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Cuban Missile Crisis World War Ii
1,036 wordsDuring the Truman administration, a containment policy was developed. The policy eventually became the central concept defining U. S. foreign policy in the Cold War. To contain Soviet Communism, President Harry Truman used American military and financial resources to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II. Under the Truman Doctrine, President Truman requested Congress for funds to build up Turkey and Greece, two countries that came under pressure from the Soviet Union. Truman stated that...
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South East Asia Second World War
1,651 words... year later. The ANZUS treaty signed by Australia, New Zealand, and the United States in 1951 represented the security blanket Australia had been desperate for since the end of the Second World War. The ANZUS treaty has since become the cornerstone of the Australian foreign policy. 15 Originally, the treaty was supposed to act as a protection from the powerful forces of Japan. But soon after ANZUS was signed the Japanese realized the strength of such an agreement and decided to sign a peace t...
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Santa Cruz Revolutionary Movement
2,024 wordsGeography Bolivia is bounded on the north and east by Brazil, on the southeast by Paraguay, on the south by Argentina, and on the west by Chile and Peru. Bolivia, along with Paraguay, is the only South American country without direct access to the sea. Going in the northern-southern direction the maximum length of Bolivia is about 1530 km (about 950 mi); its width, in an eastern-western direction, is about 1450 km (about 900 mi). The area is 1, 098, 581 sq. km (about 424, 165 sq. mi), making it ...
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Days A Week Place To Live
1,752 wordsBeing the biggest continent in the world, Asia contains about 60 % of the worlds population and growing each year. Though China, and India are two of the most populated countries in the world, having about 30 % of the worlds population, there are about two-fifths of the countries that have less than five million habitant's. Though forty-two different countries make up this great continent, much of the similarities are family values. Customs and traditions might be different, however, western ide...
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Lay Dying Southern Dialect
1,444 wordsAn Examination of Southern Dialect as Seen in the Works of William Faulkner In the writings of William Faulkner, the reader may sense that the author has created an entire world, which directly reflects his own personal experience. Faulkner writes about the area in and around Mississippi, where he is from, during the post-Civil War period. It is most frequently Northern Mississippi that Faulkner uses for his literary territory, changing Oxford to Jefferson and Lafayette County to Yoknapatawpha C...
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Germany And Italy Pearl Harbor
756 wordsBy the year 1941, WWII was in full effect. Germany seemed to be the victor, gaining control of France and Poland as well as successfully bombing England. Many people believe that Germany would have indeed won the war if not for the intervention of the United States. Because of the horror Americans had witnessed in WWI, the United States did not originally want to get involved in the conflict. In the early morning of December 7 th, 1941 all that changed when the Japanese air fleet scattered in th...
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Ho Chi Minh U S Government
1,657 wordsThere are many speculations as to why the Americans entered the Vietnam War. American involvement was based upon a series of many choices made by five successive presidents during a span of 1945 - 1975. The decisions made by these leaders were based on one central motive, the need to stop the spread of Communism. When the U. S government marched into Vietnam, it was because it feared a growth of Communism in a region of close proximity to communist China. When the United States retaliated agains...
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Saudi Arabia Persian Gulf
1,132 wordsSaudi Arabia, monarchy in southwestern Asia, occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia is bounded on the north by Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait; on the east by the Persian Gulf and Qatar; on the southeast by the United Arab Emirates and Oman; on the south by the Republic of Yemen; and on the west by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. The country's border with the United Arab Emirates is not precisely defined. Saudi Arabia has an area of about 2, 240, 000 sq km (about 864, 900 sq mi). The ...
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Weapons Of Mass Destruction War In Iraq
1,528 words... cultures that are separated by the diagonal North-East South-West. In this relation we have to answer the question whether this Anglo-Saxon, materialistic culture based partially on Christian values reminds us the egoistic culture that correlates to no other world cultures. However, the major part of Western political elite raises heated debates under the principle: there are two points of view, one it mine and the second is wrong. The West, actually, is indifferent to the problems of the Ea...
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Four And A Half Trail Of Tears
1,531 wordsThe Cherokee Nation is the second largest Indian tribe in the United States. There are more than 200, 000 members. Almost 70, 000 of these Cherokees live in the 7, 000 square mile area of the Cherokee Nation which is not considered a reservation, but a jurisdictional service area that includes all of the eight counties and portions of six in northeastern Oklahoma. The big question is how and why they moved from their homeland, Georgia. The Cherokee have always had a proud heritage, and that is w...
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20 Th Century Allied Forces
2,247 wordsIndonesia is the country that I have selected to conduct my research. I will research the following 5 topics all in the 20 th century. 1. The important aspects of the Indonesian culture Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, that achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1949. The Indonesian archipelago despite rich historical and cultural heritage is extremely influenced by the XX century world issues. Indonesia is emerged in widespread poverty, ever-growing external debt to the USA,...
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World War Ii Central Intelligence Agency
1,621 words... was cracked. Also cracked was JN- 25 - The Japanese Fleet's Cryptographic System, a. k. a. 5 number codes. JN stands for Japanese Navy, introduced June 1, 1939. This was a very simple old-type codebook system used by the American Army and Navy in 1898 and abandoned in 1917 because it was insecure. Version A has a dictionary of 5, 600 numbers, words and phrases, each given as a five-figure number. These were super-enciphered by addition to random numbers contained in a second codebook. The di...
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Coastal Plain Hudson River
1,539 wordsNew York s Geology The bedrock of the earth is made up of rock bodies that vary in size, shape, orientation, composition, color, and texture. These rocks makeup the bedrock, which is present everywhere. If one were to study a map of the bedrock from a vehicle point of view, they would find that patterns are made by eroded edges and surfaces of rock bodies that crop out of the state. Most rock bodies are originally tubular and horizontal. Deformations of these rock bodies occur over many years du...
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Games Were Held American Indians
2,484 wordsHistory of Lacrosse What is the history of lacrosse? It is a topic that holds interesting for me in two respects. First, I enjoy all types of history, so learning the whos and whats of the sport is interesting to me. Second, I play lacrosse and knowing who and how the sport was developed would help and interest me. How the game of lacrosse was played. What they used to play with, the types of sticks and balls. Rules used to play, team size, and the basic aspects of the game. The differences betw...
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Rural Communities Natural Resource
1,396 wordsIn the Native community, we sort of feel the same way about eco-tourism. We walk that fine line of navigating between the ideals of development (which would lead one to advocate rural tourism), and the ideals of cultural tradition and integrity (which might lead one to reject rural tourism). We share this ambivalence, but recognize that these two conflicting ideals are connected with the ongoing dynamics of cultures and communities with moral, political, economic and ecological forces historical...
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13 Th Century Power And Influence
1,843 wordsThroughout King Ramkhamhaeng King Ramkhamhaeng Throughout history, there have been many great rulers of many great ancient civilizations. Some of them might be Julius Caesar, Ramses II, Hammurabi, or Octavian Caesar. The list of them could go on forever. One of the most influential of his civilization, known for his wisdom, was King Ramkhamhaeng or Rama the Valiant, of the Thai people. He claimed to be the? sovereign lord of all the Thai. ? Researchers guess that he lived from 1239 AD to after 1...
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Republic Of Vietnam Men And Women
1,829 wordsJohn Clark Pratt Poetry that documents the attitudes toward the Vietnam Was well as the origins, development, and conduct of the was both pervasive and significant. Although only a few poems by French writers reflect that countrys involvement, the Vietnamese tradition of poetic expression produced a large body of work, both personal and political, written by soldiers and civilians of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). Unfortunately, except for the efforts...
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U S Troops Vietnam War
1,509 wordsPolitical Control of the Military " No new taxes. " This is a quote that most all of us remember from the 1992 presidential election. Along with it we remember that there were new taxes during that presidents term in office. There are a myriad of promises made and things done in a presidential election year that have questionable motives as to whether they are done in the best interest of the people or in the interests of the presidential candidate. These hidden interests are one of th...
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Operation Desert Storm Notre Dame
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Juan Ponce De Leon U S Army
3,043 words? ? ? ? ? ? ? As the United States is a nation made up of people from many nations, so the Seminole is a tribe made up of Indians from many tribes. ? (Garbarino 13)? The Seminole are the indigenous people living in southeastern America. ? They lived in what is now Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi. ? The Seminole had a Muskogean language of the Hokan-Siouan stock. ? (Bookshelf)? The Indian tribes found in the southeast were the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw...
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