The biggest changes that ever occurred in human history‚ in my opinion‚ were made during the Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution‚ the lifestyle of society changed‚ some effects were positive‚ while some were negative. During this time‚ due to scientific advances‚ improvements were made in agriculture‚ manufacturing‚ transportation and urbanization. At the beginning of 1750‚ revolutionary changes started to occur‚ completely altering the lifestyle of many people in Britain
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What were the successes and failures of the League of Nations in the 1920s? The League of Nations could stop small wars and improved some people’s lives. But it could not defend the Treaty of Versailles‚ get disarmament‚ or stop powerful countries. It stopped some wars – e.g. it arbitrated between Sweden and Finland over the Aaland Islands (1921) and stopped the invasion of Bulgaria by Greece (1925). In 1928‚ the League arranged the Kellogg-Briand Pact‚ which outlawed war. The
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Second World War the Soviet Union created an "iron curtain" by establishing communist dictatorships in much of Eastern Europe and thus the Americans lost many possible markets dealing a blow to the US’ economic might. Thus the actions of the communists were damaging for the capitalists as it went against their principles and this was a cause for the establishment of the Cold War. The most obvious origins of the Cold War lie‚ however‚ in the conferences that the Allied leaders held in the final years
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started trading with the Europeans with things such as Horses‚ gold‚ cloth‚ copper and other things like that. When the Europeans took over Africa in 1885 the country became really poor as there were no workers and there was no as much food because the farmers were being traded as slaves. Ships were being carried into Africa then putting slaves into tight pack or loose pack where they would sit there for 3-6 months with hardly any food and they would be sitting with other people they didn’t know
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back to the United States. But this helped bring together the North and changed what they were fighting for in many ways. This proclamation brought many African Americans to join the Union army and fight for the North. This showed the Union was now fully fighting for the end of slavery‚ which allowed many black people to put their faith in the North’s fight. Before this‚ the North was clear their reasons for fighting were to reunite the Union. As Abraham Lincoln said in 1862‚ “My most important goal
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Distance was a major drawback for the British. Britain was 3‚000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean away‚ with the only means of transportation being ships. Ships were often poor quality and the transportation of supplies was weather dependent. The cost of the journey‚ a minimum of two months‚ added to Britain’s disadvantages. Thus this supply chain was often disrupted‚ inconsistent and could never allow sufficient
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The Problems facing Alexander III in 1881 When Alexander became Tsar‚ Russia was in crisis following the assassination of Alexander II. Supreme political authority was still in the hands of the Tsar‚ but there were immense challenges facing Alexander III as he suddenly became Tsar of the world’s largest country‚ covering a quarter of the world’s land surface. Although known as the ‘Russian’ Empire‚ it compromised a large number of ethnic groups‚ with the Russians making up only half the population
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fume | Conduct tool box talkProper housekeepingSimultaneous operations | | Mechanical (crush points) | x | Ignition Sources | x | Other Trades | | x | Manual Handling | x | Ground Condition | x | Wind | | Steps | Task/Activity | Hazard | Risk Consequence | Solution/Control MeasureMitigation | Responsible Person | 1 | Structural steel erection‚ lifting operation for steel structures using crane. | Falling from heights ‚ slips‚ trips‚ wind velocity | Serious incident‚ fatality‚
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To what extent were the consequences of WWI the causes for WWII At the end of World War One‚ Europe was left in a devastating state‚ four major empires disappeared and the economy was profoundly damaged. The first global war had taken place and fear of a second one was strongly felt across the continent. In order to bring political order to European politics and to prevent such a catastrophe from ever happening again‚ the Paris Peace Settlement took place. The outcomes were the signing of the
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Buddhist. The population lived mainly in rural areas‚ with their lives structured around a village based society. This was the identity that Ho Chi Minh wanted to develop and express‚ and was the reason he took most of the actions he did. There were several personal factors in Ho Chi Minh’s life that led to the formation of his identity with him. He was born into a strongly nationalist family. His father ran a nationalist Vietnamese newspaper‚ which Ho was greatly exposed to as a child. He was
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