declares war on Russia. Germany declares war on Russia. Two days later Germany declares war on France. Later‚ Great Britain declares war on Germany. Alliances were formed‚ Germany and Austria-Hungary were known as the Central Powers. On the other side‚ United states‚ Great Britain‚ France‚ and Russia were known as the Allied powers. Japan joined the allies‚ and Italy later joined. ( page 411) The Great War created new weapon inventions like poison gas‚ machine guns‚ tanks‚ and submarines. (page 414) Opposing
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Secondly‚ the Second World War had done no damage to the American economy‚ but rather brought it back from the dead and made it better than it ever was. Before WWII‚ the United States was struggling through the Great Depression‚ the single most devastating economic crisis in the history of the world. Millions of Americans were unemployed‚ resulting in families becoming homeless and starving‚ with many dying due to the conditions they were forced to live in. When the Second World War began‚ it was
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PROCESS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION IN INDIA Meaning of Industrialization The term "industry" refers mainly to manufacturing activity. Agriculture‚ mining‚ and most other services are excluded from it. The term "industrialization” literally means the growth of manufacturing industry. It is thus a part of the much broader process of economic development which involves the raising of standard of living‚ through a steady increase in the efficiency of factors of production. India is a developing country
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The Second World War greatly impacted the lives and everyday roles of Australian women from 1939 onwards. Women’s roles changed greatly and this had an impact on how society saw women in the workforce. During the war‚ women were encouraged to get a job as this was considered joining in on the war effort. Women were able to fill positions they had not been allowed to apply for‚ as they were previously thought to be male jobs. During the war‚ there was a major increase the amount of women in the workforce
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There were many social‚political and economical factors that came from the second industrial revolution. Many of these factors that became or helped shape the second industrial revolution include things such as inventions monopolies immigration and the formation of labor unions and politics of the gilded age. The second industrial revolution brought us many inventions that helped shape america and make it what it is today. Some of the inventions that came from the industrial revolution in fact turned
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were local priests but not members of the aristocracy. The highest church officials lived in palaces and owned lots of land which was a major source of wealth. These church leaders also had a “great deal of power to shape the political events of the day”. They were referred to as the “first estate”. The “second estate” was a hereditary nobility which included the royal family (king and queen at the top) and the lesser nobles who together‚ owned most of the nation’s land. Since most of the men and women
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Industrialization of the United States Industrialization of the United States The history of the United States of America had always been one of progress. Though the socio-political realm of the history of the nation is partially enshrouded by black veil of struggles‚ conflicts‚ and eventual changes‚ the economic sphere of the American history still conveys about the significant progresses the country has been making since the inception of the process of industrialization. It is noteworthy that
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April 2013 Shoeless Joe and Nostalgia Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball by Judge Landis and the fight to have him reinstated still rages on. W.P. Kinsella‚ author of New York Times Best Selling Novel‚ Shoeless Joe‚ expresses his feelings about a time in history when baseball was heart-pounding and thrilling to go and watch Joseph Jefferson Jackson play ball. In Kinsella’s heartwarming story he displays many types of rhetorical devices such as‚ nostalgia; a desire to return in thought
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The social gospel movement was a reform movement that was emerged among Protestant Christians to improve the economic‚ moral and social conditions of the urban working class. One prominent leader of the social gospel movement was a New York City pastor and theologian called Walter Rauschenbusch. Protestant leaders followed Rauschenbusch’s idea that social problems were actually just moral problems on a large scale‚ and they were convinced that many social issues could be cured by what they called
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New Zealand’s Involvement in the Second World War After seeing action in World War I‚ New Zealand would once again rush to the aid of Britain‚ their Mother Country‚ at the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Britain’s strategy of appeasement failed to stop Nazi Germany’s military ambitions‚ and when the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939‚ the British did not hesitate to declare war against Germany. As a British dominion‚ New Zealand stood behind the Mother Country and contributed to its war
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