1. What events developed after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, starting the first global war? On July 5, 1914, Austria sent a request to Germany, stating that if Russia and Austria were to enter a war, Austria would have Germany's full support. In response to the request for support, Germany sent Austria a reply, informing them that they'd have their backs if that became necessary. On July 23rd of that year, Austria issued an ultimatum to Serbia and in turn, Serbia responded with an ultimatum of their own. The Austrian ambassador to Serbia immediately left Belgrade and France, promising ...

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... told what they were working on, just that they were helping with the war effort. The efforts of all the facilities eventually culminated in a test of the first atomic bomb, which took place in Los Alamos, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The ... test of the atomic bomb was named "Trinity," and it was a major success. The test bomb was detonated resulting in a shockwave that could be felt over 100 miles away and heard as far as El Paso, Texas. The ... bomb created a crater at the test site spanning 250 feet and a mushroom cloud reaching 7.5 miles into the air (Wikipedia). President Truman w...

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... be deployed in combat zones as an inevitable consequence of their assignments. This was confirmed in the following statement made by then Army Chief of Staff, General Bernad W. Rogers, "Some people believe that women soldiers will not be deployed in the event of hostilities that they are only to be part-time soldier. Women are an essential part of the force ... examine the performance of individual units with women in the field, under simulated combat conditions (Hoar). The first test, labeled MAX-WAC (Women Content in Units Force Development Test) studied women in three-day field exerc...

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... the religion of Hinduism, but eighty percent of Kashmir practices the religion of Muslim. However, Kashmir did not become part of Pakistan because India claims it as Indian Territory. The people of Kashmir, the Pakistanis, and the United Nations reject the Indian claim. Currently Pakistan governs about one-third of Kashmir while India administers the rest under military force. India has ... specific anti-poverty programs. This plan has been put on even a longer hold due to the foolish decision to allocate the budget toward nuclear warfare. In conclusion, India's decision to test nuclear...

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... females are equal to men in the jobs and mission fields in which men volunteer for in the military, and that women are able to perform these same tasks. Some people however have very different opinions to this subject matter which is shown in an article written by Jon E. Doughtery which stated that Navy officials and congressional opponents maintained the idea ... approval onto United Stated submarines (online). Due to all of this bickering, the United States war department, after much disagreement, sent a female sailor on board a trident nuclear submarine for a trial test to see how a ...

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... with regard to rockets concerned warfare. During the Korean War there was little funding for von Braun's rockets until Sputnik was launched. NASA created the Mercury program and produced seven test pilots. Three Navy pilots, three Air Force pilots, and one Marine pilot were selected. Wherner von Braun chose his Redstone rocket to propel them. The seven ... test pilots became celebrities. In March of 1961 Ham the ape became the first American in space. In April of 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. On May ... killings that took place during the Russian civil war during th...

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... its failure to eliminate war. The Manchurian Crisis of 1931 brought the flawed nature of the League when faced by military force. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria was the first test of the League's willingness to bring collective security measures to bear against an aggressor. The ineffectiveness of the League in dealing with a war between two of its own members was ... not lost on other expansionist regimes. A second test of the League's peacekeeping ability arose from the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Italy's invasion of the African kingdom was part of an attempt by the Mu...

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... handcuffed in pairs behind a huge truck. They went through awful conditions with blizzard weather and little food. Their destination was Camp 303. When Slavomir Rawicz arrived at Camp 303, many people who began the journey with him did not make it, because only the strongest could survive these conditions. Camp 303 was by far the best living conditions Rawicz had throughout ... which Rawicz hid around behind the ski shop and around the barracks. Then the night came. The escape worked well, and the seven men were off. The journey south was a test of these men's courage to be free. The me...

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... their freedom and rights. The definition of peace, freedom and the end of war, is starting to fade because countries are racing to build weapons. Even people achieve their goal by violence. Is that a safe world? Imagine a world with no weapons nor violence, is that a stable world? Nuclear weapons are ... Development of Substitute Material," but scientists disagreed, and finally named it, "Manhattan Project." They developed three nuclear bombs. The first one was a test model named "Gadget," while the other two "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" where used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The ... and s...

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... dropped an atomic bomb, "little boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima had been almost eradicated with an estimated 70-80,000 people killed. Three days later, a second, more powerful bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing over 100,000 people. Since Japan was economically and militarily devastated by the late summer of 1945, the use of the atomic bombs on ... , this argument cannot be morally validated. If Japan was almost beaten by August 1945, many say that the reason the U.S. dropped the bomb was simply to test it on living humans. Aside from the ground test in the New...

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... Airmen were faced with similar situations. For instance, the Colonel believed that the African Americans would make it even though he was angry when Major Joy made them retake the test. Major Joy was the one who believed that the blacks had no chance and were nowhere near well educated, so he made them retake the ... test, and he also tried to scare Stick on an insane flight demonstration, but Stick handled Joy's advanced maneuvers and flight skills like a professional. Then there were the bomber pilots who ... , and that he might be the next to be killed in battle. When he realized he...

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... Richard K Betts, the overall theme of the articles that were assigned was the correlation between economics and war. The four articles that were assigned test different variables of the economic question and some defined and tested their argument better than the others. Overall I think that each article lead me ... this article I felt that Machiavelli's primary argument was that, "the sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers" (Machiavelli 230). He test argument with historical data that included the Romans who he states that by "making their wars with iron, they never suffered the ...

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... was also directed against German-Americans (Germany was the main enemy of the U.S. and its allies in World War), immigrants, and people who were considered to have "radical"" or extreme political beliefs that were thought to be "anti-American." These people were considered to be the Communists, Socialists, anarchists, and other groups who believed in broad changes to the U.S. government and American ... society. The Red Scare undermined these all important principals and all in he name of protecting the country or as some put it, the importance of national security". If some people and ...

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... to surrender and it seemed like a big sick experiment. By deciding to drop the bombs United States of America contributed to the killing of 230,000 people. The nature and components of both bombs is very different. The bomb dropped by the B-29 bomber Enola Gay on august 6, 1945 in Hiroshima was ... Throughout the war scientists had been involved in the notorious Manhattan Project, the production of the atomic bomb. In three years the U.S. was ready to test the first atomic bomb, and did in New Mexico. Seventy prominent scientists signed a petition to warn the government of trouble ahead....

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... been avoided. Near the end of World War II the United States of America had dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, instantly killing thousands of people. Japan was already losing power in the war, and surrendering was an option that was soon to be heard of. But the eager Americans ... made the Japanese guinea pigs for the world's first, real-life test of the atomic bomb. This can be said because afterwards Americans were sent to the two sites to investigate the amount of destruction it has caused to the people and the area around it. Therefore the atomic bombs that were ... was to "Protect t...

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... population so that they would rapidly become indistinguishable from it. The policy effectively excluded non-European immigration as in 1905 a dictation test was introduced given the reason it was to ensure people had a suitable level of education. The test was given to people who were seen as "unsuitable" and it required the migrant to write down a fifty word passage dictated in any obscure ... when looking at food, media, festivities and more. There are authentic Chinese, French, Indian, Italian, Lebanese, Greek and Vietnamese restaurants appearing everywhere and with our ACB channel o...

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... . Regardless the entire fiasco also directly factored into the reelection of JFK as President. After the Crisis he was finally seen as a strong leader, which was exactly what the American people wanted in order to feel safer from the "Big scary commies".[Significance] In relation to the Cold War all together, both the United States and the Soviet Union ... came to realise how quickly a situation could get out of hand, and in 1963 and test-ban treaty was signed, which Kennedy believed could be the first step to nuclear disarmament.("Nuclear") The Cuban Missile Crisis, without a doubt, cou...

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... music and stated that "It looked like a doctor's office You have to start from ground zero. You have to start with the employees. If you cant get your own people to want to get on board and change direction, then you'll never persuade you own customers to do it." Jill Stanton, the former head of apparel at Nike ... . Instead of having Old Navy buy clothes from higher-end brands, Ms. Stanton helped build Old Navy's new design strategy called "fabric platforming". This meant designers could quickly test their products in stores before increasing the production of products that were popular...

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... entering high school, Hitler became seriously ill with a lung infection and had to drop out. After he healed he applied to the Vienna Academy of Arts and passed the admissions test but his artwork was rejected. Soon after he discovered that his mother was dying of cancer and she died in December 1907. This brought tremendous sorrow to Hitler. He then ... in 1938 and Hitler took Austria, Czechoslovakia and then Poland in 1939 triggering World War II. Hitler's intense racism led to the infamous Holocaust, exterminating millions of mainly innocent Jewish people. On April 29, 1945 he shot h...

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... , he felt Homer did not belong in the perfect society. Plato believed that any form of art was truth less. Plato's second reason for not allowing art was it affected people's emotions. Plato believed in only rational approaches in life, while Homer, as we can see in Book Twenty-Two of The Odyssey, based most of his poetry on emotion. Although ... Homer has withstood the test of time over the past few centuries, his poetry is a prime example of why Plato wouldn't allow him or any other artist as part of his perfect society. Plato's first ... ...

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... him win his Presidential race. There are many other things that have made his life a great one, and practically each year of his life, he had accomplished more than some people do in a whole lifetime. Dwight David Eisenhower was born on October 14th, 1890 in the town of Dennison, Texas. He was the son of David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth Eisenhower ... alternate every year. They did this because their parents could not afford to send them both to college. A year later in 1910, Dwight found out that if he took the test for the United States Naval Academy and passed, he would be able to get a...

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... and Bob asked, "How did you get into the medical corps?" "Drafted." "Were you an intern?" "Nope." "Medical student?" "Nope." "How did they put you in the medical corps?" "Screening test. They asked me to write down who I worked for last. I put down "Dr.Pepper."" The reaction that Bob got from the Marines was unbelievable. He thought he had died and ... owe him our gratitude. Bob Hope died on July 27th 2003, he had lived one- hundred years doing the one thing he loved most besides golf, and that was helping people. Bob Hope is a hero for what he has done and he will continue to influence...

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... exclusively white Australia. This policy was reinforced by the National Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, which from 1902-1958 aimed to exclude non-Europeans through the use of a dictation test in a prescribed' language specifically chosen to ensure failure. ABOLITION: During the years in which Australia was involved in the Second World War, many coloured refugees entered Australia. The ... 15 years residence in Australia were allowed to become permanent Australian residents. The revised Migration Act of 1958 introduced a simpler system of entry permits and abolished the controversial...

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... the end of democracy. Senator McCarthy was key in exposing communism for what it is and he also made the US aware of communists in our own country. Because of people like McCarthy and others the US's new international policy was to end communism not matter what. In 1945, Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt met at the Yalta Conference to discuss what ... to attack Japan and the Soviet Union decided to enter the war at last minute. While not much was accomplished at the conference, it gave the three leaders a chance to test each other's reactions. However, the Yalta conference was still an i...

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... and Bob asked, "How did you get into the medical corps?" "Drafted." "Were you an intern?" "Nope." "Medical student?" "Nope." "How did they put you in the medical corps?" "Screening test. They asked me to write down who I worked for last. I put down "Dr.Pepper."" The reaction that Bob got from the Marines was unbelievable. He thought he had died and ... owe him our gratitude. Bob Hope died on July 27th 2003, he had lived one- hundred years doing the one thing he loved most besides golf, and that was helping people. Bob Hope is a hero for what he has done and he will continue to influence...

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