also known as the Great War started on July 18‚ 1914 & ended November 11‚ 1918. WW1 left millions of people killed. WW1 was caused by MANIA. Mania is an acronym for Militarism‚ Alliances‚ Nationalism‚ Imperialism‚ & Assassination. WW1 eventually led to the Great Depression. When the Great Depression hit‚ Adolf Hitler took advantage and attempted to rise to power. Militarism is what creates suspicions among European countries. Countries competed with each other to have the biggest and best military
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fire‚ there was a large forest fire in Crete that the gods were not pleased with‚ they went to Hephaestus‚ god of fire‚ for an explanation. Hephaestus claimed he didn’t know who started it‚ as it wasn’t his doing. He then blamed the humans and their ignorance to this newly found tool. Zeus didn’t care‚ he said that if there were another disruption in the world due to fire he would be severely punished. Hephaestus was mad‚ he had already been thrown off Olympus for being ugly‚ now he was yet again blamed
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centuries the region of modern Germany was separated between over 300 small independent speaking German political units‚ which were rude by small princess. The Prussian militarism began with ’Frederick Welhem I’ the "Soldier King" of Prussia in 1713 - 1740. A small kingdom was developed around Burlin in over 200 years‚ making Prussia a strict and efficient oriented state. Prussia however was known as "a military that has a state"‚ thus making Prussia
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of the United States of America. The revolution of 1776 to 1783 resulted in the creation of the America but what kind of nation the America would have‚ was determined by the civil war of 1861 to 1865. There were two basic questions that were needed to get answered and remain unanswered even by the revolution. These questions raised the unanswered thought that whether the United States was to be a dissolvable union of independent states or an indissoluble nation with a sovereign national government
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The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted up until about 1939. It was a period of unprecedented decline in economic activity. After the stock market crash and the collapse of American banks‚ strict trading and banking regulations were put in place because of some economic challenges‚ such as poverty. Although‚ there were a few significant figures‚ like Huey Long‚ Francis Townsend‚ and Charles Coughlan whose ideas helped influence the decisions made by FDR
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One of the causes of the French Revolution was enormous public debt. MIRABEAU presented a now famous oration in defense of Jacques Necker’s patriotic tax. MIRABEAU: Two centuries of depredations and brigandage have made the chasm in which the kingdom is ready to engulf itself. We must close this fearful abyss. Well‚ here is a list of French proprietors! Choose among the richest‚ thus sacrificing the least number of citizens! But choose! For must not a small number perish to save the mass
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Although Edward II’s sexuality is disputed‚ his outrageous fondness for men was not necessarily a problem. In the fourteenth century‚ God’s anointed was free to make love to whomever they wished. But not only was he incapable of recognising a brazen charlatan and incapable of learning from past mistakes‚ he was their willing accomplice. His first favourite had been Piers Gaveston. The nobility chopped the head off Edward’s first favourite‚ but a couple of others followed before Hugh de Spenser‚ son
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Japan. Under these regimens the government held tight control over labor systems‚ media‚ and even family life. Germany was under a brutal Nazi government and both the German and Japanese governments would launch mass killings of people under their control. Germany was quickly gaining control over places such as Czechoslovakia and Sudetenland and eventually Poland‚ which would cause France and Britain to declare war on Germany. However on 14‚ 1940 German troops occupied Paris and for the following
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final draft The Civil War Until this day people sill debate about what the main cause of the civil war was. The civil war was a war fought between the Northern and Southern states of the U.S. It was a battle about disagreements between the north and south states that took place all over the U.S. Many of the battles took place from the Mississippi river to the eastern shore. Probably the most gruesome battle of this war was the battle of Gettysburg. Out of the 2.4 million soldiers fighting in
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CRJ 313 19 February 2012 Truman: Bomb Dropping It was August 6‚ 1945 when the first ever atomic bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later another was dropped on the city of Nagasaki‚ Japan and this let to the surrender of Japan in World War II. The surrender would have not occurred so soon if it had not been for President Harry Truman’s decision to use the first ever nuclear attack on another nation. His decision changed history and the way the world worked. This meant
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