Which one of the Superpowers was most responsible for the outbreak of the Cold War? From the late 1940s to the early 1990s‚ the USA and the USSR were in a state of "Cold War". The United States and USSR never fought each other in a direct military confrontation‚ but both superpowers threatened each other with nuclear annihilation and participated frequently in "proxy Wars" by supporting allied nations in numerous "hot" Wars. Such as‚ the Vietnam War‚ the Korean War‚ The Angolan War‚ etc. What seems
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prominent and revolutionary discoveries in the history of physics was Albert Einstein’s resolution of the inconsistencies in the current model of mechanics and electromagnetism with special relativity. Rather than attempting to remold Maxwell’s equations‚ Einstein‚ in 1905‚ rejected prevailing assumptions about the nature of time and space in the reference frames of observers with different velocities: instead of forcing the time and spatial position of an object to be invariant‚
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government where a majority of the people are included in making political decisions. In democratic countries‚ politicians get elected by citizens through a vote to make decisions on their behalf. It also guarantees political and civil rights‚ for example; freely forming and expressing your own opinions‚ free to worship your own religion‚ and the right to protest if you wish to. In 1982 Canada’s government created The Canadian Charter of rights and freedoms‚ which contains 7 sections. Those sections
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Processing What was life really like in the colonies? Everyone either had a farm or in a city‚ no one lived in the suburbs. Many people made money on their farms or plantations where many slaves worked for the landowner. Also‚ many children didn’t receive education unless you were quite wealthy. So‚ let’s see what was life really like in the colonies. Let’s start off where people live‚ many people were farmers and that’s how they made a living. They grew their own food and even made things out
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Women’s Movement Today‚ we take many socio-political phenomenons for granted. People in democratic countries freely express themselves‚ practice any religion of their choice‚ vote for their candidates on presidential elections‚ and enjoy many other rights and freedoms‚ all of which are kept by numerous laws‚ bills‚ non-governmental organizations‚ and so on. However‚ the realities of social life were not always so fair. Many years ago‚ women were not considered equal with men by a large extent. One
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Americas. Many People were affected by epidemic in areas of Mexico and Peru by which about millions of people lost their lives. Most of the American population lost their lives‚ between 1492 and 1650‚ 90% of Americans had died due to various diseases and this was the biggest loss in human history. Decline in population also caused a major labour shortage throughout the America by which the demand of African
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released in the late 1960’s. UNIX was the first operating system that would run on different models of computers‚ and used a common communications protocol called TCP/IP to talk between the different machines. TCP/IP stands for "Transmission Control Protocol / Internetworking Protocol" and the word "Internet" came from that. What was the first name of Internet before it was called Internet? The name of the web platform that was first developed as a research network was called: ARPANET (Advanced Research
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Social Development She is friendly and approachable‚ easy to be with and she loves to interact with her classmates and friends inside and outside the school. She also respects her teachers‚ classmates‚ siblings‚ grandmother‚ parents and also the people around her. Learner’s Emotional and Moral Development In emotional and moral aspects‚ her grandmother taught her good manners. She knows how to handle her emotions and when she feels down or has a problem‚ she went to her grandmother and elder
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The American Revolution was the revolt of the English colonies in North America that occurred between 1775 and 1783‚ which resulted in the establishment of the United States. The Independence of the United States is considered the first American Revolution (the second was the Civil War). It was a landmark in the Old Regime crisis because it broke the unity of the colonial system. The thirteen American colonies were formed from the seventeenth century. In the late eighteenth century‚ there were 680
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historians such as Daniel Goldhagen and Robert Galletely into the role the majority of ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. The extent to which the majority understood and freely supported the Nazis in their persecution of the Jews is controversial. This majority‚ however‚ did not have such a significant impact in the holocaust as the minority groups‚ which either supported and helped the National Socialists and as such were true supporters of their cause‚ or were prepared to assist the Jews in
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