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    War can never be justified. Discuss War. One of the most destructive and futile thing on our planet‚ yet the ambition of war is usually to find peace is it not? Battle tends to start over the love of power; William Gladstone once said "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." So therefore is it not correctly speaking by saying that war is needed in order to destroy the love of power that creates such emotions

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    Project – Mexican Drug War; the United States Since Felipe Calderon became the president of Mexico in December of 2006‚ more than 30‚000 people have died in this nationwide turf war. A large majority of these murders are happening in the states of Chihuahua and Baja‚ California both of which border the United States. Soon after Calderon took office he launched a military-led war on drugs and that set off conflicts all over the country between rivaling cartels. Not only has there been a war between

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    slaughtered” might have been talking about King George; he got “fed” because he got money and resources from the colonies with very little work‚ he got “slaughtered” through the revolution because he started asking for too much. The colonists were justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain. Britain treated the colonists unfairly‚ and used their limitless power to harm the colonists. Britain had complete control over the colonies and enforced their power through their armies. Document 5 states

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    and quickly‚ however‚ this meant that the conflict between slave and free states continued to rise as well. Because of this‚ the Mexican American war only escalated the high tensions; the question of what was to be done with the possible acquisition of an extremely large territory was posed‚ in regards to the balance of slave and free states. Abolitionist saw that the war posed an extreme threat to this balance‚ and would only expand slavery to the land that would be acquired. Henry Clay‚ a senator

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    Many young Mexican Americans felt out of place and they felt as if they weren’t part of America‚ so they started wearing jackets with big shoulder blades with large pants‚ to express themselves and be out there. Many people saw this as a rebellious way of dressing even their own family and outsiders. In addition‚ one specific group who held a grudge towards the zoot suits were the sailors who were coming back from the war. The sailors held grudges towards the ones wearing the zoot suits‚ because

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    and Sumatra‚ Russia had influence over outer Mongolia‚ and the United States had influence in Japan and control over the Philippines‚ gained from the Spanish-American War. 8. The Europeans justified imperialism by claiming that they had a mission to civilize the uncivilized populations of the places

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    Was the american revolution justified? What events caused to lead up to the revolution? Yes the american revolution was justified.When any form of government becomes destructive of the unalienable rights it’s the people’s right to alter or abolish it. These eventually came into mention due to taxes the british government put on colonists and their reactions to it‚ Which the government had to add acts but that didn’t stop the colonists. Taxes‚ Money that paid for it’s war debts in the 1760’s‚ the

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    World War I (WWI) began on July 28‚ 1914‚ when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne‚ was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip‚ leader of a radical group whose purpose was to end foreign rule over Bosnia and Serbia. Austria-Hungary used the assassination as justification to launch a war on Serbia‚ blaming them for the radical groups’ actions. This regional conflict sucked in most of the great countries of the world. The

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    Not only were Mexicans such as Benavides accused and punished without being tried in court‚ they were also driven into poverty and their places of worship were often burned down. The Mexicans in the 1800s had their fortunes in places like California where the land was rich with gold. Mexicans and white settlers alike built cabins and prospered from the land‚ mining and fishing for gold in the rivers. In one famous account of Joaquin Murrieta in “Major Problems in Mexican American History”‚ white

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    “The Mexican Revolution best exemplifies the type of politically driven conflicts that dominated in the Northern and Central Americas from the turn of the Twentieth century until World War II.” How valid is this assessment? The above statement makes reference to the conflicts within Northern and Central America‚ there is no doubt that these places have been involved in many conflicts‚ whether it be domestic or international. However it goes on to suggest that the conflicts within the continent were

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