AP World History Must Know Dates Timeline To 600 B.C.E. 8000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of agriculture 3000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ’s 18th C B.C.E.-Hammurabi’s Code 1500 B.C.E.-Early alphabetic script 1300 B.C.E. - Iron Age 10th-7th C B.C.E. Assyrian Empire 600 B.C.E. - 600 CE 6th century B.C.E. - life of Buddha‚ Confucius‚ Lao Tsu(beginnings of Confucianism‚ Buddhism‚Taosim) 5th C B.C.E. - Greek Golden Age - philosophers. 323 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great 221 B.C.E. - Qin unified
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Aerospace Defence Command. It’s a joint USA - Canada organization that was set up in 1958 as the North American Air Defence Command as a response to the Cold War threat from the Soviet Union. It provides for aerospace warning (for example‚ if enemy missiles or aircraft are headed towards North America) ‚ protection of North American airspace‚ and overall defence. NATO’s original purpose was to
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realm. In The Fog of War‚ John F. Kennedy disproves Thucydides first principle. In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ the last thing Kennedy and his Secretary of Defense‚ Robert McNamara‚ wanted to do was to attack Cuba or go to war with the Soviet Union to gain power or ruling in any sense. They wanted to deal with the frightening presence of the Soviet Union’s extensive nuclear warheads on Cuban soil in the most diplomatic way possible in order to avoid nuclear war. While this was best for the
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my Grandparents Roberta (Copeland) Bradley and James Bradley‚ in order to see the 60s from both a man’s and a woman’s perspective. Before conducting the interview‚ I didn’t know much about the 1960s‚ I knew the bold points like civil rights‚ Cuban missile crisis‚ feminine movement and Vietnam. I learned most of my information through reading the chapters of my history book. Reading the textbook helped me know the background information on which I would be asking the questions‚ also have a timeline
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festival in 1969. We have found a time capsule with a treasure trove of items that seem to remarkably symbolize the 1960’s as a whole. The items found in the capsule consist of: a piece of the Berlin wall‚ an article referencing the end of the Cuban missile crisis‚ another picture of the JFK assassination‚ a protest sign from the 1963 March on Washington‚ and an autographed picture of Neil Armstrong on the moon. In 1961‚ millions of people crossed the Berlin wall escaping from the tyrannical oppression
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Peaceful coexistence with the west as well as to prevent nuclear war. The cuban missile crisis was a 12 day standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviet Union was not happy about U.S ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) placement in Turkey and in the Middle East. Therefore‚ they decided to put their own ICBMs in Cuba‚ just over 100 miles off the coast of Florida.These near two weeks
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DIPLOMA PROGRAMME Teacher Support Material History Internal Assessment k INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE ORGANIZATION For first examinations in 2003 b Diploma Programme HISTORY Internal Assessment Teacher Support Material For first examinations in 2003 International Baccalaureate Organization Buenos Aires Cardiff Geneva New York Singapore Diploma Programme History Internal Assessment Teacher Support Material International Baccalaureate Organization‚ Geneva‚ CH-1218‚ Switzerland
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Gingerland Secondary School (School Code: 130005) CXC Caribbean History School Based Assessment (SBA) Project 2012-2013 (35 marks) Caribbean History SBA Research Question: What evidence is there to show that United States-Cuban relations negatively affected Cuba’s political‚ economic and social development from 1898 to 1965? Format of the History SBA Project 1. Table of Contents (This is the last thing you must do for your SBA project‚ therefore your pages must be correctly numbered
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Legal Base US-Cuba Business History The well-known Unites States (US) embargo against Cuba is generally related to the 1960 when the Cuban government under Fidel’s Castro wake‚ seized private land‚ privates companies and taxed the US products in excess. But this harsh relation dates back from 1898 when‚ after the Spanish-American war‚ Spain cede the Puerto Rico‚ Guam and Cuba territories to the US. The US granted Cuba its independence with the condition that it could intervene in the country
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paranoia‚ and the fear of mutual destruction‚ it is vital that the viewer has an understanding of Cold War culture. Tension is a key point in this movie. It has been described as “the same tension that gripped the nation during the days of the Cuban Missile
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