anger all across the colonies he even made a picture of the even and called it the Bloody Massacre. This anger and resentment of the British led to the next event that would later lead on to the war. The Boston tea party was another humongous reason why America went to war with Britain. On December 16‚ 1773 the colonists and the Sons of Liberty stormed 3 British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor disguised as native americans because of the tea tax that Britain had started. In current
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JROTC essay LetII Why Did I Join Army JROTC? I joined Army JROTC for many reasons. Ever since I was little‚ I’ve been interested in joining the army. Playing with toy soldiers as a kid‚ watching movies playing‚ and video games showed me what army life was like. You wake up really early in the morning‚ shoot guns‚ throw grenades‚ and going to war were some of the things that interested me for some reason. Right before high school I started getting more informed about the JROTC program. I learned
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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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- Why did Japan turn to militarism and drift away from democracy in the 1930s and the 1940s? How did US occupation authorities seek to prevent Japan from relapsing into the past system of military expansion? The root of Japan’s militarism started out from the developments of the Meiji era that was established by imperial restoration after Edo period. The idea of the Meiji Revolution‚ to boost morale and to extricate Japan from the idea of Tokugawa feudalism‚ had been carried over to turn Japan
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Why Did The Spanish Armada’s Plan To Overthrow Protestant England In 1588 Fail? It was believed the Spanish Armada were a formidable force and could not be beaten; their weapons and tactics were far superior to any other countries. However‚ the inevitable happened‚ they were beaten and in this enquiry I will talk about the reasons and factors to why the Spanish Armada ended up getting beat trying to overthrow protestant England in 1588. The conflict between England and Spain had been going
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Jairo McZeno English 1A GRS81 January‚ 10th‚ 2013 Why Did I Join JROTC Before I enrolled into the JROTC program I considered myself‚ and was considered to be just a normal student. Nothing was special about me‚ and I had just been a face in the crowd. Coming into Fort Hamilton I realized if I ever wanted to go anywhere in this world I’d have to first become a better person‚ JROTC had been the perfect place to go. One of my main reasons for joining JROTC was fist to better myself as a person
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The Soviet Union on December 25‚ 1991‚ Christmas day the Soviet flag flew over Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier from this event‚ 11 of the Soviet republics met in the city of Kazakh. It was announced that all the satellite states like Ukraine‚ belarus‚ Armenia‚ Azerbaijan‚ Kazakhstan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Moldova‚ Turkmenistan‚ Tajikistan and Uzbekistan would no longer be apart of Soviet union and they said they would establish a commonwealth and not be controlled by the Soviet Union. Once one
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enough concrete‚ 4.5 million cubic yards‚ to build a two-lane highway from Seattle‚ Washington to Miami‚ Florida.More than 8.5 million pounds of dynamite was used to blast the foundation for the dam and 8 miles of tunnels through the canyon walls. Why did they build the Hoover Dam?The main reason for building the Hoover Dam was to supply the electrical power necessary to transport 4.4 million acre-feet—over a quarter of the Colorado River’s average annual flow to California. Soon‚ the dam also would
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Why did the Spanish Armada Fail? The Spanish Armada is the name given to the giant flotilla of Spanish warships send by Spain’s Catholic King Philip II in 1588 to destroy Protestantism England under Elizabeth- though hindsight would say otherwise‚ the aim of the Spanish Armada was not intended for an all-out confrontation with the opposing English fleet- but rather to escort the vulnerable barges in which the Duke of Parma (a well respected and experienced general who had been fighting against Dutch
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German lines. This operation was a success because not only did it lead to the victory in Europe but it earned the support of the Soviet Union which was a smart decision on America’s part. The Soviet Union gave support in America defeating Japan. Over in the Pacific‚ America used a method known as “Island hopping [and this] was important because American’s were able to hop to any island and take back control from the Japanese of that island” (Why Island Hopping Was So Important). Island hopping was a
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