denied any intention of interfering with the slavery in those states. The Confederates president ordered batteries to fire on Fort Sumter. Lincoln then ordered 75‚000 troops and the war began. There were several factors that allowed the north to win the Civil War‚ One of the main reasons is that the north had far more soldiers and resources than the south. Then on the Proclamation’s provisions‚ the blacks were allowed enrollment into the military which added even more men to the Northerners side
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Why did the Liberals win the 1906 General Election by a landslide? After the Conservative Prime Minister (A. J. Balfour) resigned‚ the Liberals called a general election in 1906‚ and won by a ‘landslide’. Whether the Liberals won the election by such a large margin by their own success or the failure of the Conservatives is debatable. Many factors contributed to the outcome of this. Those who see it as a positive win for the Liberals argue it is due to the bringing in on New Liberalism and its
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Why did Germany and its Allies Lose WW1? It can be argued that Germany and its allies faced a overwhelming war right from the start‚ but their desire to provoke and enter a war that involved the majority of Eastern Europe led them to being doomed right from the start. There are many factors that contributed to Germany and its allies’ loss of WW1; such as inefficient military decisions and plans like the Schlieffen Plan‚ and the lack of strength from Germany’s allies. But in the end it was the
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the day so the US soldiers would not know who they are and then in the night they attacked them. The US army did the total difference they did everything so people will know they are there. They wanted to win that conflict they shot people boombed boombs and they did everything they could to win the conflict. I guess what they did was not good enough. This is my second opinion‚ the vietnamese knew the area much better than the other outsiders like the USA that came to fight in the conflict. They
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Union. All they could muster were relatively hollow threats on an ad hoc basis. It was an approach US Secretary of Defense James Forrestal complained was ‘a patchwork job’. Having formally adopted the concept of the ‘containment’ of Soviet Communism in late November 1948‚ most policymakers within the Truman administration simply assumed‚ or perhaps hoped is a better word‚ that the American atomic monopoly would somehow intimidate the Soviets from breaches of the peace for fear of precipitating
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The Cold War was a rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States that lasted for about forty-five years. The war began as a distrust between the two nations involving the United States concern of Soviet Union communism spreading and their leader‚ Joseph Stalin’s‚ rule. Numerous European and Asian countries were struggling in their fight against Soviet Union communism‚ including Greece and Turkey. President Harry Truman feared that the fall of Greece and Turkey to communism would lead to
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In 1791‚ Kahekili tried to invade the island of Hawaiʻi‚ but was defeated in a naval battle called Kepuwahaʻulaʻula. Kamehameha had to wait for the civil war that broke out in 1793 after the death of Kahekili II‚ and the battle of Nu’uanu to finally win control of Maui.While Maui’s king Kahekili II was on Oʻahu‚ Kamehameha’s war fleet landed in Kahului a few kilometers from the base of ʻĪao Valley. An army consisting of around twelve hundred skilled warriors led by Kamehameha and Kekuhaupiʻo‚ advanced
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Our society has its beliefs in how we should treat competition in young people. Rewarding all participants in youth activities and sports has become standard practice in American culture. Kids should not receive trophies for participation. If this was the case with the kids who had unpleasant attitudes and didn’t even show up to practice would get a medal. That then teaching those kids its okay to act that way. This would also teach kids‚ they get an award for participating in an activity or sport
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THE PERSIAN WAR The Persians and the Greeks were at war with each other in the Persian war. It started when the Ionians revolt against the Persians and asked Greek to save them. The wars were Marathon‚ Thermopylae‚ Salamis‚ and Plataea. The battle of Marathon was the first war. The Greeks won the war against the Persians. In the war the Persians thought they could sneak attack Athens but the Greeks were waiting for them the whole time. The battle of Thermopylae was the second war. The Persians
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“They fought together like brother-in-arms. They died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a seldom obligation.” Admiral Chester A. Nimitz was apart of the United States Navy‚ describing how the men fought. Hitler was a man who thought that Germans were the master race. So in order to show everyone that they were‚ he tried to over through the world‚ one country at a time. Hitler started persuading Germany to help them become the master race. In no time‚ young men‚ and eventually
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