The Marshall Plan In this speech‚ delivered at the Harvard University commencement in 1947‚ Secretary of State Marshall articulated a plan a plan for American aid to Europe. The plan was designed to fill the power vacuum in Europe and to help Europe reconstruct itself after the devastation of war. The program was remarkably successful and by the early 1950s the Western European country was much recovered. The truth of the matter is that Europes requirements for the next three years of foreign
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Austin Evans 12/2/15 Ms. Long History 4 America vs Philippines The freedom for the Philippines came from the blood shed on the battlefield between the Spanish and American armies. It all started in the year of 1898. The United States was fed up with the horrible treatment the Philippines and Cuba was getting from the Spanish. Later on‚ in 1899‚ the U.S. defeated the Spanish and won over the two territories. It was decided to let Cuba become its own country and annex the Philippines. The U.S. should
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Columbia Southern University CURRENT SOCIOCULTURAL TRENDS 2 According to our text‚ there are eight current sociocultural trends that are transforming North America and the rest of the world. The four current sociocultural trends that I’d like to focus on are increasing environmental awareness‚ changing pace and location of life‚ changing household composition and increasing diversity of workforce and markets
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How come equality is still a factor in 2016? In the story‚ “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America‚” there were a lot of differences and very few similarities within the Native Americans and the White Men. The differences and similarities with how White Men and Native Americans treated each other and their perceptions on life were horrible. Whites felt like their esteem was slavish and base and that the Indians were frivolous and useless. Indians didn’t have no force‚ no prisons‚ and no
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Pennsylvania‚ Maryland‚ Massachusetts‚ and Georgia all play a big role in the development of our country‚ but they differ in terms of living conditions‚ weather and religious climate‚ and job opportunities. For these reasons I selected two of those colonies that I would have lived in and two of those colonies that I would not have lived in. Without the successes and even the downfalls‚ we would not be where we are today. Out of the various colonies that emerged in the sixteen and 1700’s the two
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Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search "Discovery of the Americas" and "Discovery of America" redirect here. For other uses‚ see Discovery of the Americas (disambiguation). Voyages of Christopher Columbus | The Four Voyages of Columbus | Participants | Christopher Columbus and crew | Location | Americas | Date | Between 1492 and 1506 | Result | European exploration of the Americas | In the early modern period‚ the voyages of Columbus initiated European exploration
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Life in America before the Europeans arrived was inhabited by nomadic Indians that possibly migrated from Siberia and Southwest Europe. The nomadic Indian tribes relied on hunting and gathering food. As the climate changed and the extensive hunting of large animals forced the Indians to adapt to settling into villages. They built homes and grew simple crops such as corn and beans. They also created pottery to store their abundance of crops. The largest civilizations in North America were the
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Question: Why did Latin America failed to industrialize in the nineteenth century? Outline Two 00Context: In the nineteenth century‚ industrial revolution occurred through Europe and North America‚ but it didn’t happen in Latin America due to political and independency conflicts. The only country that faced a really major industrial revolution was Japan which increased the other European’s aggression. After Latin America’s revolution for independency‚ this country had undergone a major economic
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My team of explorers and I request that your majesties fund an exploration of the New World. We request that you direct three quarters or more of our funding towards exploration of the New World because it is economically‚ religiously‚ and geographically beneficial to both the Catholic church and the state of Spain. The New World has plenty of commercial benefits to us. They are already benefitting us through their reliance on us for goods‚ as the French occupation diminished the beaver and
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As the group read the article that we chose to focus on for this project‚ we came across various contrasting ideas that Foner has in his book and the ideas in the article itself. From the very beginning of the section where Foner speaks about the War of 1812‚ brutality that American’s used to gain the Indian territory is completely played down. The book does not go into an extent of what the American’s did to the Indians to strip them from their own possessions and rights. In the article‚ since it
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