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    Introduction: Henry Ford was born in Michigan‚ Dearborn on July 30‚ 1863 (biography.com). From a young age he had preferred working with machinery and mechanics (inventors.com). At 16‚ he started working for Detroit Edison company‚ advancing from machine - shop apprentice to chief engineer within a few years (inventors.com). That was when he started working on the internal combustion engine. (biography.com) says that when1903 came

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    off the Depression‚ especially after 1929. Nothing was done until 1932 when a World Disarmament Conference was called. Needless to say the conference was a failure with no country willing to risk major disarmament.. Hitler claimed that as no other power was willing to disarm‚ why should Germany? Germany withdrew from the Conference‚ and the League of Nations‚ in 1933 German rearmament began in secret at first‚ but by 1935 Hitler had introduced conscription and shown off his new armed forces in

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    Stanley Wirian Mr. Joshua Frear English 10.2 29 September 2016 Why was the Battle of Stalingrad significant in World War 2? Have you ever wondered how the German invasion of the Eastern Europe was stopped by just a single battle? Before the Battle of Stalingrad‚ the Nazi swiftly conquered part of the Eastern Europe with its famous Blitzkrieg tactic‚ using fast movement of infantries and tanks supported by tremendous usage of warplanes‚ until finally Hitler decided to break the treaty between the

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    Why was difficult to attack a castle? During the Medieval period‚ castle became important. These huge castles were mostly invented for defending the foreigner attacks. The castles were also the sin of the noble and royal power. Eventually‚ there were various kinds of castle‚ but most of the castles were used for protecting and defending during siege warfare. While the builders built these castles‚ they added much prevention structures to the castles‚ those preventions made the castles difficult

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    When it comes to the Constitution‚ the whole document is important. And that is because it’s our rules and regulations we live by daily. This document is the framework and backbone of our Federal Government‚ which makes it hard to just pinpoint the MOST important aspect of it. That being said‚ I’ll narrow it down to the two most important aspects of the United States Constitution and how these ideas leave a long‚ lasting impact on America. First and foremost‚ I feel like if we didn’t have some

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    Why Was Pro Slavery Wrong

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    From the 1830s to 1850s there was a battle to expand slavery all the way to the south and west. The question of slavery grew forming pro-slavery and anti-slavery movements in the American states. Americans who were pro-slavery formed an ideology of which may seek benefits for both slaves and masters. On the other belief system anti-slavery Americans stood where they desired to prove that slaves were held in a violent system and seemed to be unable to escape the system. When we examine slavery‚ it

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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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    Why was rearmament so important for Hitler ? The treaty of Versailles cut Germany’s armed forces to a tiny percentage of what it used to be during the First World War. During the 1920’s the league was trying to establish a plan for disarmament but many nations were using rearmament as a way to get over the depression‚ especially after 1929. In 1932 a world Disarmament conference was called. The conference was a failure‚ as no country was willing to disarm as much as they wanted. Hitler thought

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    Emily Dickinson. At first Dickinson was not known of as a great poet‚ since she did not actually publish any of her poetry before her death. It was only after she died that Lavinia‚ Dickinson’s sister‚ found the hundreds of poems Dickinson had written throughout her lifetime. Without these poems American Literature would have been set back many years and may have never reached where it has so far in today’s society. There are many reasons why Emily Dickinson was significant

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    most of the Romans thought that Caesar was a good leader‚ little did they know he let 1‚000 soldiers die in one battle. Everyone in Rome thought Caesar was a good leader‚ but everyone else around the world thought he was terrible. Caesar thought he was doing the right thing for Rome‚ but really he acted greedily. Brutus and Cassius loved Caesar‚ but they said they loved Rome more so they murdered him. Caesar was well respected by everyone in Rome. Hitler was ambitious because he killed millions of

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