This resulted in the creation of three amendments aimed towards the improvement of the overall treatment of African Americans. Amendment 13 officially abolished slavery as a whole; Amendment 14 made African Americans full citizens‚ and Amendment 15 promised suffrage to male African Americans. Not long after these amendments had been passed‚ there were reactions by whites that did not want the blacks to have power. Disenfranchisement‚ which established rules such as the grandfather clause
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political environments can impact literature. British involvement in WWII directly influenced Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies. As all authors use their life and times as reference points in their works‚ Golding drew heavily on sociological‚ cultural‚ and military events. Lord of the Flies is an allegorical parallel to the world‚ as Golding perceived it. The island‚ the boys‚ and many other objects and events described in his work represent Golding’s view of the world and humankind in general.
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"A Need for Speed" During World War II in Nazi Germany‚ the only thing considered more imperative than committing genocide against the people of Jewish descent‚ was devising ways to inevitably defeat their foes. The merciless German researchers would stop at nothing to try and enhance their chances at constructing the "super race". Along with all the pharmaceutical help‚ researchers needed to experiment with these new drugs to ensure their effectiveness. Prisoners of concentration camps were
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The main reason for the cold war was because the Americans could not accept the lifestyle that the Soviet Union decided to live as communists. The cold war was heavily routed in American individualism and trying to impose our values on the Soviets. Americans value individualism. They believe in a society that associated with capitalism‚ and a thriving economy. They also believe that everything is possible and attainable with hard work and determination. The main priority is being individualistic
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World War II is known for acts of heroism on both sides‚ as well as controversial decisions. One major event that has long been debated was the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The reason Japan was threatened by the U.S. with the Atomic bomb was to force them to surrender. The war would have taken much longer had an invasion been attempted. An invasion would have cost more lives for both sides than the bombings. The Allies were justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The conclusion of WWII didn’t mark the termination of wars and conflicts in a global perspective; as a result‚ Australia’s involvement in wars had perpetuated through various foreign conflicts and confrontation. From 1945 to mid 1970s‚ Australia’s perception of aid and support towards copious world powers‚ namely US and UK had resulted in our involvement in pivotal Asian conflicts from the northern sector to the Pacific war. However‚ was the driving force behind Australia’s military participation
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some difficult decisions. Some of them‚ which caused wars and a lot of hate towards the British‚ and some that strictly affected the British colonies‚ which caused a lot of issues. The Seven Years war had a strong effect on the British Empire because it put the British in a lot of debt and they needed a way to get out of debt‚ which was one of the major consequences of the American Revolution. With the corruption that followed after the Seven Year war with the empire and
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From 1945-1960‚ the Soviet Union was more successful in achieving its goal of spreading communism than the United states was at achieving its goal of containing it. Russia directly spread communism to China‚ the northern half of Korea‚ and all of Eastern Europe. In addition‚ it forced heavy expenses on the U.S. through the Berlin blockade‚ beat the U.S. in achieving orbital flight‚ embarrassed president Eisenhower with the U-2 incident‚ and caused wide-spread panic in the U.S. government itself.
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The Cold War was not a typical war. Although it was a war‚ it didn’t include fighting. This war lasted for a tremendous period of forty-two years. It was a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. This war consists of many lows and highs throughout the length of forty-two years. It took place immediately after World War II when Europe had fallen into pieces. Both the United States and the Soviet Union were allies before the Cold War. Their fallout started when they attempted to help
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The decades following World War I consisted of European leadership averting conflicts that could lead to large-scale war. Accordingly‚ this concept was easily achieved prior to 1933 due to European leadership in countries of military might striving for peace in Europe. Following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933‚ Germany disregarded the provisions of the Versailles treaty without challenge. Germany re-occupied the Rhineland in 1936 and annexed Austria in the spring of 1938 without confrontation
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