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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up into company stocks. When the stock market began to fall‚ this caused a mass selling of many stocks. A domino like effect spread throughout the market. Now wealthy Americans had lost their nest eggs‚ companies began to shutter‚ and liquidity began to dry up. This led into another cause for the Great Depression. As companies began to lose their stock values‚ they were forced to close after their liquidity dried up. This caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs. Such a large loss of employments
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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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monetary policies when it should have done the opposite. Bernanke highlighted its five critical mistakes. 1. The Fed began raising the fed funds rate in the spring of 1928. It kept increasing it through a recession that began August 1929. That’s what caused the stock market crash in October 1929. 2. When the stock market crashed‚ investors turned to the currency markets. At that time‚ the gold standard supported the value of the dollars held by the U.S. government. Speculators began trading in their
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The French Revolution and the Rise of the Republic of France: A Discussion of its Causes and Effects An essay by Cameron Reynolds-Beer Prior the French revolution was a series of events that damaged the legitimacy of the monarch’s rule. These included many situations‚ some of which were avoidable‚ some of which were not. The French class system of three “Estates”: The First Estate - The Nobles and Lords; The Second Estate - The Church and Priests; and the Third Estate - the peasants‚ workers
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Juliet‚ written by William Shakespeare. This line is the beginning of Juliet’s sadness‚ on how she could not love Romeo because he was not a Capulet. The feud between the families caused a lot of confusion. The deaths of Romeo‚Tybalt‚ Mercutio‚ and Juliet were the cause of the feud. The fight in the streets was also caused by the feud. If the families were not fighting with each other‚ none of this would have happened. One of the results of the feud is the death of Romeo and Juliet. “ O happy dagger
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What caused the civil war in 1642? A civil war is when a war breaks out in the same country. The reason why the civil war broke out in England in 1642 was because the king and parliament could not agree on anything. In the political side of things the war broke out because of short and long term things. In the short term that parliament wanted to control England’s army but the king said he should because England’s monarch usually controlled the army. The other short term reason was‚ in 1642
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Sectionalism caused The Civil War‚ and it was a huge problem in the US. One side protecting the opinion that every man is created equal‚ and one protecting the idea of slavery‚ and how blacks 3are a less powerful race. This was definitely a darker time in US history‚ with Lincoln being president during it all. Sectionalism is to blame for this‚ with the North and the South constantly growing apart every minute in the 1800s. Sectionalism led to Economic and Political conflicts in the mid-1800s
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being taught live in the south: state’s rights. However‚ despite what many believe‚ the Civil War that took place from 1861 to 1865‚ truly happened in a time span of many more years‚ and had a multitude of causes. While most ideas happen incessantly‚ only a certain few influence people to instigate a war so cataclysmic as the Civil War. Some ideas that might have affected the beginning of the Civil War are stated in Ayer’s What Caused the Civil War?‚ “The ‘North’ and
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statements of that time‚ 2 percent of the American workforce was unemployed” (Brinkley 568). Things were so tough in the US; laws were made that only allowed one member of a family to hold a federal civil service job. The book identified many problems that caused the global depression‚ I think the principal cause was debt. The Roaring Twenties created an attitude which led to the mindset of
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