The film features the life of Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, during the onset of the American Civil War. ... Scarlett decides that the most important thing from there on out are the survival of her family and her own well-being. ... The entire film was shot from the perspective of southern people, so it makes sense that southern ideals were most prevalent. ... Another biased perspective is that of the American Civil War itself. ... I enjoyed the way the film told the story of the American Civil War without simply spelling out the facts. ...

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The bombing of residential centers, meanwhile, would collapse the civilian will, which might lead to the desired collapse of production and civil life. ... People stayed solidary: they were helping each other during the bomb attacks; they worked together in anti aircraft batteries and etc. ... People shared numerous duties in order to endure the difficulties of war: children collected war materials, civilians were subjected to rationing of most goods, and nearly all were expected to buy government issued bonds to fund the war. ... The British and the Americans knew that Dresden was an import...

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In other words, the author states that the experience of internment and war for the Japanese people left the community with a sense of ethnic identity to which that community is able to create a new civil religion around. The Japanese American experience during World War II was the catalyst to a new form of civil religion within the United States of America. ... Then, after this, the author goes back into the importance of the preservation of memory and the experience that has come to form a civil religion for the Japanese American people. ... Cultural and ethnic identities are an importan...

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During World War I, an extreme patriotism took hold in the United States. ... But, the suspicion and distrust was also directed against German-Americans (Germany was the main enemy of the U.S. and its allies in World War), immigrants, and people who were considered to have "radical"" or extreme political beliefs that were thought to be "anti-American." ... Another event that occurred during World War I, and continued in the immediate years following the war, was the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the successful formation of a Communist or Socialist state in Russia. ... Arrests, searches withou...

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The Navajo Code Talkers were supported by Philip Johnston, a civil engineer WWI veteran. ... The Navajo Code Talkers were needed during World War II due to the fact that the Japanese were excellent code breakers. ... Philip Johnston, a retired US Army Civil Engineer, helped in promoting the use of the Navajo people as the code talker by the Marine Corps. ... The ability to send and translate messages during important battles such as Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal. The Code Talkers were also crucial to American victory during World War II by creating an unbreakable code for the Japanese to try to bre...

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Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev was an important figure in history because of his willingness to end the Cold War and Communism as it was known in the 1980s. ... But his economic reforms came at a huge price - his enforced collective farming led to a famine in the early 1930s that is thought to have killed at least six million people. ... Elizabeth was also able to prevent the outbreak of a religious or civil war on English soil. ... Francis Bacon Because of Bacon, people began to think differently and question ideas like the church, which had previously been the biggest, unquestionable stre...

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The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. ... This oath was extremely important because if America did not hold to this promise the worlds view on America could be forever damaged. ... No one has demonstrated of whatever size can win a guerrilla war- which is at the same time a civil was between Asians- in jungle terrain in the midst of a population that refuses cooperation to the white forces and provides a great intelligence advantage to the other side-(option 3). ... This war was guerrilla war. ... The war did not only affect the...

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In the novel Obasan, written by Joy Kogawa, an important event occurred that changed the lives of many Japanese Canadians during World War II. ... The treatment of Japanese Canadians during the war was an unjustified act on the part of the Canadian government and due to the Charter of Rights and Freedom the act committed by the government would not be tolerated by anyone in today's modern society. ... The excuse Canada had for this action was that "Japanese people were not white and could be Japanese 'spies'".2 In the novel Obasan, one of the letters from Aunt Emily ...

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Subsequently, in the post-war years, The Representation of the People Act gave women the right to vote provided that they were of the age of 30 and they were married to a householder. ... This showed that women were able to be trusted to make important decisions that affected society and themselves responsibly. ... This was done to keep national unity in Britain during the interwar years. ... They were now eligible to work as members of the Civil Service, local government representatives and they had the opportunity to do jury service. This was part of a trend in British economy which contin...

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Mackenzie made many important allies during the war, and quite possibly prevented Canada from breaking out into a civil war. (2) "It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government." (3) William Lyon Mackenzie King was born on December 17, 1874 in Berlin Ontario and from the time Mackenzie was young he was concerned about the world around him. ... King was inspired by two people in his life, his mother, Isabel Mackenzie, and his grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie. ... The conscription crises of World War One had left a huge division between English and French Cana...

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The three most important turning points for modern world history were exploration, World War I, and World War II. ... However exploration is not the only major Important turning point in modern world history. ... Last but not least new weapons were revealed during WWI. ... After creating the nazi party Hitler for control he suppressed civil rights ruthlessly and murdered millions of innocent people and even put them in concentration camps. Not only that but during WWII Belgium desired independence from South France. ...

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World War I began on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. ... During the Franco-Prussian war, Alsace and Lorraine were taken from France. ... The treaty's declaration that Germany was entirely to blame for the war was humiliating to the German people. ... They fought a war of ideas called the Cold War. ... All the events previous to today are very important and significant in society. ...

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The full modernization of Russia has happened step by step, however if it wasn't for Russia defeat in the Crimea war then cause to change to modernize Russia would be later on in the future then in 1861 during Alexander II's emancipation of the serf. ... The Military conflict that gave a steady pathway for the making of modern Russia was the civil war. ... Furthermore the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918 and the Bolshevik Revolution made Russia's situation worse, as 1/3 of the population was lost in the unasked war and only to be left more vulnerable by the Russian civil war 1918-1...

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Chemical and biological warfare In methods of war, the use of biological and chemical weapons has been very controversial. Biological and chemical weapons have been effective during war, civil conflicts, and riots. These weapons have served an important role in the history of the world. ... The earliest try was after World War I. ... Especially during riots and civil conflicts where the risk of exposing innocent people is great. ...

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First to mind is the Jews during World War II. ... Whether the progression is in technology, civil rights, animal rights, or the rights of gays, it continues. ... World history has been developed from many determining factors, personally the most important to me are people and economics. People are our history and the money is what attracts people and gives them incentive. ... All of these factors were because of people and there wrong decisions during this time. ...

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In the fifties people were aware that the nuclear definition of the family was new. ... During these difficult times, families were forced more than ever to rely on extended kin. ... The economy was booming during the fifties, and continued to do so for almost twenty years. ... Presidential campaigns were televised which educated the people on the candidates. ... The civil Rights movement began which eventually succeeded and provided equal rights for all. ...

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Colt firearms have been the sidearm of choice through much of American military history, ranging from the Colt Model 1860's use through the Civil War to the Colt Model 1911A1 in World War II. ... War and life as we know it could be very different if it wasn't for Samuel Colt. ... The Printing Press The printing press is considered one of the most important inventions in history. ... More printing is done in one second today than in a year during the 15th and 16th centuries. ... Overnight printing became widespread, especially among hurried people needing cards and other things print...

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The Soviet leaders did not want a civil war in Poland. ... The Catholic Church was an important part of the Polish culture and national identity. The Church demanded respect and civil rights for all human beings. ... Jaruzelski announced astate of war,? ... However, the Polish people won their rights back one by one. ...

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Acceptance of Indians was finally given in the times of need during World War II. Indian-Americans began joining with America's armed forces, and supporting the financial crisis at home until the war ended. ... In 1669, Slavery was made into property by law, so beginning the centuries of oppression by white Americans on people who were not "pure" enough. ... Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were two important African-American figures that were highly educated and fought for civil rights and liberties during the 1960's. ... Coming back to the Giddy Multitude, they represented...

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There is an infinite amount that can be learned from other people's mistakes, victories, and defeats. ... He made many important decisions that shaped America then, and even still today. ... Roosevelt recognized the potential for U.S. trade, and, claiming that the U.S. had the right to impose order in Latin America, he intervened in a Civil War in Panama to foster construction of the Panama Canal. ... During the Potsdam conference Truman received an important message from home. ... World War II was over. ...

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In 1917 after the overthrowing or the Russian czar Stalin was able to return where as a result of the February and October revolutions he was named Commissar of nationality affairs of the communist party. 1918 was Stalin's time to shine as a military power, he served as a general of the red army in a civil war which lasted for 3 years, Lenin then appointed him commissar of the workers and peasants. ... In January 1924 Lenin died, the country was led by 5 people: Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lev kamenev ,Grigori Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin. ... In 1934 to 1939 during Stalin's "reign of...

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