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Military History Essays and Term Papers
The Accomplishments Of Peter The GreatTowards the end of the seventeenth century Russia differed very little from what it had been at the end of the fifteenth. During the reign of Peter the Great Russia's desire for change and a quest for progress was reaching levels comparable to those of Europe. Peter the Great is associated ...
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The Catcher In The Rye Summary And AnalysisThe Catcher in the Rye is an American novel written by J.D. Salenger, and is about a dysfunctional teenager named Holden Caulfield. Holden spends most of the book roaming the streets of New Yourk City. Holden suffers from mental depression and is on a course toward a mental breakdown. He ...
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Crisis In KosovoFoundations in the Crisis in Yugoslavia
For hundreds of years there has been conflicts in the area of Yugoslavia. The present day conflicts between the United Nations and Slobodan Milosevic and the Serbians has caused uproar throughout the world. Many innocent lives have been lost since the ...
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Adolf Hitlerruled Germany as dictator from 1933 to 1945. He turned Germany into a powerful war machine and provoked World War II in 1939. Hitler's forces conquered most of Europe before they were defeated in 1945.
Hitler had killed many like no person has done in modern history. "Have no pity! Act brutally!" ...
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The War Of 1812A primary cause of was the rise of Tecumseh, believed to be backed by the British, caused an urgency for the Americans to expel the British from Canada. The War Hawks, the congress at the time of Madison's presidency, were pushing for the invasion of Canada, and an attack upon the savages who had ...
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Cleopatra VIICleopatra was the last queen of Egypt. She was born in 69 BC and died in 30 BC by committing suicide. She had two husbands, Ptolemy XIII and Mark Antony. She also had an affair with Caesar. In spite of all her love affairs and the wars during her reign, some people still think Cleopatra was the ...
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Emancipation ProclamationThere is much discussion about Lincoln's order abolishing slavery in the states "in rebellion". Though the did not free any slaves right out nor make any drastic changes it was a very necessary, very big step taken. Lincoln began an essential phase that the country had to get through in order ...
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Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th president of the United States (1969-1972), was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon was one of the most controversial politicians of the twentieth century. He built his political career on the communist scare of the late forties and early fifties, but as president he ...
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Mali, One Of The Greatest African Civilizations
Mali’s Culture and Government
After the kingdom of Ancient Ghana, the next great West African Empire to emerge was the kingdom of Ancient Mali. Ancient Mali and Ghana shared a number of different features, however they also were extremely distinct from each other in many ways as ...
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The Holocaust, An Injustice And TragedyThe Holocaust was not just an event. It was a process that continued for over a decade and involved millions of people. It was the effort of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany to exterminate the Jews and other people that they considered to be inferior. As a result about 12,000,000 ...
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Oliver Cromwellwas an English soldier and statesman who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars. He was lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 to 1658 during the republican Commonwealth.
As a general on the parliamentary side of the English Civil War vs. Charles I, Cromwell ...
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Us Presidents 30-4230. President - Calvin Coolidge
Term - August 3, 1923 to March 3, 1929
Coolidge set out to establish a working relationship with the leading members of the Harding administration, and he drew on many people for advice and help. The scandals of Harding's presidency, particularly the Teapot Dome ...
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British AppeasementAfter World War I Germany limped back, licking its wounds that the Treaty of Versailles had so mercilessly rubbed in salt. As one looks back on the events leading up to World War II it has to be asked whether France and England helped to start World War II by their actions at Versailles. It seems ...
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The Ninth And Tenth Century DynastiesThe most stable of the successor dynasties founded in the ninth and tenth centuries was that of the Fatimids, a branch of Shi'is. The Fatimids won their first success in North Africa, where they established a rival caliphate at Raqqadah near Kairouan and, in 952, embarked on a period of expansion ...
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The End Of The First World WarIn 1917 the United States of America went to help the allies in the First World War. Many British and French historians say that if the United States did not go to help the allies, Germany would have possibly won the war. All of this happened shortly after the Russian collapse, better known as ...
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Deng XiaopingChina has a long history with several great leaders, but none of those
leaders have even come close to being as great as .
was a loyal communist who sacrificed his own life so his people could have a
better one. During his long political career, he served as a Communist
politcommissar of the ...
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Augustus CaesarThe year 509 BC Rome finally became a Republic and thus started the Roman empire. As Rome rose to power they went through many wars and many conflicts between the plebeians and patricians. The republic was made out of 3 groups, the consuls which were 2 men elected from the senate, the senate which ...
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Why Gun Control Is NeededThe year was 1787, and Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander
Hamilton, and George Washington were signing their names to a document that
stated, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a
free-state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed." ...
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Benito Juarezwas one of the most prominent and resourceful leaders in Mexico’s history. He raised the standard of living and championed the poor. However, it took Juarez half his life to become such a dominant political figure.
He was born in San Paulo Guelatao in the Mexican State of Oaxaca. His ...
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