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Animal Farm Book Report
885 wordsMany authors write about topics that they know and about historical events that are going on while they write their story. In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell this is definitely true. Orwell modeled many of his characters after Russian leaders. He ingeniously depicts the troubles of Russia in a book about farm animals. The story begins with a prize winning boar named Old Major, he gathers all of the farm animals around to tell them of a dream that he has. He tells them about a society of on...
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World War Ii Declared War On Serbia
834 wordsGermany stretches from the Alps to the Baltic Sea. It includes large mountains, hills, rivers, forests, and planes. Elevations in Germany range from sea level to 9718 feet. Temperatures average 48 degrees, and rainfall in some areas reaches 59 inches. About 81 million people who produce products from cars to chemicals to textiles, and even the trolley witch run in San Diego populate Germany. Aside from its rich culture and landscape, Germany also has an enormous history. World war one began on J...
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North Atlantic Treaty Nuclear Arms
1,136 wordsAs the second World War was coming to an end, the representatives of some fifty nations met in San Francisco to sign the United Nations Charter in an attempt to unify many countries. The date was June 26 1946, and the countries that signed the charter did so to put themselves in a better position if any conflict were to arise in the future. During the time the charter was drawn and the treaty was signed, April 4 1949, ten countries who had signed the charter were in need of more protection that ...
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World War Ii Northern And Southern
1,413 wordsThe historical impact of Operation Barbarosa cannot be denied. The Soviet victory over the Nazi German invaders set up the Soviets as a world superpower and set the stage for the Cold War. Had the Germans not attacked, the Russians may not have gained their dominance in Eastern Europe, and the Warsaw Pact may not have ever been. The war effort forced the Soviets to industrialize faster than ever, particularly in Siberia. Additionally, defeating the Nazis let all the countries of the world know t...
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Soviet Union German Forces
1,426 words... of their coal production, 38 % of their grain, and 84 % of their sugar (Hasler, p. 174). As much as possible was removed from the west and brought east, primarily to Siberia. Over 1, 000 factories and plants were removed and brought east, and millions of families relocated deeper into Russia. The Russian system was able to respond well to the need for production caused by the war. In 1942, they were able to produce twice as many weapons as Germany, everything from automatic pistols to tanks ...
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Bukharin Kamenev Lenin Stalin Party
425 words1879 - 1953, Russian revolutionary, head of the USSR (1924 - 53). A Georgian cobbler's son named Dzhugashvili, he joined the Social-Democratic party while a seminarian and soon became a professional revolutionary. In the 1903 party split (see BOLSHEVISM AND MENSHEVISM) he sided with LENIN. Stalin attended party congresses abroad and worked in the Georgian party press. In 1912 he went to St. Petersburg, where he was elected to the party's central committee. About this time he took the name Stalin...
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Soviet Union Spy Planes
1,115 wordsA war that has created controversy amongst two of the greatest world leaders, United States of America and The Soviet Union, is known as The Cold War. A dispute between once allied countries arose in the Post- WWII era. The United States and the Allied Powers faced many challenges at the end of WWII. Americas policy was one that contained the spread of communism in Eastern Europe. Russia, under Lenin's rule called for a world revolution and brought the United States into it. It was not until aft...
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World War Ii Bergen Belsen
1,287 wordsOn June 12, 1929, at 7: 30 A. M. a baby girl was born in Frankfurt, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank, and her parents were Edith Frank Holland and Otto Frank. She had one sister, Margot, who was three years older than she was. Anne led a happy and normal childhood, and on her 13 th birthday she received a diary from her parents. It became special to her as years went by...
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Britain And France Hitler Made
643 wordsAfter gaining power, Hitler aggressively built up the German military and in 1936, occupied the Rhineland, a formerly German area designated as a buffer zone to protect France. Britain and France were preoccupied with Italy's invasion of Ethiopia and made little protest. By 1938, Germany had the most powerful military force in the world. In that same year, Hitler demanded and was given the Sudetanland in Czechoslovakia. It was highly populated with Germans and Hitler claimed to be liberating the...
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Atlantic Charter United Nations
1,077 words... ower in favor of the Allies. The year 1942 saw the turn of the tide for the Allies. In June, Japanese naval airpower was decimated by the United States Navy in the Battle of Midway. Having been repulsed at Moscow, Hitler turned to the Caucasus, but the Germans were severely defeated and turned back at Stalingrad (now Volgograd) by the Russians in the closing months of the year. At the same time the British dealt the Germans and Italians a defeat at El Alamein that sent them reeling in retrea...
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Jewish Figure Like To Meet Golda Meir
506 wordsIt was difficult to choose a person in Jewish history who I would like to meet. I decided on Golda Meir because she was a strong political figure for women and Israel. Golda was a Russian like me who immigrated to America at an early age. Also she wanted to help Israel become a state and I want to help Israel become even a greater state then it is now. As a Russian I have a close tie with Golda Meir. We both were born in Russia at a time of Jewish discrimination. Our fathers wanted us to have a ...
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Consequences Of The Chernobyl Chernobyl Disaster People
738 wordsChernobyl: The Dark Side Of Technological Progress The development of the civilization brought up many discoveries that completely changed the way people lived. The inventions of the wheel, gunpowder, electricity, radio and television, all of them affected mankind in their time. Nuclear power was one of those inventions. It provided a lot of energy from a very little amount of material. Although we have received many benefits from our modern advanced science and technology, we must realize that ...
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy John F Kennedy
615 wordsKevin Sellers April 8, 1998 Social Issues of Yesterday and Today Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty, (John Fitzgerald Kennedy). The problems and social issues of our nation years ago have become the problems of today. John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the thirty-fifth president of the United States of America on January 20, 196...
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Adolph Hitler Joseph Stalin
587 wordsDuring the time leading up to World War II, there were two leaders who were on rival sides, the men were Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. These men were each dominate in their rise to power. These two leaders were similar in the ways that they achieved their objectives. Their success was mostly identified by their new ideas and strong political stances. Though Hitler and Stalin couldn t stand each other, the two leaders were similar in many ways. Hitler and Stalin became the dictators of their r...
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Andrew Carnegie Competitive Nature
1,609 wordsEven before the beginning of the twentieth century, the debate between socialists and capitalists has raged. In The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, he portrays capitalism as the cause of all evils in society. Sinclair shows the horrors of capitalism. In The Gospel of Wealth, by Andrew Carnegie, he portrays capitalism as a system of opportunity. However, both Carnegie and Sinclair had something to gain from their writings; both men had an agenda. Capitalism and socialism both have advantages and pitfa...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Missiles In Cuba
1,093 wordsThe Cuban Missle Crisis According to Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, in May 1962 he conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba as a means of countering an emerging lead of the United States in developing and deploying strategic missiles. He also presented the scheme as a means of protecting Cuba from another United States-sponsored invasion, such as the failed attempt at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. After obtaining Fidel Castro's approval, the Soviet Union worked quickly ...
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World War Ii End Of World War
487 wordsSoon after the end of World War II, the United States was again engaged in war. This was the Cold War. The Soviet Union and the United States were locked in battle to see who would become the most powerful military presence in the world. Because of this, each country was constantly pushing the limits of their technology. These technological advancements inaugurated the Space Age. Sputnik, the first in a series of launches, was the reason the United States entered the Space Race. Some historians ...
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Bukharin Kamenev Lenin Stalin Party
427 wordsStalin, Joseph Vissarionovich 1879 - 1953, Russian revolutionary, head of the USSR (1924 - 53). A Georgian cobblers son named Dzhugashvili, he joined the Social-Democratic party while a seminarian and soon became a professional revolutionary. In the 1903 party split (see BOLSHEVISM AND MENSHEVISM) he sided with LENIN. Stalin attended party congresses abroad and worked in the Georgian party press. In 1912 he went to St. Petersburg, where he was elected to the partys central committee. About this ...
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Bukharin Kamenev Lenin Stalin Party
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Five Year Plan People And Animals
1,839 wordsJoseph Stalin, leader of Russia (1928 - 1953), created a Five-Year Plan that included methods and goals which were detrimental to Russian agriculture in 1928. Stalin wanted to transform individual farms into large collective farms because he saw that the government was losing money to private traders. This required that the majority of farmers would have to work and live together on large state-run farms. Through these farms Stalin hoped to increase agricultural productivity, to create grain res...
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