of wartime deaths. After the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7‚ 1941‚ it became clear that a mass amount of penicillin needed to be produced in order to win the war. The U.S. was able to produce 2.3 million portions of penicillin in order to prepare for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Penicillin soon was known as the “miracle drug” of the war‚ curing diseases and saving the lives of millions. The discovery of penicillin changed the lives of everyone on the globe‚ but it also changed the
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The Enduring Legacy and Impact of Vladimir Lenin The reign of Communism throughout the majority of the Eastern World and its origins in industrialism are ubiquitous features of the 19th and 20th centuries. Thus‚ the pivotal players in its creation‚ dissemination and thought are of paramount historical importance insofar as they have played a vital role in the establishment‚ proliferation and dissemination of one of the predominant ideologies of the last two centuries; for better or for worse
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governments come crashing down along with their hopes and dreams‚ but the things that kept these people going in the midst of the good times and the bad times were the aspect of a better future. The book‚ Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed‚ by Jared Diamond focuses on how the practices that humans are employing in today’s society will affect the future. Diamond analyzes if there will be a future in a world where all we are doing is breaking the earth down. It can be recognized that
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How to succeed in 8th grade Have you ever wondered how you could succeed in 8th grade? Well‚ you can succeed in many ways but I’m only going to say a few. When you study you can get good grades. If you ask questions you can understand more.Taking notes can help you with your work also. When you study it can help you with your work. Say you didn’t study you would get all your work wrong but if you did study you would get it all right. Studying can help you with taking notes
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Atomic Bomb Harry Truman was a president who volunteered in WW1. Harry Truman was born in Missouri on May 8‚ 1884. He was commonly known for the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan‚ which caused many casualties with lives being lost on both sides such as in Japan and the U.S.‚ however this ended the war even faster and ended the conflict with the pacific. In this paper I will argue that Harry Truman was wrong for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan; several reasons why it was wrong for Harry Truman
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To what extent was the success of Stalin in retaining power in the USSR through fear? Section A It is assumed by most from a Western prospective that Stalin was the sole creator of the Great Purges and his regime was held together by the constant and consistent fear he infiltrated through it. Many historians put Stalin forward as an evil tyrant so much so that he can seem superhuman. My investigation’s aim is to explore to what extent was the success of Stalin in retaining power in the USSR
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started in the November 1917 and lasted till October 1922. Withes‚ diverse coalition considering mostly monarchism and capitalist‚ attacked the Reds‚ which was mostly Boleshevik‚ fighting for preservation and development of socialism under the command of Lenin and Trotsky. Many factors had to be taken into the account when result is considered‚ but it was mostly based on various lacks. Lack of support both economic and social‚ lack of unity‚ lack of human resources‚ lack of strong leadership‚ lack of common
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rigid reaffirmation of Marxian ideas and fundamentals- dialectical materialism and irreconcilable class struggle. 14. What did Lenin add to Marxism? He developed and transformed it into a first-rank element of Marxism certain theories of “imperialism” and of the “uneven development of capitalism‚ that is captilism that
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involvement in World War II and postwar international organizations like the United Nations‚ the IMF and World Bank‚ etc. Why did Roosevelt and Truman succeed where Wilson failed? Had the new Democrats presented their initiatives more skillfully‚ had Americans changed their way of thinking about the relationship between their country and the world‚ had the world changed‚ perhaps‚ or was it something else? Explain using examples from readings and lecture (and note that you are not required to go into
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oseph Stalin or Benito Mussolini? If one was alive and young back at the time of the second great war‚ which country would one choose to live in? Italy or Russia? Germany or Britain? United States or Japan? It honestly depended on the leaders. During the years of World War 2‚ there were many leaders; such as Roosevelt‚ Churchill‚ Hitler‚ and the two that were alike in many ways‚ but were also different are Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin. These two were Dictators who ruled over two different
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