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    Japan .On December 11 Germany and Italy as Japan's allies declared war on United States , but Chinese were now our allies .Pearl Harbor possessions fell to Japan one by one . This attack killed 2403 people , 188 planes destroyed and 21 damaged battleships. The similarities on both attacks are that these two attacks were unprovoked , nobody did anything or attack them , for them to attack U.S. Failure of intelligence in both cases, there was evidence on the 9/11 attack but the pieces weren't…

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    Introduction & Thesis: October 29, 1929 is a day forever known as “Black Tuesday”. It was a day when the American stock market crashed causing the United States to plunge into a severe economic downturn. It was the Great Depression. People lost their shirts, banks failed, the nation’s money supply diminished and companies went bankrupt causing workers to be fired in droves. The then president, Herbert Hoover, said the crisis was just “a passing incident in our national lives” but by 1932,…

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    Over 150 years ago, our nation went through a major battle known as the Civil War. It was a conflict where 620,000 American soldiers died because of the different viewpoints between the North and the South. The years following this great battle molded our nation to become the land of the free and the home of the brave. The next 50 years for the United States of America were marked by the quest for freedom of different sorts, expansion as a nation, and modernization. It began with the hard-fought…

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    “Marie Antoinette was a person who liked people, and bore little resemblance to the cold villain portrayed by her protractors” . As an Austrian foreigner turned French Queen, she was one of the most attacked public figures in the history of France . Marie Antoinette was an innocent victim, despite public belief and conditions in France during her rule. Her marriage to Louis XVI was less than blissful, they were polar opposites and frustrated each other greatly. She was wrongly accused in…

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    World War II, if not the bloodiest, was one of the most bloody and expensive wars in all of history. WWII claimed millions of lives, cost billions of dollars, and spun the entire world upside down. While there were many different causes, three of them were the most significant including the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of Fascism and Nazism, and The Great Depression. The social, economic, and political instability that existed in Europe after World War I caused World War II. The first…

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    composed of dive-bombers, torpedo bombers, and a few fighters, was launched in two waves at the giant U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. “The base at that time was accommodating 70 U.S. fighting ships, 24 auxiliaries, and 300 planes and all eight battleships in the harbour were hit” (World War 2, 2018). Collective Security was a plan made to prevent and/or stop wars from happening. “Neither the League nor the United Nations were able to operate the principle successfully to prevent aggression…

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    WORLD WAR II 6.2 I. Before the war A. Italy 1. Benito Mussolini was the leader of the fascist group in Italy. 2. Fascism is a revolt against democratic values. 3. This was the world’s first totalitarian dictatorship. B. Germany 1. The Treaty of Versailles (which was instituted following World War I) placed harsh conditions on Germany to stop them from rising up in war again. 2. Desperation and starvation caused many problems among the German people. 3. Adolf Hitler led the people with promises…

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    that time an illegal organisation, had been propagating an insurrection of previously subjugated knowledges via the distribution of unofficial posters, leaflets, and most interestingly, postage stamps. Prisoners, who carved imprints out of leather and smuggled them to the outside, produced some of these stamps. The stamps constructed and represented a different history of Poland and located Solidarity within that history, in opposition, as Evans put it, “to the official histories produced by the…

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    pill and shot himself in the head, Germany quickly surrendered to the allied Forces of the Western front. On September second, nineteen-forty-five, Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers. The Allies got together and more that two-hundred-fifty battleship surrounded Tokyo Bay. Many Japanese leaders signed documents to say officially that Japan has surrendered. This marked the end of World War…

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    My case study student is a second grader who loves mystery books, video games and playing with friends. My first day in the classroom before being assigned my case study student, I almost immediately bonded with my case study student over the stories of Goosebumps, after that he constantly asked me to sit with him during lunch and asked me for help. I would consider him to have a limited internal dialogue because he often says whatever is on his mind, but it frequently turns out hilarious and…

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