Why did women get the vote in 1918? The government had a problem because men fighting in the war would not be able to vote in the election. The government changed the law so that the soldiers could vote. Women’s groups saw their opportunity and began to put pressure on the government to include votes for women in the changed law. David Lloyd George‚ the Prime Minister‚ was a supporter of women voting but not the use of violence. The Suffragettes stopped campaigning in the beginning of the war and
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Forces‚ bringing an end to the war that shook the earth‚ World War II. While the Allied Forces were fighting against the Nazi threat in western Europe‚ another part of the war was being fought in eastern Asia against the Japanese. This part of the war was known as the Pacific Ocean theater‚ and was mainly fought by the US‚ led by General MacArthur‚ against the Imperial Japanese Army. MacArthur’s victory in the Pacific Ocean theater would cause him to be hailed as a war hero by the American people‚
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His task in Vietnam was among the most complex and challenging ever faced by an American military leader. As MACV commander‚ Abrams was responsible for implementing the Vietnamization program‚ which had originated in the Johnson administration and which was announced with much public fanfare in 1969 by President Richard M. Nixon. Abrams viewed the Cambodian incursion of 1970 as a means of keeping Vietcong and NVA pressure off the gradual American withdrawal and turnover military responsibility to
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could get their hands on these” and could be sold to the Vietcong and their sympathizers (Steinman 33). But‚ it is just as reasonable to believe that these briefings were about control of information. The kind of news stories that the public had access to was extremely important to each of the Presidential Administrations during the Vietnam era. Vietnam was not just a war on communism in a small Southeast Asian country. In his book The “Uncensored” War‚ Daniel C. Hallin describes Vietnam as a “public
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Why Youth Become Involved in Gangs Arjun Kapadiya 820-519-759 Prof. Jasdeep Singh CRIM 204 – 01 Youth in Crime “I have reviewed the turn-it-in report regarding this paper and am satisfied that I have not made any citations errors that would be considered a form of academic misconduct” Why Youth Become Involved in Gangs Introduction For the past many years‚ the world has been going through a lot
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Introduction The Vietnam experience was a war that lasted for almost twenty years. The American military and leadership appear to have learned some lessons from our involvement in the Vietnam War. This paper will discuss the lessons learned from the following arenas: diplomatic negotiations‚ presidential leadership‚ and cultural/social contexts. Diplomatic Negotiations Princeton University (2006) defines diplomatic negotiations as between nations. The lesson learned by the Americans was the need
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The Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by an almost third-world nation‚ but we lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won‚ or even prevented in the first place. The United States could have and should have won this war‚ with a combination of better weapons usage‚ better tactics‚ and better support from their home country. Before the War Even years before the war‚ Vietnam was a hotly disputed
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direct descendants of the Afghan people that migrated to Australia between the 1800’s and 1900’s. The Afghan people have contributed to Australia’s communities more than any of us can imagine. Despite suffering seclusion and unacceptable treatment by the Europeans‚ the type of work done by the Afghans has helped us build Australia to what it is today. So why did the Afghans come to Australia? The first Afghan settlers were BROUGHT to SOUTH AUSTRALIA in 1938 when Joseph Bruce‚ a European settler‚ bought
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Television in Australia has evolved significantly and it has changed since it first came out in 1956. Channels were very limited like; you only had channel 10‚ channel 9‚ channel 7 and SBS. They were your big ones‚ but over the past 50 years television has changed so much. Instead of having analogue shows‚ now you have digital‚ which basically means more channels are opening up like GO‚ 7mate and heaps more. Another significant thing that has happened for television is Foxtel. This box allows you
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Why Did The Civil War Happen? Bang! Why did the Civil War start? The main reason of the Civil War was John Brown‚Bleeding Kansas and Abraham Lincoln they all have a lot to do with the Civil War and how it started. It was about freeing slaves and making all states free states for slaves. It was a Civil War because the South was fighting The North because they wanted too free states and other people wanted to keep slaves because they didn’t have to pay them. John Brown was a crazy man basically he
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