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    During the Second World Warwars were happened every day. In these time‚ millions of people dead because the war. The militarism in Japan was popular and the militants were the leaders in Japan. They were supported to continue fighting before Japan be the winner in the war no matter how. So that they not concerned about the soldiers life and the soldiers also glad to die in order to the Tenno. They were using suicide attack. In this case‚ US was lost many armies and navies. This was hard conditions

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    Livy describes The Second Punic War as being Rome’s greatest conflict. Also known as Hannibal’s War‚ it is true‚ after reviewing the numbers lost on both sides and the length of the conflict that this statement by Livy is a true one. Why was the conflict sought out and who started the war? Livy is the greatest source on the topic. Based on the information that Livy provides‚ Hannibal’s destiny leads to his actions that caused The Second Punic War. Hannibal was Rome’s strongest enemy in its history

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    Assess the reasons for the victory of the Greeks in the Second Persian War (480–479 BC). The Greeks were victorious in the Second Persian War because of a number of factors. These include the superior leadership from commanders such as Themistocles and Leonidas‚ the effective Greek strategy and the cooperation of all the Greek city states to unite against a common threat. Ancient historians such as Aeschylus in his play ‘The Persians’ and Herodotus attribute the Greek victory to the so called

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    The second Punic war was between Rome and Carthage; the struggle of Carthage to remain the power house in the western Mediterranean was the major cause of the war. It took place between 218 to 201 B.C. and during his period‚ cartage lost Spain and the Islands in Italy to Rome‚ which it was dominating prior to the second Punic war. Rome became vigilant because the Carthage was expanding her territory in the Spanish peninsula; Rome could not stand the chance to lose her grip on power. The Carthaginian

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    Similarities between Conflicts: Second Punic war and Second Persian War The Second Punic War was led by Hannibal during 218 – 201 BC in Greece and the Second Persian War was led by Xerxes During 480 – 479 BC in Greece. Both have similarities and differences between wars. The second Punic and second Persian wars are similar in their background causes but different in their foreground causes. The conflicts have similar structural causes such as social factors‚ vengeance and geographical proximity

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    There are multiple reasons why the second world war started. The totalitarian governments are governments that have total control over all aspects of the lives of its people‚ this government had a huge impact of the start of the second world war. The totalitarian government is seen as a single party political systems‚ with one leader. There goal is to control the state and subject the people to the goals of the leader.These countries Germany‚ Italy‚ the Soviet Union‚ and Japan were all considered

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    Canada Women and the Second World War The changing roles of women throughout history has been drastic‚ and none more so than the period during and after World War II. The irrevocable changes that occurred once the war started and women went to work were unprecedented. In the end‚ the changing role of Canada’s women during the War was the beginning of a chain reaction of events that have forever changed the Canadian workplace and also that of men’s archaic views on the capabilities of women

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    launched his brutal campaign to crush the early Roman republic and would ultimately be defeated on the plains of Zama. Despite these individual events being separated by a century‚ Hannibal’s second Punic war against Rome generated the factors necessary for the Republic to professionalize her military. The war brought about massive political discourse‚ social discourse‚ and a more rampant depletion of the overall manpower in Italy than before. This chaos would allow the Gracchi brothers Tiberius and

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    As we discuss the Second Punic war’s outcomes let us briefly point out how it unfolded. Carthage was a growing power. Rome knew this. Rome met them with some rules. The Carthaginians obliged. But the Carthaginians had a new commander which would change that pace of things. His name was Hannibal. Hannibal was destined to be on the offense against Rome‚ and the time had come when Quintus Fabius offered them peace and war‚ of which they chose either and the Second Punic wars broke out. These are the

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    are soon to occur as the world slowly enters the “Second Great War”. The years leading up to the declaration of war between the Axis and Allied powers in 1939 were tumultuous times for people across the globe. The Great Depression had started a decade before‚ leaving much of the world out of jobs and desperate. Many may think the war began because of Germany’s invasion into Poland‚ but this was just the spark that lead the countries into the war. There were also many underlying

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