The word great usually evokes a positive connotation‚ at least for me. Great grades‚ a great trip‚ great memories- all with a happy smile. In this context‚ great is being used as The Great War‚ also known as WWI. WWI was largely influenced by the assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. However‚ the major causes that led the war are the alliances system‚ nationalism‚ and imperialism. The alliance system had its benefits and disadvantages. Firstly‚ if one country started a
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In 1789‚ in France‚ the citizens began to strive for new ideas of liberty and equality among all social classes‚ leading to the French Revolution. They wanted to eliminate the absolute power and develop a new type of government. The Revolution questioned the power of the king. It had five main causes to it: Absolute Monarchism‚ Social Inequality‚ Economic Injustice‚ The Enlightenment and Other Revolutions. It additionally had four stages‚The Tennis Court Oath‚ The Great Fear‚ The Reign of Terror
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World War II was a war that took a lasting toll on the world‚ lasting from about 1931-1945. The Holocaust‚ the Rape of Nanjing‚ Nazis‚ the Pearl Harbor attack‚ and dropping an atomic bomb are major a few major events during World War II. During this war‚ there are many underlying factors similar to the first world war‚ for example‚ there were new alliances formed and the war was an arms race. World War II can be connected to some of the worst times in history as people developed devastating weapons
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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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it was fought for independence‚ or that the colonists were only fighting because their wealth was at stake. However‚ both the political and economical factors in the American Revolution must be analyzed in order to comprehend what the colonists were fighting for‚ and thus what our nation is built upon. Although many factors played a role in the American Revolution‚ the most influential component was ideology. By the time the British started enforcing external taxes on the colonies in the 1760’s the
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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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clothes flythe and talking about how they lost their jobs. A time where America faced it worse economic stance‚ people were losing their jobs and money‚ most were put in poverty.The Great Depression started in 1929 and end 1939. Will be talking about what happen in the Great Depression and how it had an affect on people and farmers‚ about the U.S economy and other nations. The action taken by the president dealing with this situation‚ How the Great Depression was resolved. The Great Depression started
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There are many causes of the American Revolution‚ but I believe the primary cause was the French and Indian War‚ which lasted from 1754 to 1763. This war also known as the Seven Years War‚ changed the relationship between Britain and the American colonies. Not only did this war help start the revolution‚ but its aftermath did too. A decade of conflicts between British Parliament and the colonists‚ starting with taxation acts‚ eventually led to the eruption of the American Revolution in 1775.
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saw no need for them but the south needed them for all their farming so they didn’t want to give them up. After four hard years of fighting the north won and president Lincoln sent out the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slaves in America. What this cause was a white supremacist group call the Klu Klux Klan(KKK) which was mostly confederate veterans that did not see blacks and other races as equals. They
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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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