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    this really did was unintentionally create tension that eventually started the Cold War. During this time though‚ Chinese Communists had managed to take control of the mainland and the Soviet Union managed to create their own nuclear bombs. In response‚ NATO was formed and Truman gave word to start work on a more powerful bomb called the hydrogen bomb‚ which would hopefully keep their firepower and arms at more of an advantage to stay on top of the Soviet Union. Soviet China and North Korea then started

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    the following question. "How did the industrial revolution impact westward expansion". Without the industrial revolution impact on westward expansion we would not have the America we see today. The industrial revolution took place between 1760 and 1840 around the world. The westward expansion took place from 1807 to 1912. Without the industrial revolution‚ westward expansion would have failed. Without the westward expansion America would be very different today but how did this come about. Firstly

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    Hitler’s control. Many Brits thought of him as “the only man we have for this hour”. Churchill simplified planning and decision-making when he was in office. With a very energetic and strong-willed nature‚ Winston was at times difficult to work with. He did‚ however‚ use words as weapons‚ kept alliances strong between countries‚ and fought against communism. He maintained positivity and hope by giving presidential talks over the radio. The Lend-Lease was a program created by Churchill to convince President

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    are willing to learn from their mistakes‚ for the sake that they will be able to move on forward from what they learned. The North and the south are like a teacher and student‚ the North can teach the South as a student how lead the reconstruction era for it to become successful however‚ its up to the South as the student to see what they think is best. As so the South did act foolish and led to many missed out opportunities for its lands to become successful with allowing the blacks to live as an

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    materialistic time‚ and though it is often seen as a great economic boom for the US‚ by the end of the decade the middle class was disappearing and 40% of people were impoverished. Many people believe Black Tuesday‚ the stock market crash of 1929‚ lead to the great depression‚ but it was actually many different things throughout the 1920s. Following the end of WWI‚ America experienced an economic boom. The auto-industry was on the rise during this time. With the invention of the assembly line‚ cars

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    Therefore‚ from Stalin’s perspective‚ America was uninvolved and uncommitted. In a telegram exchange between Stalin and Roosevelt‚ more information on how Stalin truly felt was shown. Stalin accused Roosevelt of having an agreement with the Germans‚ which was to agree on opening the Western front. Roosevelt claims that Stalin was wrong and his informers had misrepresentations of his actions. This gives more closure on why the United States and the Soviet Union became

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    It was our Manifest Destiny to expand our empire. In the United States‚ settlers across the board believed they were destined to expand across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Thomas Jefferson‚ our third president‚ predicted that the nation’s future depended on its westward expansion. According to the online OpenStax textbook‚ section 11.1‚ subsection: Lewis and Clark‚ it states‚ “Many Americans also dreamed of finding a Northwest Passage and opening the Pacific to American commerce

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    Audrey Hepburn March 4‚ 2013 Mr. Miller AP U.S. History South vs. North 1800-1850 FRQ: In spite of sharing a country‚ the Northern and Southern areas of America had many differences and distinctions‚ which ended up dividing the nation. During the first part of the 1800’s the North and the South grew in different ways. In the North‚ cities were centers of wealth and manufacturing. There were many skilled workers. In the South there was not much manufacturing. There were not many skilled workers

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    Analyze the effects of political compromise in reducing sectional tension in the period 1820-1861. During the period of 1820-1861 the north and south debated on issues that dealt with slavery and unbalance power‚ in order to reduce sectional tension between these two states‚ the Missouri Compromise‚ Compromise of 1850‚ and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were proposed. The North and South both had opposite opinions about slavery‚ The South favored slavery because of there agricultural based economy

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    Gulsah Sarpoglu Ms. Nicola Robinson English 12 March 2015 How did Mao Zedong control and lead millions even though his policies failed and killed millions? Mao Zedong was the leader‚ spokesperson and symbol of the Communist revolution in China. He is qualified as the greatest mass murderer in world history‚ killing 45 million in four years. Anyone who opposed him was punished by execution‚ imprisonment or forced famine but anyhow his authority was rarely questioned. Even today he is is treated as

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