Was the U.S. Justified in Going to War With Mexico? (Yes) The United States of America in the 1800’s was a rapidly growing country. Many people moved west for religious freedom while others were strong believers in Manifest Destiny. In order to occupy land‚ settlers had to find land that wasn’t already occupied. Since most of the west was a part of Mexico‚ this was not easy to do. Luckily‚ Mexicans also wanted settlers in their western lands because that area was not developed. Mexico invited
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nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920‚ giving all women the right to vote. This amendment was the result of over two generations of women’s protests and hard work. The nineteenth Amendment was officially ratified on August 18‚ 1920‚ but it was introduced to Congress 42 years earlier‚ in 1878. This amendment guaranteed that all women who were citizens of the United States could not be denied or restricted from voting based on their gender. Many thought that this right was implied in the fourteenth
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Defying authority is hard. Religious laws with strict death penalties for those who defy authority are even harder. In the story The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ a brave and stern character named John Proctor dwells within the plot of the play. Proctor was one of the few sensible people in the town of Salem to see the lies in Abigail’s witchcraft accusations. Proctor has a great will and love for his word and his wife. Honest‚ upright‚ and blunt-spoken‚ Proctor is a good man with one detrimental flaw:
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The Ottoman Empire is one of the largest and longest lived of the great empires of the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire survived for more than four centuries until it was finally dismantled at the end of World War I in 1918. The Ottoman Empire provides a direct link from the early modern period. At its height of power‚ the Ottoman Empire controlled a huge amount of territory‚ in the Middle East‚ North Africa and southeastern Europe including Greece‚ Hungary‚ the Balkans‚ Romania and Bulgaria. The
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The Spanish Influenza The Spanish Influenza was a disaster in the year 1918 because many people began to get the cold or as the Spanish call it “La Grippe”. The Spanish influenza was caused by people having the H5N1 virus. The virus in the year 1918 killed about five-hundred million people and only about fifty-million were victims of the Spanish influenza. The Spanish Influenza came spreading from China and it came a huge disaster because nobody knew how it all began. The Spanish Influenza began in
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amount of votes that the Nazis obtained also decreased in the Reichstag elections. Therefore the economic depression did not make Adolf Hitler Chancellor but other main factors including the oratory skills of Hitler‚ the propaganda campaign of Goebbels and the fact that Hindenburg and Von Papen thought that they could control Hitler once he was Chancellor. The smaller extreme parties also would not work together although combined they could have had more support than the Nazis. The Treaty of Versailles
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inspiration to their male partners. What is more women being in charge of their households and farms when their husbands engage in other activities that were closely associated with men for example politics or war. Mary Silliman was a Puritan mother and a wife‚ she was widowed twice and went through a lot of hardships in her life. Because of the American Revolution and kidnapping of her second husband - an officer in the Continental militia‚ Gold Selleck Silliman‚ she was forced to change. She became more
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What are the main obstacles to a ‘two-state solution’ to the Israel-Palestine conflict? On December 1st 2003‚ a group of Palestinian and Israeli experts presented a plan which could serve as a blueprint for a ‘two-state solution’ to the Israel-Palestine conflict. (Golan‚ 2008) It was presented in Geneva and is therefore often referred to as the ‘Geneva accord’. It states that the conflict and all claims would have to end and that Israel and Palestine have to mutually recognize their right to two
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What was Hitler’s role in the Holocaust? Studies of the Holocaust have provoked passionate debates. Increasingly‚ they have become a central topic of concern for historians particularly since the early 1970s‚ as the Holocaust studies were generally limited. However‚ one of the most intense debates surrounding the role played by Hitler in the ’Final Solution’. That is‚ whether and when Hitler took a decision to initiate the extermination process. Of course‚ this issue has caused incredible controversy
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not allow for precision bombing. The bombing of Dresden was not justified. The allies reasoning behind the Bombing of Dresden revolved around the Russians. Churchill and Roosevelt had already decided that their current ally‚ Joseph Stalin was going to be an issue after the war. In the hopes of alarming the Russians‚ they bombed Dresden. Internal RAF documents suggest that one reason for the bombing of Dresden was to “…show the Russians what bomber technology can do.” With the “…Russian army threatening
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