History of Weyerhaeuser Weyerhaeuser Paper Company began in Frederick Weyerhaeuser came to America from Germany at the age of 18. ... The two men were doing very well for themselves and because of this, in January 1900, Frederick Weyerhaeuser and 15 partners made history of the lumber industry. They the purchased 900,000 acres of Washington state timberland from the Northern Pacific Railway largest private land transaction in American history to that time. ... This announcement meant that the smaller of the two paper machines was to be shut down in early fall. ...

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The most influential event in world history after the 1900's is the great depression because of the decline in international commerce and stock markets around the world, the rise of Hitler, and Franklin D. ... This money was sought in the Americas almost exclusively. ... Stock prices rose gradually in the early 20's, but skyrocketed in 1927, and 1928. ... The depression was the worst in the history of the United States and proved to be a terrible price to pay for the false sense of prosperity and national well -being of the roaring Twenties. ... The Dust Bowl of North America refers ...

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One of the forerunners of this movement and the first artists in recorded history to have created a genuine Abstract artwork was Pablo Picasso. ... The presence of anxiety wasn't as potent in America most likely because the number of casualties was much less than that of Europe. ... I couldn't tell whether America made the movements to deal with uncertainty before or after the Great Depression. ... America's reaction was evident in Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism. ... I am going to have to apply Einstein's theory of relativity to this comparison between the anxieties of...

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The First World War in history was due to three major causes: nationalism, militarism, and imperialism. ... This however soon outraged American public opinion (Danzer 584), when a German submarine sank the British liner Lusitania which also carried Americans. ... 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. ... With American intervention at an earlier time, the Germans could have been defeated earli...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. ... England has been a force to be reckoned throughout most of its history in all categories of life. ... The colonization of the original 13 colonies of modern day USA influenced the creation of the most technologically advanced, economically fueled, and politically savvy superpowers in history. ... The First World War actually began friendly British/American relations similar to that of today. ... The Brits, though still allied with the US, felt that the "Bloody Yanks" entered ...

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We journeyed into a time of Internationalism after the second world war but it was many earlier events that led up to this, particularly our interaction with Latin America. ... It was now time for America to help other nations rebuild and start its hate of Communism. ... Then came one of the biggest interventions in Americas history of foreign policy. ... Kennedy sent 16,000 American military "advisers" to Vietnam. ... He thinks that only America can achieve global peace because of...

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in the affairs of America. ... With those words a century of American internationalism was born; a century whose people, politics, and overall advancement was shaped by America's entanglements with the rest of the world. ... Nixon became president during one of the most controversial events in American history: Vietnam. ... On December 17, 1972 Nixon bombed Hanoi and Haiphong in the most severe aerial assault in history. ... With the end of the Cold War struggle between the United States and Soviet Union in the early 1990s, some Americans are once again calling for the United State...

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Professional athletes began getting paid too much money as early as the end of the 19th century. ... This was during a period in American history when America was trying to build an imperial power in which they had to pick and choose their battles. ... This was arguably the hardest time in American history. ... Such examples of overpaid athletes in early America opened the doors for those in the future (Sullivan 144). ... Many Americans became quite frightened by such a high salary. ...

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There are no easy answers for America's current unrest, only questions. ... Israel has been attacked for years because of their friendship with America. ... I wonder about the source of America's prosperity. ... Still, looking back from this vantage point in history and contrasting the aftermath of the two world wars as well as various minor wars, it does seem that our actions after the war might have been just as important as the fact that we won the war. ... If spending a billion or two in the early 1990s could have kept Bin Laden from being able to so easily attract supporters,...

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Germany's attempt to bomb Britain into submission was the only German failure of the wars early years. ... D-Day is a military term designating the start date for launching an operation, but in modern history it is refers to the events of June 6, 1944. ... Eisenhower began working with a group of high-level British and American leaders to execute Operation Overlord. ... If the invasion did not take place on one of these days it would have had to have been postponed until the end of June or early July. ... During the night American and British paratroopers dropped from the sky. ...

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Moreover, the growing dissent in Germany caused by the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Government's failure to restore order prompted the rise of one of the most dangerous leaders in history - Adolf Hitler. ... Germany was a country built upon its proud military history. ... The inflation of the early 1920s brought the downfall of the middle and upper classes of Germany (Riedlsperger, Internet). ... As one American journalist recounts, "he swayed from one side to the other" and "his listeners swayed with him; when he leans forward and when [he] ends they are either awed or silent ...

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The Canadian solders first entered action in early February 1915. ... Early in 1917 the Allies had decided to launch a major offensive. ... Britain and France who had pledged to Poland earlier, declared war on Germany. ... France having been beat weeks earlier, and British troops unequipped and not ready for a full-scale invasion were incapable of winning on their own. ... "On June 6, 1944, now known to history as D-Day, Operation Overlord, the long-awaited invasion of Northwest Europe, began with Allied landings on the coast of Normandy. ...

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Some leaders change the lives of people drastically and go down in history, whereas other leaders cause little change and fade into history and are forgotten forever. ... His power then continued to grow drastically making him one of the most memorable leaders in history. ... Earlier, Hitler had become interested in three political parties, Austrian Social Democrats, Georg von Schonerer's Pan-German Nationalists, and Karl Lueger's Christian Social Party. ... Hitler in the early 1920s was named the leader of the Nazi Party. ... Hitler learned to master this art of propaganda from ...

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Although in the early days the tough and brutal lifestyle meant survival of the fittest, the British heritage influenced and determined the types of pastimes and sports followed by Australia's first immigrants. ... People came in search of gold from all over, America, China and also from the European countries with the hope of finding riches to improve their lives. ... Hitler used these games to show the world what he thought was Germany's superiority because of the pure Arian race of its competitors, he was upset by an American black athlete, Jesse Owen who out ran everyone an...

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Although the submarine made its name for itself in WWI, the first successful recorded submarine in history was built in 1620. ... The success of Drebbel's submarine paved the way for many inventors to undertake the concept of underwater travel; but it was not until the American Revolution in 1776, that the submarine was used as a weapon of war. ... They were able to avoid many mistakes that had plagued the French and Americans. ... Early attempts at a submarine campaign went awry for both the Germans and the British. ...

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Nazism, or National Socialism, was born at the end of World War One. The war had ended on the 11th of November 1918, when Germany had signed an armistice. The myth prevailed that Germany had been "stabbed in the back- by Marxists and Jews. Nowhere was this stronger than in the surviving soldiers, of...

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By the early 1900's a new regime took control of the Ottoman Empire. ... Many American and European eyewitnesses reported the atrocities took place at that era. ... A nation can not live with such stains on its history. ...

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For a short time after this the Government started to improve again, in 1924 The Dawes Plan was introduced, which gave Germany a loan from America and stated that the reparations could be paid over a longer period of time than was stated in Treaty of Versailles. ... So with an unstable parliamentary government, the people of Germany, who were not very democratic and did not have much tradition or history of democracy for them to look back on, started to vote for anti-democratic parties, such as the Nazis. ... There was already Hitler Youth and The Nazi Students' League, which strongly en...

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The assassination of Achduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on 28 June 1914 and the so-called 'blank cheque' given to Austria by Germany on 05th July 1914 promising 'full support' even if should mean war with Russia, the traditional protector of the Slavs, have been considered the crucial milestone that changed the human history. ... The first of these was the Triple Alliance, forged by an earlier German Clancellor, Otto von Bismarck. ... However, by the early twentieth century, Germany and America were now outstripping Britain's in...

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Several American tankers had been destroyed by German submarines. ... Nearly twelve-hundred people, including one-hundred twenty-eight Americans, were killed in the attack. ... David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, held office during the latter part of World War I and through early years following the war. ...

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