significant roles during wars. The Project provides an ample collection of letters, postcards, diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, memoirs and audio or videotaped interviews of all the wars from World War I until the Iraq war. One of the Oral history video-taped interviews was ofMedaBrendall, a 93-year-old woman that worked in a shipyard during World War II as a welder from 1941-1945.MrsBrendall shares her experience as a female welder, the importance of her job in the large frame of the war andjuggling her
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In the countryside In the towns and cities War and Revolution and the development of Government Government - Ideology Strong continuity in autocratic Tsarist rule 1832 Fundamental Laws (Nicholas I) “The emperor of all Russians is an autocratic and unlimited monarch: God himself ordains that all must bow to his supreme power, not only out of fear but also out of conscience” 1906 Fundamental Laws (Nicholas II) “The All-Russian Emperor possess the supreme autocratic power
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demonstrated by both sides throughout the duration of World War II. For example, Hitler utilized the "Blitzkrieg", a German term for lightning war, against Europe in an effort to force their surrender. The idea was to relentlessly bomb a single target until they submitted, a tactic which shortened campaigns and preserved the lives of soldiers, but the collateral damage was great; the German "blitz" killed over 40,000 civilians in the space of about 9 months and destroyed over a million homes. The German
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safe nor right to act against one’s conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other.”? a. Martin Luther b. Jesus c. John Calvin d. Sima Qian e. Henry VIII 6. In the centuries following the fall of Rome, the only unifying force for all of Europe was a. the Byzantine empire. b. the Holy Roman empire. c. the Catholic church. d. the Auld Alliance. e. the Umayyad dynasty. 7. Henry VIII’s reformation in England a. was based on the ideas of the Anabaptists. b. was much
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human rights because he was shot in the head while being escorted from aircraft. Also Ninoy wanted a justice for being not democratic threatened against Marcos’ authoritarian rule. I’m proud of having a good senator on that time because he only thinks about the Filipino’s sake and he really fight for the right of human rights under the Martial Law. ` –Ruben Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated because of political issue. He was opposing the dictatorial government of Ferdinand
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have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan comes up. In this essay I am going to give you my opinion about the event that occured during World War II. I believe that America was justified in dropping the atomic bomb. I will provide reasons to backup my opinion as such as by American soldier lives were saved, resources used were kept small and several more reasons. The first fact I’ll address is regarding all the men we saved by holding out and making the decision to drop the bombs. Instead of risking
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War is a state of armed conflict between societies. It is generally characterized by extreme collective aggression, destruction, and usually high mortality. The set of techniques and actions used to conduct war is known as warfare. An absence of war is usually called "peace". Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant casualties. While some scholars see war as a universal and ancestral aspect of human
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felt the impact that Pearl Harbor had, but for President Roosevelt it was another disaster for the United States. It was a tough situation for President Roosevelt, after going through the Great Depression, to make the decision to enter World War II or not. Although all of the incidents that President Roosevelt went through he once said, “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” (Roosevelt) However, Pearl Harbor Attack changed how the United States one day was, but there
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his attention the prospect that a bomb of unprecedented power could be made by tapping the forces of nuclear fission, just after the outbreak of World War II in Europe.” (Njølstad, 2003) This was a turning point in the beginning of the development of nuclear weapons in the world. After the first atomic bomb exploded in 1945, many countries in the world have been competing with each other to develop these weapons systems. The earliest countries to blow up nuclear weapons after the U.S. was the Soviet
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hometown of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. This shows the hardships these six people had to face during and after the disaster. Hiroshima was written off of true events that occurred during the end of World War II. Summary On August 6, 1945, American forces dropped an atomic bomb in japan in efforts to stop the war. This attack however killed hundreds of thousands of people. Six survivors however – 2 doctors, 2 women, and 2 men somehow survived this blast. It is a miracle that these people were able to
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