... too afraid to venture there themselves. Russia is actually the largest country in the world, taking up about one-sixth of the United States. It is approximately 17,098,242 square kilometers, spanning from its western most point right above Poland, to its eastern most point near the bearing strait (Russia, p.1). Yet this 6.6 million ... square mile stretch of land is quite different depending on the area you are. West of the Ural Mountains you can find yourself on long stretching plains with low lying hills. ... ...

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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 ... ...

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... the economy was unsuccessful. The allies adopted a tactic known as carpet bombing that primarily targeted industrial urban areas in an attempt to disrupt their economy. In Dresden for instance, 13 square miles were destroyed, illustrating the extent of destruction inflicted by the bombings. This meant that priorities were changed as focus had to be shifted away from the war economy to ... ...

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... March 1945 they were exposed to 1,700 tons by 300 American bomber planes and two months later the U.S unleased another 4,500 upon Japans major city- Tokyo, together destroying over 75 square miles of industrialisation and urbanisation. Japan was virtually destroyed with their civilians left homeless and industry collapsed. The Americans were aware that Japan was on the verge of collapse and ... ...

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... necessary. The allied military leaders estimated extremely high casualties in the event of the invasion. On August 6, 1945 the first bomb, "Little Boy," was detonated over Hiroshima, destroying 4 square miles of the city. However, even after the bombing, the Japanese still did not surrender. Therefore, President Truman made the decision to drop a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. On ... ...

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... what caused the economy to come to a screeching halt. In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the United States of America and introduced the states to a New Deal (replacing the square deal) that ultimately encouraged government spending in order to get the American economy back up and rolling. It is evident that America is ever changing. As these events are unraveling ... ...

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... 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 having the Wilmot Proviso outlaw slavery other than where it already was, nearly 13,000 Americans lost their lives and the country invested around ... ...

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... the Amsterdam Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Minsk Ghetto. However, the largest was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, with about 400,000 people crammed into an area of about 2.5 square miles. Rita Hilton is a survivor of the Holocaust. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. Rita Hilton grew up near a city called Lodz. Her life before the war was ... ...

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... the Amsterdam Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, and the Minsk Ghetto. However, the largest was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, with about 400,000 people crammed into an area of about 2.5 square miles. Rita Hilton is a survivor of the Holocaust. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. Rita Hilton grew up near a city called Lodz. Her life before the war was ... ...

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... Museum. Though this does play an important role in remembering the internment of Japanese Americans, the author talks too much about the architecture of the museum itself: "the 85,000-square-foot pavilion features a national resource center, life history studio, education centers, and stone and water garden, as well as exhibition and museum staff space. The expansive central hall allows for ... ...

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... North Vietnam than were used in the whole of World War II. In the following five years, the two Vietnams received the equivalent of 22 tons of explosives for every square mile of territory. A total of 2.6 million Vietnamese were killed. The American deployment of troops jumped from 23,300 in 1963 to 184,000 in 1966 and reached 542,000 in ... ...

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... North Vietnam than were used in the whole of World War II. In the following five years, the two Vietnams received the equivalent of 22 tons of explosives for every square mile of territory. A total of 2.6 million Vietnamese were killed. The American deployment of troops jumped from 23,300 in 1963 to 184,000 in 1966 and reached 542,000 in ... ...

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... growth has been stagnant for the past several years, and the long-term view is clouded by a question of demographics. Japan is a densely populated nation; it averages 332 people per square kilometer, as compared to 105 in France and 28 in the United States. (Cutter, Renwick 1999) The problem here however is not overpopulation; it is the decline in Japan's birthrate ... ...

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... . I played Marquis de Lafayette and I learned that he was French and came and helped the colonists. Later I learned that to commemorate him, there is a statue in Washington D.C. of him in a square where there are statues of other foreigners that helped the English colonies win the revolution. Webster's defines history as; A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution ... ...

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... Patton liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp and made it mandatory for German citizens to tour the camps. By the end of World War II, the Third Army conquered 81,522 square miles of territory. All these accomplishments gave Patton certain satisfactions of a leader; such as the feeling of power and prestige, respect, and status. On December 9, he suffered injuries in an ... ...

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... which eventually led to the agreement to limit intermediate range nuclear forces in Europe. In 1989 he visited China again and publicly expressed American's outrage over the incident at Tiananmen Square. In 1991 he became an advocate for the United States and its allies to help support the Russians transition to political and economic freedom. President Nixon continued to stay involved ... ...

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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 ... ...

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... the list of horrors. World War I had an even more devastating effect on France than on Great Britain. In the four years of fighting, the combatants had destroyed thousands of square miles of farmland and forests and reduced villages and cities to ruble. French casualties were enormous. Half of the males between the ages of eighteen and thirty-two were killed ... ...

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... to boost morale. By June 1918, the Germans were back in the positions that they started in before the Spring Offensive. The Germans, after sacrificing 1million men , were back to square one. The Germans had their own internal problems. Morale in the ranks of the army and at home was diminished to a painfully low point. Public opinion in Germany was by ... ...

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... Peel Commission offered peace negotiations to resolving the problem between Jews and Arabs. The Jews were willing to negotiate even though the boundaries of the plan left them with 5,000 square kilometers in Palestine. The Arabs rejected the proposal because it would compel them to accept a Jewish State with some Arabs left under Jewish domination. As the Holocaust accelerated, demands for ... ...

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... ,000 troops were killed, this figure was only the British, there are many more people dead if we include the Germans. For this extreme large total of dead only a few square miles were gained in this whole battle (around 8 km). Duff Cooper was hired by the Haig family to write Sir Douglas Haig's official biography. We cannot trust his opinion as ... ...

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... of feet deep, that may hide 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. Ghostly shadows of these ... ...

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... they separating Russia and European section of Asia. The Kara Kum is one of central Asia's largest deserts. The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland lake, covers 143,630 square miles. Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, lies in one of the world's major oil-producing areas. Russia is the world' s largest country. Russia along with the 11 countries is ranges from 8 million ... ...

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... the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Manhattan Project was appointed by Harry S. Truman. The first atom bomb was dropped on August6, 1945, on Hiroshima, Japan. The blast wiped out a 4.7 square mile area, killing over seventy thousand people. Another seventy thousand people were injured from the blast. After the first atom bomb, President Truman issued a stern warning to Japan to stop ... ...

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... from her. She lost 13.5 percent of her territory and about 7 million people to neighbouring countries because of the Treaty of Versailles. They also particularly didn't like the loss 17800 square miles of land to the new country, Poland in the east and how Germany was separated into two parts by the Polish Corridor. The other losses included Alsace and Lorraine ... ...

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