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    Why Join Ww2

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    were masks that were designed to prevent the gas from harming you, otherwise we would just pray that it rained that night to clear out the gas. Some of the higher ranked soldiers came up with the idea if creating U-Boats, which were submarines to torpedo any ship that we believed would be sending supplies to the other side. I guess you could say that we were harsh, but what needs to be done will be done. We would launch bombs from our trenches or our line and didn’t care who…

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    Lusitania Narrative

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    to turn out. Having hope and faith in your life can make every situation better, no matter how hard things get. This was even shown by the captain of the German -U boat when he said, “It would have been impossible for me, anyhow, to fire a second torpedo into this crowd of people struggling to save their lives.” Captain Schwieger realized that his actions were the wrong thing to do and he couldn’t take the lives of any more innocent people. That is what I learned from my experiences. You can…

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    Sharks outlasted the dinosaurs and still are around today. The Great White Shark is a streamlined swimmer and is very strong. All sharks, rays, and skates share something in common which is the structure of their bodies. Great Whites have a torpedo-shaped body, pointed snout, gill slits, and dorsal and pectoral fins. Great Whites, like other sharks, have no gas filled swim bladder to keep them up like bony fish do. They must be swimming constantly or they will sink. Their structure proves…

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    Effective leadership is the ability to motivate others to want to accomplish the mission or task and hold the belief that what they are doing has purpose. A leader must possess a strong character and presence that instills confidence in others, as well as the intellect to make effective decisions. Leaders who possess these attributes produce confident soldiers whose use of independent thought and initiative in problem solving situations greatly aid in the accomplishment of necessary tasks.…

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    Social Security and Public Assistance differences According to “Segal (2015) The indigenous social insurance provisions were a federal system of old-age benefits for retired workers and a federal- state partnership for unemployment insurance. The system of old-age benefits was called the Old- Age Insurance program. It contributes benefits for retired workers who had paid taxes into the system while employed in industry and commerce. The program was to begin collecting taxes in 1937 and pay…

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    Commander Genda and Captain Kameto (Gandhi) Kurojima prepared a plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Using six aircraft carriers, torpedo planes, zero type 21 with folding-wing planes for cover, high-level bombers, dive bombers, going by the northern route, using new torpedoes and attacking in the weekend using weather conditions for cover. Further, officers are debating between what…

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    The Royal Mail Steamer Titanic was the product of intense competition among rival shipping lines in the first half of the 20th century . On May 31, 1911, Titanic’s immense hull–at the time, the largest movable manmade object in the world–made its way down the slipways and into the River Lagan In Belfast. According to some hypothesis, the Titanic was doomed from the start by the design so many lauded as state-of-the-art. Titanic created quite a stir when it departed for its maiden voyage from…

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    3 Dictators Of Ww2

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    and that was one of the reasons that lead to the start of WWII. He was also responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the attack led the USA to jointhe war. The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighter planes, bombers and torpedo planes. It damaged 8 battleships ,with 4 sunks and the Japanese army destroyed their entire base. For thisthe USA later bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima with nuclear…

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    planes that were landing from California. Inside of minutes after the first 's entry wave of Japanese aggressors, Pearl Harbor turned into a scene of awfulness, pulverization, and disarray with the U.S. A torpedo hit the war vessel U.S.S. West Virginia and an arrangement of blasts went off. A torpedo hit U.S.S. Arizona and its blasts set the U.S.S. Tennessee ablaze. The U.S.S. Arizona is as yet resting in Pearl Harbor, and serves as a commemoration to Americans of what the Japanese did to us. At…

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    The author is Masarrah Alchi. “One perfectly shot torpedo could sink any ship, but you were also carrying around with you a very sensitive bomb that could sink your ship just as easily” (Alchi 2). This quote means that the bombs in WW1 were really dangerous to carry around, but killed the enemies faster. It killed more enemies in less amount of time. With carrying the bomb you were risking your own life, but you were also prepare to kill the enemies.Where world war 1 weapons worth it ? Where…

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