The Civil War was utterly devastating. There are more American casualties resulting from that war than any war combined. The effects of the war still resonate today‚ including racism. A question that historians‚ Americans‚ and the President of the United States have pondered is: could the Civil War been avoided? Writer and historian James McGregor Burns argued that with the right leadership‚ the Civil War was avoidable. I am in agreement with Burns‚ with the potential help of better political leaders
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World War II was a war fought between the Axis and the Allies‚ beginning with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany and Japan. During the Second World War many battles were fought‚ but all had a consequence. Some consequences still last till this day in the year 2017. Although most of them have died down throughout the years‚ several never left. Each factor in the war had a tremendous impact on the future and most consequences could have been stopped. Over 60 million
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Could Hitler have been stopped? Here are three ways how Hitler could have been stopped like childhood dream ruined‚ being killed in World war one‚ and another country stopping the holocaust. During World war one a British soldier saw a wounded Hitler‚ and refused to shoot him because he said: “I can’t shoot a wounded man.” If the man shoots twenty-year-old Hitler this world would have been a different place. When Hitler a young boy he wanted to be an artist‚ but the academy that he went to rejected
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History Mrs. Drews 09/20/2011 Could the Cold War have ever been prevented? Cold war was a war without any real killings or battles. It continued roughly through 1946 to 1991 between USA and USSR. Here‚ I would like to discuss about could the Cold War ever been prevented. Due to the ideological differences resurface; the huge difference between the aims of USA and USSR; the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan. Firstly‚ It is agreeable to a certain extent that the Cold War was due to the ideological
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topic‚ and is highly discussed and researched by scholars and the general public. The nuclear bombings are not just a small part in military history‚ but a lesson in reality and the destruction possible of man to achieve their goals; these bombings have raised a whole host of ethical issues and concerns‚ which must be taken into consideration. There are many reasons why the actions taken by the United States and specifically President Truman to drop the A-Bomb on Hiroshima were absolutely unnecessary
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Could the Nazi takeover of the German state and national consolidation of power have been prevented? Who could have prevented it‚ and what would they have needed to do? If a Nazi dictatorship could have been prevented‚ what was the most likely alternative outcome? The rise in power of Hitler in January 30‚ 1933 did not come through a revolutionary way‚ but through lies and manipulations that eventually secured Hitler his election in a political office. Having already attempted to take
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learn that they could have‚ in no way‚ been avoided. However‚ after reading Ellis’s essay‚ The Collaborators‚ we can come to assume that this same idea is present toward the American Revolution. There are so many factors that are said to have caused it‚ that it’s hard to determine what never needed to happen. Because of the French and Indian War‚ the British were suffering from debt. They needed the find a way out; therefore‚ new laws and acts were established. If the British would have treated the colonists
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According to‚ "This Apple Could Have Been Saved‚" by Kristen Lewis‚ with reporting by Adee Braun‚ and "How To Reduce Your Food Waste‚" many different types of food in America are wasted every day‚ but there are ways to reduce the waste. Some people have been aware of how much food is being wasted each day‚ but this situation is growing out of control and needs to be put to an end. The first way that food gets wasted‚ is that many American’s are just lazy and buy too much food that we aren’t even
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The United States has been through so much. Ever since English settlers have went across the seas to see the New World something was always coming up. We have dealt with how to survive and the British trying to take over our country and controlling everything we do. We finally decided that it was our time to tell the British to stop and we were ready to fight back. It was our time to show we know how to run a country on our own. The American Revolution was an outburst between America and Britain
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Ever since the day the South surrendered to the North in May of 1865‚ Americans have argued on why the South lost. Others argued that the South never had chance to win the war‚ yet more than half a million people were killed‚ homes were lost and destroyed and families were torn apart. There are many theories to explain this‚ many arguing that the South never had a chance to win the Civil War to begin with‚ for the North out numbered and had better resources than the South at almost every point‚ militarily
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