“It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.” Vladimir Lenin said this‚ he was the founder of the Soviet Union‚ a command economy that collapsed in 1991. This quote summarizes the type of control that he believed was required to create a utopian country. In a command economy‚ the government makes all decisions on jobs‚ land‚ and production‚ which leads to many social and political ramifications. This fact‚ along with a multitude of other factors‚ led to the
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Why did the Achaemenid Empire Fall? Throughout time there have been a number of Persian Empires‚ but none of them can compare to the great Achaemenid Empire‚ which ruled between 550 to 330BC. The Achaemenid Empire is known as the largest empire in Ancient history which stretched out approximately 8 million km² at the height of its power. So how does an Empire so large and with such great power collapse? Was it struggle for power‚ which every new king had to suffer after the death of Darius the
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Why did Hitler hate the Jews? Adolf Hitler‚ ruler of Germany from 1933-1945‚ and his Nazi Party murdered more than half of Europe’s 11 million Jews in the Holocaust. The vast majority of these murders took place in just 4 years from 1941 to 1945. Hitler was able to do this because of his feelings of hatred towards the Jews (known as anti-Semitism) were shared by many other Germans and people in Europe. Anti-Semitism was not invented by Hitler or the Germans. It existed everywhere in Europe and
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battle ever fought in North America. Why did the Battle of Gettysburg happen? Two months foregoing the battle‚ General Lee had an impressive defeat against the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville‚ Virginia. He then started planning for a Northern invasion by first taking action on the Yankees. His army was at the time 80‚000 soldiers! With the army of the Potomac Commander Joseph Hooker and leading about 10‚000 soldiers he began moving towards General Lee by Washington D.C. Abraham Lincoln got
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Vladek made both risky and wise choices to survive the Holocaust‚ such as working in the tin shop‚ sitting above the people in the cattle cars on a blanket‚ and having a clean shirt while he was in Dachau. When Vladek worked in the tin shop‚ he was taking an immense risk‚ considering he had little to no experience being a tinsmith. “I was not really a tinsmith‚ but I knew a little.” (Spiegelman‚ 36). He could’ve been killed if he hadn’t learned so easily from watching. The lead tinsmith‚ Yidl‚ knew
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Why did Tsardom collapse in 1917? In February 1917‚ all were stunned when what started off as a demonstration regarding shortages of food and fuel‚ escalated into a protest attempting to overthrow Tsar Nicholas II. However‚ nobody could have predicted what the result would have been‚ as when Tsar Nicholas II abdicated‚ there was nobody to assume the position of Tsar‚ and so 300 years of Romanov rule came to an end. Although it came as a surprise‚ the failure of the tsarist regime happened for
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Atlantic. In 1912‚ the RMS Titanic sank for a multitude of reasons and events. The hull malfunction made the Titanic break in two which in return‚ caused many deaths. The cracks‚ the booms‚ are all caused by some critical hull failures. The ship did indeed break in two which was due to a probable hull failure. A hull failure due to the slow sinking of the Titanic‚ a huge stress builds up. This stress concentrates on parts of the ship and that’s called a stress-concentration (Deitz). The stress
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pain into the world. God promised future generations that he will send someone special to save us from sin. This was then true when God sent his only Son and was born from Mary. This special moment is known as the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. But why did God cause the Incarnation? There are three reasons that will be discussed in this paper. The three reasons are: to help see and understand God’s love‚ to be a model of holiness‚ and to make people partakers of the divine nature. The first reason
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History Homework Why Did Hitler go to War? One reason why Hitler went to war was to regain the Honor of Germany which he thought they had lost after their defeat in World War 1. Hitler believed that Germany never lost World War 1 and that the Jews were too blame for the loss but really Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat for a reason to start another war and regain the strength of Germany. The Jews were never really to blame for the loss of World War 1 it was the bad management
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The Roman Empire was a great empire and was around for some time‚ but all great things come to an end. Many things took part in dragging the Roman Empire down‚ but the economy and its problems were one of the main causes why the empire fell. As we know the economy is a big part of what keeps a country going‚ however in Rome the economy had problems that contributed to Rome’s fall. The rise of taxes wasn’t easy on anyone. Taxes made most of the peasants’ day to day lives difficult to live. There
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