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The Vietnam War
... 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 ...
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Definition Of War: Sherman's Hell
... 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 ...
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President Jackson And The Removal Of The Cherokee Indians
... 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 ...
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Braveheart
... 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 ...
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The 1920s And Its Impact
... 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 ...
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Vietnam Veteran
... 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 ...
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Witchcraft At Salem
... 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 ...
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Romero
... 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 ...
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The History Of The Black Panther Party
... 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 ...
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The Civil War
... 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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