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World War Ii Time Life Books
1,480 wordsI. World War I had ended. Peace could finally be negotiated between to the Allies and Germany. Bad luck though struck the Allies as Germany had been hit with a horrible depression. A. The number cause for war in most countries up to that time had been poor economic conditions. In 1933, Germany held their usual presidential elections. The people of the country were hoping that the man the elected would bring peace to Germany and possibly better living conditions for them all. So what man they did...
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British And Americans British And French
1,303 wordsEven as Pershing had been preparing and launching this first big American attack, Foch's original plan had been growing by bounds. No longer was the offensive to be confined to a British strike along the Somme and an American drive on Mzires. The new plan also included a Belgian-British-French attack along the Lys and French attacks in between British and Americans. It was to be a grand assault all along the front said Foch: "Tout le monde la bataille!" . The aim was to cut the enemy's rail line...
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World War Ii Hitler Felt
1,142 words... s prime minister, Can, that the military campaign in Greece would be a quick success. Germany was taken completely by surprise by Italy's actions, which she totally disapproved. Hitler had to switch tracks at this time. He had to postpone his final conflict of the war, Operation Barbosa, an attack on Russia and concentrate on the Mediterranean. Italy invaded Greece through Albania without a declaration of war. Without the knowledge of guerrilla warfare, Italy found itself retreating back int...
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Chemical Weapons Mustard Gas
722 wordsNew weaponry and interventions can ultimately decide who will win a war. In World War I there were many new weapons introduced into the battle scene. These new weapons were more efficient in destroying and more powerful which made the death count rise dramatically. The new weaponry in World War I helped contribute to it being one of the bloodiest wars know to man at that time. One key weapon that played a part in eventually bringing the United states into the war was the submarine, also called U...
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Bermuda Triangle Coast Guard
1,229 wordsThe Bermuda Triangle is a triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Many people believed that people, ships, and planes have mysteriously vanished in this area. The size of the triangle varies from 500, 000 square miles. Some trace the mystery back to the time of Columbus. Bermuda Triangle estimates range from about 200 to no more than 8, 000 distress calls in the area and that there have been more than 50 ships and 20 planes to go down in the Bermuda Tria...
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Axis Powers West Point
808 wordsHis parents were George Patton and Ruth Wilson; he comes from a long line of military background. His father was the son of a civil war vet and his father was in many American wars before him. George Jr. had a lot of military blood running through him and it was just waiting to get out of him and be put in effect. He grew up on a farm in Pasadena. While on the farm he learned how to fish and hunt and how to become a survivalist. On the farm his father read to him what most normal kids would not ...
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World War Ii Viet Minh
1,680 wordsThe Vietnam conflict began in the late 19 th Century. France forcefully took ownership of the islands and made the Vietnamese islands a protectorate of France. The Viet Minh, or the League Of Independence was formed sometime around 1940. They were a group of people seeking independence from France. The French Government opposed this action and decided to try and stop the Viet Minh from advancing their political ideals into the rest of Vietnam. In the city of Dien Bien Phu, the Viet Minh surround...
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Regulation And Importance Of Indoor Air Quality Control
1,871 wordsThe summer has hit once again along with extremities of weather. Hot and humid weather forces office buildings or any other workplace to crank up the air conditioner. Everything should be just fine as long as the heating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) system has taken care of the indoor environment to be a comfortable setting. In past years, energy conservation and costs have taken its toll on human health due to poor indoor air quality. For seasons such as winter and summer when the weathe...
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North Koreans South Koreans
445 wordsThe first battle of the Korean War was on Sunday June 25, 1950. The North Korean forces decided it was time to attack the South Koreans and take over their democratic government. When the South Korean armies found out that North Korea was attacking them; soldiers would try to resist the invasion by fastening bombs to their bodies and throwing themselves into enemy tanks, but the large number of North Korean tanks and soldiers just overwhelmed the South Koreans. In Seoul an American ambassador in...
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Austro Hungarian Empire War On Serbia
1,922 wordsA cool, sunny summer morning some 87 years ago, two bullets were fired in a Sarajevo street that would soon set in motion a series of events that would throw the world into a struggle against itself. Gavril o Princip was the young man who fired those two fateful shots that hit Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie. The royal couple was returning from City Hall and was in route back to the Capitol. Princip, fueled with hatred at the Austr...
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France And England Soviet Union
1,739 wordsHistory In order for us to understand why most of European countries did not put up almost any resistance, while being occupied by Germany during World War Two, we will first need to look at geopolitical situation in Europe, at the time. In years 1930 - 1940 Communism was at its strongest, while striving for no less than taking over the whole world. Up until collapse of Soviet Union in 1991, its emblem used to be hammer and sickle over the globe. Today it became customary to accuse Hitler of dre...
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Matter Of Time Soviet Union
1,768 wordsWar beyond Europe In order for us to understand what enabled Hitler to achieve easy victories, in early stages of war, we will need to analyze a geopolitical situation in Europe, before 1939. In years 1930 - 1940 Communism was at its strongest, while striving for no less than taking over the whole world. Up until collapse of Soviet Union in 1991, its emblem used to be hammer and sickle over the globe. Today it became customary to accuse Hitler of dreaming about globe domination, yet he never ope...
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The Wrk F Art In Age Mechanical
1,558 wordsThe Wrk f Art in the Age f Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin, brn in a burgess Berlin Jewish family in 1892, was nt nly a brilliant literary critic and sciolist f culture, but als ne f the mst creative me Marxist thinkers. Benjamin with his first bks n the concept f art criticism in German romanticism, and n German barque drama. A sympathizer f the communist movement, he visited the Set Unit in 1 92 7 and 1 928 but never joined the German Communist Party. Free int exile ...
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Short Story First Story
934 wordsShort Story/Film Analysis Aric McDonald Short Story/Short Film Comm. 411 - 35 11: 30 - 12: 45 Spring 1997 The three short stories are similar because they all involve jealousy. This type of jealousy surrounds the main characters who are envious of the achievements or the attention that another man receives. The first story is about an old man who is taking his wife on a second honeymoon when she encounters an old suitor, creating jealousy for the husband. In the second story, the jealousy surrou...
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German Forces Royal Family
917 wordsBeaton had taken pictures from the jungles of Burma and the hillside of China. Cecil Beaton s career as a royal photographer spans almost fifty years, from 1930 until 1979. In that period, he photographed nearly thirty members of the House of Windsor. A severe stroke in 1974 left Beaton paralysed in his right arm, but against all odds he taught himself to photograph with his left hand, resuming his photographic career three years later. Beaton died in 1980. Firstly, Beaton s experience during th...
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Branch Davidians David Koresh
552 wordsThe standoff between the combined forces of the FBI and ATF and David Koresh-Branch Davidians was viewed as the worse governmental operation in history. There were several reasons why Waco turned out the way it did. Koresh and 76 of his followers, including more than 20 children, died in flames because there were breakdowns in communication between FBI and the Branch Davidians as the event unfolds. First, there was a lack of competency in communication during the negotiation period between the F...
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
840 wordsThe Exxon Valdez oil tanker left the Trans Alaska Pipeline terminal at 9: 12 PM March 23, 1989. The Exxon Valdez was the companies second newest tanker, it was 987 feet long and was carrying 53, 094, 510 gallons of crude oil. Its destination, Long Beach California. William Murphy, an expert ships pilot had been hired to steer the ship through the Valdez Narrows. Joe Hazelwood, the captain, and helmsman Harry Clear were also in the wheel house. Clear was steering. After successfully guiding the s...
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Interest Groups Twentieth Century
1,035 wordsImpact on Interest Groups on Twentieth Century American Government Interest Group is defined as an organized body of individuals who try influence public policy. This system is designed so that interest groups would be an instrument of public influence on politics to create changes, but would not threaten the government much. Whether this is still the case or noti's an important question that we must find out. Interest groups play many different roles in the American political system, such as re...
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Leonardo Mona Lisa
1,238 wordsGeniuses come few and far between in history. Hippocrates came in the late BC period. Einstein came in the late 1800 s-early 1900 s. Leonardo came in between the two of them, but is not recognized as well as they are. He was a brilliant human being. He was a master in the fields of painting, designing, engineering, and science. Most people know him merely as an artist, and some know him as an inventor, but not too many people know him for what he really was. This is because his life and his acco...
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38 Th Parallel Republic Of Korea
1,074 wordsThe Korean War was a result of the division of Korea after World War 2. Japan controlled Korea prior to 1945 when the United States and the Soviet Union divided Korea at the 38 th parallel. The US did this in the fear that the Soviet Union would take over Korea. This was the beginning of the split between the north and south. Both the US and the Soviet Union began to build their regimes within their halves to support their interests. By the end of 1946 these regimes of the north and of the south...
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