1. Why did Hitler declare war on the United States in 1941? Hitler declared war against the United States on December 11th of 1941‚ just a few days after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th. I think the basis upon which Hitler declared war was his signing of Tripartite Pact towards the end of September of 1940. The pact was signed by Germany‚ Japan‚ and Italy‚ along with some other smaller eastern European states‚ and was aimed at bring the signatories‚ who seemingly had aligned
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Unemployment April 1‚ 2014 Spain has led a legacy as a significant world power in Europe and at some moments in History‚ the world. Spain conquered the oceans with Christopher Columbus’s travels‚ started dynasties that created Charles IV’s Holy Roman Empire. Although‚ like all great dynasties have been fated to do‚ the Empire fell from the leading Empire of the world and eventually in Europe. It wasn’t until after the Dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975‚ when Spain was again able to resume its
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was known as Charles V. Being the emperor of a great empire‚ Charles V controlled Spain‚ Spanish territories in American‚ Netherlands‚ Austria‚ part of Italy‚ and because he was titled as the Holy Roman Emperor‚ he also held power in Germany. Moreover‚ Charles was a devout Catholic who was burdened by the decision
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1) How can the presence or absence of natural resources and arable land affect a nation’s economy‚ regardless of the type of economic system? Natural resource can either make or break a country. If it is a country that doesn’t have many foreign friends it will be hard for them to get the needed resources to survive and they would be missing a lot of capital. 2) How can life expectancy and literacy rates affect the quality of labor in the economy? The long people live and the more they know the
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The Great War was a hard fought war between two high power groups who just could not agree with each other. The war started on July 28‚ 1914 through November 11‚ 1918. The allied powers and the central powers could not agree with each other. They declared war and so the war began. The United States stayed neutral until the third year of the war. The US stayed neutral because President Woodrow Wilson did not take any side in the war so they stayed out of it. There were several other things they did
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The Cold War was a period of diplomatic tension between the United States and the Soviet Union(USSR)‚ that lasted from the end of WWII(1945) until the separation of the USSR in 1991.The main reasons for the conflict between the two sovereigns are the differences in government types‚ competition for global influence‚ and the development of nuclear weapons. The USSR and the US represented two different types of ideologies: Capitalism and Communism. This divide of principles led to deep suspicion between
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The Vietnam War had many other names‚ such as the Second Indochina War. It was known as the Indochina War‚ as it was the name of the land in which Vietnam‚ Laos‚ Malaysia‚ Singapore‚ Thailand and Burma sat. “The cold war was a state of political and military tension after World War II‚ between powers in the Western Bloc (US‚ NATO allies and others)‚ and the powers in the Eastern Bloc (The Soviet Union‚ and its allies in the Warsaw pact).” The cold war had shaped international relations in many ways
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Three reasons not to fight the war with Mexico‚ and why they were wrong 1. The idea of taking the territory from Mexico espoused by Daniel Webster‚ and why it was flawed. 2. The use of the word aggrandizement and how it is not entirely accurate‚ and how his argument needed to focus on prior US mistakes‚ especially with the Native American people. 3. Daniel Webster‚ along with other people also objected to Texas joining the Union due to its’ status as a slave state‚ but this was not due to slavery
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Armando Palumbo Professor Christopher Johnston ENC1101 April 21st ETA: Terrorism in Spain Since 1958 Spain has been under the attack of a terrorist entity named ETA or Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Freedom). This socialist paramilitary group was funded during the period of the authoritarian dictatorship Francisco Franco‚ as an opposition to his politics. Eta’s main objective is to set free the socialist country Euskal Herria (Basque Country)‚ located in Spanish territory.
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Introduction The brief Spanish-American War that lasted from April 1898 through to August 1898 was fought over the issue of the liberation of Cuba‚ a Spanish colony that was suffering under the brutality of Spain’s authority. “The war essentially grew out of Cuba’s struggle for independence. Since the early 19th century‚ many Americans had watched with sympathy the series of revolutions that ended Spanish authority throughout the Americas” ‚ yet it was in Cuba where Spain kept their autocracy alive. “The
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