assumed Germany would have to fight both France and Russia a quick defeat of France while Russia was slowly mobilizing. After they defeated France they would have to deal with Russia. If war came Germany would have to strike first. After the plan was put in motion, the system of military alliances almost .....
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Suriname
.... have a direct connection other than being of African decent as far as the arts are concerned.
I believe both the Pricefs and Counter and Evens had the same goals in mind, which was to find answers. To find out the unknown of these arts of the maroons, but their intentions were totally different. Like I stated earlier, Counter and Evens wanted to find Africa. The Pricefs wanted to study the fact that the arts are not African but of there own, something new.
It is safe to say Suriname is mixing .....
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The Gilded Age
.... and Adam Smiths market model of capitalism. Capitalism was a promoter of the entrepreneur and individual success. It was only natural that during this time of private interest the gap between rich and poor would be greatly widened and a state of disorder might arise. Capitalism was a new ideology and drastic labor problems and social disorder arose because Americans were simply adjusting to (and taking advantage of) the new system.
Although the gap between rich and poor during the late nineteenth and e .....
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Evaluation Of The New Deal
.... a union anyone could join, no matter what race they were. The CIO was one of the top unions in the nation. The new deal had again failed with the creation of the AF of L. The AF of L was a division of many craft unions, sanctioned by the teamsters that had great political influence in during the depression.
Government jobs and political rights were a goal for the new deal to let more Americans have access to the pleasures that any white man could have. The Shocking "grand father" laws we .....
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The American Revolution
.... and defiance throughout the colonies.
The British military was unpopular in the colonies for many reasons other than the Quartering Act. In the Boston Massacre of 1770, British soldiers shot into a mob of revolting colonists and killed about twenty men. News of this horrific act reached the different colonies and spread the notorious reputation of the cold and murderous British.
The colonists weren't just rebellious children throwing things in their parent's face; they did try to reason with .....
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Anne Frank
.... Hermann Van Daan, his wife, and son Peter would join the Franks in the Secret Annex. This would make the living arrangements a bit cramped for the Franks. I was aware of Mrs. Van Daan's low tolerance for nonsense, and since I knew Anne so well, I was certain that the two quite possibly would have many quarrels. I tried to help Anne and Margot's adjusting process by bringing magazines, books, and news of the war going on outside. Anne even confided to me of her secret blooming romance with Peter Van Da .....
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The Constitution
.... ideas become evident. The First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom could have been influenced by the colonial tradition of relative religious freedom. This tradition was clear even in the early colonies, like Plymouth, which was formed by Puritan dissenters from England seeking religious freedom. Roger Williams, the proprietor of Rhode Island, probably made an even larger contribution to this tradition by advocating and allowing complete religious freedom. William Penn also contributed to .....
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Slavery In America
.... or into Canada. A runaway slave would be found by bloodhounds, trained to find black slaves. Then the slave, upon returning, would be executed or severely whipped.
The "Underground Railroad" was a project that helped black slaves escape into Canada, especially Amherstburg. The system involved 3,000 white helpers and freed an estimated 75,000 people after the civil war.
Slavery in the middle of the 1800's was abolished except for the rebellion states in the south. In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamati .....
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Important Presidential Electio
.... New York between 1797 and
1828--assemblyman, senator, mayor of New York City, lieutenant governor,
and governor. He was a philanthropist and patron of the arts and science
and, as canal commissioner, championed construction of the Erie and
Champlain canals
The method in which these candidates received nomination was by the
Electoral College, or by King Caucus. The idea of political conventions
had not been present at this time. There were no third-party candidates in
this ele .....
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The Contenders
.... with Martin van Buren.
Buchanan's two major rivals for the nomination, Franklin Pierce and
Stephen Douglas, were both politically tainted by the bloodshed in Kansas.
Buchanan was untainted, since he had been abroad during most of the
controversy. Even so, he did not secure the nomination until the seventeenth
ballot.
Fremont was best known as an explorer and a war hero. He surveyed the
land between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, explored the Oregon Trail
territories and crosse .....
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