... 1989, watching the news. For many weeks, there had been reports of constant and peaceful protests by young Chinese students who would not leave Tiananmen Square, the largest in the world. What was happening? What could they be doing? How would the government react? She could not believe that the ... and couldn't believe that the Communists would kill all these young people. It was very heartbreaking to watch the news on that day."" The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 made Mrs. Giacona pay much more attention to political and world news having to do with human rights. Although it did ...

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... most of the first work had been finished. East German troops had begun to tear up streets and to install barbed wire and fences throughout Berlin. The first concrete square blocks were used on August 15, 1961, and within the next months, the first generation of the Berlin Wall was build up: a wall consisting of concrete and ... square blocks. During the first few days of the wall going up, people could escape through the border, but it got more dangerous day by day. People tried to climb ... 8 S-Bahn and 4 underground lines, 3 autobahns and several rivers and lakes. When the wall was f...

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... who fought at Iwo Jima also deserve all our honor, respect, and appreciation for fighting, some to their deaths. Iwo Jima is an eight square mile island made of volcanic rock, which was part of the Japanese Empire. It's highest point, at 550 feet, is Mt. Suribachi, and is located 650 ... miles from Tokyo, Japan's capital city. In 5,000 years not once has a foreign army set foot on Japanese home soil. Both Japan and the United ... Force bombing the island. The bombing wasn't successful because the island was made out of volcanic rock, and the Japanese had carved out 1,500 rooms and 16 mi...

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... chemical and biological weapons. (Pg. 40 US news & world report, July 22, 2002) Some effects of nuclear warfare is those people within approximately a six square mile area (for a One megaton blast) will indeed be close enough to "ground zero" to be killed by the gamma rays emitting from the blast itself. ... and permanently blind every living thing from cows to birds, pets and us humans whether their eyes are opened or closed. This could accur within ten miles of the blast. The nuclear blast is so strong that it just doesn't blow up then its all over, the multispectral heat blast (UV ray...

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... . 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 was told of the success of the project during a conference with the leaders of Great Britain (Winston Churchill) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) in ... necessary. The allied military leaders estimated extremely high casualties in the event...

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... was their proper boundary. The Mexican president, José Herrera, was newly in office and feared being overthrown if he complied with Polk. Slidell left Mexico City for a town a few miles away and Herrera sent troops to the Rio Grande to confront the Americans. Polk and his cabinet prepared a declaration of war. He only expected to fight a few battles on the ... that England would seize it as a strong point on the Pacific. The United States dominated Mexico throughout the entire war. The war lasted almost 2 years. Although the U.S. gained about 1.2 million square miles of land as well as...

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... world. As far as the actual land mass, Korea is a country no larger than the state of Kansas. All together, North and South Korea covers an area of 85,246 square miles, and only fifteen percent of that can be considered plains - these are mostly in the southern coastal regions. The United States could not allow its interests in East Asia, particularly ... to defend North Korea. After many deliberations the United States decided to continue on. As they said they would, China stepped into the war and drove the Southerners back sixty miles below the 38th parallel, recapturing Seoul. (Boors...

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In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Four square miles of the city was reduced to rubble and more than 80,000 innocent civilians were killed on impact. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. Another 40, ... ...

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... American public's mouth. Continuing its effort to thwart communism, the U.S. turned to Vietnam where the French were facing the possibility of losing a colony. With an area of about 127,000 square miles, Vietnam had a population of about 75 million people. Of these 75 million, most were peasants that were formidable warriors. They believed in exercising patience while using climate and terrain to ... ...

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... . The superheated air and winds fan the fires started by the thermal pulse leaving a wide area of destruction. The atomic bomb over Nagasaki caused earth-leveling devastation to approximately 42.9 square miles. (5) Initially, radiation was less of a concern for affecting the number of casualties from a nuclear explosion, but soon Japan felt the lethal after effects of the atomic bomb's radioactive fallout. It ... ...

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... to the nation was given on August 6th, sixteen hours later, when an American plane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. The bomb destroyed over four square miles of the city, killing or injuring more than 135,000 people. (Goodman, Philip). In the early 1940s, Japan had expansionist aims in Eastern Asia, Indo China and the Western Pacific ... ...

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... help end the war then go for it. On August 6th 1945 at 8:09 a.m. the first of 2 Atomic Bombs was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb devastated many millions of Square miles. Killed and burned many people. Hiroaki Ichikawa was 5 years old at the time and he said that People were so badly burnt that skin was hanging right off their bones ... ...

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