Two more were set out to protect China and the Burma Road With Rangoon threatened, chief of staff for the British campaign in Burma had to destroy all crossing Japanese material as possible crossing the Burmese border which included 900 trucks, 5000,000 tires, 1,000 blankets and sheets and more than a ton of mixed items. ... In Imphal fighting continued and the Japanese were advancing to Kohima, 125 north of Imphal with a Group of 3500 soldiers waiting without, also with 1500 strong soldiers at Hells Gate in order to cut off the Dimapur-Imphal Road. ... After six more weeks of Fighting the ...

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The Allies began landing on the eastern coast of Italy attempting to open the road to Rome. ... The Allies took the beach but were stopped on the road by the Germans. ... Their main purpose was to destroy roads, railroad tracks and bridges and to destroy German communications. ...

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Today it could take decades to build bridges, roads, dams or other such needed fundamental foundations, including the planning and development stages, costing upwards of ¼ of a billion dollars (statistics of Sunshine Skyway Bridge, St. ... Before the Project was terminated during World War II, it left permanent monuments on the landscape in the form of buildings, bridges, dams, hard-surfaced roads, airports, and schools. ...

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As Richard Overy notes in The Road To War, this growing division from Europe was not mere selfishness. ... Richard Overy says in his book The Road To War, "It is tempting to see Pearl Harbor as the crisis that Roosevelt was waiting for and did nothing to prevent". ...

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Overall, World War 1 is the first most noted event that showed women's advancements that gained a new perception of them and lead them to take the road to fight for more equality. ... All in all, thanks to The Royal Commission, women were able to have a status that supported their belief on equal rights, and measures were taken to further provide them with succession on their road to equality. ...

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After Franco's army failed to take Madrid on their first attempt, Franco ordered the main road that linked Madrid to the rest of Republican Spain and especially Valencia to be cut off. This route was an essential supply road of the republic and it was the International Brigade's duty to defend it from being taken by Franco's army. ... The Lincoln Brigade was positioned at the front of the lines defending the road followed by two tanks supplied by the Soviet Union. ...

• Word Count: 1995
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"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ," - John Steinbeck. This quote explains a lot about Steinbeck's life and his perspective on the time period in which he lived. The majority of the America at the time was sad, and it seemed easy for many to just give up. Steinbeck lived in a time period that ...

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Budapest is the hub of Hungary's transportation system, which in the mid-1970's included about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) of navigable waterways, more than 18,000 miles (30,000 km) of roads, and about 8,500 miles (13,700 km) of railroads, about 10 percent of which are electrified. ... Hungary's pattern of traffic has undergone a significant shift from an almost total reliance on rail transport to a mixed system of rail and road traffic, with trucks accounting for the bulk of short-haul freight movement. ...

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This outlook inspired such efforts as increasing agricultural modernization, road and railway-building, and the implementation of new nuclear weapons programs. ... The scholars associated with this school believed themselves to have been able to balance the ideas and interpretations of the two previous schools without taking a low-road and non-scholastic approach sets it apart from the other two movements. ...

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By 1948 West Germany was on the road to recovery, the Western powers had set up a new currency there and had begun to rebuild the economy however much of East Germany remained crippled by war and little was done to improve it. ... Stalin dug up railway lines and blocked roads. ...

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They also had to be accurate in order to reach the crossroads towns and take them quickly as well as to find the roads large and passable enough for their tanks to pass through (Ambrose2). ... Accuracy also failed, as the critical roads and cities he needed were well defended and held by U.S. ...

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The efforts of the Home Front during the Second World War played an exceedingly vital role in the overall outcome of the hostilities. The home front was the base in which ordinary citizens were able to be involved and continually assist armed forces in the struggle to win the war. This involvement r...

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Both Marne battles were critical in World War One. They both were huge defeats towards the Germans. Much like Marne, Normandy, a battle of World War Two, was a critical turning point in the war. The different times that the battles take place separates the similarities, leaving many differ...

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Devils in Disguise "Under idealism nothing exists except the mind. Whoever controls the mind controls everything. Therein lies the secret of absolute power- (Rapoport 1989) Has this method been used by most of the well known bloodiest dictators in history? The answer is most definitely "yes!- Ev...

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Pearl Harbor "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." A speech given by President D. Roosevelt during the 1940's, after the chaotic bombing on Pearl Harbor on De...

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Even though the U.S. failed to aid its southern neighbor, when Latin American leaders such as Arbenz, Castro, and the Sandanistas, took a different road then the U.S. desired it came at these leaders with a vengeance. ...

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Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. The humiliation imposed by the victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic Depression, created bitterness and anger. That anger frequently found its outlet in an ideology that asserted not just the importance of the nation, but its unquestionable primacy and central predestined role in history. ...

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Memoirs of a Geisha, published in 1977, is a historical novel written by Arthur Golden. He had received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. Therefore, he was capable of producing a beautifully written novel about a geisha in Japan during the times of before and after World War II....

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The book that I read for my quarter project was Fireweed by Jill Paton Walsh. This Story took place in the 1940's during World War II in London.The author discuses the life of a young man named Bill and a young women name Julie who lived on the streets and managed to make it on their own. The bo...

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To what extent can Hitler be held responsible for the outbreak of world war two? It seems that Hitler did have consistent aims and plans which would be carried out when he came to power. His dream was to build a "new Germany" under his own leadership, to overturn the treaty of Versailles and to ...

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The 1950s were a remarkable time in the history of the United States of America. Many of the events that occurred during this time inspired and molded the future of an entire generation. This period of time also brought astonishing change not only to the United States, but the world as a whole. To ...

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The conditions after World War One left Germany in a vulnerable state. The Great Depression and the Treaty of Versailles proved to weaken the once world super power immensely. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party offered a new direction for Germany. This vulnerable state helped aid Hitler in his grasp f...

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She did not want war at least; she had no intention of engaging in one. Then, she was compelled. Threats came and she had to defend her territory, her people, and her status. The compulsion was enough to awaken her from her sleep. She took her stand in readiness for an attack. She attacked and final...

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Assignment 'The foreign policy of the Third Reich derived from the ideological principles and long-range goals of National Socialism. How far do you agree with Bracher? Response The statement focuses on the traditional view of Hitler's ascending to power and on his meticulous masterplan that made the Second World War inevitable.'World War II was simply viewed as Hitler's war, and all responsibility for it began and ended with him.' To ensure it will cover all the issues, the essay will be divided into sections. ...

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Roosevelt had in fact spoken what was realized later down the road eight years later when the Japanese army attacked The Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 which brought the United States into the Second World War. ...

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