elected as president of the United States in 1981. A plan started in 1982‚ an idea was released to have parts of the CIA to help the Afghans in beating the Soviets in the Iraq war in supplying them with goods and training. It is known that in 1984 a director of the US CIA wanted Afghans to learn to strike missiles and learn war tactics to fight against the soviets. They wanted to this be a covert operation‚ they didn’t want any other countries to know that the U.S. was helping Iraq. Reagan wanted
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be the era of the Cold War. The Cold War‚ known as the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ each known during this time as the "super powers". This conflict consisted of the differing attitudes on the ideological‚ political‚ and military interests of these two states and their allies‚ exte nded around the globe. A common political debate covers the issue of who‚ if anyone won the Cold War. Many believe the United States won the Cold War since (it) had resulted in the ultimate
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Reconstruction—laws that were alien‚ diametrically opposed to the views held by the Old South‚
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Reconstruction Reconstruction was a period of time between 1865 and 1877‚ which was very complex and controversial. It refers to the actual rebuilding of the south physically‚ economically and politically from the damage of the Civil War. It was an effort to rebuild southern states and also to restore the Union. During this time period‚ the federal government passed a series of laws‚ acts and amendments to bring change. Many of these amendments guaranteed the equal rights to African-Americans
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The United States won the Cold War due to its military‚ economic‚ and political impact. The United States won the Cold War because of the military growth and impact during the Kennedy Administration‚ the economic success of the space race‚ and the political achievements under the Nixon Administration. To begin with‚ the Kennedy Administration’s impact with the policy of Flexible Response was important in the Cold War and established the U.S. as the military superpower it is today. Kennedy’s secretary
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The question of whether the Civil War was an ’irrepressible’ or a ’repressible’ conflict has been a central issue of debate. Causes of the war have been variously identified as: 1) conflict over slavery 2) states rights and nationalism 3) differences between an industrial North and an agricultural South 4) the mistakes of blundering politicians and extremists (the ’repressible conflict’ argument) 5) a combination of several different factors‚ with chance and circumstance playing their part.
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In the lead up to the Civil War tensions between the North and the South had risen to extreme levels. This was due to the constant arguments about states rights versus the powers of the federal government‚ a big factor being slavery. Although‚ not starting out as a war for freedom‚ with Abraham Lincoln’s election the South felt as though it was an attack on their society as a whole. Four months later a majority of the southern states seceded from the Union creating the Confederacy. However‚ the Union
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World War Two (WWII) was one of the largest and most costly wars of all time. It was the war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 and resulted in approximately 60 million dead within a remarkable and devastating six-year span. The technological advancement such as rocketry‚ military weaponry‚ and medicine are only some of the many inventions created during WWII and Germany that are taken for granted today. With the aid of technology‚ the stakes of victory by Nazi Germany were incredibly high and therefore
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into the Civil War. The North and South had too many hostilities to account for. Socially‚ the North and the South could not stand what the other would do or say with anything. Politically‚ the government was completely divided and undecided. And economically‚ the South began to prosper as the North began to struggle. Thus‚ during the 1850s‚ socially‚ politically‚ and economically there was not any compromise that could fix the problems beginning to occur. In the 1850s‚ the North and South could
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In 1924‚ there was a war between the Catholic Church and State that killed over 90‚000 Mexicans. The revisions to the Mexican Constitution in 1917 were the cause of the war. Seeing that the laws were unjust‚ bishops began a boycott against the Mexican government. Because of the boycott‚ people stopped going out and living their daily lives as normal. In 1926 was the first battle where 400 church members fought against the government. That was the beginning of the rebellion. During that time the soldiers
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