Why did the U.S. become an imperial power? Americans had always sought to expand the size of their nation‚ and throughout the 19th century they extended their control toward the Pacific Ocean. However‚ by the 1880’s‚ many American leaders had become convinced that the United States should join the imperialist powers of Europe and establish colonies overseas. Imperialism‚ the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic‚ political‚ and cultural control over weaker territories‚ was already
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Why did the Constitution divide and distribute power within the government so intricately? The new country was afraid of someone or a group of people having sovereignty alike the country they had just won a war against. Britain had a tyrannical ruler with power to do whatever he wanted without the people’s consent. The Convention in 1787 created the Constitution to protect and distribute power to the government. The Constitution divided and distributed power between the branches‚ the states‚ and
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Why did Pope Urban II call the first Crusade ? There are three main reasons as to why Pope Urban II called the first Crusade. These reasons being ; Improving conditions in the west ‚ Power to the church and the reunification of the Christian church. Although there are many reason that could have been said‚ I valued the three above to be the most important deciding factors to crusade. Improving conditions in the west was a significant reason to call a crusade. The fear of hell and purgatory shaped
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The Rise and Fall of Benito Mussolini "Fascism‚ the more it considers and observes the future and development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment‚ believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace” (Modern History Sourcebook: Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism‚ 1932). Italy‚ the recently unified country of the 1920s‚ was in a very difficult period of time after the peak of the First World War. Only one leader managed to emerge from this period
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Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews? Jessica Snow United States History II Mr. Huddleson April 18‚ 2012 Adolf Hitler was the re-founder and reorganizer of the Nazi Party and the most influential voice during World War II. Many people question Adolf Hitler’s motives when it came to World War II and the Holocaust. Of all the minorities to single out‚ Hitler chose the Jewish people. Some think that he was just a cruel person and because the evilness he possessed‚ he decided to try and wipe off
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Once they removed political opposition thanks to his secret police and the outlawing of labor strikes‚ Mussolini and his followers solidified their power through laws that was able to transform the nation into a one-party dictatorship. Within the time of five years‚ Mussolini had established his dictatorship by both legal and by extraordinary means. The United States have rules and regulations in place that wouldn’t allow this but they can be overturned by the will of the people vested in the hands
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since the murder has taken the Crown of Denmark and taken Hamlet’s mother as a wife. Hamlet then makes a vow that he will avenge his father‚ but as the play progresses Hamlet passes up multiple opportunities to kill Claudius. This begs the question‚ Why does Hamlet delay? Hamlet delays avenging his fathers murder because he is waiting for the optimal moment to maximize the success of his revenge. After talking with his father’s ghost Hamlet could easily have grabbed a sword‚ approached
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Benito Mussolini Born in Predappio Forli Italy on July 29th 1883. Died April 28th 1945 in Giulino di Mezzegra Italy at the Age of 61. Slide 2 Benito Mussolini got his name from the Mexican Revolutionary Benito Juarez Benito’s mother Rosa was a elementary school teacher. Early in Benito’s life‚ he looked up to his father Alessandro who was a blacksmith‚ and was actively involved in the local politics. Benito helped his father work as a blacksmith‚ and in doing so‚ he gained many of his father’s
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Mussolini and Stalin were two very powerful leaders of their countries. Mussolini was an Italian Leader whose goal it was to rebuild Rome to its former glory. His ruling was a form of dictator called a totalitarianism. A totalitarianism leader ruled‚ “a government in which a single party or leader controls the economic‚ social‚ and cultural lives of its people” (Pearson text). In 1922 the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III asked Mussolini to come up with a form of government. Mussolini opposed liberalism
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Heinemann Notes Benito Mussolini sifted through various careers in the years before World War One. He became a teacher for a while‚ skipping from one teaching job to the next but had always been a skilled journalist and founded his own paper Popolo D’Italia. In 1919 he held at meeting in Milan which was attended by 200 people-mostly ex-servicemen and left-wing revolutionaries. These people later became known as ‘the Fascists of the first hour’. The Italian government‚ in the long term‚ was not
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