These tensions reached a boiling point in 1834, when General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna dissolved the Mexican Congress and declared Mexico a dictatorship. ... This deal left Polk free to deal with Mexico. ... Surely enough, Mexico attacked Taylor's troops and killed 11 Americans; that was all Polk needed to declare war on Mexico. ... Meanwhile, US forces quickly beat disarrayed and poorly coordinated Mexican forces in battle after battle, quickly taking over the remainder of Texas, California, and New Mexico. Then, US forces stormed the huge Mexican bastion at Chapultepec and took ove...

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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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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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According to British Major General Sir Hastings Ismay in his memoirs, " [I]f they [Japanese] were given to think that a rigid interpretation would be placed on the term "unconditional surrender," and that their Emperor would be treated as a war criminal, every man, woman, and child would fight until doomsday. ... The doves wanted to surrender as they realized that Japan only faced more destruction if they continued the fighting. ... Apart from the fact that the Japanese had long wanted a peaceful end to the war, there were a number of alternatives that the Americans could have taken, as oppose...

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Stalin joined the more radical Bolsheviks, and by the time World War I arrived, in 1914, he had attended a number of Party Congresses and risen high in Lenin's favor, who appointed him to the Bolshevik Central Committee. ... But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack one another, and granted Stalin permission to take over the Baltic States and eastern Poland, and prosecute a war in Finland. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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