The French monarch‚ King Louis XVI‚ soon banned the National Assembly from the conference room‚ and they then took the first true step of the Revolution. The National Assembly organized in the Versailles tennis court‚ and took what is now called the Tennis Court Oath. The oath was a promise to overthrow the king and create a Constitution. The situation escalated to the point of violence shortly thereafter. The National Assembly stormed the Bastille‚ in order to arm themselves
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The masses fill the streets where once cars and trucks would once have clogged them at this hour - many of them waiting in 1/2 mile long lines for a daily hand-out of food‚ while others comb the smoldering ruins of yesterday’s bombed out strip-mall seeking anything salvageable that might enrich their meager lives. The causes of the great depression was the stock market crash of 1929‚ bank failures stopped creating new loans‚ and the drought conditions in the Mississippi valley. STOCK MARKET CRASH
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August 6 of 1945 USA dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This bomb killed around 166000 people and was called “Little Boy”. This atomic bomb changed Truman’s attitude. There are people that think that the war was caused because the bomb encouraged Truman seek confrontation with U.S.S.R. When Truman had the bomb his attitude at the conference became aggressive and of confrontation. He also changed from pro-Soviet advisors to anti-communist advisors. And finally he
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across‚ which caused problems with the Soviets. Finally President Truman got his point across and ended the war. While the Cold War was still going on President Truman was coming up with the Truman Doctrine which states
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The French Revolution of 1789 was one of the most brutal and bloodiest moment in world history. The Revolution was the fall of monarchism and the rise of the republic. During that time‚ people in the society had an enormous economic inequality between the rich and the plebeian. Before the Revolution begin many events showed that things were getting of control. Also France had a big economic crisis. The poor people struggled a lot just to survive in the society. The French Revolution occurred because
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O. Henry’s short story “One Thousand Dollars” opens with a brief and polite conversation between a young man and a lawyer. The lawyer offers the young man one thousand dollars‚ his apparent inheritance from a recently deceased uncle. “Young Gillian‚” the young man in question‚ chuckles at the peculiar and specific amount of his inheritance. He marvels that‚ had his uncle bestowed a much larger or a much smaller amount of money upon him‚ he would better understand the bequest. As it stands‚ however
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was calm and normal just like any other country‚ life was average‚ people got along‚ all was well. After Communist President Tito’s death‚ things began to change drastically for the worse‚ there were Ethnic tensions in the nations from that point on. What was normally an average walk through town became avoiding being shot by
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it’s breaking point and President James Polk demanding for Congress to go into war. The war ended with the US taking the win and a treaty forming. The United States did end up gaining land while the Mexico lost some land. Although the United States against Mexico resulted in the gaining of America’s most valuable land‚ the war itself was just repulsive and inexcusable due to the start of the tension (breaking of laws)‚ the wanting of slavery‚ and the bound to pursue the United States’ manifest destiny
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declared that all people are equal‚ and all people deserve certain rights (HowStuffWorks). The people of France were in awe of the idea that they are equal to King Louis XVI. Plus‚ the fact that the colonists in America just won their independence against Britain‚ the citizens of France started to acquire a sense of hope. They did not really want to secede from France‚ but rather they simply wanted a constitution. Something that granted them freedoms that even the king could not take away. Part of
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4. The Causes of Major Revolutions: Latin American Revolutions: 1. People from all classes are discontented. Mexico had political and economic stability‚ but at expense of farmers and laborers (only select few had wealth). 2. People feel restless and held down by unacceptable restrictions in society‚ religion‚ the economy‚ or government. Since 1876‚ President Porfirio Díaz/the dictatorship severely restricted the prospects of Mexico’s middle classes for political and economic advancement
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