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World War Ii End Of World War
680 wordsWhen World War II in Europe came to an end on May 7, 1945, a new war was just beginning. This war became known as the Cold War and was between the two world superpowers, the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR). The Cold War lasted from 1945 to 1991. Fears between the two nations, which started in World War I, and grew in World War II, caused the Cold War to break after the end of World War II. The conflict in the Cold War was the difference in politics between the US and the USSR. The...
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Ho Chi Minh World War Ii
1,563 wordsVietnam War was a war that had the many of the world stumped on how it accrued and what it was for. Many lives were lost and destroyed for a war that had no real purpose. As to why the US got involved is still a controversial issue to this day. Pin pointing exactly when the war started is a heated debate among historians. The war was not only in Vietnam but also right at home. Society was divided and conflict began. Was Vietnam a lost cause for the US? In 1941, Ho Chi Minh, a communist activist,...
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Extermination Camps Forced Labor
1,071 wordsFrom the time Adolf Hitler became the dictator of Germany in January 1933, until the surrender of his Third Reich at the end of World War II in May 1945, Hitler's Nazi led government engaged in two wars. One was a declared war of military expansion against the nations of Europe, which began with the 1939 invasion of Poland and reached its peak in mid- 1942, when German armies occupied much of the continent and had penetrated deep into the Soviet Union. The other was a war against the Jews of Eur...
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Britain And France British And French
1,098 wordsAt the end of World War I the victorious nations formed the League of Nations for the purpose of airing international disputes, and of mobilizing its members for a collective effort to keep the peace in the event of aggression by any nation against another or of a breach of the peace treaties. The United States, imbued with isolationism, did not become a member. The League failed in its first test. In 1931 the Japanese, using as an excuse the explosion of a small bomb under a section of track of...
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History Of The Aids Virus In Africa
1,484 wordsAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, more commonly known as AIDS is often referred to as a global killer. In Sub-Saharan Africa AIDS has reached pandemic proportions with 14 million dead already, and 23 million more infected. Africa constitutes 10 % of the worlds population, and is now the home to 90 % of all new HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus, which causes AIDS) infections, giving it the highest AIDS frequency in the world. I would like to discuss how unsafe African sex practices have contri...
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Royal College Biomedical Research
526 wordsA group of leading figures from the medical Royal Colleges[ 1 ] has today published a blueprint, for open debate with the government and other stakeholders, for the establishment of a National Panel which would identify and investigate suspected cases of fraud and misconduct in clinical and biological research studies. The blueprint, published in the medical journal Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh[ 2 ], proposes that a government-funded National Panel for Research Int...
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U S Army Safety And Security
907 wordsThe Emotions of 9 / 11 and the Mechanisms of Defense In the days and weeks that followed Sept. 11, we all worked through many emotions: anger, grief, hate, despair, denial and helplessness. As I attended meetings with the Army staff at the Department of Defense Family Assistance Center, I realized that the three letters M-W-R stand for much more than the programs we deliver in Army Morale, Welfare, and Recreation. Those letters embody what it means to be an American - which we have free time and...
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Aboriginal Peoples Native Peoples
1,402 wordsColonialism and Aboriginal History For long years, the First Nations of Canada, the countrys indigenous people, fought for political autonomy and self government. They were fighting against complete assimilation that would result in total destruction of their original culture, lifestyles and traditions. While some individual groups have lost their cultural heritage due to assimilation process, the rest keeps on their struggle for retaining their culture and getting recognized by the government o...
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Martin Luther King Jr Maya Angelou
796 wordsMaya Maya Angelou Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981. She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nomination. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and del...
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Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Act
557 wordsShe speaks for the mood of a race, a race that for centuries has built the nation of America, literally, with blood, sweat, and passive acceptance. She speaks for black Americans who have been second class citizens in their own home too long. She speaks for the race that would be patient no longer that would be accepting no more. Mrs. Hamer speaks for the African Americans who stood up in the 1950 s and refused to sit down. They were the people who led the greatest movement in modern American hi...
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Group Of Men Professional Football
1,033 words? The Beginning of the N. F. L? The year was 1920 and pro-football was in a state of confusion. The three main problems that led to all the confusion were, salaries rising, players jumping from team to team and the use of players still enrolled in college. So, on August 20, 1920, a group of men representing the four current pro teams met. When the day was done the American Professional Football Conference was born. The A. P. F. C. was formed to make one governing body over pro football. Then, on...
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War Against Japan United States Government
712 wordsThe United States? decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima was more of a diplomatic measure calculated to intimidate the Soviet Union in the post-Second-World-War era rather than a strictly military measure designed to force Japan? s unconditional surrender. The United States Government? s decision was influenced somewhat by popular sentiment of the war. Japan had an army of an estimated 5 million people. In his memoirs, Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson wrote: ? I was informed that such o...
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Long Term Free Trade
486 wordsThe Fourteen Point Program (January 1918? Woodrow Wilson) Open Diplomacy Freedom of Navigation Free trade Disarmament Self-determination Evacuation of all Russian Territory Belgium must be evacuated and restored (from German occup. ) Freeing of French territory (Alsace-Lorraine) Readjustment of Italian borders Autonomous dev. for the peoples of A. H. Independence for the Balkan states Securing of Turkish territory / sovereignty / the Dardanelles as a free passage The establishment of an independ...
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Match Against Elon Big South Conference Tournament Ball
752 wordsOn April 17, 2000 the Radford University tennis team played a very important match against Elon college in North Carolina. The winner of this match would play as seed number two in the Big South Conference tournament. Eventually, our place in the Big South Conference tournament depended on the result of my match against Elon s number four player. During the match I knew that he was better than me and I didn t expect to win. However, I tried my hardest, and learned that even though my opponent wa...
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Economic Ties U S Bouchard
476 wordsMaine doesnt see Quebec sovereignty as a threat ROCKPORT, Me. Premier Lucien Bouchard got the message he wanted Thursday from two American politicians: Quebec's future is an internal matter and economic ties would be kept with their state if it leaves Canada. The future of Quebec is essentially a Canadian matter, Maine Governor Angus King said at a news conference with Bouchard in Rockport, a community on the Atlantic Ocean. Its not up to us to sit on the sidelines and suggest what the solution ...
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Treaty Of Versailles Policy Of Appeasement
918 wordsIn the 1930 s Germany, under a dictatorship lead by Adolf Hitler, started expanding their rule. Each of the major world powers (England, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States) gave a response to this expansion. England preferred being in splendid isolation, or being safe on their island. Conservative Stanley Baldwin promoted splendid isolation when he was prime minister of Britain. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did not do very much to try to prevent the German expansion. He did no...
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Fidel Castro Castro
1,168 wordsEyeball to Eyeball: America, Cuba and The Soviet Union America and The Soviets again using other countries for their own warfare Excitement was high for Cuba, when Fidel Castro overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in January 1959. With a heady mixture of nationalism and left? wing ideologies US became very cautious for its southern comrades Central and Southern America and perhaps herself. When Castro took over Cuba, the US lost valuable investments in the sugar and tobacco crops of C...
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Company Name And Logo Sponsor The Team Car
1,035 wordsDuring my years at this university, I have had the opportunity to explore many new and exciting experiences. None, more so, than my current endeavor, the design and construction of a formula style racecar. This project involves not only designing the car, but also acquiring the items to build it, such as an engine, tubing for the frame, etc. To acquire these items, money or materials must be obtained through sponsorships. These sponsorships are achieved by approaching area businesses, and asking...
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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
428 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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