VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE April 27th‚ 1975‚ North Vietnamese soldiers had finally reached the outskirt of the southern capital‚ Saigon. The war in Viet Nam that lasted 20 years is about to come to an end with communism taking over. It was all over‚ Saigon was surrounded by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. Presiden Nguyen Van Thieu resigned as president and gave his farewell speech and denounced the United States for failing in aiding the South before the North would later come into the city
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they did not agree with voting for radical and did not like the Republicans. The KKK was used to help in this and I believe that they were helping the north. In the documents‚ it talks about the south and how people from the south were getting beat and how they were Republicans. The KKK believed the only way to get what they wanted and what was best for everyone else was to use violence. When a person did something that they didn’t like they would beat them or hurt them. Also‚ the north did not like
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it difficult to keep track of day to day events. This changed though in 1754 when the seven years’ war started. The seven years’ war was technically a world war because it spanned throughout many British and French colonies over multiple continents. Part of the war took place in North America over where the French territory ended and the British territory started. The British eventually won the war‚ but it was very costly. After the British won colonist expected to be rewarded with all of the French
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ruled Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries after a long time of bad rulers in Russia. They were once ruled mostly by barbarians‚ but he wanted to westernize Russia‚ and open a window to the west. It was tough bringing Russia out of a time of religious rule and poverty. He ended up making Russia one of the greatest empires of the time by improving Russia’s army and navy‚ gaining a lot of land‚ and bringing major intellectual changes. They were a major Eurasian power. Peter really took Russia out
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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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able to gain control of Venice in exchange for Italian alliance with Prussia against Austria. In 1871‚ Rome was the country’s capital. But Italy suffered again in the 1920’s because of Benito Mussolini‚ a leader who sided with Germany during World War II. This made the Italians surrender to Germany in 1945. When Italy joined the NATO‚ or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization‚ and the European Union‚ these helped them in terms of political and economic unification of Western
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War can have a huge impact on the international distribution of power and the global hierarchy. World War I went down in history as the greatest disaster and changed the balance of power. The development of economic imperialism‚ the emergence of trade barriers‚ the arms race‚ militarism and autocracy‚ the struggle over the balance of power‚ important for the maintenance of colonial powers‚ sharp local conflicts (Balkan wars‚ the Italian-Turkish War) and crisis (the Bosnian crisis‚ the collapse of
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Peter the great of Russia and Frederick the great of Prussia During the seventeenth and eighteenth century‚ Europe was changing in a different way. This was due to Peter the great of Russia and Frederick the great of Prussia. They both wanted similar things yet they were both different. Both of them wanted the best for their kingdoms‚ they wanted change‚ and that’s exactly what they got. Peter the great of Russia and Frederick the great of Prussia made a big impact in Europe Through their goals
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World War I has a considerable impact on the geopolitical development of the world. After the end of World War I‚ spheres of influence of leading world powers have changed consistently‚ reducing the impact of Germany and its allies and destroying the Ottoman Empire as the dominant power in the Middle Eastern region. However‚ the effects of World War I on the Middle East had proved to be quite different from what the local population had expected because instead of liberation and expanding the territory
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The Reforms of Peter I of Russia Scott MacLean 2 Peter I was tsar of Russia from 1682 until 1725. He introduced significant changes in the practice and policy of nearly every aspect of the Russian state and is generally seen as having reformed Russian society. His was a practical rather than an ideological revolution though; Peter ’s real contribution to Russia was the implementation of his reforms‚ often inspired more by practical necessity than by idealism. Such concrete action and Peter
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