The Cold War The cold War began after World War II. It started in 1947 and ended in 1991. The cold war basically was an argument between US‚ Soviet Union‚ Germany‚ china‚ and Afghanistan. The Cold War was a contest between the USA and the Soviet Union. It led to thousands of nuclear weapons‚ two universal ideologies in conflict‚ and two different self-images‚ the United States championing a world made safe for democracy. Its opponent‚ the Soviet Union advocated world Communism. The United States
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Women of the eighteenth century had very different roles before the Revolutionary War than after‚ and the movement of gender equality can be attributed to their increased importance in wartime. Before the war‚ women had primarily one job: manage and care for her household. While men were responsible for a family’s income‚ security‚ and overall leadership‚ women were responsible for the well-being of her home and children. Having many children was considered a wife’s duty‚ as sons would help their
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time there was much protest regarding the Vietnam war. On March 26‚ 1966‚ over 200‚000 people gathered worldwide to protest the Vietnam war. People were unhappy about the amount of lives lost with so little progress. Also the fact that the people that were being sent into war were average‚ everyday people because of the draft made the war that much more hated. The Vietnam War was also having a negative effect on the economy because funding the war caused much inflation and was just another reason
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Nearly 20‚000 women worked directly for the Union war effort (“Women in the Civil War”). Many of these women worked close or on the battlefield taking on positions like nurses‚ spies‚ and even soldiers. Being so close to the battlefield required a whole lot of courage. Women were brave enough to be so close to all of the fighting and to care for everyone at the same time. Inspired by the work of Florence Nightingale and her fellow nurses in the Crimean War‚ they tried to find a way to work on the front
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leading up to the Civil War‚ the United States began to undergo significant changes‚ changes that would eventually lead to the secession of southern states‚ creation of the confederacy and the beginning of the Civil War. During these years‚ the nation was in the midst of a transformation from an underdeveloped nation of farmers and frontiersmen into an urbanized economic powerhouse. As the industrialized North and the agricultural South grew apart‚ acute differences in political‚ economic and social
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Historians have different opinions on how the Civil War impacted the nation’s industrialization: positively or negatively. During the war‚ manufacturing increased greatly and the number of factories in the North doubled. However‚ men were also being shipped off to both armies to fight‚ leaving empty spaces in the factories‚ which historians believe hurt industrialization. The demand for weapons and supplies during the Civil War was high and caused both the Union and the Confederacy
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Drew Garrett Dr. Dea Boster Hist 1152-005 20 April 2014 Cold-War During the 1950’s America‚ post WWII‚ our Nation faced major changes under the leading presidency of Truman and Eisenhower. America fell into another time of prosperous feeling with the end of yet another victory in World War II‚ an almost arrogant view of their society in respects to the remainder of other economies. Communism became the American adversary‚ and Americans sought to purge the world of it. Because of the extreme
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The complex dynamic between the Soviet Union and the United States of America was not ever present‚ but evolved out of a series of key disagreements during World War II. With the onset of Operation Barbarossa‚ Nazi Germany shifted emphasis from an already dominated Western Europe to its eastern border with Russia. The betrayal of the Nazi-Soviet non aggression pact came as a surprise to Stalin‚ who quickly began mobilizing fighting aged men to bolster his vulnerable ground defenses. The resulting
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WAR ON CORRUPTION- ROLE OF AN INDIVIDUAL Winston Churchill once famously told‚”War is too serious a business to be left to Generals.”Similarly administration of a country is also too serious a business to be left to the government and the representatives. People’s participation and involvement in the administration‚ formulation of programmes’ and policy implementation is not a once in a five year routine‚ but a perennial role that they should seldom abdicate to a few. American philosopher Thoreau
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During his active role in the Civil War‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ who was associated with the Republican party‚ was born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky. He was one of the most intellectual and reasonable of the American presidents‚ coupled with the hardships he confronted during his teen years and early childhood‚ this served as a springboard that enabled him to accomplish his goals and bring an end to slavery. The story of American success cannot be complete without Lincoln. He shot his way from the
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