The Industrial Revolution‚ 1760-1850 The Industrial Revolution transformed human life by changing methods of manufacturing‚ the way people made a living‚ and the products available to them. The Nature of the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution took place in England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was made up of four sets of changes: first‚ the introduction of new technology; second‚ the use of new mineral sources of energy; third‚ a concentration of workers in factories;
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Anna Verlinden/ Malik Batiste September 15‚ 2013 Period 1 AP Lang/Comp John F. Kennedy “Cuban Missile Crisis” Summary/ Reader Response: On October 22‚ 1962 John F. Kennedy delivered a speech that refers to the tensions set between the nations of the Soviet Union and the U.S. regarding the Cold War. The Soviet Union had stationed nuclear weapons on the island of Cuba so that they can launch any missile to almost any part of the western hemisphere that they desired. Kennedy‚ as president of
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The Speech Compared to the Address For starters‚ the Cuban Missile Crisis is different from the speech‚ for he is making the crisis known to the country. Another difference is that The Pursuit of Disarmament was made after the Cuban Missile Crisis. However‚ there were some similarities. In both speeches Kennedy is establishing a general sense of peace. Furthermore‚ he is trying to make the seriousness of both problems known by explaining the most likely outcomes of each. Finally‚ he says what needs
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exiles to join their new “26th of July Movement” (MR-26-7’s). By November of 1956‚ the new regime was ready for action and boarded a tiny yacht‚ Granma‚ heading towards Cuba and the revolution. Battle after battle Batista was unable to thwart the strength of the new movement and their guerrilla tactics. The revolution grew in size and their words were published around the world. Quickly‚ rebel fighters began staging attacks on Batista – nearly succeeding at an assassination attempt. In 1958‚ Batista
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Who was to blame for the Cuban missile crisis? The U.S had part of this crisis as they overreacted to the fact that the U.S.S.R was importing missiles into Cuba. They made Cuba tense because they tried to invade Cuba twice. The Cubans needed and help and the U.S.S.R were there to help. If the U.S didn’t try to invade Cuba then it wouldn’t cause so much tension thus the crisis not happening. Also if they haven’t set up a base in Turkey then this wouldn’t have led the Russians to put missiles in
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In the chapter four Cuban Missile Crisis: A Second Cut of the book “Essence of Decision by Allison and Zelikow‚ it’s the analyzation of what happen during the Cuban Missile Crisis to have knowledge of the government behavior. Allison analyzed the Cuban Missile crisis by categorizing them into three events: 1) The deployment of Soviet offensive missiles in Cuba; 2) The imposition of a US; and 3) the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. In the first place‚ one the reasons why the Soviet Union
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Identifications 1.The Haitian Revolution: In 1791‚ the Haitian Revolution began. The slaves‚ who wanted revenge and freedom‚ revolted and burned plantations and executed Frenchmen. The people in Cuba knew of this happening and the “fear of the black” developed. The non-blacks did not want anything similar to the Haitian Revolution to start in Cuba. While innumerable slave ships came in from Africa‚ the citizens of Cuba became more and more afraid of a violent revolution. While there were elite whites
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Executive Committee in the Cuban missile crisis took place in the presence of several constraints. What were those constraints? The executive committee was also constrained by limited information To be sure‚ it was known that offensive missiles were being placed in Cuba‚ but the full extent of the Soviet place and the timetable were unknown. The biggest constraint was time. Every day the Soviets were permitted to complete 3. In what ways did the constraints in the Cuban missile crisis influence
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Question 3 Discuss the relationship between the Scientific Revolution‚ the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. What do they have in common? How did they affect each other? The seventeenth century marked the beginnings of the scientific revolution in which scientists began to question the existence of the world and humanity as it was explained by church from a religious standpoint. Scientific inquiry and experimentation resulted in the development of a new way of thinking and looking at the
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President of the USA responded with a compromise to both withdraw their explosives from the nuclear sites. This source is a cartoon‚ Illingworth is using it to portray the Cuban missile crisis as a victory for the USA. It was published just days after the agreement was made to withdraw their weapons‚ and now that the Cuban missile crisis was out of the worst‚ there still wasn’t guaranteed. The cartoon shows Kennedy as the person that has succeeded his aims‚ this may be because they had forced the
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