After moving to New York, Teddy decided to go into the field of politics. With the help of Jack Hess and Joe Murray, Roosevelt was elected to his first political office in 1881 as a representative for the New York Assembly. ... He would not be bound by the political machine and would fight for what he believed in. ... As Governor, he once again distanced himself from the political machines, the same ones that got him elected. ... McKinley was looking for a running mate, and Platt saw this as the opportunity to nominate Roosevelt Vice President, since they really did not do much in politics. ...

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After moving to New York, Teddy decided to go into the field of politics. With the help of Jack Hess and Joe Murray, Roosevelt was elected to his first political office in 1881 as a representative for the New York Assembly. ... He would not be bound by the political machine and would fight for what he believed in. ... As Governor, he once again distanced himself from the political machines, the same ones that got him elected. ... McKinley was looking for a running mate, and Platt saw this as the opportunity to nominate Roosevelt Vice President, since they really did not do much in politics. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The result was a military and political planning that depended, or was strengthened by this polarization of the two camps: The Alliance and The Entente. ... Every Great Power was "passing through a political and social crisis in 1914." ... Ultimately, politicians did not "deliberately embarked on war as a way out of their insoluble domestic, social and political problems." ... Mayer thus points to a pre-revolutionary state of affairs in all of Europe, which lead to an intense "interconnection of domestic politics and foreign politics." ... Mommsen concludes his article implying that German aim...

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Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902. ... In that campaign he asserted his independence of the conservatives and of the machine that had nominated him, endorsing a progressive platform, which he pursued as governor. ... Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to pronounce American war aims through a a series of ideas he had known as the Fourteen Points, this would establish a general association of nations indubitably guaranteeing political independence and territorial integrity to great and small stat...

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It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman ...

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In both the Boer War and the American Civil War, in which static trench warfare was first developed, and in which over three million men were killed or wounded by weapons, such as the Springfield rifle, which was considerably inferior to the Lee-Enfield (GB) or Mauser (Germany) used in the latter conflict, together with the machine gun, poison gas and more powerful, accurate artillery meant that casualties were almost assured in the Great War, and dissatisfaction or disillusionment rendered the earlier tactics outdated, if not obsolete. ...

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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 publica...

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