Why were the Japanese able to defeat the British in the war for Malaya and Singapore in 1942? The Japanese defeated the British in the war for Malaya and Singapore for a number of reasons. The British underestimated the Japanese and thought that Singapore was an impregnable fortress‚ meaning that they believed that Singapore was a country that could not be conquered. Therefore‚ they did not put much effort in trying to project Singapore. In this essay I will be comparing the Japanese and British
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people questioning what his intention really was. Because the above document were made on the campaign trail for presidency‚ I think it was a needed right-time strategy for Abraham Lincoln to play polictics. By twisting the words in his public speech‚ he made a bet in the belief that he might satisfy both sides: abolitionists and people who did not support racial equality and recruit as many votes as possible so that he could win the election.
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American Greatness in the Revolutionary War Battle of Lexington and Concord The Battle of Lexington and Concord took place on the 18th of April‚ 1775. British plans were discovered to send 700 soldiers to Concord‚ a town outside of Boston. Their plans were to destroy guns and ammunition that were being stored in the town. They were also planning to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock‚ who were two of the leaders of the patriot movement. The Americans were warned of the assault of the British
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people in war were the soldiers‚ the domestic help‚ or the General’s. They had the most dangerous jobs. If the General’s didn’t give the right directions‚ he could lose an army‚ if the soldiers took one false step and had gotten wounded‚ they could die‚ and if a soldier had a chance of survival and the domestic help didn’t aid him in a mannerly amount of time‚ they could be put to blame for the death of the soldier. But what about the spies‚ where do they have a role in this? They were the ones who
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This book is about the Revolutionary War and what led up to it. The main reason the war started was because of many of the acts that Great Britain had passed on to the colonies. The main acts that angered the colonists were the Stamp Act‚ The Sugar Act‚ The Townshend revenue Act‚ The Currency Act‚ The Tea Act‚ and the Intolerable Acts. All of these were either taxing the colonists and making the give more money to Britain for its debt or involved Britain taking away our basic rights and not treating
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The Trojan War is believed to have been a war fought between the Trojans and Greeks in around 1250 BC‚ but there is a level of uncertainty over if a war actually did occur. There are a number of sources providing evidence that reveal the probable causes and likelihood of the Trojan War as a historical event. These sources include ancient epics such as Homer’s Iliad‚ the Cypria‚ historical tablets such as the Hittite records and more archaeological findings from excavations. Through archaeological
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The world has had many tragic events‚ such as World War I and World War II. Both wars have lead to disturbing deaths‚ economic‚ and treaties broken between countries. A couple major disasters that were caused by WWI was the Great Depression‚ when the stock market crashed in 1929‚ and the cost of using U.S military services and equipment‚ spending thirty-two billion dollars. WWII led to unemployment‚ food shortages‚ and strikes. Even though the unemployment rate dropped from twenty-five percent to
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INTRODUCTION Situation Analysis Some of humanity’s greatest achievements were made possible by the bold imaginations of engineers. If not for the creativity and intellectual daring of engineers‚ there would be no feats such as the pyramids in Egypt‚ the Brooklyn Bridge or piloted spaceflight. (Stark‚ 2009) Increasingly‚ engineering prowess is seen as a key to the progress of civilization. Engineering has never mattered more. The explosion of new information technologies‚ robotics‚ biotechnology
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C. Why was it revolutionary? The Industrial revolution was revolutionary since it established and renovated the US Economy. Although at first workers were given hazardous jobs for low wages‚ with the consistent flow of new inventions‚ workers were provided with more freedom and an increase in pay. New manufacturing processes were less hazardous‚ such as the automation and factories‚ which reduced child labor and consequently led to lower birth rates since children weren’t used to provide money
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1918 saw the disciplined‚ robust forces of the Central Powers (who consisted of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria) lose to the Allies (Great Britain‚ France‚ Belgium‚ Italy‚ Russia up to 1917‚ and USA in 1917) in a war that would become known as the First World War. Both sides were fairly evenly matched even though the Allies had dispatched almost double the amount of men than the Central Powers’ meagre 21 million. This was because‚ although the Allies had the larger force number-wise
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