American Studies Unit Test Study Guide 8 Cold War Conflicts * Communism: state controlled all property and economic activity; totalitarian government with no opposing parties * Capitalism: private citizens controlled all economic activity; people vote * Distrust: (USSR) Stalin resented the Western Allies’ delay in attacking the Germans in Europe and US’s secret development of Atomic bomb; (US) Stalin’s 1939 non-aggression pact with Hitler‚ and he prevented free elections in Poland
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Education in Britain is compulsory and free for all children between the ages of 5-16. About 93 percent of all children are educated in state schools and the rest attend private schools. Primary school. Schoolchildren attend a primary school for 6 years (5 to 11 years). When students transfer to Secondary School at the age of 11‚ they do not take any examination‚ but their reports are sent on from the Primary School. Secondary School. Most children – over 80 percent – go to a comprehensive school
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the U.S victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775 - 1783. The colonies that once didn’t mind being the colonies now have a different view. The victory of the Revolutionary War was possible due to the political‚ diplomatic and military reasons‚ such as The Second Continental Congress‚ The Treaty of Paris of 1783‚ and the Patriots Advantage. The Second Continental Congress is the political reason because it was the start of the war. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 served
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What factors have led to urban decline? (15) Political factors After the closure of London Dockland’s in 1980‚ the area was in a near to derelict state as people and businesses quickly moved out of the area. There were a number of causes to the urban decline of London Dockland’s. A number of political factors helped cause the decline. London’s green belt was created in 1947. A green belt is a broad section of land around an area which restricts development and therefore growth‚ minimising suburban
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causes that led to World War 2. One of these causes was the signed Nazi Soviet pact between German leader Adolf Hitler and Russian leader Joseph Stalin; this cause triggered the beginning of World War 2. The first reason that the Nazi Soviet pact was a cause of World War 2 was because the agreement Gave Hitler an opportunity to invade Poland because Hitler thought Stalin would be blinded because of the agreement. This caused the war because Neville Chamberlain said he would declare war on Germany
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IMPACT OF WW1 ON BRITAIN The effect that World War I had upon civilians was devastating. WWI was a war that affected civilians on an unprecedented scale. Civilians became a military target. The economic impact of WWI meant that there were shortages of all produce‚ most importantly food. Consequently‚ rationing of bread‚ tea‚ sugar and meat was introduced in 1918. This was widely welcomed by the British public‚ as a voluntary rationing system had been introduced a year before‚ and people were
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1945: The Allies agree in Potsdam to the fundamental conditions of the occupation of Germany. American nuclear bombs destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 1947: The Truman Doctrine: The US offers assistance to countries threatened by communism -- especially Greece and Turkey. US Secretary of State George C. Marshall announces a massive aid program for the reconstruction of World War II-torn Europe that will become known as the Marshall Plan. 1948: The Communists take power in Czechoslovakia. 1948: The
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Sectionalism was the principal cause of the American Civil War‚ a reality acknowledged in Allan Nevins’ observation that the North and South ‘were rapidly becoming separate peoples’. The financial differences between the north and south due to increasing social‚ economical and political differentiation resulted in the prominence of slavery as an issue‚ further dividing the North and South. This sectionalism caused the emergence of the Republican Party with its anti-slavery platform‚ causing the
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is one of the basic components of classic physics. This same concept is shown in Romeo and Juliet by illustrating that there is a balance in life‚ as in when there is a fortunate event that acts as a action force‚ there will always be an unfortunate event that is the resulting reaction force. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a story about two lovers whose fate was destined to be a calamity as a result of their parent’s strife. This play might convince readers that the story of Romeo and
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The Seven Years’ War also referred to as the French and the Indian War was battled between France and the Great Britain within the span of 1756-1763. The battlefield was in North
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