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It was found from the wreckage that the Mongol fleet had been composed of quickly made flat-bottomed river boats in the traditional Chinese style. The construction of sea-faring ships was viewed as a process that would have been too slow and taken too much expense. Riverboats lack the curved keel that sea faring ships possess to prevent from capsizing. The legends…

resources in Germany were decreasing because of blockades of warships. Germany was bidding with United States land, stating to trade some of our territory to great britain, and if that was not enough to send us over the edge then after the fact that U-boats from Germany had hurt innocent civilians was. The U.S. had later threatened the country with war. Another reason is the fact that newspapers and posters of sorts had been everywhere stating the positions of the war, and with the publics easy…

The Imitation Game is a movie based on true story that showed us about Britain in World War II era. Through this movie, we invited back turned to the past, where the World War II was happened. The emergence of Nazi party as a form of a revival of Germany made Adolf Hitler want his state became dominant power in Europe. However, the British build an alliance to prevent German. They were desirous to gain dominant power in the field of economic and military. At the moment was the outbreak of World…

he War to End All Peace There was once a conflict so great, that the people of the world thought that there could be no conflict greater; a war so massive that we could never fight another one like it: “the war to end all wars,” World War I. We know now, that this would not be the last global conflict, we have already had a World War II, and the third could be on our beaches any day. This raises the question, why was this never truly “the war to end all wars?” The inevitability of World War II…

a matter of months. After the German’s were stopped, the British pushed back, driving the death toll even higher. The battle continued on the sea in the west as well. German ships were sent out to destroy allied submarines and transports. German U-boats were famous for preventing supplies being shipped across the Atlantic. Because the Germans knew the Americans would eventually enter the war, they tried to cripple allied control of the sea before the United States could transport a large…

The United States’ decision to enter World War I was initially met with negative public opinion. The sheer diversity of the U.S. population made it impossible to support the effort. President Woodrow Wilson, who also wanted to be “neutral in fact as well as in name”, originally hoped to influence the postwar arrangements between the belligerents. However, he was compelled by German attacks on American people and the country’s integrity, leading him to ask Congress for a declaration of war…

Wilsonian Doctrine is a direct reflection of early 20th century Progressive idealism invading the traditional American ideal of non-interventionist foreign policy. Although non-intervention is not reflected in the actual actions of the United States during the 19th century, it is still an overarching, albeit impotent goal of Middle-American and non-Eastern Elite political ideology. Eastern Elites during the early 20th century, with their strong Anglophile tendencies and receptiveness toward…

The Darkest Hour presents the British government during World War II and how Winston Churchill became a significant player in winning the war and saving many soldiers from Dunkirk. The movie is a partial biography of Winston Churchill, personality interpreted by Gary Oldman, who also won an Oscar as the best leading role. The movie shows different sides of the same character. Winston travels from an angry and indelicate personality from an understanding and feverous leader one by the end of the…

The Cuban Missile crisis was a time period during the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It was a political standoff between these two countries that lasted for a total of 13 days in took place between October 16-28 1962. It was called the Cuban Missile Crisis because it was all about the United States finding out that the Soviet Union had put nuclear missiles in Cuba, 90 miles off the coast of America. In 1959 Fidel Castro took control of the island Cuba located in the…

therefore naming them Hoovervilles. 3. Lusitania – The Lusitania was a British passenger liner that was sailing from New York to Liverpool, England. The ship was carrying forty-two hundred cases of small-arms ammunition. German submarines known as U-boats torpedoed and sank the ship on May 7th, 1915. 1,198 lives were lost, out of this number 128 were Americans. Americans were outraged at this act of mass murder and piracy. The sinking of the Lusitania was significant during this time because…