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    Religious Wars

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    Religious Wars The division between the Catholics and Protestants all came down to years upon years of war. The religious wars came in four waves of battle – The French Wars of Religion‚ Imperial Spain and Phillip II‚ England and Spain‚ and finally the longest and bloodiest of all‚ The Thirty Years War. All countries involved did not get out without a scratch‚ but some did come out of the religious wars better than others. The countries most devastated in this peril had to be Germany and France

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    Cold War

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    HISTORY PROJECT Introduction After the Second World War‚ the U.S.A. and Russia emerged as the two superpowers. During the war‚ there was a mutual understanding between the two nations‚ which however began to evaporate soon after the war. Difference in ideologies and mutual distrust between the two nations led to the beginning of cold war. Both tried to spread their influence and divided the world into two hostile groups. The western European countries came under the influence of America while

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    War of 1812

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    2011 War of 1812 After the great American Revolutionary War was fought and won by the Americans‚ Great Britain’s forces returned home in much defeat. What was now called the United States of America was on its way to become a strong independent nation separate from Great Britain’s rule. What some people nowadays overlook is the fact that Great Britain would eventually try to take another blow at the American people. This second attempt at defeating the Americans is known as the War of 1812

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    War Crimes

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    War Crimes: Freedom or Justice “No crime without law”‚ is a statement that was agreed upon for every power- wielding country across the globe1. Any discretion would normally result in the United Nations International Court of Justice to bring down the iron fist and resolve the situation in any way that they feel fit. Recently‚ there has been another method to solve disagreements throughout the world‚ not with petty crimes‚ but war crimes. War crimes are offenses that undermine the previously amended

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    the cold war

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    Chapter 8: From a World War to a Cold War (Contains Cuban Missile Crisis) Why did Cold War break out? This portion of the content deals with the reasons for the outbreak of the Cold War between the USA and the USSR Competing Ideologies: The Cold War confrontation between the USA and the USSR was a clash between the opposing ideologies of Communism (USSR) and Democracy (USA) Supporters of Democracy felt that Communism was akin to slavery and that only Democracy could offer freedom. On the

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    Civil War

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    vil warCivil war -The civil war was the bloodiest war the united states History‚ it claimed more lives than the American Revolutionary war‚ World War I‚ World War ii‚ the war of 1812 and all the other American wars put together. From the Beginning of the war in 1838‚ to the time it ended in 1845‚ more than 900 million soldiers were killed. - The war started as the result of a dispute the north and the south had‚ because certain southern states and certain northern states regarding slavery and taxation

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    fought in World War 1 for Germany after refusing to serve his home country of Austria-Hungary. It is well documented that Hitler was at the forefront of the Nazi Party that had solidified their position as the newly established Third Reich when Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30‚ 1933‚ as we discussed in class. What we are going to do is highlight key facets to the rise of Hitler in the thirteen years preceding the day of his appointment. We will start with the treaty of Versailles

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    Cold War

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    COLD WAR The Cold War was the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) during the 46-year period following the World War II’s end‚ but before the end of the Soviet Union. It refers to the time between 1945 and 1991. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COLD WAR At the end of World War II‚ English author and journalist George Orwell used Cold war‚ as a general term‚ in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb"‚ published October 19‚ 1945‚ in the British newspaper Tribune. Contemplating

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    Position Paper COMMITTEE: General Assembly COUNTRY: Russia TOPIC:  The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) The Russian Federation confirms its position of principle in support of the efforts undertaken by the international community‚ including the UN‚ Conference on Disarmament and IAEA to fight terrorism and proliferation. Russia clearly understands that under today’s conditions the spread of nuclear weapons‚ together with missile vehicles of their’ delivery‚ would be fraught with

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    Versailles Treaty Help Cause WW II In 1914‚ the World War I just started and ended four years later in 1918 but later World War II had just begun. In World War I fought mainly in Western and Eastern with this war caused many deaths. (BGE) With the technology they had machine guns‚ and gas mask. After a year later they signed a treaty called Treaty of Versailles (BGE). Treaty of Versailles is a peace treaty between the Allies and Germany in 1919. What helped that causes WW II in Versailles Treaty? The

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