There comes time in the history of our world‚ where a quote defines and embodies the actual event. Some people remember both when both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Present George W. Bush said those famous words regarding the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States‚ by saying‚ “it will be a date that will live in infamy”. Present Reagan‚ whom some would say had a memorable quote when it came to the end of the Cold War. On June 12‚ 1987
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Parliament of the United Kingdom promulgating the partition of India and the independence of the dominions of Pakistan and India. The Act received royal assent on 18 July 1947. The legislation was formulated by the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee‚ after representatives of the Indian National Congress‚[1] the Muslim League‚[2] and the Sikh community[3] came to an agreement with the Viceroy of India‚ Lord Mountbatten of Burma‚ on what has come to be known as the 3 June Plan or Mountbatten Plan
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of Germany‚ Italy‚ and Japan. Who was King of England? King George VI Who was the British Prime Minister? Neville Chamberlain was the Prime Minister at the start of the war however he resigned and Winston Churchill took over in 1940. Then Clement Attlee took over from Winston Churchill’s place. The effect of war in Britain How did the war affect the lives of ordinary people both in the country and the city? Rationing Rationing regulations for food and clothing were introduced during the war in 1940
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conferences was a major factor in the differentiation between Yalta and Potsdam. At Yalta‚ the Big Three was composed of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill‚ U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. At Potsdam‚ Attlee replaced Churchill after his defeat in the British elections‚ and Truman took Roosevelt’s position. The only constant figure in the conferences was Stalin‚ the leader of one of the most controversial nations in the world. As previously mentioned‚
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power could be transferred from British into Indian hands. It was left to Mountbatten to stage a rapid handover to two successor governments (India and Pakistan) before the ink was dry on their post-imperial frontiers. Help from the Commonwealth Attlee and Bevan believed Britain’s economic recovery and the survival of sterling as a great trading currency required closer integration with the old ’white’ dominions‚ especially Australia‚ New Zealand and South Africa. The British were also determined
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‘The record of Labour governments in the years 1964 and 1979 was one of continuous failure.’ Asses the validity of this view. (45 marks) The Labour governments throughout the years 1964 and 1979 can be considered a period of continuous failure. 1964‚ Harold Wilson came into power riding a wave of expectation and idealism‚ fuelled by the ‘the white heat’ of technological change. By 1970 however‚ Labour was in some difficulty and resulted in its time in power to slowly
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Describing New Labour as a ‘warmed up’ version of Thatcherism is a paradoxical statement in that it contains both a great deal of truth and falsehood. It is certainly true that New Labour accepted‚ and in some cases developed‚ Thatcherite ideals - namely deregulation of the economy‚ privatisation and limiting the powers of trade unions. It is also true that the New Labour style of government was deeply Thatcher-esk in its reliance on big business/media support‚ continuing the ‘presidential’ system
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Harry Truman had to make one of the hardest decisions any President ever had to make. He had to decide whether or not to spare countless American lives at the expense of hundreds of thousands of Japanese and drop the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was his responsibility as the President to protect the US‚ but the death toll in Japan was so horrific that it really makes you wonder if it was worth the killing of all the innocent people‚ many of whom were women and children.
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The history of the 20th century can be defined by the biographies of six men: Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ Winston Churchill‚ Vladimir Lenin‚ Adolf Hitler‚ Mao Tse Tung‚ and Josef Stalin. Each of these men had a lasting significant involvement in world affairs. This essay will focus on the significance each individual had on the ideologies of Democracy and Totalitarianism. Four of the six individuals were leaders of a totalitarianistic state‚ and three of these led a communist country. Also four of
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Wo Jun Shing History TO WHAT EXTENT WAS THE COLD WAR CAUSED BY TWO IRRECONCILABLE IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES? The Cold War was completely quiet a big disaster to the world. It was caused by the military tensions between The United States and its NATO allies with The Soviet Union with its allies. Instead of it‚ there are also several things that help caused the war‚ European countries were not stable back then‚ economical collapsed are everywhere‚ so does in America. The Iron Curtain also affects
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