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Canada’s New Light Though wartime is often destructive and devastating, Canada has a tendency to emerge with a securer identity and a stronger unification as a nation. One of these moments was World War II, which consequently led to the creation of the United Nations. The United Nations was an organization created in 1945, composed by various countries around the world. Its initial purpose was to maintain international security and foster social co-operation. Joining the United Nations was a…

Eve Orbach 10H1 Social Studies China, Japan, the Middle East, and Africa were regions in which the influence of the Europeans was eventually greatly felt. All of these regions were at first reluctant to join with the European ways in matters such as culture and trade, but eventually succumbed to the pressure to join the Europeans due to various reasons such as military pressure from the Europeans or the pressure to succeed and evolve by modernizing as a country. The Europeans always succeed in…

Historically, an NIE on average has taken 215 days to produce (Johnson, p.342). But this seems to all depend on the situation at hand and whether a crisis is happening. During the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 we saw an NIE that only took a few hours to the most recent biggest NIE error was the three week product on the Iraqi WMD NIE. Many critics felt it was hastily prepared and some even referred to it as the `worst body of work in the…

June, 1940 (Hynson, 16). Africa offered a new front to the Allies to fend off the Axis powers (Introduction). Britain thought it was important to protect the colonies of North Africa in order to protect shipping in the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal and to prevent the Axis from accessing oil fields. In December, 1940, the British made their way 500 miles and captured 130,000 prisoners and destroyed ten divisions of the Italian army (Hynson,…

Chapter 28 “The Cold War” Notes I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLD WAR The Confrontation of the Superpowers Was an argument between Soviet and American ideologies over what would be a secure political arrangement of peoples and nations in the aftermath of WW II The first area of disagreement of theeee Cold War was Eastern Europe One factor that helped start the Cold War in Eastern Europe was Stalin’s want to employ for-Soviet governments in the countries of Eastern Europe to serve as a…

In the 1400’s through the 1750’s the age of exploration and discovery was taken place. This was the period of the time where Europeans would try to figure out what is out there in the world and what is there to offer. They didn’t yet know about the New World but they surly did become obsessed. By the early 1400’s the economy of Europe reached its domestic saturation, that which is a economic cant grow any further, it reached its highest point. Through this time there has been many important…

Some believe that this America’s shale revolution is economically beneficial and an indicator of its journey to energy independence. David Brooks, an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times argues in his article, “Shale Gas Revolution”, that the U.S. shale gas industry has produced more than half a million new jobs, not only in traditional areas but also in “economically-wounded” locations such as western Pennsylvania and Ohio. He also advocates for America’s decreased reliance on foreign…

's biggest army: the Soviet Union. His military logic became more and more unpredictable. In addition to Germany 's military, their economic position worsened along with his condition. In the late 1942’s, Germany 's power failed to capture the Suez Canal. The also hurt against the vanquish at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk. On June 6 1944, the Western allied armies got to Northern France. This resulted to German officers ended that defeat was going to happen sooner or later.…

The core values of bayanihan, politeness, hospitality, and so on makes the essence of being a Filipino. Such deep-rooted principles of the past contributes to the current state of the Philippines, one of them being a democratic country. Employing democratic ideals to the government scheme, as expounded by the Oxford English Dictionary, means practicing fair and equal approach to society and having election of government officials by eligible citizens of the country. PRE-COLONIALISM Origins…

  The mighty Congo Empire, at Cote d’lvoire, Aka, the Ivory Coast of West Africa had the Burkina Faso warriors originally from the Bantu migration 600AD. They were skilled in horse riding and the use of the bow. Their earliest history starts with the Dagomba tribe neighboring the Boussansi, the Ninisi, the Gourounsi and the Kabisi their union brought about a great warrior kingdom called the Mossi. The greatest warriors of this Empire were the Wagadogo and the Yatenga. They used weapons such…