Joan Conrad English 102 2 may‚ 2015 The Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs The Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis happened during the Cold War. This was a tense event following World War II. This almost caused Russia and US to be involved in a nuclear war. Another symbol of the Cold War was the Iron Curtain which divided the Soviet Union after World War II from Europe by the Berlin Wall. Soviet Union built this this wall to prevent people from leaving the Soviet Union and prevent interaction
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basically because they thought that they were smarter than the Germans. The mass killing of Jews occurred in late 1938 and ended in 1945 during World War 2. Many concentration camps were constructed by Hitler and his men to hold people who he called his enemy. People who were sent to camps were treated poorly and were enslaved. There is no real answer to why Hitler started the holocaust. Millions of Jews and minorities were killed during the holocaust for no reason. The Nazis killed and tortured approximately
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Right after America gained its independence from Britain‚ France’s problems started. The United States was too young and undeveloped of a country to repay France for their help in the war. Another one of France’s problems was their government. King Louis XVI and his wife Mary Antoinette were spending more money than they were taking in‚ resorting in a financial problem. Monarchy was the main type of government in the 1700s but it wasn’t efficient. King Louis XVI had the power to make laws and know
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from their homes in Denmark‚ Norway‚ and Sweden and started terrorizing Europe. During their 300-year time‚ they did many things‚ but one of the most important was helping develop Feudalism. The Viking raids helped shift power to lords and nobles and away from kings. The Vikings attacked the outer edge of a kingdom because the king and his army usually lived in the middle‚ two to three weeks away from the outside. Because of the amount of time it takes to get to the king and back‚ the Vikings can
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Human were using old technologies to produce new technologies to make their life easier. As we learned last week‚ human developed pottery during the Neolithic Era which they used as a containers to cook their food. Pottery now was more valuable‚ people started to trade pottery. Therefore they were made more carefully. During the Neolithic Era people were putting the Pottery in fire and sometime they were damaged due to the heat. Now the creation of kilns made the process more efficient. Humans were
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The World War I‚ known to many as the Great War or the War to End All Wars‚ was the world’s first global conflict leading to many casualties and with no point. WWI was one of the most deadliest wars in history with over 16 million people dead and the estimated amount of both military and civilian deaths total to about 37 million people. Unlike most wars‚ the first World War did not end with a country winning territory and ended up with political‚ economic‚ and social downfalls. The Balkan states
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then infection will set in and kill them. In World War I Russia did not die from her wounds but died of infection. Yes Russia faced many problems during the First World War but so did everyone else and yet some of them‚ like the French‚ not only survived the war but ended up winning it. Even saying that Russia lost the war is not the best statement that can be made. A more accurate representation of what happened is that Russians lost parts of the war. This better reflects the inability of Russians
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War & Art Bounded by the First World War‚ the period of 1920-1945 witnessed the hardships of the Great Depression and the destructive slide into political conflict. Throughout these dramatic times‚ during both the highs and the lows‚ artists responded to the world in which they lived in dramatic fashion. The events certainly had rippling effects upon all aspects of European life. In this time‚ artists and musicians had little choice but to react to the times to express their feelings and remain
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International History of the Cold War: Three (Possible) Paradigms* The Cold War is not what it once was. Not only has the conflict itself been written about in the past tense for more than a decade‚ but historians’ certainties about the character of the conflict have also begun to blur. The concerns brought on by trends of the past decade – such trifles as globalization‚ weapons proliferation‚ and ethnic warfare – have made even old strategy buffs question the degree to which the Cold War ought to be put at the
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Several treaties were signed during World War One including the infamous Treaty of Versailles‚ the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye‚ the Treaty of Trianon‚ Treaty of Sèvres and the Treaty Brest Litovsk. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3‚ 1918‚ between the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers in Brest-Litovsk in Brest Litovsk. This treaty officially brought Russia’s participation in the World war to an end. Russia had no other option other than
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