... Porsche an honorary doctorate from the Stuttgart Technical Institute in 1924. Many companies approached Dr. Ferdinand Porsche in hopes of having him develop a vehicle, one such person was Adolf Hitler. Hitler wanted Porsche to develop a car, a Volkswagen that could be priced at two hundred and fifty dollars. A feat that seemed impossible was completed by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche and his son Ferry. Towards ... the end of World War II, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche and his son Ferry had to reassemble Porsche Konstruktionsburo (factory). It was moved to ... not complete the move until 1950 when the ...

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... up "Safety Zones" inside the city, where refugees could stay. On November 25, Japanese forces attacked Nanking from three different directions. The Chinese General Tang Sheng Zhi commanded an army of over a hundred thousand men. However, the Chinese city soon fell to the Japanese Imperial Army. As the Japanese entered the city, a massacre began that would continue for six weeks. During the ... to observe the competitions and raise praise for the victor back in Japan. Sometimes the number of bodies reached as high as five-hundred in a single contest. In one such contest, two officers wer...

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... were the main targets. Literally 5 minutes into the attack, seven of the battleships had taken torpedo or bomb hit. At around 10:00 AM, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ended. Twenty-nine ships were either sunk or damaged. Three hundred forty-seven planes were either destroyed or damaged. Two thousand four hundred and three American citizens lost their lives, and another eleven ... hundred people were wounded. Out of the three hundred eighty-three planes, only twenty-nine didn't return to their carriers (Essential Pearl Harbor). There was ... a third wave of force that was planned i...

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... were the main targets. Literally 5 minutes into the attack, seven of the battleships had taken torpedo or bomb hit. At around 10:00 AM, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ended. Twenty-nine ships were either sunk or damaged. Three hundred forty-seven planes were either destroyed or damaged. Two thousand four hundred and three American citizens lost their lives, and another eleven ... hundred people were wounded. Out of the three hundred eighty-three planes, only twenty-nine didn't return to their carriers (Essential Pearl Harbor). There was ... a third wave of force that was planned i...

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... 's magazines also gave women a voice and character, for the first time people became interested in what women were thinking and doing as persons instead of just housewives. As the century progressed more and more colleges began to accept women, therefore enabling women to become educated and obtain resources that would make ... , and gave them the desire to be heard and acknowledged. When the Civil War began. A woman's role became that of nurse, seamstress, farmer, worker, and so on. About four hundred women enlisted themselves to fight in the war as men. Some women went in disguised, and...

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... Overall in the attack on Pearl Harbor there were two thousand four hundred (2,400) Americans that were killed, one thousand three hundred(1,300) wounded, and one thousand(1,000) missing.(Us Marines at Pearl Harbor, 3) Japanese losses were fewer than one hundred casualties, twenty nine planes, and five midget submarines. The Japanese had ... an end. Both the Japanese and the United States had recognized that Pearl Harbor would be a great target. (Prange, 79) The first inkling of the Japanese attack did not come from the air, but from the water.(Farago, 355) As American bomber the USS Wa...

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... group, the Watutsis (also called Tutsis) arrived in the area later but dominated both the Twa and the Bahutus. They composed about 14 percent of the population of Burundi. The Watutsis dominated the Bahutus for more than four hundred years. They came as invaders and quickly established themselves as the ruling class. The Watutsis were pastoralists (nomads with cattle as their chief commodity ... and people continued for more than a year. Eighty-six high-ranking Bahutu officials were executed in late 1965; in all, between twenty-five hundred and five thousand Bahutus were killed during t...

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... got a job with the army. The army had asked him to spy on new political groups in Germany. In September Hitler had gone to a meeting of a small new group called the German Workers Party which included about 25 members. They had invited him to join their group because they had the same opinions ... on the 16th October 1919 had been moved to a cellar that could barely hold one hundred people, they had gone over that limit but the meeting still went ahead. Hitler was a great speaker when he spoke in front of the Party members; this would be great in the future when the committee would get ...

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... set the law, there was no way the law could be questioned. Finally, by surrounding himself by three hundred and seventy-five Fascists (in a parliament of 535) who adored him he pretty much eliminated any threat to himself by the Socialists , if he did not have complete ... fighters at the end of World War Two. Tsarist Russia For just about three hundred years the political system in Russian sat unchanged with the family of Nicholas the II and those before him. So how does a family of Tsars who sit unquestioned for nearly three hundred years suddenly become questioned ... Hitler's ideas an...

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... to them could have happened to anybody at the time. This resulted in the reader being greatly affected when the soldiers experienced the Horrors and senselessness of war. Senselessness is clearly portrayed in its first example in AQOTWF. The men in the company have just finished a heated argument with their training master ... he is not at all a remarkable man. They lose all purpose for being in the war and so they reflect to try to make sense of it. They come to the conclusion that if a certain 20 world leaders had said no to the war, it would never have happened, everyone ... losses i...

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... the assembly line. The name of the corvette came from a fast type of royal navy warship It was only available in red and white interior and the suggested retail price was around thirty five hundred. The sales of the 1953 corvette were substantially less then expected, only 183 of the 314 cars produced were ... sold, due to high price and lack of performance. The only new parts on the corvette were the fiberglass body ... helped the corvette become the legend that it is today. It proved itself on the racetrack, which helped to increase sales to ensure the continuation of the corvette. Sin...

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... happened. Hersey greatly focuses on the physical devastation caused by the bomb. One hundred thousand people were killed as the bomb detonated, with three hundred fifty thousand feeling the physical effects of the bomb. Only two of the six subjects of Hersey's chronicle, Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto and Doctor Terufumi Sasaki, were uninjured. Because these two men were uninjured, they were able to help the people ... around them, as Tanimoto transferred people by boat to safety, and Sasaki worked for three days straight at the Red Cross Hospital. Much of ... 's narrative includes the words...

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... showing how an elite group of paratroopers, the E Company, played a decisive role in almost all of the major battles that took place in the later part of World War II. This book also captures how this group of men, originally composed of one hundred and forty seven men, managed to capture Hitler's Eagle Nest while suffering an astounding one hundred and fifty percent causality rate. The author ... of this book, Stephen Ambrose, attempts to show ... what life was like for the soldiers after the war was over. Instead of ending the book with the war, Ambrose writes of how the men in the E...

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... women's corporation. Finally on may 14, 1942 the bill to "establish a Women's Auxiliary corps" was re-presented. Oveta culp Hobby, wife of the former governor of Texas, was appointed director. With a little help from Eleanor Roosevelt the navy united and authorized a Woman's Naval Reserve and a Marine Corps Women ... 's Reserve. The Coast Guard followed closely. The first director of WAVES ( Women accepted for volunteer emergency service) was LT. Commander Mildred McAfee. The SPARS (which came from the coast guard motto semper paratus- ... of the most excellent women in the United States...

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... this is so, then my hopes are that this helps to stop something that engulfed nearly two hundred thousand lives and left them to never be seen alive again. These lives were lost during the Battle of the Bulge. It is also known at the Ardennes and was the last major battle during World ... Germans last major offensive during World War II and was obviously very costly in lives. As a total, there were three American armies, which is the equivalent of six corps. or thirty one divisions. The Germans also had three armies, but they had ten corps. or twenty nine divisions instead. Though it was...

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... thoroughly as he had hoped. The War Guilt Clause is a prime example of why the Treaty of Versailles was unfair. The War Guilt Clause, also known as Article 231, holds Germany one-hundred percent responsible for the outbreak of World War One. Wether all the nations agreed on this or not, ... , military plans and mobilization while negotiating that made Germany nervous, forcing them to mobilize and to declare war (Fenton 183). With the system of alliances that was put in place, Germany had no other choice but to first cripple France, then to proceed fighting Russia. By the time ... the War ...

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... like real life people, while at the same time including the theme with its overwhelming thoughts of the effects of war. First, Greene chooses the aftermath of World War II to center around his plot. The story opens at the beginning of Bank Holiday, the day that the "last recruitment", Trevor, also called "T" arrived and joined ... so hard it that it scraped the paint off one car. Old Misery is created by Greene to be a nice older man, who is proud of his home. This is apparent by the way that he offers chocolates to the young boys and feels sad that there is not enough for all the ... sh...

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... had a idea for this country and didn't stop till he made an impact and that made this man destined to become one of the most remembered out of all of our presidents, though before he spoked these everlasting words on March 4, 1933. Roosevelt had in fact spoken what was realized later ... had involved a tremendous amount of Americans money in their stocks and had risked the soundness of the Americas economy and the prosperity of the American society that we were so promised. But by the nineteen hundred and twenty nine's, the depression had had begun to show the signs of its coming and it ...

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... to the war, humans had begun to develop technology at the fastest rate in history. As the war ended, President Wilson and the rest of the Allied leaders were faced with an unenviable challenge; these men were responsible for putting Europe back together the way one might piece together a jigsaw ... struggles that ignited the First World War were present and intensified by the Treaty of Versailles. "Instead of expressing a great recuperative effort of the conscience of civilization, which for its own sins has sweated so much blood, it (the Treaty of Versailles) does much to intensify and n...

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... to the war, humans had begun to develop technology at the fastest rate in history. As the war ended, President Wilson and the rest of the Allied leaders were faced with an unenviable challenge; these men were responsible for putting Europe back together the way one might piece together a jigsaw ... struggles that ignited the First World War were present and intensified by the Treaty of Versailles. "Instead of expressing a great recuperative effort of the conscience of civilization, which for its own sins has sweated so much blood, it (the Treaty of Versailles) does much to intensify and n...

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... the Nationalists had some help from the English they still lost. This helped the Germans practice their tactics and mobilizations techniques increasing their chances of success against other nations. This was also left Franco in charge in which he set up a Fascists government. Also in 1930, Germany ... eradicated them. Next was France who fought a desperate and losing war. Their armies were neither trained nor equipped for this new style of war while the Germans were bombing and machine-gunned the refugees, causing further chaos in France. Germany had succeeded again and gained another ....

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... are, but they can still put pressure on national governments. For example, in recent years the Chinese authorities have cracked down on members of the Fulan Gong religious sect. In previous decades this may well have gone unnoticed, especially in countries outside the immediate region. However, ... which sovereign states lend them, yet they still possess real power on the international system. (Viotti & kauppi, 1987 pp 483) Birth of the Internet This may appear to be a rather random and insignificant moment, however the Internet has already had an effect on the international ... defining...

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... and shortly thereafter having children. Young women were marrying about three years earlier, and women who had delayed marriage during the war were joining their younger sisters. The economic prosperity of the country fueled a "Procreation Ethic", and having children was seen as a favorable trend. This trend lasted for nineteen years (Light 40-44). This increased population caused immediate service needs. ... The immediate result of an increased birth rate was a hospital shortage. So many babies were being delivered that there weren't enough hospitals or medical personnel. Also, as husb...

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... to keep peace such as setting up League of Nations, the Dawes plan, the Locarno Pact and the Kellogg-Briand Pact during 1920-1929. The first reason which made Germany anger was disarmament. The allies told Germany to reduce number of army to hundred thousand soldiers and forbidden to have tank. ... They told Germany to have small navy with six battleships and no submarines. Also, any kind of air force was not permitted. This was because France was worried that ... Germany ignores the Treaty of Versailles and attack France again The second reason ... Briand Pact in 1928. The Dawes Plan ...

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... history. Sadly, they sold the rights of Superman to DC Comics in the 40's and never gained the amount of profits that Superman has garnered through the decades. Comic books became part of the mass pop culture. It evolved and expanded into more creative and perverse themes. During the period of 1940-1945, four hundred superheroes were created; most of them were based in Superman's model ... . Out of the bunch, came two notable superheroes. Saving the ... city of Gotham, Batman emerged as a phenomenon. Batman was created by Bob Kane. Captain America was created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon...

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