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    To understand the numbers better of these barbaric annihilations‚ approximately 1‚095‚00 Jews were deported to Auschwitz of whom 960‚000 died; 147‚000 of Poles deported of which 74‚000 died; Soviet prisoners of war in which 15‚000 deported and all have died‚ and other nationalities of 25‚000 people deported of which 12‚000 died including the Roma (gypsies) 23‚000 people added to the death toll. It is impossible to know the exact numbers of deaths because Jews

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    The aftermath of World War II had left Europe devastated. After the end of the war in 1945 USSR‚ USA‚ France and Britain‚ had decided to occupy and rebuild land in Europe. Poland‚ Romania‚ Czechoslovakia and the eastern half of Germany were occupied by the Soviet troops‚ while the Americans‚ British‚ and France occupied the other half. The two superpowers‚ USA and USSR‚ had very different plans of how they wanted Europe to be rebuilt. The United States wanted Europe to be rebuilt with a Democratic

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    good? Were they bad? When world war two had ended most of the world was in shock‚more than 50 million people had died. This had put an end to the put an end to the great depression‚ the economy began to bloom‚ put an end to strong empires and led to the cold war. I believe that wwii had a good long term effect on the Great Depression. The ending of the Great Depression had economic and cultural change on the American people. The jobs and wealth created by the war brought the Great Depression

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    During World War II‚ the United States and the Soviet Union were allies. After the war the two countries emerged as the two most powerful countries in the world. Although the world war ended‚ it was not a clean ending. Iron-willed Stalin wanted a postwar settlement that would guarantee the Soviet Union’s security and future. He wanted parts of Poland and Finland and the Baltic states. With Eastern Europe‚ the Soviet Union would have a buffer against future aggression from the West‚ colonies for rebuilding

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    Germans keep control of northern Italy • Allies invade Italy‚ but Germans keep fighting there until war ends The Allied Home Fronts Mobilizing for War • Fighting the war requires complete use of all national resources • 17 to 18 million U.S. workers—many of them women—make weapons • People at home face shortages of consumer goods • Propaganda aims to inspire civilians to aid war effort War Limits Civil Rights • Japanese Americans face prejudice‚ fear • Army puts Japanese Americans in internment

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    During the First World War‚ what was the conflict between political rhetoric and economic necessity faced by Woodrow Wilson? What were the struggles facing capitalism at the time? More importantly‚ how was the American Dream impacted if at all by the results of World War I and the emergence of the US as a global player? Is there a specific question out of the 4 questions we seek to answer about the American Dream that was most affected in your opinion as a result? Initially‚ the United States

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    THE WAR OF THE WORLDS Jonathan P. Benitez IV-LopezJaena English-Mrs.Sanchez Introduction The War of the Worlds (1898)‚ a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells‚ is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist’s (and his brother’s) adventures in London and the countryside around London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written in 1895–97‚[2] it is one of the earliest stories that details a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The War of the Worlds has two parts

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    How Did the Versailles Treaty Help Cause World War II? On June 28th‚ 1919 the Germans were forced to give up all of their territory‚ decrease their military strength‚ pay reparations‚ and remain guilty of all the events of the Great War due to the treaty of Versailles‚ and because of that Germany began creating conflicts with other countries which would lead into the second world war. With the loss of territory many were simply kicked out of their country without even knowing it. Unfortunately one

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    “Pearl Harbor was a catalyst for the United States entering World War II”. On December 7‚ 1941‚ Pearl Harbor‚ on the island of Oahu‚ was attacked. Japanese soldiers fired at battleships and aircrafts‚ killing over 2‚000 Americans. Franklin Roosevelt issued a meeting with Congress to discuss declaring war on Japan. On December 7‚ 1941‚ Roosevelt said‚ “A date which live in infamy”. By declaring war‚ the United States would no longer be an isolationist nation‚ changing the economy greatly. Franklin

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    Introduction ___________________________________________________________________________ In 1939‚ the world witnessed the beginning of arguably the most devastating of all combat in the history of mankind‚ World War II. The conflict would ravage the entire European continent and far beyond extending into the far reaches of the planet‚ stretching from the lands of the African continent and waters of the Atlantic‚ to the Philippine islands in the Pacific. Previously‚ tensions had arisen with Germany’s

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