With so many important eras in US history why would anyone believe 1950-1975 to be significant? With such great advancements in technology and civil rights this era helped shape what this country is today. The era of 1950 through 1975 was significant to America. This era was significant to America because of the Cuban missile crisis‚ the Apollo 13 disaster‚ and the march on Washington. The First thing that made 1950 through 1975 significant to America was the Cuban missile crisis. During October
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not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." The Civil War was inevitable. The issue of slavery was so controversial back in the mid-18th century that neither sides‚ pro-slavery or anti-slavery‚ would have stepped down from their opinions. The only way for the issue to be resolved was war‚ where only one side could win. Although the Civil War had thousands and thousands of casualties‚ it brought on a new era of equality
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Question: “To what extent was the U.S. justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?” The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki dropped or not‚ were ones of the man-made disasters that occurred on August 6 1945‚ and August 9 1945 respectively. The launching of the atomic bomb has numerous opinions and aspects on whether United States of America should be justified for launching atomic bombs on those cities or not. The essay question for our class is‚ “To what extent was the United
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South was not happy about that‚ so they fired on Fort Sumter and won the Battle of Fort Sumter which was the first conflict of the Civil War. The Civil War occurred from April 12‚1861 through May 9‚1865. The Civil War had the two groups fighting;the Union which is the North and the Confederate which is the South. Two important facts about the Civil War are it was the war that people knew it wasn’t going to end
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World War I was the First World War and is considered to be the “War to end all wars” or the “imperialist war” but as a matter of fact it was the first modern war. Nationalism played the largest part of the beginning of the war due to nationalist conflicts between Russia and Austria-Hungary. Militarism played a huge part in the war because everyone was more than ready to fight and it was obvious. The toll that imperialism had on the war was that Great Britain had the most spread empire
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1. Withdrawal of money not belonging to Scarlett Scarlett Scofflaw could be charged under s 322(1)‚ Theft under the Criminal Code. Scarlett could be charged with theft because she knew the money in her account was not hers‚ yet spent the money anyway. Scarlett should have contacted the bank immediately when she noticed the extra money that appeared in her account. Scarlett would have to prove that she deposited the money into her account‚ however; the bank mistakenly transferred the money into Scarlett’s
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coastal area of Dunkirk no matter what. There they would be rescued by the British naval forces. However‚ the Brits were left waiting until the 27th of May. Whilst the German Luftwaffe was bombing them from above and the land army was shelling them from below‚ the Allied troops waited and took the best cover possible. All they could do was wait. Dunkirk was a failure in a number of ways. Firstly‚ there was no real ‘battle of Dunkirk’. The word implies that there was an engaging of armed forces in
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won‚ why did it matter who was guilty? At the time of the early 20th century‚ didn’t each Great Power take part in World War 1? This question of “war guilt‚”(1) and who deserved its acceptance‚ carried great political importance for historians in the postwar years. While some historians may argue the contemporary view- that Germany was the main aggressor and deserves the primary blame‚ I’d like to argue its counter traditional perspective. The traditional ideology argues that “the war was a result
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Why did the Titanic’s maiden voyage ended in such disaster? One of the largest passenger liner of the early 20th century made in the history‚ having the first and final voyage 100 years ago‚ owned by the magnificent White Star Line‚ was travelling without interference through the calm waters until one of the sailors on board reported that the Titanic is heading for a vast and humongous iceberg in April 12 1912 at that lethal midnight. The disaster had caused 1517 deaths on board‚ though there were
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Nearly 1‚500 people were working on the Olympic and her sister ship the Titanic. However‚ they were the largest moving objects to be constructed. The Titanic was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyards which were the best builders in Ireland. They also were both worked on at the same time. They were both put in the water to set off at the same time. But it took approximately 3 years to build. Next‚ the Titanic might have had several causes to sink. It definitely hit the iceberg and sunk. It might
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