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    What were the Advantages and Disadvantages of Nazi Rule for the German People up to 1939? Nazism seemed to end the effects of the great depression. The German economy had been devastated in 1929 when the great depression happened‚ but surprisingly‚ it was looking more prosperous afterwards! In 1938 national income was the highest Germany had seen‚ which was higher than what Germany had before the great depression by eight billion marks! Although wages had not overtaken the level that wages were

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    Prompt: What were Western motives for imperialism in Africa and how did people resist such oppression? Africans were forced to live their lives a certain way by the people in power but are now improving. The people who were in power were white people. Africans are able to do more than they used to and use more gadgets than they could use before.Africans made a good fight for their rights and are progressing as time passes. Some think they’re losing what’s most important. One reason that supports

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    Department to corner off areas in which people who were considered dangerous to the government would be imprisoned. The order had a special target; to imprison all Japanese Americans. It ordered people of Japanese descent to evacuate the west coast and relocate into one of ten internment camps. After the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the treatment of Japanese Americans revealed the widespread racism the United States felt towards Japanese people during

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    Americans. Indian beliefs were based off of spiritual guidance from mother earth and their elders. They loved and respected the land and their people. Indians appreciated all the land‚ animals and people they came into contact with for they believed in treating all people equal. The Aztec chief was told by a “macebual (common man) that towers or small mountains floating on the waves of the sea” ( Miguel Leon-Portilla‚ 13). These floating things also had people on them that were foreign to the Indians

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    Discussion Forum Question Unit 5 What were the outcomes of the second Punic War? The second Punic war was caused by the growing rivalry between the two great powers that were struggling for supremacy in the western Mediterranean (Morey‚ W.C.‚ 1901). In the Second Punic War‚ the great Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy and scored great victories at Lake Trasimene and Cannae before his eventual defeat at the hands of Rome’s Scipio Africanus in 202 B.C. which left Rome in control of the western

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    horrific war start? What was the final straw? Tensions arose throughout Europe years before World War 1 actually began. A number of alliances involving European powers‚ Russia‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ and other parties existed for year. The political instability in the Balkans threatened to destroy these agreements. The last straw was drawn when Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ was assassinated along with his wife Sophie on June 28‚ 1914. They were killed by the Serbian

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    arrived on the Mayflower. Much like the Native Americans‚ Africans were subject to this same type of abuse. Affluent European nations such as Britain‚ Germany‚ and Italy took it upon themselves to claim all the sovereign countries of Africa with a bogus claim of wanting to “civilize” the people of these nations. Missionaries came by the boatloads in an effort to rid Africans of their already established religious beliefs and convert them

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    weapons. Moreover‚ humans naturally fear what is different. I know that if I was an Indian and saw these strange colored men riding these never before seen animals I would be weary. Native Americans had to deal with Europeans trespassing on their homes and were always in danger from European attack. I would also think that it would be a huge coincidence that natives were dying around the time the Europeans came around. I would take that as some kind of

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    caused an outburst of questions of the Japanese internment camps. During 1940‚ before the United States entered World War Two‚ they secretly helped the Allies‚ mainly the United Kingdom‚ through the Lend-Lease Act by transporting army supplies which were a hefty help for boosting morale. A year after‚ Japan aircrafts surprised attack Pearl Harbor and eventually lead the United States to join World War Two. On February 19‚ 1942 the Executive Order 9066 was put into action which made internment camps

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    experience‚ as the lifestyle of African Americans varied depending upon the circumstances of which they were under. At this time‚ black people were commonly mistreated by white Americans. There was a portion of African Americans who were enslaved and a portion of them that were free. Given that those that were enslaved were to be considered the property of their white slave owners‚ slaves were subjected to much harsher conditions by them. Enslaved African Americans would have to endure both physiological

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