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After the Civil War ended in 1865, the south was in total ruins. Houses were destroyed, crops were gone, and lives would never be the same again. It wouldnt be until years after the war that people would get their lives back on track. Whites in the south now hated the blacks and still think…

William Tecumseh Sherman was born on May 8, 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. He was educated at the U.S. Military Academy and later went on to become a Union General in the U.S. civil war. Sherman resigned from the army in 1853 and became a partner in a banking firm in San Francisco. He became the…

.. The United States was out to better their own country, and all the while not promoting any kind of unity between the superpowers, something that democracy is supposed to be all about. Undoubtedly, one of the more important Cold War origins belonged to the region of Eastern Europe, where turmoil between the Western powers…

What was the Cold War and what events caused it? Cold War is the term used to describe the intense rivalry that developed after World War II between groups of Communist and non-Communist nations. On one side were the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) and its communist allies that referred to as the Eastern…

After the World War 2, the cold war had began. Conflict sparked between the Soviet Nation and the United States on the topic on their beliefs in communism and democracy. The Democratic Nations led by the United states while the Soviet Union led the Communist Nations. The aim of the Cold War was to go…

World war two had a positive impact in building a path towards womans equality in Canada. Prior to world war two women had only been viewed as stay at home mothers. The stereotypical, perfect family had the father that brought home the money each day during the week and the mother who raised their children….

One, there were many changes occurring in the world. Mans inherent need to follow tradition was now being challenged by a continually changing, modern world. The past and the present often conflicted. William Faulkner, a southern born writer, based much of his novels and short stories on this conflict. He aptly reflects the turmoil of…

Propaganda in World War I was particularly influential in the years 1915 and 1916 when it was at its peak, serving to recruit volunteers in the hundreds of thousands each year. The recruitment propaganda of the time achieved its aim in several ways. Firstly, it influenced men through means of persuasion, fear, guilt, confrontation, and…

Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret” is a study in psychology. It is a look into the human mind to see what makes people do the things they do and in particular what makes people commit acts of violence. She isolates the first half of the twentieth century and in particular the era of the Second World…

By: Nancy Evans E-mail: emailprotected Blindly obeying authority often results in disobedience to one’s personal morality. Since rules were established and exist for the common interests of the general population, some would say adhering to the rules is obedient. However, when rules conflict with people’s morals, one has the right, and furthermore the responsibility to…