Ronald W. Reagan‚ who was our 40th president in the United States‚ helped the government find a better purpose and forced the Soviet Union to end the Cold War. Ronald Reagan was also known for having the largest number in guilty criminal offenses of administration officials‚ indictment‚ and/or investigations which were a result due to his multiple scandals. Two of some of the biggest scandals that I will discuss are his illegal scandals such as selling illegal arms to Iran and his ethical lapse in
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1. Describe the Lutheran Reformation and the English Reformation? How did they start? What were the causes? What were the results? How were they alike? How were they different? Does either of them seem to be more legitimate? Why or why not? Defend your answer. Lutheranism and especially Calvinism started very differently because their founders started with a theology‚ and church hierarchies‚ worship‚ etc. were made to conform to those points of their views. In many areas‚ these Protestant sects
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Before we speak about the African American experience we must understand why the war begin. There is a common miss belief that the war was started because of slavery. Now slavery did play a big role but‚ “The Civil War began as a southern war for Confederate independence and a northern war to defeat the Confederate rebellion and restore the Union. At the outset‚ neither side thought that the war would last very long or eventually lead to the destruction of slavery. The Confederacy was founded to
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During WWII‚ the United States and the Soviet Union worked together against a common enemy. Sadly‚ after the war was over tense grew in both nations. The U.S. disliked the Soviet communism and Russia’s current leader at the time. The United States believed that Joseph Stalin was a blood-thirsty ruler. While the Soviets hated America for entering the war so late. They basically blamed the death of the tens of millions of Russians on the U.S. The Soviet also felt the U.S. never treated the USSR as
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The United States’ alliance with the Soviet Union began to crumble throughout World War II. Fueled by ideological differences‚ this climate of mutual mistrust between the two nations became known as the Cold War. Conflicts over Poland‚ a symbol of WWII‚ continued to divide these two nations apart as Stalin wanted a buffer in Eastern Europe to prevent another invasion. This is best represented by the concept of the “Iron Curtain” dividing Eastern and Western Europe. As a result of being unable to
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The Civil War is something everyone remembers. It’s hard to forget something that big‚ that almost separated our United States apart. The South and the North both have their opinion on the war. As well so do I but we will do the polar opposites first. The South states didn’t want to be part of the United States and create their own country‚ called the Confederacy States. A few reasons why they didn’t want to be part of the United states. The top reason why they started the war because they wanted
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people think that Germany started world war I. If you google who started world war I you will see many websites and papers that agree with this statement. Although‚ no one country stared the war and all of the involved parties are partly to blame. It was Austria Hungary that was mostly to blame. Austria Hungary started World War I by using war to distract form internal problems‚ delivering a harsh ultimatum and expecting an answer in three days‚ and declaring war after all of the demands in the ultimatum
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Cold war was a state of political and military tension after world WW2 between powers in western bloc and eastern bloc. The westerns bloc’s military is so much weaker than the new rising eastern bloc country because of the serious wound from ww2. It seems the western bloc country got no chance to win. But the cold war ends with the instantaneous collapse of Soviet Union. I think there is three reasons that caused Soviet Union lost this war. Frist of all it’s the awful foreign policy of Soviet Union
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After World War 2 the United States moved from an isolationist policy to a policy of engagement. The United States of realize that in order to prevent the expansion of Communism it would need to have a more active engagement. Potsdam would be the final time that Stalin and Truman would cooperate for a long time. The struggle between these two superpowers that believe their own economic and political systems were superior to the others would become known as the Cold War‚ a decade-long struggle for
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The Cold War‚ one of the most scariest times in America’s‚ or even the world’s history. The threat of nuclear war was real‚ very real. At any moment America or the U.S.S.R. could destroy the entire world with their assault of nuclear weapons‚ just at a call and a click of a button. This is one of many important times in history‚ and still affects us today. Not only did the North Atlantic Treaty Operation come from the tensions‚ but the bay of pigs‚ the cuban missile crisis‚ the berlin wall (the construction
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