Time Period 8 Study Guide 1. The economic growth following World War II was caused primarily by the efforts of the president and the federal government in response to fears about another Great Depression as 1946-1947 put America into a postwar recession. The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944‚ otherwise known as the GI Bill of Rights‚ allowed the 15 million veterans returning from the war to continue their education through government grants. The federal government also allowed veterans over $16
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After World War 1 a time known as the Interwar period occurred‚ and from 1918 to 1939 the world saw unprecedented revolution as many powerful leaders made their way into the public arena. Historic figures such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ Adolf Hitler‚ Benito Mussolini‚ Joseph Stalin‚ Ataturk‚ Mahatma Gandhi‚ and Ibn Saud all made their voices heard throughout the world. Some of these leaders had benevolent intentions‚ and others were certainly heinous to the core‚ however the visions all these
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How did the Sino Japanese war weaken the KMT? The second Sino-Japanese War weakened the inner mechanisms of the KMT so far that by the time 1945 came around it was strategically disadvantaged and vulnerable to the CCP. The Sino-Japanese War was a war between the Japan and China this started from July 7th 1937 – September 9th 1945. This led to a full-blown war‚ japan then ended the war by surrendering. When Japan attacked china people’s army and KMT they decided to discard their bad blood and that
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marked the beginning of the Crimean Crisis. The Crimea‚ a small Peninsula near the Black sea‚ chose to succeed from the Ukraine and was annexed by Russia. The Crimean parliament displayed a near total support for joining the Federation of Russia‚ with approximately 97% of voters backing the motion.1 The Crimea has been apart of the Ukraine since 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union‚ yet the population continues to display strong loyalist ideals towards Russia. The current Russian-loyalist
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Timeline key events in the Crimean War include: 1851-53 France challenged Russia’s position as custodian of Christian holy places within the Ottoman Empire; it sought special considerations for Latin Christian churches from the Ottoman Turks; these were granted (1852) and the Russians‚ who favoured Greek Orthodox Christians‚ were roused to action. 1853 Russian Tsar Nicholas I delivered an ultimatum to the Turkish government in May. The Russian demands were refused and in July its forces
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American Civil War from 1861-1865 was the bloodiest conflict in American history. One such person who wrote on slavery‚ southern society‚ and the Civil War was Karl Marx. Marx was mostly known for his critical writings on capitalism and European society‚ but the unique situations in the New World captured his attention. For Marx‚ the way in which the world was organized was strictly based upon economic factors and conditions. He would argue that the focus of the American Civil War should be on economic
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time there was much protest regarding the Vietnam war. On March 26‚ 1966‚ over 200‚000 people gathered worldwide to protest the Vietnam war. People were unhappy about the amount of lives lost with so little progress. Also the fact that the people that were being sent into war were average‚ everyday people because of the draft made the war that much more hated. The Vietnam War was also having a negative effect on the economy because funding the war caused much inflation and was just another reason
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The Crimean war played a huge factor in the selling of Alaska to the US. First of all‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ an empire that controlled many parts of the middle east except for Persia‚ gradually disintegrated after a largely prosperous and cultural time. Egypt and parts of the Balkans were slowly declaring independence from the Ottomans. Russia saw this disintegration time as an opportunity to advance its territory southward. However‚ the British saw this expansion as a threat‚ and if Russia took over
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The Vietnam War had long lasting‚ disruptive effects on everyone involved whether it was the United States or Vietnam. Social tensions‚ more specifically the media‚ arose that affected the United States throughout the beginning and ending of the war‚ which was 1964 to 1975.Many things were brought into question during the war like why the war being fought‚ who is in charge of the war‚ and how much money was being invested in the war. The Vietnam War was a consecutive battle against communism. For
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Wars have been fought since the beginnings of humanity to settle disputes‚ and the core concepts of warfare has not changed for thousands of years. Unfortunately‚ all wars come with a devastating cost the world must pay - the loss of many lives‚ the destruction of environment‚ and a deep wound in society which would take years to stitch back to unity. Between 1955 and 1975‚ the United States participated in the Vietnam War in order to prevent the spreading of Communism by the Vietcong from North
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