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    Aftermath of World War Ii

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    The Aftermath of World War II Introduction: World War II ended with the surrender of the Axis powers. A week after Adolf Hitler committed suicide‚ Germany surrendered‚ on May 7th to the Western Allies‚ and on May 8th to the Soviet Union in 1945. Japan was able to pull through for few months‚ but soon atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the USA on August 6th and 9th respectively. This finally convinced the Japanese Government that they had no choice but to surrender. The

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    Part One     After the Civil War thins in the industrialization changed tremendously. Many machines  replaced the hand labors as to the main meaning to manufacturing‚ increasing the production  capacity. Many investors and bankers supplied many of the huge amounts of money that  business leaders needed to expand their operations.          Part Two    ­ Major Aspects of Industrialization    ­Urbanization: Entrepreneurship involves the identification of opportunities based  on information transferred from sources

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    Cause Of World War II

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    When World War I ended it left behind agression that lead to the start of World War II. There are many reasons that caused World War II started. Some of the main reasons that caused World War II to start where the Treaty of Versailles‚ The Great Depression‚ Japanese Imperialism‚ and the Attack on Pearl Harbor. World War I ended when they signed the Treaty of Versailles on June 28‚ 1919. Because the U.S. senate rejected the Versailles settlement it was very dangerous years that were going to start

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    World War II Racism

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    CONTENTS 1. Characteristics and development of the second world war. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Two . Political‚ economic and social implications of the attack on Pearl Harbour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Three . Decisive Battles in the outcome of World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 April . Create a map with territorial advances of Nazi Germany . . . . . . . .24 May . Bibliography

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    Industrialization after the Civil War The Industrial Revolution was a time for economic‚ and technological growth and development. Although this period had both negative and positive effects on society‚ economy and politics‚ it played an essential role in shaping the way that the world is today. The growth of entrepreneurship and the introduction of inventions such as incandescent light bulb‚ made way for a time of tremendous growth in the United States. The rise of entrepreneurship also made acts

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    The Black Power Movement During and after the days of Jim Crow‚ blacks in the United States were economically and socially oppressed. Blacks still faced lower wages than whites‚ segregation of public amenities and racial discrimination. At this time many groups were created to challenge these injusticces. The Black Power Movement and the Civil Rights movement were similar because they both fought for equal rights and equal treatment for African Americans. However‚ they

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    themselves. It is not uncommon for the world to be swept up in an event‚ which isn’t surprising at all considering everyone is a human being and emotions can overpower common sense or rational thought. We have many colloquial expressions used to describe the human attitude and emotions. Historically‚ America’s civil rights movement was a period from World War Two until the late 1960’s where people decided to banish segregation and help minorities gain equal rights. When we look back at all the events

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    After World War II‚ African Americans demanded changes in American society. African Americans fought in World War II for their country‚ but they returned home to discrimination and inequality. In the late 1940s and 50s American society started to overturn some official discrimination against African Americans. In 1947‚ Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball (891) and in 1948‚ Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces. In 1954‚ the Plessey decision of 1896‚ which created two societies

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    AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS: 1954-1968 “Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off‚ and then being condemned for being a cripple.1” These were the words of Martin Luther King Jr.. For nearly 80 years after being freed from slavery‚ African-Americans

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    The civil rights movement was a popular movement in the 1900’s that’s goal was to acquire equal access to opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship for African Americans. The movement goes back to in the 19th century and it was really raised to attention in the 1950s and 1960s. A few people who played a big part in this movement were‚ but not limited to‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ JFK‚ Lyndon B. Johnson‚ Malcolm X‚ Bob Moses‚ James Chaney‚ and George C. Wallace. These people

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