World War I was an unavoidable war. ... The United States felt pressures to enter the war, and even though they wanted to remain neutral, they couldn't. ... Britain, France, and Germany all wanted authority over each others country. ... The United States was obligated to take notice of Germany because of the low trade with them, and because of the German cruelty in Belgium, Germany's declaring of unrestricted submarine warfare, and the Zimmerman note, which was asking Mexico to ally with Germany in exchange for land Mexico had wanted. World War I shouldn't h...

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World War I was an unavoidable war. ... The United States felt pressures to enter the war, and even though they wanted to remain neutral, they couldn't. ... Britain, France, and Germany all wanted authority over each others country. ... The United States was obligated to take notice of Germany because of the low trade with them, and because of the German cruelty in Belgium, Germany's declaring of unrestricted submarine warfare, and the Zimmerman note, which was asking Mexico to ally with Germany in exchange for land Mexico had wanted. World War I shouldn't h...

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World War I was an unavoidable war. ... The United States felt pressures to enter the war, and even though they wanted to remain neutral, they couldn't. ... Britain, France, and Germany all wanted authority over each others country. ... The United States was obligated to take notice of Germany because of the low trade with them, and because of the German cruelty in Belgium, Germany's declaring of unrestricted submarine warfare, and the Zimmerman note, which was asking Mexico to ally with Germany in exchange for land Mexico had wanted. World War I shouldn't h...

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In 1917 he proclaimed American's entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy." ... The League of Nations was a former international organization that was formed after WORLD WAR I to promote international peace and security. ... The Versailles Treaty of 1919 is the most famous of the treaties because it was the chief one ending World War I. ... Presidents don't win elections by telling the people what they don't want to hear. ... His opponent, Charles Hughes, had favored teh idea of the United States getting involved into World War I. ...

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World War I, also known as The Great War, was from 1914-1918. ... President Wilson did not want Americans taking sides, although this was hard since there were many immigrants from Germany, Ireland (pro Germans) as well as people with cultural ties with England and France. ... He wanted to fight for a worthy purpose which was the triumph of democracy. ... The telegram was from the German foreign minister to Mexico proposing Mexico to ally with them and in return gain back their lost territories which were Texas, Mexico, and Arizona. ... President Wilson wanted world peace and order but realize...

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The document placed the blame of World War I on Germany. ... Isolationism was the United States' policy after World War I, as they didn't want any risk of tangled alliances, the cause of the First World War, to harm their national sovereignty. ... American Home front during ww2 Mexican-Americans: They were discriminated against by many Americans. Zoot Suits became popular among Mexican-Americans, and were used as a way to classify them. Many Mexican-Americans were abused and harassed by other Americans. ...

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Wilson, unlike other Presidents" before him, knew "what the costs of war might be like" (Hugh Brogan) and therefore did not want to enter the war unless absolutely necessary. ... The telegram was from Germany to Mexico suggesting that if the Mexican government joined the war against the USA Germany would ensure that Mexico would control New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. This was a direct threat to U.S territory; the Americans" were inclined to believe the telegram even though provided by the obviously bias British due to the poor relations between Mexico and the U.S up until the out break of war...

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Bless Me, Ultima I enjoyed reading Rudolfo A Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima because it show the many different religions and beliefs people have and the conflict they deal with in everyday life. The story starts in the past in the mid 1940's, during and after the World War II in Guadalupe, New Mexico. ... Maria his mother was a daughter of a farmer and a catholic and wanted Antonio to be a priest. ...

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At the time the story takes place Lorain is a small industrial town populated with immigrant: Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other. ... The Breedlove appartment used to be a storefront the furniture was dilapidated no love and comfort (no good memories) cold (like the cold atmosphere) a brutal family life The MacTeers have their own small house is poor but "loving" (for instance when Claudia is ill) "So when I think of autumn, I think of somebody with hands who does not want me to die" (p. 7) The society The story implicates that Pecola li...

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Neutrality was declared in 1914 because Woodrow Wilson did not want to enter an area of conflict that was not concerned with American internal affairs. ... In January, 1917, the German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman sent a telegram to a representative of Mexico. This telegram proposed a military alliance between Mexico and Germany. Germany offered financial assistance and support to Mexico in reacquiring territory previously lost to the United States. The purpose of this telegram was to keep the United States occupied with Mexico so that the United States would not involve itself in the wa...

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That date marked the unthinkable, a war the would end in what is know as World War I. ... The note revealed the Germans were planning to make an alliance with Mexico. The Germans offered the Mexican land lost to the U.S. in the areas of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, in exchange for Mexico's help in the war. ... ("World War I", www.aolsvc. worldbook. aol.com). ...

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On 16 July 1945, the scientists did its first trial of the bomb in the New Mexico desert. ... By warning the Japanese, Truman wanted to prevent an invasion. ... He wanted to end the war before the USSR could enter the war in the Pacific and claim the lands that were promised to them at Yalta (Walker 157). He wanted to persuade them to relax their grip on Eastern Europe. ... Japan felt that Truman was bluffing because they just wanted the Japanese to surrender but he believed it was justifiable to send a warning as to that japan did not when they attacked Pearl Harbor and that they wanted the...

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However this changed when the U.S. wanted to ensure the repaying of the Allies' debts and the threatening of U.S. shipping by the Germans. ... I think that the United States should have joined the war sooner. Even if I can see the reasons behind their hesitation as to not interfere in a war that is mainly happening on Eastern soil and among European nations, I think that an earlier intervention on the American part could have saved a lot of lives. ... I knew that the medical attention in the war was suffering pretty hard under those conditions but I never imagined that there was so few he...

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Eventually, through about two months of construction at the Jornado del Muerto desert in central New Mexico, codenamed "Trinity" by Oppenheimer, the atomic implosion bomb was ready to test in July of 1945. ... Due to heavy rains, and thus the fear that the fission components of the bomb could not work under such conditions, the explosion was delayed until 5:10 AM, and the governor of New Mexico was warned that a possible evacuation of the state might be necessary. ... The words of Dick Nelson, a twenty-year-old member of the crew at the time, summarized the situation aptly: "You knew it was ...

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The people wanted the Allied Forces to have the victory. President Roosevelt also wanted an Allied victory because an Axis victory might endanger democracies in the world. ... The first atomic bomb was successfully exploded on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. ... I made the only decision I ever knew how to make. I did what I thought was right." ...

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Alessandro, being an admirer of the Mexican revolutionary Benito Juarez, named his son after the patriot and hero (euronet.ne). ... When World War I began in 1914, he did not want Italy to join. ... For these reasons, I believe that Benito Mussolini was an infamous ruler of Italy. ...

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