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- 581: Effects of the WWII Atomic Bombs
- ... good men do nothing." The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought us into a war which we had vainly hoped to avoid. We could no longer "do nothing" but were compelled to "do something" to roll back the Japanese militarists. Victims of aggression have every right both to end the aggression and to prevent the perpetrator of it from continuing or renewing it. Our natural right of self defense as well ...
- 582: Russia's Five Year Plans
- ... powers of the world. The first Five Year Plan worked as far as industrial output was concerned, but it was at much cost to the people of Russia. Once the Five Year Plans started to roll, Stalin decided to make some agricultural changes to support the industrialization. In April, 1928, Stalin presented the draft of a new land law. Although the draft failed to become a law, it showed a couple ...
- 583: The Arab's Responsibility For The Arab-Israel Conflict
- ... provided them with a new and assertive Palestinian identity. Israelis were also growing tired of their roles as occupiers, as soldiers trained to defend their country in war were finding themselves aiming their weapons at rock throwing teenagers. Many Israelis were disillusioned and desperately eager for a solution. In June 1992, the Labour government was elected in Israel on a platform of peace and change. At its head was Yitzhak Rabin ...
- 584: The Marshall Plan
- ... state of Czechoslovakia. Jan Masaryk, the pro-Western foreign minister, fell--or was pushed--to his death from his office window in Prague. At the Pentagon, the generals worried that Soviet tanks could begin to roll into Western Europe at any moment. The atmosphere in Washington, wrote Joseph and Stewart Alsop, the hawkish establishment columnists, was no longer "post-war." It was now "pre-war." In fact, the fears of Soviet ...
- 585: The Aztec Civilization
- ... legend went, it said that Aztec people would create an empire in a swampy place where they would see an eagle eating a snake, while perched on a cactus, which was growing out of a rock in the swamplands. This is what priests claimed they saw when entering the new land. By the year 1325 their capital city was finished. They called it Tenochtitlan. In the capital city, aqueducts were constructed ...
- 586: Israeli Arab Conflict
- ... In 1981 Sadat was assassinated at a military parade"(Baerwald 486 and 487). The 1980s brought on a new kind of uprisings in the occupied territories that were called intifada. Intifada includes demonstrations, strikes and rock throwing attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. Yitzhak Rabin was elected Prime Minister of Israel in June of 1992. Rabin formed a new government in hope of peace between the Arabs and Israelis. 1993 was ...
- 587: The Aztec Indians
- ... went it said that Aztec people would create a empire on in a swampy place where they would see an eagle eating a snake while perched on a cactus which is growing out of a rock in the swamplands. This is what priests claimed they saw while entering the new land. By the year 1325 Their capital city was finished. They called it Tenochtitlan. In the the capital city aqueducts (piping ...
- 588: Stalin: Did his Rule Benefit Russian Society and the Russian People?
- ... Stalin than when they were ruled by the tsars. "Depending on the industry, they worked between forty-eight and sixty hours a week, Sundays included . . ." (Marrin 103). Once the industrial Five Year Plans started to roll, Stalin decided to make some agricultural changes to support the industrialization. In April, 1928, Stalin presented the draft of a new land law. Although the draft failed to become a law, it showed a couple ...
- 589: The Aztec Empire History
- ... legend went, it said that Aztec people would create an empire in a swampy place where they would see an eagle eating a snake, while perched on a cactus, which was growing out of a rock in the swamplands. This is what priests claimed they saw when entering the new land. By the year 1325 their capital city was finished. They called it Tenochtitlan. In the capital city, aqueducts were constructed ...
- 590: The Pyramids of Egypt
- ... 200 feet high and covered around 12,000 square meters. The pyramid was made mostly of limestone blocks and desert clay. Inside the pyramid Zozers burial chamber was quarried 25 meters below out of the rock beneath it. The tomb, like those that followed, was meant to be a replica of the royal palace. The pyramids built on the Giza plateau at Memphis are the largest of all of the pyramids ...
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