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Treaty Of Versailles Rest Of The World
1,628 words... this becomes a serious problem for Hitler. Without allies, the Nazis would surely fail. It is here that Hitler used his diplomatic skills to make other countries forget the past. Hitler began with Great Britain, encouraging British rearmament, along with fortifying Great Britains understanding that they possessed the strongest navy in Europe. Hitler did the same with Italy, wooing them with the possibility of Germany and Italy taking over Europe. It was also clear that Hitler needed an ally ...
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Gas Stations Soviet Union
1,226 wordsAnother element that was present in the 1950 's was automobiles. Automobiles were something that everyone once dreamed of owning. Now after the war. they could finally own one. Automobiles of the 1940 's were dull and very plain. This was because designers were too busy designing tanks, planes, etc... for the ongoing war. The major event that took place that changed the way cars looked and how they performed happened on October 14, 1947. This was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. From t...
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Second World War Newspapers And Magazines
1,300 words... great, talented photographers we would have a very boring media. Photojournalists cover all sorts of events, from simple everyday things to important meeting with politicians and wars. Carl Mydans was another great photographer of Life Magazine. He followed General Douglas MacArthur to the Philippines in January 1945 this was when America was at war with Japan. Mydans could have easily been killed by enemy fire, but he continued on, producing some great photographs that the public would late...
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Economic Prosperity Tax Breaks
1,016 wordsIn this paper we are asked to read the text by Dr. Paul Brace, State Government & Economic Performance, from that we are to decide as if we were the governor of the state of Kansas, which economic development strategy would be best for Kansas. Out of the four choices we were given, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, New York, I have chosen to argue for the example of Michigan. Before I go into great detail of the particular example I have chosen, let me give you a brief description of the governmental ec...
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Cold War Space Race
1,370 wordsWar is an event that represents the situation of a state and how it is revolutionized. It introduces new factors that sometimes force nations others to join in the enhancing of ideas. In particular, the new face of the ideological or new age concept was brought up. The United States of America and the former Union of Soviet Socialists Republic engaged in an ideological conflict known as the Cold War from 1945 to 1989. It was a time of differences between democracy and communism. The other main c...
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Cold War Space Race
1,371 words... d to the USSR. Now, the cold war had established a permanent space race. The U. S. Army's attempt to launch America's first satellite into orbit failed in a launch pad explosion. Two months after the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik, this failure further emphasized America's lag behind the Soviet Union in the space race. Having already lost the race to launch the world's first artificial satellite to the Soviet Union, the United States accelerated its plan to develop an unmanned M...
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Spread Of Communism Policy Of Containment
1,224 wordsThe Second World War destroyed the old diplomatic system of "great powers" and replaced it with a polarized world of two superpowers. Germany, Japan, and Italy were occupied and demilitarized. France, Britain, and China had all suffered heavy losses, and their economies were in shambles. Although the Soviets had suffered over 15 million casualties during WW II and witnessed the burning and bombing of much of European Russia, the USSR still possessed the most powerful infantry in the world. The U...
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History Around The Russian Launch Of Sputnik
2,086 wordsThe launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik on October 4 th, 1957 had a profound influence on both American and Russian culture, ranging from the inception of the space race to the mass hysteria the ensued in America afterwards. Sputnik was the product of massive amounts of money and research poured into a missile and satellite program by both the American and Soviet governments. Even though The soviet union might have been the first country to put a satellite into space, this does not necessari...
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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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U S S R Soviet Union
1,080 wordsAmerica on the other hand was not at all concerned about its security. Many other western countries had encouraged America to take leadership in the west because of its stability and ability to ensure protection to the other smaller, less powerful countries. America was the most powerful country at that time and many nationalistic Americans felt that America should behave like a super-power and take the leading role in world affairs. America had always needed to invest money abroad to ensure its...
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World War Ii Ballistic Missiles
1,170 wordsWAR FROM THE COLD WAR TO PRESENT The end of World War II was the spawn of a new war that would continue for over fifty years: The Cold War. Technically this war was not a fifty-year physical confrontation between two countries but more of a political confrontation between the world's two remaining super-powers. The dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the beginning of a new arsenal that would lead to the development of nuclear weapons. After Japan and Germany were de...
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Star Traveling To The Millennium
1,884 wordsNASA's goal of faster, better, cheaper has been the motivation for them to develop new mission concepts, and to validate never-before-used technologies in space. The new technologies, if proven to work, will revolutionize space exploration in the next century. According to NASA's New Millennium Program home page, last updated on September 16, 1999, NASA's current project of Deep Space 1 demonstrates some of their most exotic technologies. One of the most impressive is the testing of an ion engin...
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Policy Of Containment Soviet Union
1,063 wordsAmerica? s Policy of Containment was introduced by George Kennan in 1947. This policy had a few good points but many more bad points. Kennans depiction of communism as a malignant parasite that had to be contained by all possible measures became the basis of the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and National Security Act in 1947. In his Inaugural Address of January 20, 1949, Truman made four points about his program for peace and freedom: to support the UN, the European Recovery Program, the colle...
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Gas Stations Space Race
1,242 wordsAnother element that was present in the 1950 s was automobiles. Automobiles were something that everyone once dreamed of owning. Now after the war. they could finally own one. Automobiles of the 1940 s were dull and very plain. This was because designers were too busy designing tanks, planes, etc for the ongoing war. The major event that took place that changed the way cars looked and how they performed happened on October 14, 1947. This was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. From this p...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
2,132 words? State Government &# 038; Economic Performance? Essay, Research? State Government &# 038; Economic Performance? those need for me the best. State of the State In this paper we are asked to read the text by Dr. Paul Brace, State Government &# 038; Economic Performance, from that we are to decide as if we were the governor of the state of Kansas, which economic development strategy would be best for Kansas. Out of the four choices we were given, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, New York, I have chosen t...
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Space Exploration Space Race
1,360 wordsSpace exploration is a big part of American history and has been shrouded with controversy for years and years. Space exploration is defined as the investigation of physical conditions in space and on stars, planets, and their moons through the use of artificial satellites, space probes, and spacecraft with human crews (Whitehouse). From the space race with Russia to unmanned lunar probes, space exploration inspires and enlightens every person that comes in contact with it. One example of an ins...
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Advanced Research Projects Agency Soviet Union
552 wordsSputnik, name of the first of several artificial satellites launched by the Soviet Union from 1957 to 1961. The goals of the Sputnik program included studying the earths upper atmosphere, observing animal survival in space flight, and testing Soviet rocket technology. The launch of the unmanned Sputnik 1 and of Sputnik 2, which carried a dog, spurred the United States to invest more money and resources into its fledgling space program, initiating a race between the two nations to land a person o...
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