Unlike Eisenhower’s brinksmanship‚ Kennedy’s flexible response took the focus away from nuclear weapons and reemphasized conventional forces as the best tool for undertaking limited and covert operations against the USSR. 2. The Space Race was so important to the US because it showed that the US possessed a better space program compared to that of the USSR and because it showed the relative strength of the US compared to the USSR. 3. In terms of the space race and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Question: Why did so many people move to colonial America? In the 1600s‚ immigration began. Throughout the 1600 and 1700s‚ the population in colonial America increased rapidly. This was caused by a variety of reasons: enslavement‚ economy‚ exportation‚ religious purification‚ and freedom from the English government. One of the main reasons Africans immigrated to America was because they were either coerced or forced to come to the colonies from Africa as slaves. In Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting
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Death in Jamestown In spring of 1607‚ the English passengers who sailed into the Americas had little idea that their demise awaited them. The 100 colonists who sailed from England and arrived in Jamestown‚ Virginia were mostly poor and between the ages of 17-35. Their main reason for traveling was to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Americas‚ and they were also searching for gold and a trade route to China. However‚ although hopes were high for this new settlement‚ 70 out of
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When one chronicles the twentieth century history of the country we live in there was one organisation that has kept reappearing in the records. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) from its inception in early twentieth century Ireland to its supposed ending of its campaign on the 2005 was one of the most feared paramilitary organisations known to the world of terrorism. The IRA would gain the contemption and respect of its deadly foe‚ the British Army who respected the fact they were fighting an
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Confederation happened in 1867 which made Canada what it is today. Confederation was good idea because the result of political‚economic‚social and military conditions in place at the time. During the time that Confederation was going on‚ The Fenians were a huge threat towards Canada. Fenians were a bunch of Immigrants from ireland living in the US‚ they were a threat to Canada because they wanted Britain to leave Ireland.Attacking Canada would push Britain towards leaving Ireland. Confederation
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Why is the American Crime Rate So High? When compared with other Western-industrialized nations‚ the United States has the highest crime rate. It is a daunting question as to why‚ especially in the age we live in now. One might just boil it down to being a consequence of an ongoing population boom‚ the idea being that when there are more people‚ there is going to be more criminal activity. While this is obviously true‚ it is not even coming close to touching on the big picture. There are many
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The American Revolution (1775-83) is‚ for the most part‚ called the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The debate ascended out of creating strains between inhabitants of Great Britain’s 13 North American states and the typical government‚ which tended to the British crown. Clashes between British troops and wild minutemen at Lexington and Concord in April 1775 began the equipped clash‚ and in the going to summer‚ the instigators were looking for after a full-scale war for
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Haiti won its independence in 1804‚ France had recently beheaded their century old monarchy‚ replaced the feudalist system of old with new enlightenment ideals‚ guillotined their entire aristocratic class‚ and then out of the chaos‚ through the strong hand of Napoleon Bonaparte‚ became the most powerful empire in the world. Across the Atlantic ocean‚ in France’s small colony of Haiti‚ then known as Saint Domingue‚ racial tensions were brewing; the minority white french colonists held power over the “people
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to maintain the lesser ideals of the French Revolution. However‚ he managed to do this by giving all of the former ideals a ‘twist’ of his own if he was displeased by them. This included the fact that he re-wrote the constitution that had previously been written; he partially reversed the relationship with the Church‚ turning France into a Catholic country. It can also be stated that the way he gained power was against the French Revolution’s ideals: and this was the very beginning! On the other hand
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unfortunately‚ John F. Kennedy was one of the four presidents that didn’t make it. The Death of John F. Kennedy took a great toll on the nation and in some cases places outside of the United States. Unlike Lincoln and Roosevelt‚ whose lives were taken just after finishing major historical movements‚ JFK was assassinated right in the middle of his doings. TOPIC: Why was JFK so popular? John F. Kennedy was one of the most popular presidents to date‚ but what did he do to become so popular? His charming
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