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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The manufacturing of cocaine is one of the most significant industries in South America‚ which exports around 75-80% of the global cocaine supply and generates billions of dollars to the economy. The coca plant‚ mainly grown in Peru‚ Columbia‚ and Bolivia‚ originated in the Andes Mountains. The Incas primarily used this plant during religious ceremonies‚ for medicinal purposes‚ as a form of currency‚ and as a stimulant. As time has progressed‚ the cocaine production process has become increasingly
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What would make the U.S. Turn on each other and enter battle? I think they turned on each other because of slavery. I think that all people should be treated the same no matter what color their skin is. The north has no slaves at all but the still don’t treat the African Americans poorly. There are many major cities here but they are all crowded and and dirty. There are warm summers and snowy cold winters with a short growing season. The forest is used to build ships which is very helpful since
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development of England’s colonial structure in North America? What was their role as mid-Atlantic colonies? What has been their historical/social/economic/political and religious impact on contemporary United States? The Dutch has a sensible impact on the colonial structure of the New World. In 1609‚ only two years after the founding of the settle of Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ the Dutch asked for help from the West India Company in order to find the North West Passage. Chartering Captain Hudson for the
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COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA Donald J. Mabry Professor of History Mississippi State University and The Historical Text Archive historicaltextarchive.com ii For Paula Crockett Mabry iii Preface The material in this book comes from my teaching Latin American history over many years. It does not pretend to be a textbook‚ although it could form the basis of one. It is more than an outline but much is omitted. This little book contains notes and commentary on important
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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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States of America in 1959 In the 1950s‚ after emerging from WWII‚ United States of America was the wealthiest and most powerful country on the globe. The United States was admired by everyone and considered the land of opportunity. The economy was booming and the american dream was flourishing. America in 1959 was a much different place than it is today. America is a great country and had some interesting ideas and fads going on during 1959‚ but not everything was so great. The expansion of economy
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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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In South America 1791 through 1824 was impacted by the Atlantic Revolution due to many factors including‚ women’s rights‚ slave rights‚ and just independence in general. There were also some factors that weren’t able to be altered and stayed the way they were originally created such as cultural‚ political‚ and economic factors. There were many regulations that South America had that stayed the same due to the the Atlantic Revolution. For example‚ women’s roles stayed the same and were treated as
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Before America was discovered‚ many people didn’t even know it existed. American as we know as one of the most powerful nation in the world today. But that didn’t come overnight‚ I am going to talk about their expansion from 1607-1819. This development began with the First Settlement at Jamestown‚ then migrated to the Appalachian Mountains‚ and finally The Great Migration to the Mississippi territory. These events would soon make America a feared nation among the world. When the English first got
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