American League

The Neutrality Acts were specifically tailored to keep the nation out of a conflict like World War I. If they had been in effect at that time, America probably would not have been sucked in, at least not in April 1917. Neutrality Acts of 1935 were important, because it kept the U.S. out of war and providing any country in war with supplies. “Quarantine Speech” President Roosevelt delivered his sensational “Quarantine Speech” in the autumn of 1937. Alarmed by the recent aggressions of Italy and…

and the United States. The United States had traditionally followed a foreign policy of isolationism. In other words, they didn’t want to get involved with other country affairs. “The shift” is the American society changing from non-involvement…

Document 3 in the Four Minute Man speech it says “ If the American people lend their billions now, one and all with a hip-hip-hurrah, it means that America is united and strong”. For the Government was great that people buy those bonds, but for the people it was not. The way this impacted the civil liberties was that the people’s money was being stolen. Those bonds were posters created by artist and some of them appealed to the Americans to be against the German…

World War 1 or the First World War was the bloodiest conflict in Canadian history, taking lives of more than 60,000 Canadians. The three main arguments are how WW1 affected Canada politically, socially, and economically. Even though, the war killed nearly 61,000 Canadians, WW1 had a more positive effect or impact on the future development of Canada. Although Canada experienced a lot of downfalls and negative effects like the amount of casualties and deaths we had, we also had some positives too.…

Roosevelt’s main purpose of this speech was to of course state the freedoms for all humans, but to also awake the citizens of America to have a voice and fight back. “I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all americans to respond to that call”(Roosevelt 46). This quote from Roosevelt is telling America to have a voice and do what is right. Though Roosevelt sought to use the Four Freedoms as an encouragement to counter against hitler and a force to…

Many Canadians wonder and ask how did the Canadian identity form. Canadian identity comes in many shapes and forms. An identity is something that everyone who lives in Canada shares. Also it is what separates a country from others and the fact of being who or what a person or a nation is.The Canadian identity formed just like any other country. Canadian identity has taken various forms throughout the history and this depends on the authority given the final word of important matters. Mackenzie…

Washington believed his advice against alliances with other countries was a permanent consideration. He mentioned in his Farewell Address in 1796 that being friendly to some, but a rival to other countries should be avoided at all times. The first president warned against alliances with the Old World because he feared that it may hurt America by drawing it into wars not because of “good faith and justice”, but because the United States had made an alliance with another country. Another point…

World War II Earl Marks Social Studies Many activities throughout the whole world triggered the commencement of the World War II. In numerous ways, the World War II was actually a direct outcome of the havoc that remained after the World War I. The instability that was created by the World War I in Europe between 1914 and 1918 fixed the platform for a subsequent international conflict which began after two decades. The conflict was more devastating and thus became the World War II.…

“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.” This quote was once uttered by an myopic leader, Napoleon’s self interest played a larger role than his care for the nation, leading it to crash down upon him. Napoleon declared war on most nations in Europe, leading in millions upon millions of death. Not only did he make enemies around the world, he also made enemies within his own country. His code of conduct declared women subpar to men,…

as a threat or opposed theirs beliefs were eliminated from society. May 10th 1933 is significant day in Hitler’s rise as this was the day the party set out to burn the majority of the books, libraries and schools were raided. Helen Keller a famous american novelist stated “Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas”, burning of books was a clear violation of their freedom of speech. He determined that the one thing the german people all had in common was the hatred of the treaty of versaille. He…