On December 7‚ 1941‚ hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu‚ Hawaii. it lasted just two hours. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 naval vessels‚ including eight battleships‚ and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2‚000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack‚ and another 1‚000 were wounded. The day after the assault‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress approved his declaration
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billion) and Western Europe (606 billion). FRANCE SWITZ. AUSTRIA SLOVENIA CROATIA HUNGARY ROMANIA YUGOSLAVIA BULGARIA REP. MOLDOVA no data C A N A D A SPAIN PORTUGAL ITALY GREECE KAZAKHSTAN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MOROCCO
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Britain drafted approximately 330 thousand civil workforces from the Fiji Islands‚ the Union of South Africa‚ West Indies‚ Mauritius‚ and Egypt. France similarly utilized 185 thousand troops for labor use from colonial empires in Algeria‚ Indochina‚ Morocco‚ Tunisia and Madagascar. Colonial troops also prepared the war for Western front. For example‚ Chinese men exhumed trenches to shape them for battle. In fact‚ the majority of colonial troops were drafted more for the use of European territory than
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CAUSES OF BY NATHAN BECK World War 1 was the first war in history that had most of the world dragged into conflict against one another. There were many causes of WW1 the main one that actually started it was a short term cause‚ the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austria-Hungary Empire. But there were a lot of long term causes that were building up to war like the arms race with military sections such as navy being built up especially between Britain and Germany. Also Imperialism
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After the Second World War‚ Belgium encourages massive labour immigrations first from Italy (from 1947 to 1956)‚ then from Spain‚ Greece‚ Morocco‚ Turkey‚ Tunisia‚ Algeria and Yugoslavia (Adam 13). But these immigrations are seen as temporary by both the immigrants and the Belgian state (gastarbeiders) (Adam 13). And if some measures are implemented for the immigrant workers‚ they do not manage
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the most recognized brands in the world. We performed an in-depth review of how effectively or ineffectively Coca-Cola has used each of the six strategies. The paper focused on Coca-Cola’s operations in the United States‚ China‚ Belarus‚ Peru‚ and Morocco. The author used electronic journals from the various countries to determine how effective Coca-Cola was in these countries. The paper revealed that Coca-Cola was very successful in implementing strategies regardless of the country. However‚ the author
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World War One or ‘The Great War’ and its causes are still a hotly debated subject till today. There are many important causes and reasons for the war‚ some more important than others. Not only did the war cause a lot of disruption‚ chaos and death‚ it also set the scene for other wars to take place‚ which is one main reason why it was so significant in History. Many of the causes link and relate to each other and have different relative importance‚ when compared‚ to contributing to the outbreak of
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These rebels fought against the German conquerors‚ because they wanted to continue to be French citizens and not be forced to become German.There was also a small group of French people that fled France during the invasion‚ but in refuge in French Morocco and this group was called the Free French. They rebelled against Germany‚ because similar to majority of France‚ they wanted the Germans to leave so that they feel granted to go back to the France they know‚ not Germany’s France. This caused the people
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Informative Speech- Wedding Traditions around the world. Topic- Marriage rituals around the world. Purpose statement-Even though getting married is one of the things we all share in the world‚ everyone has their own unique way of doing it. Organizational Pattern- Specific Introduction Attention Getter- Wasn’t the day of your wedding one of the most special days of your life? I got married last year‚ a big full traditional wedding‚ and it was definitely very special and very memorable
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