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- 1491: Reason's For Japan's Aggression
- ... imperialism, this is false. Instead, Japan's aggression can be attributed to its feeling of superiority to other nations and to its lack of natural resources. During this period of unjustified aggression, Japan committed horrible war crimes against its enemies. An example is the horrible atrocities committed in POW camps or the gutless and coward-like barbarity of such events as the Death March of Bataan. In response to Japan's wrongful assaults and brutalities, Western powers dealt justly with these Japanese criminals. By doing what was necessary and unavoidable, the U.S. ended this destructive war, saving thousands of lives. Among the many reasons for Japan's aggression are its ancient culture and its lack of natural resources. Japan's geography, which lacks many vital natural resources, has forced Japan to ... superiority inspired the Japanese to take over its "inferior and barbaric" neighbors. Japanese animosity towards its surrounding countries should not be credited to Western imperialism, but only to its own internal problems. Did Japan commit war crimes and break international rules against its enemies? Yes, Japan undeniably, committed horrible war crimes repeatedly and unabashedly. Among these crimes are the uses of forced labor, civilian extermination, and monstrous cruelty shown towards ...
- 1492: Ireland 2
- ... oppose Home Rule. In response, the Irish Volunteers, largely controlled by the IRB, were founded in Dublin. The Home Rule bill was finally passed in 1914, but its implementation was shelved upon the outbreak of war. John Redmond encouraged Irishmen to enlist in the British Army hoping this would sustain British support for Home Rule. Others disagreed with this policy and in 1916 the Irish Volunteers, led by Patrick Pearse and ... Irish Parliamentary Party. The Sinn Féin representatives now constituted themselves as the first Dáil, or independent Parliament, in Dublin. Éamon de Valera headed the Dáil. The British attempt to smash Sinn Féin led to the War of Independence of 1919-21. Michael Collins led the Irish forces. After more than two years of guerilla struggle a truce was agreed. In December 1921 an Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed and 26 counties ... as the Irish Free State. Six Ulster counties had been granted their own parliament in Belfast in 1920 and remained within the United Kingdom. The establishment of the Free State was followed by a civil war between the new Government and those who opposed the Treaty. Éamon de Valera led those who opposed the treaty. A truce was negotiated in May 1923 but the Civil War claimed the lives of ...
- 1493: Accounts Of The Holocaust
- Accounts of the Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. I will tell the story of the Holocaust through many different personal accounts of people involved in many different sides of this incredible story. I will do this by using the personal accounts of surviving ... and lasted until 1945. This was most definitely the hardest seven years the Jewish population has ever faced. In 1933 approximately nine million Jews lived in the 21 European countries occupied by Germany during the war. The rise of the Nazi party’s anti-Semitism became noticeable in 1935 when laws were put forth limiting the rights of all German Jews. For the Jewish population the hardest time came with ...
- 1494: DEPRESSION
- ... and work, more than one hundred thousand people applied for the jobs. Realizing how terrible the economic situation was, the United States Congress tried to pass a bonus bill for Americans who were veterans of World War I. They did not act fast enough, however. So many were now starving and homeless, that thousands of people, including war veterans, started to gather in Washington D.C. to protest. By May, 1932, nearly twenty thousand of them had set up Hoovervilles, there. The World War One veterans waved signs that said, "Heroes in ...
- 1495: Lbj
- ... wife in 1934. In 1935, he spent one year at Georgetown Law School, and in August, and became Texas administrator of the National Youth Administration. He served in the navy as a lieutenant commander during World War II, and he had six terms in the House. Later he became a Senator gaining a nickname "Landslide Lyndon" because he got tremendously many votes from Texas, which is his homestate. He was asked to ... against poverty, control prevention of crime and delinquency, and removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Because he felt the poverty while he was growing up in Texas, he focused on making a better world with money. The most important parts of the Great Society were Medicare and the War on Poverty and the right to vote. The Medicare program, which Congress approved in 1965, was a first step ...
- 1496: Summary Of Slaughterhouse-five
- Summary of Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, the main character, in chronological order, starting with Billy's capture and imprisonment by Germany during World War II. This story is interspersed with incidents of Billy's life on earth before and after the war, and from his fantasy voyage to the planet Tralfamadore. The plot is somewhat autobiographical, in reference to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. This book has a lot of minor characters. For this reason, only Kurt Vonnegut ...
- 1497: Coke
- ... has involved pouring billions of dollars into capital-intensive businesses like restaurants. Goizueta slides open the drawer and riffles through the papers. "I threw it out," he says nonchalantly. Raising his eyebrows, he dismisses the world’s most famous No. 2 with trademark dispassion. "As they’ve become less relevant," Goizueta says, "I don’t need to look at them very much anymore." Poor Roger Enrico. He certainly can’t say ... turf, Pepsi is outgunned. Coke’s market share lead of 42% to 31% in the U.S. is the largest in 20 years, according to Maxwell Consumer Reports. It’s a defining moment in the world’s most ruthless corporate war. Yes, they both sell sugar water, but Coca-Cola and PepsiCo never were as similar as most people believed. In recent years they have veered in completely opposite directions. While PepsiCo diversified increasingly into ...
- 1498: Confederate States Naval Technological Advances
- Confederate States Naval Technological Advances I have always enjoyed finding information about the Civil War, especially the Confederacy. To go along with that, I enjoy books about the Navy and military. I found my opportunity for a good and fun paper by combining these two into one subject. This subject is the Naval innovations, and events leading up to these innovations, proving the ingenuity of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. The Confederate Navy was the mother of many technological advances. During the early stages of the war, navys on both sides were fairly small, and pretty much standard in armament. The Southern navy being small and undermanned, contracted Privateers to help run and break the Union blockade. This was the last ...
- 1499: The Price Of Objectivity (crit
- ... the pre-eminent works of modernist literature. It set the tone for the several decades of literature that was to follow. It delves deeply into the lost generation that was created after the first wold war. A generation that lost any idealism that their predecessors had. A generation that lost any emotional attachment to the world around them. This is a trait that is predominant throughout Hemingway s novel as the narrator, Jake Barnes, remains clinically detached from the events that transpire around him. Jake was an ambulance driver in the first world war and as with many of his peers, his experiences left him with a severe emotional disillusionment with the world as a whole. Not to mention the lack of functioning genitalia which certainly didn ...
- 1500: Feminine Mystique
- ... American culture promotes is entirely dependent upon its ideas, beliefs, and needs of the time. American culture has always tended to influence women into doing what the day and age required. After men went to war there was a gap in the work force that needed to be filled. During World War II women were the most available to join the work force. Due to the discouragement to raise families during the Great Depression and the fact that most men of age had entered the war, ...
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