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    easy to depict the actual meaning of the battle going on. The artist uses many different techniques to resemble a historic moment, the painting itself has historic and cultural meaning due to the actual battle taking place, also the painting itself shows high levels of tensions between the two parties. Eric J. Garcia famously painted the oil on canvas painting which he titled Remember, the painting is a still…

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    Another important cause for the disastrous attack on Pearl by the Japanese was that President Roosevelt furthered its “Moral Embargo” by expanding its restrictions to oil and scrap metal to stop Japan from expanding. At the beginning of 1900’s Japan was falling apart as they were running out of raw materials and oil. Japan decided that to survive they had to expand within Asia to get more materials so they invaded French Indochina in 1940 to embargo all imports to China which included war…

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    more, but the biggest effect that the war had been that in the end, Sparta made Athens take down their most precious defence, their long wall. This made their whole city-state weak, and shortly after, Sparta tried to invade Thebes but lost a crucial battle. They kept the fighting when they could have been getting new soldiers. After awhile, Athens caught a plauge, which was guessed to be ebola. After that happened they called a truce on the war, and they agreed to Sparta’s terms. Then,…

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    Germany’s Demand for Resources The initial strategy of Germany was known as Blitzkrieg, meaning “lightning war” in German. Germany forcing the Allied powers into psychological shock, resulted in disorganization amongst the Allied powers through the use of surprise, speed, and superiority through material or firepower. Germany benefited from Blitzkrieg by taking over most of Europe and some of North Africa. After Germany had used Blitzkrieg, they ended up realizing they bit off more than they…

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    “Brains over brawn”. That’s what you would hear today, but back then, strength could get you anything—and the Spartans did exactly this. And although the Spartans did not have philosophers or art, they were clever military-wise. Clearly, Sparta was better than Athens for multiple reasons, and by using strength, they were later able to defeat Athens in the Peloponnesian war. First of all, The Spartans produced possibly the most iconic military in ancient history. The ancient Spartans were very…

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    Civil War Bang Trip Essay

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    to see the sites of the battles and learn in a different way for once. The civil war bang bang trip will teach students to see things as they are, and keep in mind what hardships we must go through to get where we want. A student can learn these things by visiting civil war sites rich with history. We will go in chronological order, our first destination is Fort Sumer, South Carolina.(Frank E. "Fort Sumter." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.) It was here that a major battle took place,…

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    won the battle instead of losing. Longstreet is not the only general who think Lee plan won’t work. General John Hood was also one of the confederate general under Longstreet and he also like defensive strategies. Hood know that he will lose lots of his men if they fight head on. The book said “If I attack as ordered I will lose half my Division, and they will still be looking down our throats from that hill.” (pg. 201) This tell me that he doesn't want to lose his men and he think is a bad…

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    Air war: Battle 1: Britian They then concentrated on destroying the RAF, before turning their attention to the destruction of London A key event in the Battle of Britain (known as Battle of Britain Day) took place on 15th September 1940. The Battle of Britain is about to begin.” The first German bombing raids took place on 10th July 1940. On this day, Germany launched a massive assault on London and filled the skies with a large number of bombers and fighter planes. Although exact figures are…

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    Spartan Education Essay

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    Spartan The paradigm that I chose to criticize is Spartan. Spartan’s education style seems to be very interesting. At the age of seven girls and boys began to live together in open air barracks. In the barracks they were taught obedience, how to take care of themselves and how to get along with each other. The main focus of a Spartan education was not to focus on literacy, but to produce good soldiers. The society was entirely towards the military life. The education was a harsh process of…

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    The battle of Gettysburg lasted for 3 days July 1­3, 1863. In and around the town of Gettysburg and Pennsylvania,but the Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. It started on July 1,1863 and ended July 3,1863.General Robert E. Lee waited the approach of Union General George G. Meades forces.On July 1, early Union success faltered as the Confederates fault back against the Iron Brigade and exploited a small federal line at Barlos knoll the following day saw Lee strike the…

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