The Dropping Of The Atomic Bombs On Japan
.... before the Germans could. [2]
Realization that the bomb would probably be ready for testing in the summer of 1945 led to concrete planning for the use the new weapon, on the assumption that the bomb when completed would work. By the end of 1944 a list of possible targets in Japan had been selected, and a B-29 squadron was trained for the specific job of delivering the bomb. [3] It was also necessary to inform certain commanders in the Pacific about the project, and on December 30, 1944 Major General Les .....
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Vietnam War
.... Southeast Asia and then it would be all over the world. They could this the "domino theory". Then the US government supported the South Vietnamese government. The government's policies led to rebellion in the South while the NFL was in the North Vietnam's team.
In 1940, the Japanese troops invaded French Indochina. Then the Vietnamese nationalists called the Viet Minh, began guerrilla warfare against Japan which got the US involved. The Viet Minh troops rescued US pilots that were down, locate .....
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Battle Of The Bulge
.... at night. Some Americans thought it would be smartest to attack the Germans at breakfast and push until met resistance from the Germans, but it was thought to be a bad idea.
Infantry reported hearing the sound of tanks and trucks coming from the German side. But the officers told them it was just the sound of the Germans playing the sound on the phonograph records.
At 5:30AM on December 6, 1944 they found out they were wrong when eight German armored divisions and thirteen German infantry division l .....
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Columbus's Voyage
.... (in miles per hour) by the time traveled to get the distance.
In Columbus's day, the ship's speed was measured by throwing a piece of flotsam over the side of the ship. There were two marks on the ship's rail a measured distance apart. When the flotsam passed the forward mark, the pilot would start a quick chant, and when it passed the aft mark, the pilot would stop chanting. (The exact words to such a chant are part of a lost oral tradition of medieval navigation). The pilot would note the last s .....
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The Catholic Church And The Middle Ages
.... abuse of indulgences, is often seen as the beginning of the Reformation movement. However, the movement was not only confined to Luther's Germany. Native reform movements in Switzerland found leadership in Ulrich Zwingli, who eventually sought an alliance with Luther and the German reformers, and especially in John Calvin, whose Institutes of the Christian Religion became the most influential summary of the new theology. On most important doctrines, Calvin was in agreement with Luther. Calvin differed f .....
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Hitler's Impact On Germany
.... but Hitler soon settled all this by letting them realise that they were nothing without him. He later became the rightful Fuhrer of the Nazi Party.
Between 1921 and 1923 Germany experienced horrendous financial troubles, creating a suitable environment for anyone to start a revolution. Itˇ¦s the start of the so called "Depressionˇ¨. Germany was forced to pay 33 billion dollars for the damages caused during the first World War.
By November of 1923, the Nazi Party already has 55,000 faithful follow .....
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The French Revolution
.... a French general, took over the government.
At the beginning of the revolution, events seemed minor and proceeded in a logical fashion. One of the reasons the revolution originated was the discontent among the lower and middle classes in France. By law, society was divided in to three groups called estates. The first estate was made of up clergy, nobles comprised the second and the rest of the citizens, the third estate.
The third estate resented certain advantages of the first two es .....
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The End Of The First World War
.... long after things got started, Japan left the Big Five so it became known as the Big four. Considering that the country of France was not there much, it was really only the Big Three. These three countries made the major decisions for all the allies. President Wilson ranted to make special demands on the allies, along with their commitments to each other. The treaty was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles near Paris. The United States did not ratify this agree .....
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The Mongol Invasion Of China
.... Temujin, latter called Genghis Khan, was the son of a local Chieftain who had a small clan. His father was poisoned when he was still young and, the clan, for lack of an effective leader, abandoned Temujin, his mother, and several brothers and half brothers. This had an effect on him which, although difficult, would lead Temujin at the age of forty, after having consolidating several clans, to be elected Grand Khan of the Mongols in 1206. Although he had a difficult start, when he died twenty years .....
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The Defeat Of The Axis Powers
.... the United States to have full defeat of the Japanese, in needed help from the allies so therefore they would help the allies first, then finalize by utilizing their help against Japan. Before the defeat of Japan, the U.S., Britain, and the Soviets had a struggling battle against the Germans. In the video, Professor Stephen Ambrose considered the success of the "D-DAY" invasion "the turning point in the second world war" regarding victory over the Germans. If it wasn't for General Dwight Eisenhower's op .....
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The Holocaust, An Injustice And Tragedy
.... but only three groups were targeted for systematic extermination: Jews, the handicapped, and the Sinti and Roma, often known as Gypsies. Of all the examples of injustice against humanity in history, the Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the most prominent. In the period of 1933 to 1945, the Nazis waged a vicious war against Jews and other "lesser races".
The Holocaust was a dark time in the history of the 20th century. When the Nazi party of Germany, lead by Adolf Hitler, came to power. Hitler's .....
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First Civilization Arose In Asia
.... emerged through the major trade routes they developed between one another in what became known as the Afrasian Intercommunicating Zone. They traded not only goods, but also ideas and technologies.
The Bronze Age coincided with the rise of civilizations. In 2000BCE, China acquired bronze. The acquisition of bronze brought dramatic technological changes, which resulted in more agriculture, the use of dams, and development of more sophisticated tools. The need for bronze, facilitated .....
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The Aztec Civilization
.... their food.
The Aztec Empire included many cities and towns, especially in the Valley of Mexico. The early settlers built log rafts, then covered them with mud and planted seeds to create roots and develop more solid land for building homes in this marshy land. Canals were also cut out through the marsh so that a typical and a simple Aztec home had its back to a canal with a canoe tied at the door. In the early 1400s, Tenochtitlan joined with Texcoco and Tlacopan, two other major cities in the Valley .....
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The Devastation Of World War One
.... a country that was originally made for Czech's and Slavs. The German's where not given a chance to choose were they would belong. Another situation where Germany was ignored was the taking away of their colonies. Germany had no choice and nor did the colonies. They were unable to vote whether they wanted to remain under the rule of Germany or not. Germany was ignored in many other situations, the reason for this was because they were considered as a defeated country and were not given a .....
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Holocaust Revisited
.... John K. Roth and Michael Berenbaum examines a number of different religious and philosophical issues in regard to the Holocaust. The most prominent theme in this book is the consideration of the uniqueness of the Holocaust as a historical event. The authors examine many opinions on this topic, and why or why not the Holocaust was unprecedented in its practical annihilation of a population and the reasons behind the wished elimination of the Jews. The other questions in the book are in regard to what ha .....
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