The events that took place on December 7, 1941 on Pearl Harbor obviously show that this sparked the United States into Entering World War Two. " It was "the classic moment when an innocent America, on its paradise island, is pulled into the world scene by a surprise attack," says historian John Dower." ... With this evidence, it clearly indicates that Pearl Harbor was the spark to the United States Entering World War Two. ...

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It was the beginning of another "red scare- in the nation: fears of communism, which had been on the rise ever since the stock market crash that set off the Great Depression, sparked accusations that artists, writers, actors and learned people were communists. ... Ironically, the end of the war left our country in many respects better off than it had been at the start of it "the economic boom sparked by the conflict would continue for many years to come, and the creation of a new, more effective collaboration of world governments, the United Nations, would help regulate peace "at lea...

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The Treaty of Versailles solved none of the problems that caused WWI, and sparked issues that resulted in WWII. ... While it did temporarily stop the Great War, it ended up sparking World War II, which was much more deadly. ...

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Submarines of World War I The First World War introduced a whole host of new technology to the armies of the world. The machine gun, the tank, and the airplane ruled the battlefields of France and Germany. These new inventions changed the face of warfare forever. As equal, the submarine changed ...

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The war sparked a series of social movements and criticism of Johnson's involvement in Vietnam. ... The Soviet invasion, which sparked Afghan resistance, initially involved an estimated 30,000 troops, a force that ultimately grew to 100,000. ...

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(5) The use of a single nuclear weapon by one of the nuclear nation states for military purposes would spark a world wide nuclear war. ... Any nuclear nation state facing a chemical, nuclear or biological threat from a terrorist could retaliate with a tactical nuclear response without fear of sparking a world wide nuclear war...

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The civil rights movement happened as a result of racial discrimination towards black Americans and it was for black Americans to oppose against it. The progression of the civil rights movement for African Americans advanced through many important events. However World War 2 can arguably be said to ...

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Historians continue to debate the causes of World War I nearly a century after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand; the event that most agree was the spark which ignited the flames of war. ...

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Right after the Second World War, the Cold War was one of the greatest subjects in the study of International Relations. It lines up about fifty years of human history, a period which people have to live in fear, and a period that the world had to face its danger by nuclear disaster. To give a gre...

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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. The Soviet border outpost situated on the Ussuri launched a small contingent t...

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World War One or "The Great War" as it became known, occurred due to many causes, some of which still remain unexposed today. The obvious trigger for the war was the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on 28th June 1914. The assassination occurred during the Archduke's visit to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Archduke was targeted due to the general feeling amongst Serbians that, once appointed to the throne, Ferdinand would continue the persecution of Serbs living within the borders of the Austro-...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. England has b...

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The great Mahatma Gandhi once said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." In other words, violence is not the correct way to resolve problems between two or more opposing groups. Violence will always serve its long term ...

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When German Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg was asked why war broke out he replied with a sigh "Oh - if I only knew!" (Ross, 53) This statement implies that there was not just one thing that caused the war there were many. Tensions were building all over Europe prior to the outbreak of World War One. Ev...

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Terror cannot only be used as an instrument of change it can also be used to retain normality a government can hold a people under its reign with use of terror whether the people want change or not it can be seen as added security to stamp out the spark of revolution before it has a chance to catch. ...

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In the late 1920's and early 1930's, the United States went through a breakdown, sparked by the stock market crash in 1929, in their economic prosperity that they had experienced in the early 1920's as the United States fell into the worst depression in it's history. ...

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Sparked by refugee physicists in the United States, the program was slowly organized after German scientists discovered nuclear fission in 1938, and many US scientists expressed the fear that Hitler would attempt to build a fission bomb. ...

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In America, we are privileged to live in such a place where our religion is not put on trial and who or what one believes in is not reason to ignite violence on such an extreme stage. In the movie Gandhi, India is revealed much like the United States was during the Civil Rights Movements, a country...

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Adolf Hitler's determination to dominate the human race sparked the beginnings of the Second World War. Some people might say that this quality did not have anything to do with being a military genius and a good leader, which is not true. Hitler was a military genius. Hitler started out as a soldi...

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1) The greatest cause of World War 1 was the European Alliances. Before World War One began, certain European nations had entered into many alliances to protect themselves from each other. There were ten major alliances formed in Europe before 1914. The countries created alliances between t...

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Effects of a Tragedy Pat Frank's Alas Babylon published in 1959 is a priceless example of a small community who, using their knowledge and ability to function as a whole, rebuild a new, self-sufficient population from the previously annihilated community. In this novel Frank shows the ability one ...

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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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During the 1950's McCarthyism consumed the daily lives of Americans. The term McCarthyism is a term used to describe senator Joe McCarthy's methods on the "war" against communism. This search for communists resulted in accusations that had no premises, and therefore were sometimes referred to as wit...

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Even before 1939 there were old apprehensions between East and West. The West disliked communism and viewed it as a dishonest and despicable system, one, which was completely incompatible with capitalism. The Western powers supported the Anti-communists in the Russian Civil War proving that they wanted to fight against communism. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 outraged the West, who thought that Stalin had gone behind their back and even though he had always said he hated Germany he had made a deal with them. More than anything else however the principles of the West and the East differed...

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Meaning that if there was a war about to be sparked, the President could request it, but the final judgment call was going to be left for Congress to decide; and because only Congress could pay for military adventures. ...

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