the 1094’s. This attack hurt America great‚ but also made America a lot stronger. This attack shaped America into the great country I live in today. On the morning of Sunday‚ December 7‚ 1941‚ a strange plane flew over the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor‚ dropping bombs on eight of the American battleships. These strange planes were Japanese bombers that destroyed 180 American warplanes‚ 2‚400 American servicemen and civilians‚ and wounded
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Q. Why did the French loose the war in Vietnam? In April of 1956 the last remaining French troops would leave Vietnam. After over 200 years of influence and rule‚ the French at last realized that the occupation and control of Vietnam was an unreachable goal. In consideration of the many blunders (both militarily and political) ‚ and the outright ignorance of the French high command‚ any efforts to stabilize Vietnamese nationalism and to maintain french rule over Vietnam were thwarted. Thus
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Indian lit. in english paper The Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand Mulk Raj Anand‚ one of the most highly regarded Indian novelists writing in English‚ was born in Peshawar in 1905. He was educated at the universities of Lahore‚ London and Cambridge‚ and lived in England for many years‚ finally settling in a village in Western India after the war. His main concern has always been for "the creatures in the lower depths of Indian society who once were men and women: the rejected‚ who has no way to articulate
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to people in England‚ but the main reason that drew people to America was in the pursuit of Freedom. It ’s only reasonable to believe that to be true to this principle‚ slavery had to be abolished. The brutal disagreement that tore apart the North and the South was carried to its fullest extent in the United States in the years before and during the Civil War. The South‚ also known as the Confederates‚ supported slavery. The North‚ also known as the Union‚ was anti-slavery‚ and made every effort
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The Civil War that raged across America from 1861-1865 was the result of a gradual polarization of the nation. Even though the North and the South were part of the same country‚ the societies‚ economies‚ and geography made it so that they were like two different nations. One of the things that shaped every aspect of life was the geography. The fertile soil and warm climate of the South made it ideal to plant crops like tobacco‚ cotton‚ rice‚ and indigo. Because farm work was so profitable to the
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Franklin D. Roosevelt took specific actions to strengthen America to help pull herself out of the Great Depression. Roosevelt promised voters a New Deal that would make the Government assist the population. In the first one hundred days of him being in office‚ he faced four major challenged: reviving the industrial economy‚ relieving human suffering‚ helping the farmers‚ and reforming aspects of the capitalist system that assisted in the cause of the Great Depression. Soon the President and Congress
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Before America was discovered‚ many people didn’t even know it existed. American as we know as one of the most powerful nation in the world today. But that didn’t come overnight‚ I am going to talk about their expansion from 1607-1819. This development began with the First Settlement at Jamestown‚ then migrated to the Appalachian Mountains‚ and finally The Great Migration to the Mississippi territory. These events would soon make America a feared nation among the world. When the English first got to
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How long have people been fishing‚ not only for fun‚ but as a source of food? The answer‚ thousands of years. “Egyptian artwork from 2000 B.C. shows people fishing” ( Hopkins 6). It is surprising‚ yet understandable knowing that even ancient people fished. It would have been an easy source of food. The lakes‚ rivers‚ streams were all full of a diverse population of fish‚ which would have made fish an easy meal to catch and eat. The Egyptians were the first people to begin fishing‚ so the population
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I. The Civil War Begins a. Confederates Fire on Fort Sumter i. Fort Sumter was a southern fort that remained in unions control ii. Lincoln declared her would neither reinforce Fort Sumter nor abandon it. 1. Next Jefferson Davis chose to attack Sumter which started the war a. Fort Sumter fell b. Virginia seceded b. Americans Expect a Short War iii. Union and confederate Strategies 2. The Union had
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Aftermath of World War I Signing of the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in 1919. The fighting in World War I ended in western Europe when the Armistice took effect at 11:00 am GMT on November 11‚ 1918‚ and in eastern Europe by the early 1920s. During and in the aftermath of the war the political‚ cultural‚ and social order was drastically changed in Europe‚ Asia and Africa‚ even outside the areas directly involved in the war. New countries were formed‚ old
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