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    establishment of United States. There is another event which tremendously influenced U.S‚ World War 1. After the war‚ U.S rises as the one of the dominant nations in the world. When World War 1 had broken out in 1914‚ the president of United States of America‚ Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation of neutrality and recommended the public to be neutral in their actions and thoughts. One of Wilson’s campaign slogan was “He kept us out of war”‚ which represented the Americans’ attitude toward the war and was

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    It’s not‚ the war was not the end but the beginning of everything. World War I‚ which lasted from 1914 to 1918‚ was one of the greatest wars and the first modern war in the world. This world war I became the gateway to new things. From the politicalsocial and economic fields. This war not only inflicts tremendous damage but also costs a lot and affects the world order afterwards. World War I brought down the four greatest empires in Europe without a trace. No more kingdom‚ the state system began

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    The 20th century in United States was a period many different changes. There were many events that helped the country to grow in many aspects but there were other events that had a negative impact in the world such as World War I and World War II. Even though United States was affected by these Wars and many civilians died‚ this country found ways to prevent a big decline in society. In this essay I will be focus on the big society‚ political and economic changes during the beginning f the 20th century

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    some difficult decisions. Some of them‚ which caused wars and a lot of hate towards the British‚ and some that strictly affected the British colonies‚ which caused a lot of issues. The Seven Years war had a strong effect on the British Empire because it put the British in a lot of debt and they needed a way to get out of debt‚ which was one of the major consequences of the American Revolution. With the corruption that followed after the Seven Year war with the empire and

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    The Cold War started after WW2. Harry S. Truman showed off all of his nuclear weapons and all of the weapons that were amazing at the time. Stalin was offended and sent in spies to steal the American’s ideas. After that happened‚ Stalin made his own weapons. Stalin wanted to be better so he was making twice the power and amount of nuclear bombs. Harry didn’t really like Stalin because of Stalin’s Communist ideas and Truman wanted to contain communism but Stalin wasn’t going to let that

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    communist. George Kennan’s Containment was a component of the Cold War‚ it was a response to many moves from the Soviet Union to expand the Communist community. The United States feared the takeover of Greece would threaten the stability of Italy‚ France‚ and the Middle East. The Truman Doctrine was also a big plan made by President Harry Truman. This plan was a counter act to the Soviet Union’s plan of expansion during the Cold War. The British government announced that it could no longer furnish

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    impactful mistakes made in history that affected not only the United States of America‚ but the world as well was the Great Depression. The Great Depression (1929-1939) was the result of multiple economic impotencies; once these weaknesses accumulated‚ unemployment rates drastically increased‚ the amount of homeless citizens increased‚

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    points was created after the first world war to prevent a repetition. This organization was created to be able to discuss international conflicts without things getting out of hand. Although the League of Nations included many promising countries‚ the one country who refused to join was the United States. The League of Nations effectively prevented war up until the year of 1936‚ when Italy attacked Ethiopia. The first decade immediately following the first world war the league of nations was effective

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    Lab 4: Climate Variables and the Change in Western United States’ Levels Abstract: The purpose of the lab was to determine the outcome of the daily time steps from 1958-2062 of the Western United States and compare them. That was done by using three factors in three different time periods; was placed in a global change model simulation of complex models and were then compared to determine the outcome of the experiment. What all these graphs meant was that the overall Ocean Mixed-Layer Temperature

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    directly influenced by all the pressures that surrounded Kennedy and‚ thankfully‚ prevented the cold war from escalating. Kennedy had to utilize all the hard lessons provided from the first and second World Wars in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes‚ to instead make a strong and good decision as leader of our country. Some of the pressures that Kennedy was under were; to first avoid engaging in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union and the second was to uphold American morals. With all this weight

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