War of 1812 There are many reasons why America was forced to declare war on Britain in 1812. As President Madison stated for the cause to declare war were due to the impressments of U.S. sailors by the British‚ the blockade of U.S. ports‚ the British supporting the Indians and as well as the British violating America’s neutral rights. To further understand why America went to war; I will explain each of the reasons a bit more clearly with additional details. To begin with‚ every time the
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Cold War Terms Yalta Conference Who: Allied leader‚ the Bid Three (Stalin‚ Roosevelt‚ Churchill) When: February 1945 What: They met at Yalta to plan what would happen to Europe after Germany’s defeat - Stalin agreed to enter war with Japan after Germany lost. - The USSR’s border moved further into Poland. - Germany would be divided into four zones: American‚ French‚ British and Soviet. - The Big Three: Stalin‚ Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to hunt down all war criminals and join the new
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To what extent was the Soviet Union responsible for the origins of the Cold War? (15 marks) The Cold War was the periods of hostility and high tension between USA and USSR that stopped just short of war‚ in the time period 1945 to 1991‚ and sometimes dated back to 1917. It was essentially an ideological conflict between the communist USSR and the capitalist USA‚ which was marked with arms race‚ economic rivalry‚ development of huge espionage networks‚ propaganda and proxy wars‚ formation of the
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military action if needed. The second option was to send military forces to Cuba without warning. The third option was to give a political warning to the Soviets and to blockade Cuba. In a speech on October 22‚ Kennedy informed Americans and the world populace of the presence of missiles in Cuba‚ announced a quarantine (blockade) of Cuba‚ and asserted that any nuclear missile launched at the
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all transportation links and supplies. The U.S responded to this by their counter blockade measures and they airlifted tons of necessities such as coal and food into Berlin for eleven months straight. This was when separate western governments were established in Germany and the North Atlantic Treaty was being signed in Washington. The blockade ended when Stalin had no choice but to admit defeat and lift the blockade. Stalin’s actions were seen as a major driving force in the Cold war and it lead
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WORLD WAR 1 SOURCES Source A: British Propaganda poster 1916 Source A is useful and reliable to a historian as it is a primary source. Source A is a British propaganda poster and was designed in 1916 by the British recruitment office or the Government‚ to encourage married men to enlist. Two years after the war had commenced the excitement and romantic ideas of an adventure had died down‚ so did the numbers for enlistment. There for propaganda posters such as source A were put in place. In this poster
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Which one of the Superpowers was most responsible for the outbreak of the Cold War? From the late 1940s to the early 1990s‚ the USA and the USSR were in a state of "Cold War". The United States and USSR never fought each other in a direct military confrontation‚ but both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in "proxy Wars" by supporting allied nations in numerous "hot" Wars. Such as‚ the Vietnam War‚ the Korean War‚ The Angolan War‚ etc. What seems
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Were the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to save allied lives and to end Japan’s threat to world peace? Did the resulting loss of life cost more than a deadly invasion of the Japanese mainland? In August 1945‚ the first dropping of atomic bombs in civilian areas of Japan killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Immediately following those bombings‚ Japan surrendered to the United States. The following essay summarizes the defense of the atomic bomb and its use‚ the arguments
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In the immediate aftermath of WWII‚ the world was split into two opposing camps that‚ though they did not fight directly‚ were actively engaged in the Cold War. This war did not end until the USSR broke apart in 1991. The Cold War was both created and prolonged by the interconnected economic and ideological tensions of the East and West Blocs. The ideological systems of the two powers were viewed as being complete opposites in their goals and experienced increasing animosity toward each other. This
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competing theories on the future of the German economy were the primary reason for the Berlin blockade and the eventual split of the country between Capitalist West Germany and Communist East Germany. With the capitalist economy of West Berlin being administered by the United States‚ France‚ and Great Britain‚ the Soviet Union enacted the blockade as a protection of their German economic policies. This blockade and subsequent division served as a literal example of the separation between the East and
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