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Soviet Socialist Republics Soviet Union
724 wordsThe Soviet Union was a communist country with a totalitarian regime that existed from 1917 until 1991. The official name was The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U. S. S. R. ). The country stretched from the Baltic and Black Seas to the Pacific Ocean. In its final years it consisted of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. Russia was by far the largest Republic in the Soviet Union in terms of both land area and population, and also dominated it politically and economically. The first leader of the ...
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Iwo Jima Small Island
965 wordsThe year was 1945, and the war was winding down. The US was working on rooting out Japan and ending the war. Because they were dealing with an island country, they had to find a way to get at them without flying long distances. Japan was trying to defend their land while still waging war on other countries. The meeting point then for both objectives was Iwo Jima, a small island about 650 miles away from Tokyo on Japanese soil. Both countries were determined to fight long and hard for the island....
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Boston Red Sox Civil Rights Movement
1,838 wordsThe Roaring Twenties of this country was a time when the entire sports world blew up into the major worldwide business that it is now. Baseball was one sport that really profited from the countrys sporting obsession, and baseball became one of the most popular sporting events to attend. Not only was it a game played by adults but it was also a family event that entire families could go to. By the beginning of the decade baseball had its first $ 100, 000 deal when George Herman Ruth was traded fr...
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Outline The Differences Between Parliamentary And Presidential Government
987 wordsOne of the key features of any political system is the relationship between the assembly and the government, that is, the relationship between legislative and executive authority. In exceptional cases, a form of assembly government may develop in which executive and legislative power is vested in the assembly, there being no separate executive body. Such a system, for example, briefly emerged under the radical democracy of Rousseau during the French Revolution. In other cases, such as communist ...
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Studying Causes And Effects Of The Cold War
1,230 wordsIn 1945, after World War II, there was an end to the alliance between the United States, Britain, and the USSR. If all of this hadnt been a problem, a rivalry between communist and capitalist societies had led to what is known today as The Cold War. It has been known to this day that The Cold War not only had many causes but also had many effects. Free society would have called this war World War III, but instead they used a fancy-pants name cold war. It was called The Cold War, because it didnt...
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People Were Killed Bomb Was Dropped
579 wordsOn August 6 th, 1945 the world's first atom bomb was dropped on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. The Atom bomb was dropped by an American B- 29 bomber. The atom bomb was described by a Japanese journalist as a glaring pink light in the sky that burn peoples eyes out. Anyone within a mile of the explosion from the atom bomb became a bundle of smoking black charcoal within seconds. About 90, 000 - 140, 000 people were killed those who where still alive writhed in agony from their burns. The atom bo...
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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Iwo Jima
563 wordsThe date is August 2 nd, 1939. Physicist Albert Einstein has just completed the first of a series of five letters to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In it he urges Roosevelt to support research toward the construction of an extremely powerful bomb. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air. Albert and his ...
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Albert Camus English Tr Life
481 wordsAlbert Camus is a French novelist, essayist and journalist whose works had great influence in the mid- 20 th century. He was recognized as a man of great personal integrity as he "sought to define the way of life that would respect in equal measure the logic of the heart, the logic of the mind, and the limitations imposed on the individual by reality." Compared to the other existentialists, Albert Camus is considered to be more optimistic in his views. Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria on Novem...
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North Korea Working Class
552 wordsHe was born on April 15, 1912, Pyongyang, to a poor family. His family, a most patriotic and revolutionary one, was in the best of the people's fight for many generations, from the beginning of the modern revolutionary movement of the Korean people for the independence of the country, the freedom and liberation of the people and for the victory of the noble revolutionary best of the working class. He grew up, receiving his revolutionary education at home and acquiring a revolutionary outlook on ...
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Details Are Being Investigated Panic Grass And Feverfew Chapter
625 wordsHiroshima traces the experiences of six residents who survived the atomic blast of August 6, 1945 at 8: 15 am. The six people vary in age, education, financial status and employment. Miss Toshiba Sasaki, a personnel clerk; Dr. Masakazu Fuji, a physician; Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailor's widow with three small children; Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German missionary priest; Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, and the Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto are the six Hersey chose from dozens of people he interviewed. The b...
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Adolf Hitler Racial Hatred
594 wordsHow did Adolf Hitler become such a powerful dictator? His power to convince the Germans that the Jews were the cause of all their problems, was so great. He was a powerful speaker. He organized meeting after meeting. All he did was spread his racial hatred and contempt for democracy. Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889. He was a poor student, he never completed high school. He was rejected from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna due to his lack of talent. Hitler r...
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Biography Michael Norman Manley
658 wordsMichael Norman Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 - 1980 and 1989 - 1992, was the first political figure to provide support for the large population of Rastafarians residing in Jamaica. It was under the rule of this man that reform for the people began to take place. Born to a prominent political figure, Manley attended Jamaica College in Kingston from 1935 - 1962. He was also in the Royal Canadian Air Force during 1939 - 1945. After earning a bachelors degree and leaving the air force,...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
1,254 wordsWord Count: 4067 Abstract The Chinese Civil War, which took place from the end of World War II up to October 1, 1949, directly led to the creation of the Peoples Republic of China, the worlds most populous communist nation. The purpose of this essay is to explain why the Chinese Communist Party was able to achieve victory over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War. In this paper, the role of international powers, namely the Soviet Union and the United States, Kuomintang policy, and Chinese Com...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
1,187 words... the take over of formerly Japanese occupied areas was not carried out effectively. 2. Peace talks of 1945 and 1946 From a political perspective, the Kuomintang's goal was, in theory, to follow the Sun Yat Sens vision of a united democratic and constitutional China. The opportunity to create a united China presented itself during the talks between Mao Tse Tung and Chiang Kai Shek in 1945 and 1946. In January 1946, an agreement had been reached among the representatives of each faction, includ...
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Second World War President Of The United States
1,128 wordsGeorge Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts. His father Prescott Sheldon Bush was a bank manager who was elected senator in 1952. His mother is Dorothy Walker Bush. George Bush grew up in a family atmosphere with his three brothers and his sister at Greenwich, Connecticut, a suburb of New York, before studying in one of the best private boarding schools of the country. When George Bush received his degree from the Phillips Academy of Andover, Massachusetts, he w...
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Berlin Wall Cold War
1,247 words... new permission to go to the East side of the wall, but they could not take anything with them. They were allowed to stay for only a week, and they could only do this a couple times each year. "As I talked to my German roommate who lived in West Germany, he told me about all of the hardships that the people in East Germany went through. He visited East Germany and he told me about all of the hassle he had to go through just to see friends and family. He said he believes it is as bad as being ...
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Race For The Super Bomb
523 wordsRace For The Super Bomb In 1945, America terrified the world by using the Atom Bomb in Hiroshima and later in Nagasaki. This fear of the most powerful weapon ever created started a cold war between America and Russia. These two great nations had started the race for the super bomb, which would have each country trying to out do the other for decades to come. The super bomb in which America and Russia were trying to build was in fact the Hydrogen Bomb. This bomb had an unlimited blast potential a...
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Julius And Ethel Brother In Law
1,055 wordsThe Rosenberg trial, which ended in a double execution in 1953, was one of the century's most controversial trials. It was sometimes referred to as, 'the best publicized spy hunt of all times' as it came to the public eye in the time of atom-spy hysteria. Husband and wife, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were charged with conspiracy to commit espionage. Most of the controversy surrounding this case came from mass speculation that there were influences being reinforced by behind-the-scenes pressure, m...
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German Workers Party World War Ii
852 wordsWho was Adolf Hitler? Adolf Hitler was the F"user (Leader) of Nazi Germany, the instigator of World War II and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry, otherwise known as the Final Solution or the Holocaust. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leading and other places. Hitler did well in school at the beginning, but his marks got progressively worse ...
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World War Ii United States Navy
1,246 wordsIn today's world war plays a very important role in people's lives. Some of these wars date as far back as the Roman Empire and Alexander the Great, while others are just being born and brought to the doorstep of the world. In 1939 this world was introduced to World War II. Although this war was based in Europe, it would touch the lives of people in every continent across the world, and have a massive impact on governments and civilians alike. It was also during this time that many advancements ...
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