... World War One (I), 1914-1918, the era of compulsory, compliance, and consequences. During these years President Woodrow Wilson enforced his power over the people of the United States. He used tactics like censorship to silence the American people, propaganda to enlist people to pay for the War, and conscription to force people to fight in the War. The United States did not join the War until 1917 after President Wilson reelection. His campaign slogan “he has kept us out of the war” is argued how he won his reelection yet later in 1917 when he got the U.S into the War the American people felt betrayed. My argument will focus on how the government reacted to ordinary people, negatively speaking about the War and the administration. Also, how imprisonment of loved ones affected the communities of the ordinary American people. The assumption today about the Espionage Act is that Congress purpose was to suppress all criticism about the War and the draft. This claim is not exactly true, Congress made several amendments to the Act, yet President Wilson and his administration distorted the Act for their own motives. The Sedition Act of 1918 was a new amendment. This amendment restricted harmful actions against the government, the Constitution, or the military. Previous scholars have made the claim that it was not the words exactly but rather the intention behind it that was disloyal and considered treason. Although, many scholars have acknowledged the issue of freedom of speech during...
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...The United States entered WWI for many reasons. One reason the United States entered the war was because of the sinking of the Lusitania, an American ship that was on British water that sunk. Document 1 obtains two documents. One is the front of a newspaper stating that the Lusitania has sunk and the other giving a notice to anyone being on the Great Britain’s water. This document is a primary source. The New York Times states “Lusitania sunk by a submarine. Probably 1,260 dead.” According to the notice from the Germans, “…Great Britain or of any of her allies are liable to destruction in those waters and that travelers sailing in warzone. This shows how the Germans stayed true to their word by sinking the Lusitania. This is the reason why...
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...War in Syria DBQ Essay Megan Gubler In Syria wars have been outraging between other groups formed and other countries. In there has been constant violence, shooting, killing, and bombing. What is the cause for all this violence? Some examples of all this violence are one disagreements, just by an opinion or a choice made that thought was right has brought war with others. The Kurds and Turkey at war because of a disagreement, however US is allied with both Turkey and Kurds. Two, sects, this has also brought violence to Syria, because of it three government loyalists were killed and when people found out they were outraged. Buildings were burned and more deaths were made. Finally, allied fighting. Similar of what happened in...
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...Holocaust DBQ How did the Nazi’s chnaged the lives of Jews living in Europe politically, economically, and socially? How were the Jews treated in Nazi Germany? How did the Nazi’s implement their final solution ? The Nazi Party profound impact on the lives of many people throughout Europe. The Nazi Party are a group of people not liking Jews by the way they look. In Europe 1933-1945 there are millions innocent children suffered by hands of Nazis. Between five and six million Jews were killed. Nazis changed life of Jews from them living the impossible as they were not important. The Nazis politically labeled the Jews and economically destroyed their business , synagogues , and homes. As a way of identifying the Jews. Nazis created the “Jew”...
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...Middle East DBQ By: Tracey Smith There were many wars against Israel. The most famous one is the war of 1948. The war followed the creation of the nation-state of Israel in 1948 as the effect of colonialism in the Middle East. There are many different aspects of the war like the beginning of the war, the Balfour Declaration and the United Nations Partition Plan. The reason why the Israeli-Arab war started was because of the ongoing and complicated conflict between the 'Palestinians' and the Zionist-Jews. Zionism was a theology that was created in the late 1800's in Europe where they believed that the Jews should 'return' to their 'homeland' which was Jerusalem; they also believed it’s their Homeland because God promised them Jerusalem in the Torah. They still believe it’s their Homeland because they had the empire 3,000 years ago. Throughout the Middle East, the Muslims invited the Jews to come into Jerusalem after they were kicked out by the Romans many years before during Islamic rule. The Ottoman Empire, which was Islamic, built temples where the Jews prayed for the Muslim, Christian and Jewish warriors who fought and are fighting for the Ottoman Empire. There were people who were living in the area, who call themselves Palestinians; Palestinians were ruled by the Ottoman Empire, just like Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon etc. The Palestinians lived in the land for hundreds of years, building, trading and more. The Jews in Europe began to immigrate into...
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