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    What Caused the Vietnam War? The Vietnam War was caused by many factors that contributed to the warfare in Vietnam during the years of 1959 to 1975. Most factors were the beliefs held by people who wanted to change or to prevent Vietnam becoming an Independent Country. Many people suffered due to these beliefs and policies and that the Vietnam War is now considered as one of the most distressing moments in the 20th Century. So why did the US become involved in the Vietnam War? What was Ho Chi Minh

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    Foreign Policy has shifted from being isolationist to being interventionist due to the United States being more involved around the world then when it first started out. being more involved than when we started wasn’t what our first few presidents wanted‚ they wanted to be isolated from all the other foreign countries. Meaning we Americans didn’t want their foreign affairs to involve the new country of the United States. In the beginning of U.S. development we were isolationists due to Washington’s policy

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    The 1920s were a time of great cultural change in America. Traditionalists found the new values of the Jazz Age to be utterly sinful and immoral. The youth of the twenties rebelled against the constraints of their elders in several ways. One of the most provocative changes was the "new look" for young women. The Flapper Era entered America with a bang. Ladies did the unthinkable in cutting their long tresses to chin length bobs‚ smoking‚ wearing shorter dresses and even engaging

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    During the 1950s and 1960’s in America‚ there was racial discrimination and segregation‚ which was legalised through the Jim Crow laws. The Civil Rights movement aim was to challenge these laws and achieve legislative change‚ making the ”X” challenging the racist laws and enforcing equal ones. The movement was a ”Sustained upsurge” due to the constant protest and large scale buy in from the African American community‚ which lead to numerous groups forming because of it which sustained the CRM..

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    Science & Technology in The 1950s Easier Business Dealings Ever since the credit card was invented‚ the transactions were much easier compared to the pass as a swipe of the card would settle up the large payment instead of bringing large amount of cash which would have risk of getting rob. A credit card is a small plastic card which will be issued to the users as a system of payment in transactions. In 1950‚ the concept of using the same card for various payments was found out by Ralph Schneider

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    A little after Mohammed’s death‚ soldiers fought against Christians and Muslims took control of all North Africa and Egypt. As Muslim’s power had grown‚ they had controlled Jerusalem as a whole. Alexius Comneus‚ the emperor Byzantines emperor‚ was worried and didn’t like the control that the Muslim possessed‚ so he decided to go to pope for help. They needed to get the help of all the Christians

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    in the civil rights movements of the 1950s. Today problems between the blacks

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    In the 1890’s a famous psychology experiment was conducted by Ivan Pavlov which demonstrated classical conditioning in dogs. According to The Free Dictionary‚ classical conditioning is‚ “a learning process by which a subject comes to respond in a specific way to a previously neutral stimulus after the subject repeatedly encounters the neutral stimulus together with another stimulus that already elicits the response.” Around the 1920s‚ famous psychologist John B. Watson along with a graduate student

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    On the other hand‚ a strong case could be made for citing Americans actions domestically as the main reason why its foreign policy could not be considered isolationist. Tindall and Shi argue that towards the late 1930s ‘America retreated deep into isolationism’. This can be further supported by a number of statements made by Roosevelt in some of his speeches. For instance‚ in 1937 during Roosevelt’s Quarantine of the Aggressors speech he states ‘We are determined to keep out of war’. He then states

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    23rd 2010‚ Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy (Gandel/Dallas). The human relations management system theory was developed in the early 1920s during the industrial revolution (Perry). This theory can relate to Blockbusters failure because the system focuses on things that gets people going‚ like motivation (Perry). Netflix beat out Blockbuster because it gave the people what they wanted and was cheaper‚ more reliable‚ and more convenient. Netflix played a huge role in Blockbusters

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