“The Olympics damage from HMS did not exceed 125‚000” (SuperDuperFacts) They didn’t want to collect the insurance money off the Olympic because it wasn’t a lot and they wanted the millions of dollars from the
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the atlantic.the rivets wasn’t strong and long enough to hold the hull together. (angelo) the support bar was not strong enough to stabilize the whole ship. it was not very sturdy.the bar was the length as the ship.it was not big around and did not have enough strength to hold the ship straight.there was a lot of people on the ship as well. They wasn’t prepared for that many people and the support bar couldn’t hold that much.(anglo) iceberg warnings they had warnings that whole
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believe that he wasn’t the reason the Aztec Empire fell. He was “thrown into the position”; and the position was only setup for him to eventually fall to a high power‚ The Conquistadors. For those who agree‚ they would strongly debate the fact that he did indeed dismiss all plebeians from his court and increased taxation. “Although his advisers warned him that his actions would depreciate the empire‚ he requested numerous new things such as heavier tribute from conquered tribes and that he requested
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Compare and Contrast WWI & WWII There are a lot of similarities and differences between the two world wars. A main factor‚ however‚ is that the events in the first world war basically caused most of the events to happen in the second world war. The two wars are very closely tied together and have a big relationship with each other.First off‚ some of the differences from the first world war to the second. If we compare the costs of the two world wars‚ the difference is outstanding. It is estimated
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Populism is the revolt by the farmers in the South against the Democrats and Republicans. It was a down-up system that failed. Populism was a struggle between the elite and lower class that wanted more government control of banking and industries because farmers felt as if they were getting the short end of the stick. People were from a farming background and had the view that the government was favoring banks and industries and felt like the government was planning on getting rid of agriculture
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In March 1999‚ NATO started its first military campaign against the Serbian army to re- establish peace and order in Kosovo. As a result of the lack of planning and miscalculation‚ more than 800.000 Kosovar Albanians had to flee their homes and thousands of civilians were used as military targets by Serbs forces‚ provoking one of the most sadistic massacres in Europe since the Second World War. NATO failed in crucial points during the Kosovo crisis‚ which led to the war. Despite the continuous warnings
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military would have restored caliphal power if there was no financial crisis. The extent of distress was so much that in Shawwal 253/867 a Turkish commander ‘Wasif told discontented solders to eat dirt as he had nothing to give them.’ The civil war did much
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rebellion and uprisings was due to the hatred on the lords oppressions. Responses varied‚ considering that lords and theologians such as Martin Luther did not agree with the choice of the peasants while some other theologians did agree with the peasants and even urged and praised them to continue. The peasants felt oppression coming from their lords and did not appreciate how they were being treated. In Articles of Peasants of Memmingen‚ which was a document written by the peasant people themselves
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prevent another event of similar nature from happening again. Genocide is the act of deliberately killing a large group of people‚ especially those of a similar ethnic group or nation. These awareness efforts in recent years have lead historians to ask: Why does genocide occur? Often‚ genocide is the product of political and ethnic tensions
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publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Although Karl Marx political movement considers history in terms of a class conflict and revolutionary struggle. But in the end communism and socialism prevaled why it couldn’t hold‚ because it had abolished free markets so that officials had no market prices to guide them in planning production. Even tho as history shows communism is the easiest system to sell to people who are poor‚ not because they are stupid
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