WWII Reading Questions http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=15&smtID=2 1. Who was Joe Louis‚ why is he important‚ and why did he help to increase black enlistment into the military? He was important because he defeated a white boxer and encouraged blacks to enlist in the army 2. What was the first concentration camp and when was it set up? Dachau‚ 1933 3. What groups of people were targeted during the Holocaust? Jews‚ Gypsies‚ Polish Catholic‚ Russians‚ mentally and physically
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Engineering‚ I stumbled upon Engineering in the Air Force. From there‚ I dove into different military research until I found a summary of the events in World War 2. World War 2 was a war that lasted 6 years‚ from 1939 to 1945‚ and there was many countries involved‚ including: The United States‚ Germany‚ Japan‚ Soviet Union‚ Britain‚ and many more. The war was ended shortly after the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima‚ but I wanted to know if dropping the bomb was absolutely
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Italy In Italy after World War 1 the economy and political environment became unstable. Mussolini had solidified his power across all of Italy through murder‚ blackmail‚ and slander campaigns against Italy’s press‚ politicians‚ and leftists. From 1925 on‚ Mussolini slowly gained more and more power until Italy became a totalitarian state enforced by a secret police organization. His dictatorship influenced fascist leaders who came on the scene later such as Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco. In
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The First World War was a clash between the Allies and the Central Powers; lasting from July 1914 to November 1918. Despite President Wilson announcing that the United States would not be joining the war to avoid conflict with other nations‚ he asked Congress for a declaration of war on April 2‚ 1917. The critics of World War 1 were more patriotic than anti-American because they were attempting to improve their government‚ making an effort to protect their country‚ and they were defending what they
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World War One‚ also known as the Great War‚ began in Europe and lasted from July 28th‚ 1914 to November 11th‚ 1918. The war pulled in all the big economic countries. The war consisted of two opposing alliances: the Allies (consisted of the French 3rd Republic‚ the Russian Empire and the United Kingdom of Ireland and Great Britain) against the Main Powers of Austria-Hungary and Germany. Even though Italy was a member of the Triple Alliance alongside Austria-Hungary and Germany‚ they did not join the
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Why We Never Need to Worry about World Peace World Peace is something that will never happen. Too many countries have too much military power and don’t want to give in to any other country. War is something that the world is going to have to deal with because there has been very few years over the history of the world that have been war free. Like one quote by an unknown author says‚ "Peace is rare: less than 8% of the time since the beginning of recorded time has the world been entirely at peace
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The First World War was a global war centred in Europe that began from 1914 and lasted until 1918. It probably involved most of nations in the world‚ which were divided into two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Central Powers (Willmott‚ 2003:10-11). Eventually‚ on 11 November 1918‚ Germany signed an armistice‚ and Allies won the war. As a consequence‚ the First World War not only transformed the world force pattern‚ but also generated many problems that affected nations’ development all over
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The World War I was referred as the first “Total War” from historians and to others the “Great War”. The World War I was very tragic because of countries that were involved in the War. During this time Woodrow Wilson was the President‚ and he was the 28th President in the United States. Wilson wanted to keep the United States neutral during the World War I. This essay will explain why Wilson abandoned his policy of neutrality and justify American involvement in a European conflict. During
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Columbus came to the New World for a variety of reasons. A few of these reasons included: wealth‚ converting non-Christians and to prove the theory of the earth being round. On Columbus’ journey to the New World he had actually set out on his project that he called “Enterprise of the Indies”. In this project he had set out to reach east by sailing west. Columbus wanted to prove the theory of the earth being round. Now Columbus’ journey was mainly based on the works of Ptolemy. If Ptolemy’s works
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The First World War was a monumental and detrimental global influenced conflict that brought about the destruction of at least ten-million lives‚ and forever changing millions more. While nearly a war fought fully on European soil‚ the nations involved were not near-relatively restricted to European countries. Of these various non-European nations‚ consisted that of Canada‚ a dominion of Great Britain. To that point in time‚ Canada was a young developing subsidiary of the British crown‚ as Confederation
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