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The Vietnam War
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... political parties in Vietnam, one of them being North Vietnam and the other being South Vietnam. Each party wanted to control all of Vietnam under their political beliefs. The North wanted the South to unite with them, but the South wanted to break away and start it's own country. But with little compromise the only thing that occurred was negotiation by force. The Geneva Conference in 1954, officially split Vietnam into two parts, North or Vietminh and South or French supported. It also ended the fighting of the North and South under several circumstances. First it officially declared France defeated by the Vietminh. After this was officially declared the Un ...



Definition Of War: Sherman's Hell
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... The American Civil War is a perfect example. The South wanted the freedom to make decisions that benefited a largely agricultural society, and when that freedom was denied they withdrew from the Union. The Union, on the other hand, viewed the South as a group of radicals making an attempt to dissolve the unity of states that their ancestors had worked so hard to create. As a result they felt their freedom of unity and nationhood had been taken away. It is difficult to say who was in the right, but when all of the negotiations had been exhausted, war was the result. In this case there was no other option because both sides believed in their cause. Gen. Wil ...



President Jackson And The Removal Of The Cherokee Indians
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... allotted lands in the West and urged them to move. The Supreme Court, however, in Worcester vs. Georgia, ruled that they constituted a "domestic dependent nation" not subject to the laws of Georgia. Jackson, who sympathized with the frontiersman, was so outraged that he refused to enforce the decision. Instead he persuaded the tribe to give up it's Georgia lands for a reservation west of the Mississippi. According to Document A, the map shows eloquently, the relationship between time and policies which effected the Indians. From the Colonial and Confederation treaties, a significant amount of land had been acquired from the Cherokee Indians. Successively, dur ...



Braveheart
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... both. The people wanted revenge on the king and so many of the men from Scotland went to battle. One in which was William's father. They gained nothing from the fight, and now William no longer had a father.William now went to live with his uncle Argile. There he lived for a long term of his life. He was educated and learned to speak Latin with his uncle who he also took him on a pilgrimage to Rome. He returned home to Scotland while in his late twenties to raise crops and a family. He soon was married to a girl he knew as a kid in secret so that none of the guards could enforce the law of Primal Nuctar, which is to bless the marriage ...



The 1920s And Its Impact
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... wheat and contributed tremendous business to the canadian wheat industries. Farmers begain making more money than ever before, and they started buying tractors and other farm machinery to take place of their cattle and horses. Prices of wheat were at a all time high, which gave canada's wheat industry an even bigger advantage and a bigger form of maney making in canadas economy. Canadian soldiers on the other hand who had returned from war were ecpecting to be employed, but not even for their bravery and fighting for their country could they get a job. Canadian soldiers were surprised at how difficult it was to get a job. While they were out fight ...



Vietnam Veteran
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... her way toward the index fingers, one at a time. Breaking a finger every twenty minutes, she followed a well-planned timetable of torture that covered her prisoner's entire body and would carry the session through the night. At a few minutes before midnight, she had eight fingers to go." This actual account from Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson is just one of the thousands of stories which is condemned to the small circle of s and the few that talk to or read the stories they so painfully tell. Never would you find a personal account of this magnitude and detail in your general history text or even find any quotes from the thousands of GI's stationed in ...



Witchcraft At Salem
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... but to the twentieth century world, it is a justification more believable than that of the village doctor. It is a human tendency to jump to conclusions without knowing all of the facts. In the case described above, the village doctor probably did not feel that he was jumping to conclusions because of the abundance of "witches" in those days. Even today, with the abundance of knowledge about the way things work, some hasten to postulate "God's doings" as the answers to all of our unanswered questions. Are we on this earth because "God put us here"? Was it a chance arrangement of amino acids in a molecular pool which evolved into a human being? Or ...



Romero
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... lady whose husband had been taken as a political prisoner. She asked for his help and he did everything he could to. He went to the president elect who denied anything about political prisoners. The husband was found later dead. Romero was faced with many of these abductions of young kids, girls being raped and killed, and families being torn apart. He met with each family, listening to each story and receiving a picture of the missing people. At one point in the story the church had been taken over, Romero and another priest went to the church in the city of Aguillarez to take care of the Eucharist. He was allowed in the church, but on his ...



The History Of The Black Panther Party
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... even raided meetings of the KKK. Despite the death of the organization in 1971, its actions were so controversial that most media erased almost all reference to them (One reason this information was extremely hard to find). The Panthers were formed by Huey P. Newton, an African American who grew up in Oakland. After the 1966 assassination of black leader Malcolm X, Newton gathered some longtime friends, including Bobby Seale and David Hilliard, and drew an outline for the organization. At first, it was named the “Black Panther Party For Self-Defense”, but it was shortened to the “Black Panther Party”. The founders created a list of 10 wants and beliefs of the ...



The Civil War
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... Confederates "crossed over." The South had superior officer personnel. For twenty years before Lincoln's inauguration, southern officers had dominated the U.S. Army. Another source of southern confidence was cotton. Secession leaders expected to exchange that staple for the foreign manufactured goods they needed. The South's most important advantage was that it had only to defend relatively short interior lines against invaders who had to deal with long lines of communication and to attack a broad front. The Confederacy also had no need to divert fighting men to tasks such as garrisoning captured cities and holding conquered territory. In a short wa ...




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