World War 1 Britain controlled an empire 140 times larger than itself; France controlled an empire 20 times its own size; and Belgium about 80 times its own size. The late 1800s through the early 1900s saw the rapid colonization of Africa by Europeans; this period has been called "the Scramble for Africa". European countries competed for colonies wanting to control them for their vast natural resources and as a market for their goods. Britain had a far stretching empire in the early 1900s and was by
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independent. The British won the war and conquered the Ohio River Valley like they always wished. Britain was looking forward to moving into the land they conquered. Nothing could go wrong‚ they had the land and they had the people. Unfortunately for them it did not go that well. Two major problems came up‚ money and land. Those two situations caused a lot of tension between the 13 Colonies and Britain. The colonists were not satisfied with the decisions that were being made to affect them. The British
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up of Britain‚ Belgium‚ France‚ Serbia‚ Russia‚ Japan‚ Italy‚ and the of course the United States. The Central Powers made up of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ and Bulgaria. In the beginning of the war France‚ Germany and Britain made trenches that went for 460 miles‚ from the North Sea to Switzerland. Millions of people would die in this trench over the next four years. Most of the Europeans rushed into the battle without considering important things. One of the things they did not
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Why did tension increase in Europe from 1900 to 1014?There are various factors that amplified the tensions in Europe from 1900 to 1914. A few of the major factors were International rivalry‚ the arms race‚ colonialism and the Crisis ’s of Morocco and Bosnia. These factors‚ alongside numerous others contributed to fuelling the First World War. International rivalry was‚ debatably‚ the biggest factor that caused the First World War. As the European powers such as Britain‚ France and Russia had been
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1750-1850: A brief survey Great Social Thinkers Inventions 1750-1800 1752 1755 1757 1758 1761 1769 1774 1775 1784 1785 1791 1792 1794 1796 1799 * Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. * Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary * John Campbell invents the sextant. * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. * John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. * James Watt
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The reoccurring violence in Cairo Il caused a huge decline in the population over time. Riots‚ mobs‚ and lynchings were happening everywhere you turned. The main reason that lynchings were happening were from rapes. Another major event and events that happened that caused a huge decline in the population was all of the mob activities. What would cause such events like these to occur? Why would someone want to do cruel events like raping an innocent women? What would cause someone to do so much as
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Why did Britain and France accept to the Munich Agreement? On 29 September 1938‚ the four leaders of Germany‚ Italy‚ Britain and France signed an agreement on the fate of the Sudeten territory in Czechoslovakia‚ without the Czechoslovak authorities present‚ which‚ it would seem at the time‚ was a guarantee of peace. Such was the premise of the event‚ but in reality it represented the abandonment of Czechoslovakia (Weinberg‚ 1988: 165)‚ by France in particular‚ and the naïve nature of the foreign
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Britain and the EU Britain have had a long and complicated relationship to the EU since it was established‚ to Britain joined the EU and until today. Britain joined the EU or the European Community as it was called then in 1973. Two years after there was a referendum in Britain about whether they should stay in the union or not. 66% voted to stay‚ and this was the last referendum Britain have had about staying or leaving the EU. In 1991 the Maastrict Treaty was signed‚ this treaty said that the EU
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Essay Did you know that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day of July 4th‚ 1826. Around this time the American temperance was formed in Boston. The colonists justified their independence by writing the Declaration of Independence‚ going to war against Great Britain‚ and starting their own country for the greater good of colonists. Also Britain was enforcing unfair taxes and americans did not want to pay them.All these reasons is why the colonists broke away from britain. The colonists
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Keum Yong (Andrew) Lee DBQ – Score 8/9 (95) In what ways and to what extent did the “American identity” develop between 1750 and 1776? Though the American colonists had not achieved a true‚ uniform sense of identity or unity by 1776‚ on the eve of Revolution‚ the progress towards unity and the inchoate idea of an “American” between 1750 and 1776 is inevitable in both existence and significance. Previous to the French and Indian War‚ America as a whole had been‚ more or less‚ loyal mercantile-based
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