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Cold War 2
<view this essay>.... and choose thir desired leaders creating more democratic nations. It turned Berlin and eastern half of Germany to Stalin and lastly Stalin agreed to join the war against Japan in two-three months after Germany has surendered and war in Europ was terminated. However this was all to change once Rosevelt and the rest of the politicians left. Rosevelt had failed to realise that Stalin wanted revenge and was going to create a buffer around its land to protect future invasions by Germany, this being the second consecutive attack by them. Americans had been atacked only once by Japan and therefor were fighting a war without feeling the war. Roosevelt however .....
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The Twenties And Thirties
<view this essay>.... Michigan, was the largest one in the country and possibly in the world. When Ford first started making cars, the only car he made was a black Model-T. Almost everybody in the United States had a car. Three-out-of-four families owned one or more cars. With the assembly line they made a lot more cars in one day than they did before. Instead of paying for the cars with cash, people could now use credit to purchase items. Since most families didn't have the money, they would buy the car with credit and pay off the debt later.
The thirties was a bad time for the automotive industry. By now Ford had made a Model-A and had three new colors: tan, purple and black. .....
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The Turks And Mongols
<view this essay>.... developed, or borrowed, a high degree of adaptation to their steppe environment, and especially through the perfection of pastoral nomadism with the horse as chief instrument of mobility. They expanded through the passes to the eastward, which took them to Kashgaria, and there came in contact with the Chinese Empire. On the other side, they expanded westward into Europe, where we have already studied them in the form of Scythians and Sarmatians.
To the northwest of the vast Iranian domain, in Mongolia, a number of semi-agricultural, semi-pastoral tribes, possessing the sheep, probably also cattle, and perhaps wagons, but apparently not the horse, came in e .....
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Rise Of Communism
<view this essay>.... of the Czars further went down hill as Nicolas II’s poor military and political decisions caused mass losses in World War I. Eventually, the citizens could take no more and began a riot in St. Petersburg that led to the first Russian Revolution of 1917.
The Russian Revolutions of 1917 led to the riddance of the czarist Russia as well as the ushering in of the socialistic Russia. The first of the two revolutions forced Nicolas II to abdicate his throne to a provisional government. Lenin headed the second of the two revolutions in which he overthrew the provisional government.
Over the next few years, Russia went through a traumatic time of civil war and turm .....
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Background Paper Of China
<view this essay>.... China is a Communist State. The president of China is President JIANG Zemin. The representative of China is Ambassador LI Zhaoxing. The legislative body is represented by unicameral National People's Congress, which has 2979 seats elected by the people.
The imports in China are electrical machinery and equipment, machinery and mechanical appliances, plastics, iron and steel, scientific and photograph equipment, paperand paper board, and the Imports partners: Japan 20%, US 12%, Taiwan 12%, South Korea 11%, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, Russia. The exports of China are electrical machinery and equipment, machinery and mechanical appliances, woven appar .....
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The John Scopes Trial
<view this essay>.... “the most serious setback to civilization in all history,” (Smout 45), as well as a “threat to civilization itself,” is the “trial of the century.”
New ideas frequently require considerable time to gain public approval, especially when religion is involved. Galileo’s heliocentric theory of the sun revolving around the earth directly contrasted Ptolemy’s 600-year-old precedent of geocentricism. This was looked upon as an act of heresy, and Galileo was nearly burned at the stake. Thus, when a schoolteacher in the south decided to stray from the norm by teaching a new and controversial theory of evolution, it was no surprise that there was considerable b .....
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A Comparison Of The Medieval And Renaissance Eras
<view this essay>.... philosophy.
Architecture noticeably shifted from religious awe to classical
reason between the Medieval era and the Renaissance. During the Middle
Ages, architecture was aimed mainly at making advancements in the church.
Medieval cathedrals had very distinct features, such as pointed spires,
which were exactly that -- spires, or steeples, that were pointed and
extended upward from the tower area; the rose window, which was a large
stained glass window that was located on the front of the tower; and
squared-off exterior walls, which were a contrast to the usual rounded
exterior designs that people were accustomed to. Overall, cathedrals
during this time coul .....
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Russia In 1910
<view this essay>.... it had ended 49 years earlier, but
in effect it meant that peasants now owned the meager parcels of land upon
which their survival rested. Their ruler, Czar Nicholas II, ruled of his
disorganized nation. His government of appointed officials and men of
inherited positions did not represent the people. All of Europe had
experienced the industrial revolution, Russia had precious little machinery.
To obtain more advanced machines, the government traded grains to other
countries in exchange for machinery, though it meant more people would now
starve. Compound this with the devastation and desperation brought on
shortly thereafter by the first world war, and .....
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