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    Vietnam war protests and the antiwar music of the 1960’s Rachel Allison AP us history due 12/12/14     The Vietnam War had a huge impact on the American people that will not soon  be forgotten. During this period of time America was facing many serious challenges all  at once. Americans were at war fighting for freedom and democracy because of the fear  of the domino effect; a theory that a communist victory in one country would lead to a  chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring countries

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    The Punic Wars led to the rise of Roman Empire and the decline of the Carthaginian Empire‚ a once advanced and wealthy empire. The three wars led to annihilation of Carthage and resulted in all remaining citizens to be forced into slavery. On the other hand‚ Rome was also able to gain control of both Corsica and Sardinia and eventually become the dominant power in the Mediterranean Region. The first Punic War started when Messana asked for the Romans to aid them in preventing the Carthaginians in

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    ceiling in pre-modern China‚ and with overpopulation a problem comes when they don’t have enough food for everyone. But you can get out of it by increasing the productivity and this leads to industrialization. During the 1780‚ 90 around the 1800 the first famines arrived and in the 1780’s the environment went crazy and the conditions were very bad at that time. TERMS TO KNOW * Lay-Osborn Flotilla * Wengxiang * Robert Hart + Imperial Maritime Customs * Prince Gong * Tongzhi *

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    The second Punic war was between Rome and Carthage; the struggle of Carthage to remain the power house in the western Mediterranean was the major cause of the war. It took place between 218 to 201 B.C. and during his period‚ cartage lost Spain and the Islands in Italy to Rome‚ which it was dominating prior to the second Punic war. Rome became vigilant because the Carthage was expanding her territory in the Spanish peninsula; Rome could not stand the chance to lose her grip on power. The Carthaginian

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    spread of education. Prior to the Opium Wars‚ imperial China lacked the proper ideology and infrastructure needed to successfully compete with the Western world‚ resulting in the “Century of Humiliation”‚ or the period of intervention and imperialism by foreign powers. Consequently‚ the imperial Qing court made numerous reforms in industry and education through the Self-Strengthening Movement to contend with the foreign powers and regain sovereignty. The Opium Wars‚ and the resulting Self-Strengthening

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    were there three Opium Wars in China during the 19th century? The Opium Wars were a series of three wars between the Chinese and the British; primarily fought in regard to the illegal trade of opium in China during the 19th century. They manifested the conflicting natures of both nations and demonstrated China’s misconceptions of its own superiority. The Opium Wars resulted in the humiliating defeat of the Chinese to a country they considered to be "barbarians". There were many problems with

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    Discussion Forum Question Unit 5 What were the outcomes of the second Punic War? The second Punic war was caused by the growing rivalry between the two great powers that were struggling for supremacy in the western Mediterranean (Morey‚ W.C.‚ 1901). In the Second Punic War‚ the great Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy and scored great victories at Lake Trasimene and Cannae before his eventual defeat at the hands of Rome’s Scipio Africanus in 202 B.C. which left Rome in control of the western

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    their stories. During what is generally referred to as the “post-modern” literary movement‚ which is usually considered to be from after the Second World War until present day‚ an obvious subject is the Vietnam War. There have been many different interpretations of this event through the years. Many of the big writers who covered the Vietnam War had different ways of telling the story but the most successful ones told the stories subjectively rather than objectively. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They

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    The Vietnam War Vietnam is a small country to the south of China (’Vietnamese’ means "non-Chinese people of the south"). In 111 BC‚ Vietnam became part of the Chinese Empire. For the next thousand years Vietnam struggled to gain its independence from its much larger neighbour. This was achieved in 938 AD. The long period of Chinese rule had left its mark on Vietnam. The language‚ religion‚ architecture‚ system of government and most other aspects of Vietnamese life‚ reflected the influence of the

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    The Opium War in the year 1839 to 1856 changed China’s trade policy with other countries especially with the British. The Opium War was a major turning point for China affecting a great number of their population of 400 million. China changed from being self-sufficient to being forced to sign the Nanking and Tientsin treaties with the British and the French. Due to China’s overconfidence and unwelcome attitude toward foreigners and opium‚ it caused the British to declare the Opium War against China

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