... African people was caused by their inferiority and their helplessness to resist the white men and their superior weapons. The statement about the Africans not being able to resist the powerful weapons of the Europeans might be true, but according to Zinn, the declaration that Africans were an inferior race, was entirely false. Zinn argues that the African nations were advanced in ... , in 1877, the unsafe working conditions and a cut in their already low wages angered many railroad workers. During that year "there came a series of tumultuous strikes by railroad workers in a dozen cities;...

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... in European History. 2. Adolf Hitler Hitler is sometimes seen as the first modern dictator because of his use of various media to broadcast his ideas. He understood the power of propaganda, and filled German cities with massive posters appealing to the German sense of disempowerment after the end of World War 1. Hitler looked around at a world that was quickly becoming a globalized singularity and ... , perhaps out of fear, he began espousing the idea that the German "race" and culture was under threat. ... emerged from the war as leader of one of the world's two superpowers, quickly b...

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... important event since 1877 in United States history was the Manhattan Project, the project to create the Atomic Bomb. Research and development for the Manhattan Project took place in a number of cities, including Oak Ridge Tennessee, Hanford Washington, and Los Alamos New Mexico. The project was highly classified and kept secret from all Americans except the President and a select few ... explained the reasons behind his treasonous actions, explaining that he was convinced that the "Communists were the only political organization able to fight the increasing influence of the Nazis" (PBS...

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... to act - not the defeat of the Japanese army on Okinawa, the destruction of Japan's cities, the starvation blockade, or the threat in allied invasion of their home island. After Hiroshima, nothing else was needed to convince Hirohito to order surrender. Without the dropping of the two bombs, World War II's pacific ... trial, Marquis Kido Koichi, a chief adviser to Emperor Hirohito, stated, "the bomb and Russian invasion led to a surrender that likely saved 20 million of my innocent compatriots from war ravages." When U.S. officials asked Lt. Gen. Kawabe Torashiro if Japan could have sto...

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