because the germans started to bombard us with artillery fire and we lost about 30 people in about two minutes and we found their body covered in rats this morning. So today we are going to use the tanks and artillery and fire at the same time we might win this battle because they seem to be sleeping because they are not shooting at all I don’t know if they are waiting for supplies or waiting for an attack. So today is September 20th it’s been a couple of
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First Essay Assignment The United States owes most its success to imperialism. Imperialism is the action of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force. One of the main causes of American Imperialism was that many Americans believed that the U.S as a country had to expand their power. One of the most historical wars of the 1890’s was the Spanish-American war. The victory was quite easy since Spain was kind of a weaker country. The winning result was the ownership
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Nature of Athenian Imperialism Changing Relations with Allies Lars Hoogvliet After the conclusion of the Persian Wars (492-479BC) with Athens being the true victor‚ and before the Peloponnesian War‚ a period of prosperity covered Athens‚ and they needed to devise new ways to protect themselves and expand their wealth‚ and how this would affect their relations with allies. ’The Athenians and their Allies’ was an organisation led by the Athenians in the 5th century‚ but is now referred to as the
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On June 6‚ 1944‚ more than 160‚000 allied troops along French coastline‚ to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. By late August 1944‚ all northern France had been liberated and the Allies had defeated the Germans. Battle of Bulge Soviet army was advancing toward Germany and decided to counterattack in the west. Its objective was to split the Allied armies. Soviet offensive in Poland launched eight days earlier. Disastrous offensive
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Causes of WW1 While there were many causes to WW1 such as imperialism‚ nationalism‚ alliances‚ and assassination‚ one cause that primarily stands out is militarism. Militarism is the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. Because militarism was so important to WW1‚ countries had to come up with a way to get people interested in war‚ which led to the use
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I have recently learned a variety of information about Pearl Harbor that I would like to share with you and others. Why did Pearl Harbor start? Who was involved in Pearl Harbor? Did Pearl Harbor start WWII? Pearl Harbor was a terrible event that happened without warning‚ or was there secret warnings in such things as magazines? All of these questions and more are answered in this essay. What started the Pearl harbor? Well‚ the attack on Pearl Harbor happened because the Japanese wanted to destroy
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What were the causes of WW1? In 1914‚ World War I broke out. It involved around 100 countries around the world. Between 1914 and 1918‚ over 59 million troops were used‚ over 8 million died and over 29 million were injured. This is the biggest war anyone has any witnessed yet; this is why WW1 is also known as the Great War. The main reasons why WW1 broke out were the Alliance System‚ Imperialism‚ the arms race‚ the Schlieffen Plan‚ and the trigger of this war was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
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1. Why did Reconstruction end? Reconstruction is where the government try to reunite the Union states and Confederate states as one and help rebuild the Southern states. Lincoln proposed the ten percent plan where only ten percent of the population in the Southern states only had to take the oath to the Union‚ but the government rejected the plan and went the Congress’s plan. Their plans was over fifty percent of the population to take the oath‚ but Lincoln vetoed it. After Lincoln’s assassination
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country got no chance to win. But the cold war ends with the instantaneous collapse of Soviet Union. I think there is three reasons that caused Soviet Union lost this war. Frist of all it’s the awful foreign policy of Soviet Union that pushes all their allies away. Although Soviet Union had used the slogan of liberate the world to support many natives of the western colony to fight for freedom and it works very well‚ but the soviet union never takes her allies as her allies‚
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The second strategic factor that influenced the outbreak of WWI was a pervasive sense of nationalism in France and Germany. Much of the French nationalism grew out of disdain for the Germans following the Franco-Prussian War when Germany annexed the Alsace-Lorraine region. Germany had not only taken a part of French territory‚ but had arrogantly paraded their success in the face of the French. The French had assured the inhabitants of the region that they would remain a part of the French nation
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