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Bombs Were Dropped August 6 1945
1,028 wordsThe use of the atomic bombs on Japan was necessary for the revenge of the Americans. These bombs took years to make due to a problematic equation. The impact of the bombs killed hundreds of thousands of people and the radiation is still killing people today. People today still wonder why the bombs were dropped. If these bombs werent dropped on the Japanese the history of the world would have been changed forever. The Atomic bomb took 6 years to develop (1939 - 1945) for scientists to work on a e...
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World War Ii Middle Eastern
549 wordsThis is Audie Murphy's life story. At the tender age of 12, he becomes the head of the family after his father deserts them. He joins the army at the age of 18 and through the course of the war is decorated for valor nine times thus becoming the most decorated combat soldier in World War II. Audie does one of the bravest acts any soldier ever did during the war. He climbs aboard a burning tank destroyer and single handedly keeps the enemy from advancing on his position. He spends almost an hour ...
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Ho Chi Minh Department Of State
1,427 wordsDescribe and assess the role of the USA in Indo-China in the period 1945 - 1954 In 1943 President Roosevelt suggested that Indochina come under the control of four powers after the war, proposing that the eventual independence of the Indochinese might follow in twenty to thirty years time. No one knew whether the policy would require American troops, but America was firm on the fact that independence could not be taken by the Vietnamese, but would be granted to the Vietnamese by the Great Powers...
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Atomic Bomb Knocked Unconscious
3,195 wordsThe way the world thinks of war changed forever in 1945. On July 16 in Alamogordo, New Mexico, America exploded the world's first atomic bomb, sending a huge mushroom-shaped cloud high into the sky. The Manhattan Project, which was used to end World War II, was mostly led by German and German-Jewish scientists, who had escaped from Hitler's Germany. In 1939, an American university professor named Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which he outlined the possibil...
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World War Ii Lend Lease
1,981 wordsIn 1935 the first neutrality act was passed, which meant that America would not be allowed to sell weapons to warring nations. In 1939 Americans steered clear of the war that broke out in Europe. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first and only president elected to three terms. He answered all critics with Abraham Lincoln's slogan "Dont change horses in midstream." He was nominated to his third term in 1940. Shortly afterward, in March of 1941, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, which allowed u...
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Ho Chi Minh President John F Kennedy
1,842 wordsThe reports in this novel are prefaced with a quote by Robert Shape, which sums up the feelings of those Americans involved in the Vietnam conflict. He states, Vietnam, Vietnam... There are no sure answers. In this novel, the author gives a detailed historical account of the happenings in Vietnam between 1950 and 1975. He successfully reports the confusing nature, proximity to the present and the emotions that still surround the conflict in Vietnam. In his journey through the years that America ...
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Who Was To Blame For The Cold War
1,440 wordsI GOT AN A STAR AT GCSE LEVEL FOR THIS ESSAY, ENGLISH SPELLING... HOPE U LIKE... Everyones opinion is different, some say one thing, some say another but the big question is, who was to blame for the Cold War? The United States of America? The Soviet Union? Maybe it was inevitable and bound to happen, but maybe it was partly both of their faults. Could the Cold War have been prevented? There are many points that can argue and back up all of the above opinions. I will be examining different sourc...
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The Causes Of Cold War Post Revisionist
1,521 wordsThis is from AP history and bear with me because some of the stuff got a little screwed up in transit. : -) Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signified, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold but not clothed. There was never a war that this idea can be more correct applied to than the Cold War. According to noted author and Cold War historian Walter Lippman, the Cold War can be defined...
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First Atomic Bomb Dropped On Hiroshima
755 wordsFirst things first, people argue his name. Some say that the J. at the beginning of his name means Julius because his fathers name is Julius. Others argue it is simply a J. that stands for nothing. To tell the truth nobody really knows the truth about what it stands for. Well, since thats cleared up thats that. J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on a cold spring evening April 22, 1904 in New York. When Oppenheimer was five he went on a trip to Germany to visit his grandfather Ben who gave him a doze...
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The Manhattan Project Of World War Ii History
796 wordsThroughout the course of history, especially in past wars, one can decipher a single point that led to the end of that event / war . All thought World War II had many events transpire which led to its completion, one of the most prominent and immediate effects which brought about the end of the war was the development of the Atomic Bomb. Developed through the research and funding of the Manhattan Project, the Atomic Bomb was used to cause Japan to surrender World War II and thereby effectively e...
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Fast Food Nation U S Food
1,677 words... bsp; A study conducted by the U. S. Food Supply series reported per capita nutrients and food available for consumption from the years 1909, 1945, 1975, and 1999 (Bente and Gerrior, 2002). Though this survey does not measure actual consumption, it serves as a useful summary of probable nutrient levels in the United States for these four years. Food was divided into categories of meat and alternatives, milk and milk products, vegetables, fruits, and grains. Some notable trends include a decre...
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World War Ii Franklin D Roosevelt
1,564 wordsOn the morning of August 6, 1945, the first Atomic Bomb in history was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Soon after, on August 14, 1945, the Japanese abruptly surrendered, abandoning their ancient customs regarding honor in war. The fact that only two bombs were able to bring an entire country to its knees is a true testament to the awesome power they held. There is nothing in modern warfare that can compete with the devastating e...
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Czar Nicholas Ii Anti Semitism
1,634 wordsA major problem in understanding World War II is dealing with its ironies. Germans mastered most of the military lessons of World War I, but lost; Anglo-Americans and Russians learned little or nothing from the earlier conflict, but won. Germans hailed Adolf Hitler as the greatest German in history; but had Otto von Bismarck rather than Hitler ruled the Third Reich, there would probably not have been a Holocaust and a German Century might have begun after the French collapse, in 1940. Instead, N...
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E B White Pulitzer Prize
2,798 wordsElwyn Brooks White By Outline: Biography of Elwyn Brooks White Elwyn Brooks White works Elements of Style STUART LITTLE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN 'About Myself' Charlotte's Web Critics about EB Whites works Elwyn Brooks White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, as the son of Samuel White, a prosperous piano manufacturer, and Jessie (Hart) White; she was forty-one and Samuel was forty-five. Elwyn was the youngest child of a large family, where parents really loved children. On Elwyn's twelfth birthday ...
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Crimes Committed Soviet Army
1,583 words... as 80 or more. Thanking him for his book, one woman living in Little Hampton, West Sussex said: 'I have so many memories. I'd thought of writing an autobiography, but people would not believe the things I have survived... I think I was a little insane afterwards. ' "Sometimes the greatest danger came from one mother giving away the hiding places of other girls in a desperate bid to save her own daughter. Older Berliners still remember the screams every night, " Beevor describes. Beevor estim...
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Nuclear Chain Reaction Bomb Was Dropped
2,744 wordsTHE HISTORICAL CONTEXT WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB THE CHAIN REACTION BOMB Atomic bomb imagined The New York Press reports: New hope for releasing the enormous stores of energy within the atom has arisen from German scientists. World famous Niels Bohr of Copenhagen and Enrico Fermi of Rome, both Nobel prize winners, acclaim this experiment as one of the most important in recent years. Fermi now realized that his new element 93 had been a product of splitting the urani...
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Nuclear Chain Reaction Franklin D Roosevelt
2,131 words" No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. The lighting effects beggared description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times greater than that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray, and blue" (Groueff 355). The words of Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell describe the onset of the atomic age, which began on July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. This was the site of the first large-scale atomic ...
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Boris Karloff Horror Films
3,055 wordsAs a companion piece to the articles outlining the histories of the eight major film studios, this survey examines four low-budget studios. They produced mostly Grade-&# 34; B&# 34; films: genre efforts made quickly and cheaply for targeted audiences usually young ones, whether it was the fare aimed at juvenile cowboy enthusiasts, provided by Monogram, PRC (Producers Releasing Company), and Republic during the 1930 s and &# 39; 40 s, or the older teen crowds sold on AIP&# 39; s (American Interna...
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Adolf Hitler Concentration Camps
1,677 wordsCauses of the Holocaust The rise of the nazis and the hatred of the Jews became known as the holocaust. Adolf Hitler being one of the biggest names that is known with the holocaust isnt the only person that contributed to this massacre of Jews. People where held in ghetto camps and later sent to concentration camps and the things that put this all together was the use of persuasion method known as propaganda. These three things make up the holocaust. Adolf Hitler one of the main people responsib...
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End Of The War War Criminals
2,096 wordsOn the night of October 15, 1946, ten of the twelve major war criminals, condemned to death at the Nuremberg trials, were executed. Of the two who eluded the hangman, one was Reich Marshal Hermann Goring, who committed suicide by swallowing a lethal vial of cyanide two hours before his execution. The other man was Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, who had managed to gain an enormous amount of power within the Nazi Party. He was virtually unknown outside of the Party elite as he had worked in the shad...
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