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slaves to work the fields. With Spain being so far away the general population started to rebel and fight for their independence from Spain in the mid-18th century. This went on for about ten years, then the United States got involved and sent battleships over to Havana to help out in the situation, which led in part to the set up of the Spanish-American war. Once the wars was over The Treaty of Paris was signed and gave The United…

invasion on mainland Japan itself became a possibility. The battles that ensued in order to take the Pacific from the hands of the Japanese were brutal, long, destructive and fatal to many islanders. Japanese slaves, mortars from both sides, sinking battleships and months of fighting on any given island resulted in such large scale environmental and societal shifts that there became no chance that the Pacific World would ever be the same…

Tanner Weatherbee Professor Dr. Babb APUSH/AP Language 26 January 2015 Brilliant Compelling Title :) Following the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Francis Ferdinand in the warm summer of 1914, the major powers of Europe―split into two rivaling alliances―mobilized their armed forces and plunged Europe into World War I. By the end of 1917, more than a million French troops had been lost. France’s British, Russian, and Italian allies, along with the Ottoman, German, and Austro-Hungarian…

December seventh, 1941, a date that will live in infamy. The Japanese launched a surprise attack that left over 2,000 dead, hundreds of destroyed planes, and a crippled Pacific Fleet. In a matter of hours, the Japanese disrupted the neutral and isolationist approach the U.S. had taken into World War II. Why would Japan attack a country that was not involved in the war? Japan felt that as an axis power that they would have to clash with the United States eventually and they wanted to weaken or…

Whenever somebody even happens to mention the atomic bomb, your mind automatically conjures up images of bodies with their skin peeling off, flattened plains where cities used to be, gaseous mushroom clouds that envelop the sky, and most of all, the most effective, lethal, and powerful weapon ever used in wartime. The atomic bomb has the power to bring cities to mounds of rubble, valuable resources to worthless powder and nations to their knees. The atomic bomb however, is not only potent in its…

Theodore Roosevelt's presidency may have changed the United States forever. Although he was not the American people’s first choice to be president, Roosevelt certainly did grow on the American people. Roosevelt had many accomplishments in his presidency, both domestic and foreign. Because Roosevelt was a different type of president, it proves that his policies changed the landscape of the US politically, economically, and socially. Theodore Roosevelt changed America socially by helping the…

James Evers 11/26/14 D-Day Essay D-Day Essay On June 6, 1944, one of the most historical battles in the world took place; D-Day. Also known as Operation Overlord, it was very important because the Allies landed on Continental European soil and got a foot- hold in the ground war. Americans, British, and Canadians made up most of the invasion force, but Polish and free French armies not under control of the Germans, as well as Australians and many other countries contributed as well. The Allies…

Military tactics and strategies saw tremendous changes during the period of World War I and leading up to World War II. With all of these contrasts, it is still safe to say, however, that many of the tactics and strategies utilized in 1916 could compare to those of 1939. As with any major conflict, lessons learned are a key foundation to making the necessary changes to a nation’s military to either remain or become a strategic and tactical superpower. Additionally, the advancement of…

take place on Japan and it was projected that in the first phase (Operation Olympic) 2 million Japanese people would die to 550,000 Americans killed and wounded. The Americans had an initial 650,000 troops for Operation Olympic, 9,000 aircraft, 9 battleships and 80 destroyers. While the Japanese had 2.3 million troops, 28 million local defense reserves and over 8,000…

This caused the reporting type known as, Yellow Journalism. This type of journalism emphasized sex, murder, popular medicine, self-promotion, pseudoscience, and human-interest stories. Although, it had many faults, newspapers sold. When the battleship Maine, was blown up during the Spanish-American war in 1898, Circulation of The Journal jumped over one million, due to offering a $50,000 reward for an arrest of the guilty. When war was declared both papers stopped at nothing to report. Yellow…