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.... The Germans were also intent on challenging the naval superiority of Britain. However, it was rampant nationalism-especially evident in the Austro-Hungarian empire-that furnished the immediate cause of hostilities. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated at Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist. One month later, after its humiliating demands were refused, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Other declarations of war followed quickly .....
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WWII
.... Europe was shattered by the results of the depression that hit the United States in 1929. In the 1930's widespread unemployment and acute distress strained social relationships in Europe. The communist movement soon overwhelmed Europe. The triumph in 1933 of fascism, under the name of National Socialism, or Nazism, in Germany ended the threat of revolution in that country. However, the triumph of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler would prove to be more disastrous as time passed. The German society was transfor .....
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WarCauses
.... labor system was superior it must be guarded from southerners. When the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, the South felt threatened, and because expansion was vital to the survival of slavery they also felt their way of life was being threatened. Because slavery was such an important part of Southern society, the South felt that they could not survive without it. That's why they were not willing to compromise with the north. To own slaves was a sign of wealth and social prestige .....
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Was Andrew Jackson A Good Pres
.... a constitution. He was under some powerful men who made him the first member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee. While in Congress, he co-signed in a land speculation with partners who went bankrupt. Fortunately for him, he escaped debtors prison. He retained a lifelong distrust of banks, and paper money, which was involved in the transaction (Morris, Section 3). In an episode of Jackson’s presidency, he was at war with the Bank of the United States. The Bank of the United States held a monopo .....
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Orwell And Marx
.... a traitor of Socialism or a hero to the right wing by theorists and critics. His book, besides a parody of Stalinist Russia, intends to show that Russia was not a true democratic Socialist country. Looked at carefully, Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx as well as a novel perpetuating his convictions of democratic Socialism; these are other inherent less discussed qualities in Animal Farm besides the more commonly read harsh criticism of totalitarianism. Orwell and Marx differed in their views on .....
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Origins Of The Cold War
.... back to the First World War. The War, the Russian revolution and the Russian civil war brought the armies of the two powers together for the first time, and paved the way for a continuing struggle for mutual survival, influence and dominance.
The fundamental cause of the tension between America and Russia was the conflict of ideologies and incompatibilities between the two massively different societies - communism and capitalism. Therefore, perhaps the best place to start looking for the origins of the .....
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Orgin Of The Korean War
.... colony, Korea now had to struggle as a pawn in the newly created Cold War. The Americans decided to land troops to occupy Korea at the end of the war as soon as they found out that the Russia was interested in overtaking the Korea as their sphere of interest. The Soviet Union’s occupying Korea would create and entirely new strategic situation in the Far East. Though the Pentagon decided that interest towards Korea was not going to be a long-term interest to the US, their view changed drastically within t .....
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Oregon Trail
.... was a major hazard. Many supplies, animals, and travelers were lost attempting to cross rivers.
The men did the hunting, navigating, and most other dangerous or hard tasks. The women; however, did not have it easy. Women played very important roles taking care of children and cooking under very difficult conditions. When their husbands would become sick or die, women would take over the wagon entirely. Pregnant women, on the other hand, had especially difficult time s during the journey. Many pregnant .....
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Operation Linebacker
.... demands concerning the definition of the demilitarized zone and refused to withdraw troops from South Vietnam. Furthermore, he wouldn’t accept the installation of an international peacekeeping force. National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, believed these demands were just a smokescreen intended to put off the talks long enough for the new United States Congress to come into session. He and Nixon feared, as written in Earl Tilford’s book Setup-What the Air Force did in Vietnam and Why, that the De .....
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Oda Nobunaga
.... Sakyo, the leader of the powerful Buddhist Jodo Shin Sect (True Pure Land sect) had invaded much of the Ama District. The other two lower districts of Owari were in havoc. Nobunaga was off to a slow start.
He spent most of the 1550's reclaiming his possessions. In 1555, Nobunaga, with the help of his uncle Oda Nobumitsu, took hold of Kiyosu and murdered the shugodai Oda Hikogoro. He moved his residence to the castle there. In 1557, he was notified that his younger brother Nobuyuki was scheming agai .....
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Offensive At St. Mihiel
.... plan for the operation called for a main drive against the Southern face of the salient, a second drive from the west and then holding attacks and raids at the tip. The I and IV Corps were going to be the main attack forces. I Corps, commanded by Major-General H. Liggett, included the 82nd, 90th, 5th and 2nd Divisions was set up on the Southern side of the salient, with the 78th, 18th and 33rd Division in reserve (see Map 2). The IV Corps, lead by Major-General Dickman was set up right along side and .....
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Assessment Of Economic Progres
.... in comparison to other Southeast Asian
countries (except Singapore),
Thailand has a relatively better performance in agriculture
and service industries during
the mid and late 80s. For example, the cultivation,
processing, and export of agricultural
products, especially rice, was traditionally the mainstay
of the Thai economy. Although
Thailand has long been among the most prosperous of the
Asian nations, its dependence on
a single crop made it extremely vulnerable to fluct .....
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Oskar Schindler
.... possibly can to be completely happy. These people may think that that is the answer to the question: “Why are we here?”
People that give in life receive much more reward s than people who only want to receive.
Dr.Maradiaga, a family friend helps poor people that cannot afford to pay him. Once I asked him why he did it and he told me that for him it was very hard to know that people that are sick, can get worse because they cannot get the attention they need from an specialist and for him that is mo .....
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Omar Khayyam The Enigma
.... his works in his translation to start an unending conflict1.
FitzGerald added to his editions of the Rubaiyat a biographical sketch entitled “Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer Poet of Persia.” In this he wrote his opinion that Khayyam was an anti-religious materialist who believed life’s only meaning was to be found in wine, song, and worldly pleasures:
Having failed (however mistakenly) of finding any Providence but Destiny, and any world but this, he set about making the most of it; preferring rath .....
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Objections To And Advantages O
.... and Slovakia.
A good relationship with Russia is essential for the NATO countries. Russia does not see NATO as its potential adversary, but Russia is looking for a new role: keeping the status quo or returning to a system of 'spheres of influence'.
Germany, after unification, plays an important role in Central and Eastern Europe. Germany's foreign policy towards these countries ('Ostpolitik') is discussed in chapter 5.
In the end, I will give a personal conclusion on the next thesis, .....
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