In the 1930s‚ Britain and France adopted the appeasement policy towards Germany. It was to give in to some of the demands of Hitler in the hope that they would be satisfied and not ask for more. The appeasement policy aimed to prevent another large-scale war like the World War I. The appeasement policy was not an error as appeasement bought time for Britain to rearm. In the 1930s‚ they were still recovering from the tremendous losses in World War I‚ and were not militarily prepared for a war
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Imagine if Julius Caesar was the president of the United States of America. Andrew Jackson is the closest comparison that could be made to having Caesar as president. His power as a president was great‚ almost rivaling the power of the monarch of Britain. Jackson’s power was so great that he even defied the supreme court. To achieve this power Jackson formed links with the public to get what he wanted and ignored the personal thoughts of his fellow associates and instead relied on the “Kitchen Cabinet”
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The French and Indian War started in 1754. The British were unsuccessful in the beginning because of their lack of unity. Benjamin Franklin saw this as a major problem and urged unity. In the Pennsylvania Gazette‚ he drew his famous cartoon of a broken snake with the caption "Join or Die." A meeting was held in Albany in the spring of 1754 to address this issue. Colonial leaders‚ officials and representatives from seven of the British colonies attended the conference. Benjamin Franklin and
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During the Second World War period Actually‚ the UNHCR was not the first refugee organization at the end of the Second World War. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was set up by the Allies in November 1943 whose mandate was simply limited to help civilians from allied states and displayed people in states with temporary emergency aid. Although it was not a true refugee organization with authority‚ it succeeded in helping these people in the beginning and continued
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“The Battle of the Somme was a total failure” How far do Sources A-F support this statement? On the 1st July 1916‚ the battle of the Somme began. Sources A‚ D‚ E and F suggest that the Battle of The Somme wasn’t a total failure. However‚ Sources B and C suggest that the British underestimated the Germans and this was the cause of their massacre. Source B proposes that although the British were organized and everything was going according to their plan‚ the first line‚ which had nearly reached
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Many of the european countries wanted in on the new world especially Spain. They wanted to expand their land and grow in wealth. Spain conquered many places in the new world and called it new Spain. Which included the western half of the US and down towards central america. There were other Spanish settlements down in southern america as well. As a result of their mass presence‚ they were responsible for the fall of both the Aztec empire and the Incan empire. They also wanted more wealth and they
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Was the Heath government a total failure? It is undoubtedly true that during Heath’s time in office‚ 1970-1975‚ he faced many difficulties‚ many of them at the hands of the Trade Unions‚ which made his time in government difficult to make any progress. However it cannot be denied that the Heath Government did make some successes‚ and considering the harsh times that Heath faced‚ it could be argued that the Heath government was not a total failure and instead was one that had experienced lot of
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Background: Harold Holt was born in Stanmore‚ New South Wales on 5 August 1908. He was the elder of two children. Holt was enrolled at Wesley College in Melbourne‚ which happens to be where the future Prime Minister Robert Menzies had been a star pupil as well. It is argued that due to a lack of parental love‚ is mothers early death and his parents’ divorce caused many feelings of loneliness and insecurity in Holt. Holt did very well in school‚ winning a scholarship to the University of Melbourne
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The British could never have won the war for American Independence. The rebellion could probably have been crushed initially by firm action under a commander-in-chief who was not governed by a policy that varied from year to year based on conciliation and suppression and which imposed upon him the dual role of commanding general and peace commissioner. With the rebellion crushed it might have been possible to make a political settlement short of independence where the colonies could have remained
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his presidency was similar to the Nixon Administration. Like the presidencies before and after Ford‚ his administration’s approach to foreign affairs was entirely based on the Cold War. During his shorter-than-average term‚ the Ford Administration’s foreign policy included policies such as detente‚ shuttle diplomacy‚ and ending conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Vietnam War. Gerald Ford’s foreign policy was characterized by global treaties‚ ineffective policies‚ and delayed responses
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