In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. The Soviet border outpost situated on the Ussuri launched a small contingent to intercept the Chinese element. Up to that point of time, these occurrences were fairly common. Both Soviet and Chinese troops would conduct patrols ... soldiers were within 100 meters of their position, they opened fire with machine guns and small arms fire, killing seven Soviets during the initi...

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... Margarita Salazar McSweyn (a real live "Rosie") said this about working in industrial employment: The money was in defense, you made more hours and the more hours you had, the more money you mad. It was exciting being involved. You figured you were doing something for ... your country and at the same time making money. This gave you the idea that it was the best of both worlds, and in reality it was. (Gluck 71) Rosie the ... Riveter was a fictitious heroine who was created by the U.S. government to encourage women to join the ... women such as retail, or secretarial positions (Gluck 110...

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... financial wants and they were greatly expressed by the media. Advertisements were everywhere and they mostly targeted the influential youth of America because of their numbers. Children in America were exposed to mass hours of advertisements slowly turning them into materialistic consumers. Parents helped the growth of materialism by signing up for credit cards. The use of credit was advertised; when money was ... not available you just borrow it. Advertisers appealed to the morality of buying now paying later rather than spending all your money ... off and along with public schools fo...

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... America) gave jobs to a lot of women during the depression. The candles serve as temporary lighting, for reading and in case emergency , they were used when melted as a sealant for ripped tents. The factories in other countries were affected as well. Scotland employed over 11,000 women into the national cordite factory.The women worked very long hours but were happy to be helping out with ... the war. This was an opportunity for women to learn the job skills that they were never allowed to do. Some women started working as young as fourteen or fifteen but were happy ... jobs and better...

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... conflict. World War II had a very similar impact on the lives of American citizens. Its devastating effects were apparent in the men and women who fought overseas. Captain Marion Lawton recounts his experience as one of the captured Americans who was forced into the infamous Bataan Death March by stating, "We started marching, I can't remember hours or specific days, but as we moved on it ... got hotter and we got more fatigued. After a couple of hours people started faltering. Thirsty, tired, some, like me, already sick. Most everyone ... was suffering from malaria and diarrhea, all h...

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... to women. Margarita Salazar McSweyn (a real live "Rosie") said this about working in industrial employment: The money was in defense, you made more hours and the more hours you had, the more money you mad. It was exciting being involved. You figured you were doing something for your ... country and at the same time making money. This gave you the idea that it was the best of both worlds, and in reality it was. (Gluck 71) Rosie the ... Riveter was a fictitious heroine who was created by the U.S. government to encourage women to join the ... such as retail, or secretarial positions (Gluc...

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... hired women to keep them from undesirable temptations elsewhere since their husbands were all off to war. The women benefited from this greatly as it was their first socially accepted independence. The women worked very long hours but were proud to be able to help out with the war in as many ways as possible. This was an opportunity for women to grow and ... . Even though they practiced high safety precautions the factories were just unstable. The women factory workers fought their own battles during the war. They struggled with new horizons, social discrimination, gender harassment, and...

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... workers from injuries or industrial diseases sustained at work, but the amount given wasn't enough to compensate for full time earnings. In 1908 coal miners were granted an 8-hour maximum day. This was the first time that adult male working hours had been fixed by law, but only miners gained a reduction in hours. The Trade Boards Act was set up in 1909 this was an ... attempt to stop sweating' in many trades. This was the first time the Government tried to regulate conditions for the lowest paid workers, yet there was no attempt ... to define what the minimum wage was. The last reform ...

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... Japanese aircraft carriers available should be used, (5) all types of bombing should be used in the attack, (6) a strong fighter element should be included in the attack for air cover for the fleet, (7) refueling at sea would be necessary, and (8) a daylight attack promised best results, especially in the sunrise hours. Many of Japan's Navy General Staff was in opposition to Yamamoto's plan, but they ... continued to prepare for the attack. All of the necessary training was given to troops, and all of the fighters and submarines were prepared. There were peace talks occurring up until ab...

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... sought solace in the time honoured Russian tradition of drinking vodka. Gorbachev, recognizing social and economic costs of alcoholism, attempted to reduce it. The Russian's also used humour to cope with the reality of a socialist existence. The following is an example of typical (black) Russian humour: Two men joined a queue in front of a bakery after a hard days work. After waiting several hours one man declares ... , "I'm sick of this! I'm going to go and shoot the President."" He storms off, yelling and waving his arms about. A few hours later he returns and takes his position at the...

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... millions of tons of dust and debris and formed a mushroom cloud that rained radioactive material on the city. The smoke cloud was visible as much as 160 miles at sea and hung over the city for at least four hours. Eighty percent of all buildings in Hiroshima were destroyed and the rest were severely damaged. All means of communication were gone. Eighty percent of ... and then descending earthward, a thousand geysers rolled into one." The citizens of Nagasaki were very surprised because the Japanese government tried to minimize knowledge of the extent of damage to Hiroshima. The Japanese...

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... Even with peace talks going on the war was still about to enter it's two bloodiest years.2 7 Talks at Panmunjom constantly broke down between the delegates from both sides over many issues. In the beginning the communist wanted to make the meeting seem like a U.N. surrender. Constant hours were used up with Communist rhetoric. At one meeting the U.N. and Communist delegation just stared ... at each other for four hours. At another meeting a North Korean General became infuriated and ... threw a vase at the U.N. delegation. Constantly the talks would be broken and ... ...

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... it inhabited." Oppenheimer was ecstatic about the success of the bomb. Many people who were involved in the creation of the atomic bomb signed petitions against dropping the bomb. The atomic bomb has been used twice in warfare. The Uranium bomb nicknamed "Little Boy," which weighed over 4.5 tons, was dropped over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. At 0815 hours the bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay. It missed Ground Zero ... at 1,980 feet by only 600 feet. At 0816 hours, in the flash of an instant, 66,000 people were killed and 69,000 people were injured by a 10 kiloton atomic explosion. Na...

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... with each other, and preparing for the day that was about to come. However, what they did not know was that the next two hours would change their lives and the lives of every American. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the worst catastrophes in United States history. Everyone knows the story about what happened during those two hours on December 7th, but not everyone ... knows why the Japanese decided to attack Pearl Harbor. There are many ... reasons why the Japanese took this action, and many of them were in ... ...

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... 261). For this reason many manufactures of rifle scopes are making objective lenses larger. Out to about fifty millimeters in diameter. There have also been many technological advances in the evolution of the night-vision scope. At this moment through, there tends to be one down-fall with night-vision, that being that snipers are unable to view long distances. Many hunter ... kill missions take place during the daylight hours most of the time anyway, this leaves little use for night-vision scopes. Snipers are trained to become lethal killing machines. Throughout the country there are pl...

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... camp and a work camp, while others were built purely for killing. This idea of a death camp was first proposed in 1942 during the Wannsee Conference. Within a few months after the opening of Chelmno, the first killing center, the SS had opened five more killing centers in German occupied Poland. Chelmno in total killed about five thousand Roma before closing in late 1942 ... to attack Roma on the streets (Bergen 2003.) In Romania, some discharged Roma soldiers were deported to Transistria, while others volunteered to be deported to join their families. While in work camps, Romas and othe...

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... infection and nuisance though. Lice were a never-ending problem, breeding in the seams of filthy clothing and causing men to itch unceasingly. Even when clothing was periodically washed and deloused, lice eggs invariably remained hidden in the seams; within a few hours of the clothes being re-worn the body heat generated would cause the eggs to hatch. Lice caused Trench Fever, a particularly painful disease that ... began suddenly with severe pain followed by high fever. Recovery, away from the trenches, took up to twelve weeks. Also, frogs by the score were found in shell holes covered...

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... , and Mosquitoes. Larger bombers were used to take out key cities, factories, and parts along the shore. B-17 flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators flew in the attacks. The other part of the D-Day bombardment was from a naval force. Bombardment started in the early hours Before H-Hour. 106 Allied ships pounded the Atlantic Wall with heavy fire until 5 minutes before H-Hour. Large battleships such as ... the USS Nevada used their heavy guns to literally split heavy coastal guns in half. Without this bombardment the invasion would have ... been almost impossible. Rommel, the German Genera...

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... it very bad out there, Paul?" (143). Here, when he answers, he lies, evidently to protect her from hearing of the horrible conditions that he has just experienced. "Mother, what should I answer to that? You would not understand, you could never realize ... The book is fiction, but the visuals of the war and life during the war are all true. Remarque accurately describes the new weapons and tactics used in the war. He paints pictures of the camps and the battlefields. "The camp is surrounded with high barbed-wired fences." (P 187) The book best shows the attitude of soldiers change in the...

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... of World Trade Center Building 7, which happened to never even have been hit by a plane. The accepted theory is that debris from one of the twin towers reached Building 7 and caused to set on fire and collapse after a few hours. If it is true, then Building 7 is the first steel structure to ever collapse due to fire, which sounds highly unlikely. In addition, World ... Trade Center Buildings 3, 4, 5, and 6 were all in the same area of the attacks, but none of these buildings collapsed or displayed as much damage as Building ... . The fashion in which the towers collapsed also reflect the...

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... .  In protest of such regulations the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California at Berkeley, the first of the 1960s campus student movements to make headlines all over the world, was born.  Students protested local and federal governments as well as Johnson's policies in Southeast Asia. Berkeley students as well as residents gathered for more than thirty hours to debate the war issue. Berkeley protesters ... became national leaders as the protests spread nationwide; more than 50,000 students, faculties and other activists from different universities traveled to Washing...

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... has a downside. It forced Canadian troops to be very organized and attack with accuracy in order to prevent friendly fire with the rolling barrage. But with the careful planning and the endless rehearsals the Canadian troops broke through in the afternoon of April 10th. The battle of Vimy Ridge is considered to be a very important battle for Canada, and will play a major role in Canada's independence ... and change already existing ones. New laws that Britain makes will no longer affect Canada unless chosen to be a part of. As stated in the statute:" No Act of Parliament of the United K...

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... implied war. The US Army did not fully recognize the consequences behind the message at the time. The US army sent a last minute message to Lieutenant/General Walter Short and Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel about the note, which did not arrive to Hawaii until after hours of the assault on Pearl Harbor. Historians believe that the lack of communication between the US Army in Washington and the US navy in ... Hawaii,was a key reason why the Japanese achieved their means. The attack on the Navy base came in two waves. The first wave of bombs hit the navy's base at approximately ... 7:45 am...

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... rather a foot that stepped on a landmine. In 1939 Poland found itself consumed by Hitler's sweeping blitzkrieg warfare from the west as well as the Soviet Union in the east who had agreements with the Germans to divvy the nation up amongst themselves. The uniqueness of Poland's unfortunate geographic location led to a variety of political, ethnic, and other unified groups who all ... Polish bomber pilots to train for courier missions to Poland and back. The Polish crews were given aircraft that other ally airmen would have deemed inoperable. Broken autopilot mechanisms made for unnecessa...

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... , who survived other effects thereof, were generally delayed for two or three days. The bone marrow and as a result the process of blood formation were affected...Death generally followed shortly thereafter...The first symptoms were loss of appetite, lassitude and general discomfort. Within 12 to 48 hours, fever became evident in many cases, going as high as 104∘ to 105∘ F., ... which in fatal cases continued until death" (Spennemman). While the Emperor did surrender five days after the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs, there still is no ... justification for the amount of de...

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