for the affirmative to why women in Australia should be given the rights to vote for many obvious reasons. My reasons being; firstly‚ we should all be treated equally with justice or else Australia would not be considered as an egalitarian society. Secondly‚ other countries have benefited their society by passing women’s suffrage. Lastly‚ women are just as hard-working as men and deserve as much as men do. To start off‚ I without a doubt believe that women should be able to vote as Australia or
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Tobey 5 10/11/10 American Revolution The phrase “no taxation without representation” was used in Boston but no one is sure who first used it. Boston politician James Otis was famously associated with the phrase “taxation without representation is tyranny.” The British Parliament had controlled colonial trade and taxed imports and exports‚ and the Americans have been deprived of a right
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United States. The people who wanted the war were mostly Democrats and Southerners. Southerners supported the war because they were in hope that more land would be acquired meaning more states would be admitted into the union as slave states. For this same reason the Whig Party opposed the war because they were abolitionists. Abolitionists opposed slavery so with the addition of new slave states‚ their hopes of making the U.S a slave free country were thwarted. Abolitionists such as Members from
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Colonists were mad at Britain because they had much more acts in place caused taxes to raise‚ this took place in the colonies with King George III‚ the colonists got mad and they decided to taunt British soldiers and they also decided to dump tea in a harbor. These two events caused the Revolution to start. What evidence shows why America started the American Revolution? Americans were justified in waging war with Britain because taxes and acts were being put in place one by one rapidly‚ the colonists
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American policy changes through the good and rebellious Between the years of 1930 and 1941 american foreign policy changed how it worked and its goals. They changed because of the threats in the outside world and because of all the absolute need for us to get involved in the war. During this time the world war was restarting in Europe and was leaving no choice except for the United States to get involved in the war. People were dissolving treaties and fighting and the united states could not remain
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So you would think people would get over Germany’s defeat during WWII? Nope. At that time‚ there was a chance for a new leader‚ Adolf Hitler‚ and his part ( Nazi Party ). Hitler was a great speaker who grab anyone’s attention to be honest. Hitler promised a specific group of people a better life; those who weren’t Jewish or gypsies. The Nazi’s were appealing; in the elections for Reichstag elections‚ in November of 1932‚ the Nazi’s lost by a lot of votes from the elections in July. Nazi Germany had
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What was the main reason why Britain lost the American War of Independence? In 1775 the War of Independence began and continued until 1782. One obvious advantage was that America knew the inhospitable terrain in which they were fighting in whereas Britain did not. This was a large contributing factor to the outcome of the war. Consequently Britain suffered significant losses during the harsh winters in August – October 1777. Britain had only ever really fought major wars in Europe and never had
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The American Civil War is unique in that it is one of the only wars in which the -losers- wrote the history. Unfortunately‚ this was allowed because America (I call it America‚ not the North or the Union‚ because these ’rebel’ idiots today enjoy calling themselves "Patriots" while they sought and seek to destroy the country) wanted to heal the wounds caused by the war‚ which was caused by the South. McClellan may be one of the most underrated generals in history. He was committed to saving his
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• Why did Germany defeat Poland so quickly? The rapid defeat of Poland can be traced largely to the numerical and technological superiority of the invading German forces. Poland‚ while having a substantial military force‚ including an air force‚ was outnumbered by the Germans by almost a factor of two. In a battle of attrition alone‚ Germany already had a great advantage‚ one that the Poles could simply not match. This shortage of troop on Poland’s behalf was due in part to British pressures before
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question "were the British soldiers ’Lions led by Donkeys?’" has been an ongoing debate since the end of the war. A war which is dominated by images of bloody battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele - futile frontal attacks against the machine guns. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the troops were ’lions led by donkeys’. The definition that the soldiers were ’lions’ in the war has never been questioned - due to the horrific reports of their lives in the war. The soldiers were just young
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