The terrible defeat of Russia in the Crimean War in 1855 and 1856 exposed weaknesses of Russia's various organizations. The road to the Russian Revolution began with the end of the Crimean War in 1855. ... This situation was made worse by the onset of World War I. Russia's backward position relative to the West, its lack of arms, poor training, and corruption in the high levels of government and the army translated into such military losses that Tsar Nicholas II decided to take direct control of the . In February of that year, demonstrators took the opportunity to set up their own ...

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World War II's impact On the Homefront "Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy-The United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval air forces of the Empire of Japan...I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Empire of Japan... The United States was in no condition to go to war. ... World War II helped the world recognize women as important people Women went out and got jobs to help support there families. ... Wh...

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II. ... EXPENSES: Now these advertising expenses will be much more effective and cheaper than all the money that is put into the war on drugs. ... CONCLUSION So basically the way this country is headed we are going to keep fighting this never ending war. ...

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Wanting nothing more than to live life on their own terms, the Indian people found themselves at the mercy of large land-owners who was them as nothing but cheap tools to use for their own enrichment, yet to engage the government in efforts for reform would involve them in the Cold War struggle between U.S.-backed ruthless dictatorships and the communist backed guerilla insurgencies prevalent throughout Latin America after World War II. ...

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The founding fathers set Americas' government, and future, up for success. They drafted the Constitution up in a way that it prevents the government from becoming too powerful. The government uses two systems known as a system of separation of powers, and checks and balances, to ensure this happens....

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The United States struggled through the depression but got through it by many different ways. I was the press secretary in 1932. At the start of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency the U.S. was in the greatest depths of the depression. In his first Inaugural Address in 1933 he stated that "the only ...

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