Historians have different opinions on how the Civil War impacted the nation’s industrialization: positively or negatively. During the war‚ manufacturing increased greatly and the number of factories in the North doubled. However‚ men were also being shipped off to both armies to fight‚ leaving empty spaces in the factories‚ which historians believe hurt industrialization. The demand for weapons and supplies during the Civil War was high and caused both the Union and the Confederacy
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The aftermath of the Vietnam War had taken a severe toll on Vietnamese farmland‚ industry‚ and infrastructure due to the result of sustained American bombing missions. In the north‚ 29 of the 30 provincial capitals had sustained heavy bombing damage. One third of them almost destroyed. In the south‚ the economy had been propped up with United States aid and investment‚ but had little developments. In terms of economic aspects‚ about a million Vietnamese were relocated to previously uncultivated land
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The War Influence The cold war was being battled from 1947 through 1991. The cold war was a state of political and military tensions after WW2 between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. They called it the cold war because there was no long scale fighting directly between the two sides‚ as well as the weather conditions being very cold and ruff. The Soviets can be blamed and most responsible for the Cold War. Most of the responsibility for the war went towards the Soviet
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The Cold War was a constant looming threat of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States and the Soviet Union held a significant amount of power‚ enabling each to reach superpower status. Although‚ the two became rivals through a mutual distrust and constant competition against one another for more power. Uniquely‚ following World War II‚ Germany was left defeated and Britain and France were weak and exhausted. After Germany surrendered‚ the country was split into
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of the Pearl Harbor bombing victims by donating a total of $65‚200 that he earned from a fight. Within a period of fewer than three months after the donation‚ he donated $45‚882 that he had also earned from a fight to the Army Relief Fund. When the war was over‚ Louis was determined to retire from professional boxing having to save enough money in the bank and with his dignity still high. However‚ he lost both. The reason behind this was that Louis overlooked the enlarged role of the government. Further
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Introduction In the years that followed the end of the American Civil War‚ and more than a hundred years after the first industrial revolution which was centered around textiles‚ the economy of the United States grew considerably as the country entered in its second phase of Industrial Revolution. The visual map of the United States has therefor been transformed by unprecedented urbanization as more and more people started to emigrated from the countryside to the cities. Also the new territories
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The Civil war started in 1861 because of conflict between the North and the South. The Southern states broke away from the United States of America and made the Confederate States of America because they wanted to have slaves and have more freedom. The war lasted for four years between the Union and the Confederacy. Many different people were affected by this war. Some people that were affected include women‚ children‚ and African-Americans. Before the war‚ women didn’t have a lot of rights. During
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Following the Revolutionary War‚ the American colonies were faced with uncertainty in their newfound independence. Now free from British rule‚ the people of colonial America wanted to avoid any form of government for fear that it would revert them back to the past. This left the founding fathers with an extremely difficult task. How do you govern a person who wants to govern themselves? Government is necessary‚ after all‚ for the war had left the colonies in extreme debt‚ requiring taxation that
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Religion and the Cold War Between 1910 and 1969 church membership in the United States increased from including 43% of the population to 69%. During these decades the United States faced many issues a whole‚ most notably the Cold War. In the chapter four of the Culture of the Cold War‚ Stephen J. Townsend portrays the significance Communism played in the incredibly fast spread of religion during the Cold War‚ creating a country united through belief in a higher power. This unity was shown through
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The Cold War The cold War began after World War II. It started in 1947 and ended in 1991. The cold war basically was an argument between US‚ Soviet Union‚ Germany‚ china‚ and Afghanistan. The Cold War was a contest between the USA and the Soviet Union. It led to thousands of nuclear weapons‚ two universal ideologies in conflict‚ and two different self-images‚ the United States championing a world made safe for democracy. Its opponent‚ the Soviet Union advocated world Communism. The United States
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