...“By Aiding Britain, We Aid Ourselves: Our Own Democracy is Threatened”, a speech given by Senator James Byrnes in 1941 before the attack at Pearl Harbor. Brynes refers to the horrific war of World War II and how America should help Britain in the constant battle towards Hitler and his broken promises and pledges. Helpless nations affected by the Hitler trail. Women and children were slaughtered at the hands of Hitler’s men. Britain constantly prayed for peace, but Hitler wanted no part in peace, only war. America began to see that Great Britain had done a tremendous job by keeping Hitler at bay. Eventually the war cold leave Europe and come into the United States of America, where it could be destroyed. With America avoiding direct involvement...
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...The French, The British, And The Berlin Conference The Berlin Conference of 1884 and 1885 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period. The outcome, which was the General Act of the Berlin Conference, is also seen as the Scramble for Africa. The conference created a period of heightened colonial activity with the European powers and had basically eliminated almost all forms of self government in the countries of Africa. By 1914 France and Britain controlled the most land of all the European powers that were present in Africa. The Berlin Conference helped Britain and France to expand enormously in Africa. In 1914 the French had claimed over what is now broken into over fifteen different countries in Africa spanning all across the continent from Madagascar to Algeria. The French empire in Africa consisted of two main areas. These were French Equatorial Africa and French West Africa. The main two French territories stretched from Gabon to Chad, to Niger, to Senegal, to Corte d’Ivoire. The French first started to establish a presence as a main European power in Africa with the AOF, or the Afrique Occidentale Francaise, in 1895. AOF was a union of French Sudan, French Guinea, Corte d’Ivoire, and Senegal; which is the oldest French settlement in Africa, controlled by France since 1672. The AOF subsequently expanded to the neighboring territories ruled by France. Eventually the AOF covered an area of over one million, eight-hundred thousand...
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...Second World War Yunnan Black teas have steadily increased in popularity and in the last 20 years a series of interesting hybrids were developed that greatly enhanced both the diversity and taste of the tea.Black teas vary according to their hybrid, harvest season, pick style, and processing. The tea is sour and thick when young, but ages well and develops textures of red wine and fruit with a little age. British may be surprised about making tea with milk using Yunnan Black tea.The reason behind its good taste is based in the fact that the combination of theanine amino acid contained in tea and melatonin and B-complex vitamins contained in milks offers superior relaxing effects. ii. Introduction of the country Great Britain, also known as Britain, is an island in the North Atlantic off the north-west coast of continental Europe. With an area of 229,848 km2 (88,745 sq mi), it is the largest island of the British Isles, the largest island in Europe and the ninth-largest in the world. In 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people, making it the third-most populous island in the world, after Java in...
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...The enigma machine was sent to the Germans, but the Britain got their hands on the enigma. They noticed that the messages were in code like theirs and thought that the coded messages would help reveal the plans of the Germans. According to Burgan, “Both Axis Power and Allies sent their radio messages in code. Both picked up each others messages, but couldn’t understand the codes” (20). A new unit was created in Britain to help decipher the encrypted codes. This unit was called the British Intelligence. The British Intelligence unit had to work fast to decipher the coded messages because there were billions of possible combinations to figure out each coded messages. What made it worse was that the codes were changed every day, so they had to hustle. However, “The British Intelligence was able to crack the enigma code and read the messages, which helped the Allies by leading them to some military victories” (Chrisp, 43). So after figuring out the enigma messages, the Allies were able to win some battle because of the broken enigma codes. Even though the British Intelligence were being weared down from trying to break the enigma codes, they didn’t stop because they wanted to win the war. Due to the British Intelligence, they were able to crack the codes, read the messages, and help...
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...Madison made these relations worse by promising Napoleon in 1810 to abandon his decrees against American shipping on the condition that he would force Britain to respect American rights if the did not follow. The Pan-Indian resistance movement which called for the political and cultural unification of Indian tribes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries also created tensions leading to war against Britain. Madison also had to deal with the pan-Indian resistance movement in the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. War Hawks, southern members of congress pushing for war against Britain, pushed the nation closer to a war it was unprepared...
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...The Trent Affair happened during the American civil war. It took place between the United States and Great Britain from November through December of 1861. What started the crisis was a order to arrest to confederate envoys whose names were James Murray Mason and John Slidell , which were sailing to Europe aboard a British mail ship. The British was beyond upset to hear that, and they said that seizure of a neutral ship by the U.S. Navy was a violation of international law. President Abraham Lincoln was the president at the time, and he administrates office releases the envoy and called a conflict with Britain. The Trent affair became very close to causing a war between the two countries. Gladly war was avoided which in the end really did help both Great Britain and the United States out, and put the two countries in a better place. Now it said said the Captain Wilkes...
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...During World War 2 after the fall of France to Germany, Hitler’s next move would be to attack Britain. In order to successfully invade Britain, Hitler’s army would have to attack by air. Hitler knew that Britain’s Royal Navy would be too strong for Germany to conquer, so Hitler and his military leaders came up with Operation Sea Lion. This Operation was supposed to give Germany control of the English Channel. Before the main plan could go into effect however, Germany first had to take down Britain’s Royal Air Force (R.A.F) Hitler would send around 2700 fighter planes to attack and destroy the R.A.F. The Battle of Britain marked the first time a major battle was fought completely by air. This grave mistake to underestimate Winston Churchill’s leadership ability and Britain’s Aerial strength proved to be the first major turning point for World War 2. Invading Britain was a tough decision for Hitler, because he had to decide whether it would be smarter to invade Russia or Britain first. Before the Battle took place, Hitler believed that Britain would be too scared to fight and that they would try to negotiate a peace offer. He figured that without any European allies left, Britain would quickly succumb to his will. Winston Churchill had others plans however, he hated Hitler and would never make a peace treaty with someone he believed to be evil. Instead he rallied the people of Britain and began to prepare his country for a long and disastrous war. Meanwhile, Hitler himself was...
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...Treaty- The Reinsurance Treaty of June 18, 1887 was an attempt by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to continue to ally with Russia after the League of the Three Emperors had broken down but this treaty would ensure the protection of Germany. 1887- Mediterranean Agreements- Great Britain signed a series of treaties with nations allied to Germany to remain the “status-quo” in the Mediterranean Sea. It was a way to prevent a Russian expansion into the Balkans and protect Italian Interests from the French. 1889- GB contemplating joining the triple Alliance- In order to protect imperial interests of Great Britain they contemplated joining the triple alliance. 1894- Franco- Russian Alliance- Diplomatic isolation in France meant that France and Russia allied; Germany could never have anticipated such a treaty due to the ideological differences between Republican France and Tsarist Russia. This meant France was no longer isolated and ratified political events and military convention in 1892. The view of Bismarck was that it was a “nightmare of coalitions” as it meant the possibility of fighting a war on two fronts in the future. 1894- Germany failed in diplomatic moves to Great Britain- Threat to Germany could have been reduced if they had managed to create an understanding with Great Britain. Diplomatic moves failed however as they were unable to provide one another with a firm basis of understanding and it all came to nothing. 1896-...
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...the late 1930’s in the time before World War 2 broke out, Jewish people were heavily persecuted in German-occupied territories. Severe anti-semitism caused many Jewish people to be in grave danger, even children. One particularly heinous act called Kristallnacht, which translated means “Night of Broken Glass”, led the British government to rethink their hesitance to refuse Jewish refugees entry to their country. After this, efforts were made to coordinate the rescue of many Jewish people and the focus was heavily on children. Thus, the Kindertransport was born. On November 9, 1938 in Nazi Germany, over 1,000 synagogues were destroyed, 700 Jewish shops were attacked, and over 90 people were killed in an event labeled Kristallnacht. Hearing about this atrocity promoted a debate in the British House of Commons regarding Jewish refugees. The British government had...
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...that one of them was a loyalist (this being before the revolution of course). But once they started fighting in the war for independence from Great Britain, once again as I said in the beginning, some of those feelings probably went away. Which in cases war sometimes does that, for example; the bombing of Pearl Harbor (I know it’s not a war, but it was the start of one) And even though during that time we were struggling, it created an immense unity. Just like the revolution did for the colonies. That struggle they endured helped their dream of being free from great Britain strive. And since none of them could have done it alone, it was imperative that the colonies worked together, forgetting about their differences and any hatchet (just like in the French and Indian war). So to get the colonies more united Benjamin franklin created a cartoon named “join or die” which was published in Philadelphia in 1754 (doc. a). Granted the cartoon was made specifically for the French and Indian war, im pretty sure they used it for the revolution too. The cartoon depicts the thirteen colonies as a broken snake. This in some way, got people to join the war; and lead them to victory. As a result of being victorious in the French and Indian war, colonists felt as if they could start their own nation and also expand territory. Since Great Britain was three-thousand miles away, and the American colonies had somewhat of a lax British rule for an extended period of time. The colonists started...
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...mandate system, to try and counteract the lack of government there. The mandate system was a way to have other countries basically teach the Middle East how to govern themselves and what to do in certain situations. This did not really go as planned, and this is why some historians consider the mandate system a failure, due to Britain and France abusing their powers and trying to take over the countries rather than helping them. When World War I concluded, the Middle East was in total chaos. The powers that were supposed to govern were no longer there due to the war. The Ottoman Empire was defeated and ceased to exist. It was broken up, and with that became countries filled with chaos. The formation of the League of Nations led to some solution to the problem, which was to establish a mandate system...
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...history and a strategic victory for Canada. The Suez Crisis is also an important event in Canadian history, and this is for three reasons. The first is that it is a Canadian success in world peace from a genius idea by Lester B. Pearson. The second reason is that this fight caused a major tear in the great alliance of WWII between the U.S.A. and Britain. The third reason is that without the intervention of the U.N.E.F. in the Canal Zone, a major war would have broken out. Each of these points can be looked at in greater detail to determine why this was an important event in Canadian history. The Suez Canal is an incredibly important artificial waterway in Egypt that joins the Mediterranean and Red Seas....
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...answer “bad” and the second answer “good”. Things to think about: * Does it focus on the question? How do you know if it is focusing on the question? * Does it answer the question, e.g. does it focus on explanation or description, and does it come to a conclusion about which bullet point was most important? * Does it include irrelevant material, e.g. things which happened before or after the dates mentioned in the question? * Does the structure of the answer affect its quality? If so, how? * Is there anything good about the bad answer? Bad answer Hitler aimed to overturn the Treaty of Versailles, unite German speakers, conquer Lebensraum and defeat communism. In 1936 he marched his troops into the Rhineland. Britain and France could have stopped him but they didn’t because they were distracted by the Abyssinian Crisis and by their own economic problems. Then in March 1938 Hitler united Germany...
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...World War 2 secret code breaker World War 2 marked for many of Germany's mistake and one of the critical mistakes was using secret codes for radio messages to communicate between allies. However, the meticulous work of code breakers based at Britain’s Bletchley Park cracked the secrets of German wartime communication, and played a crucial role in the final defeat of Germany. The moment Germany started using radio to communicate with its allies a narrow grave was dug, but it kept getting wider and wider, the more they used radio. Eventually the grave became wider and deeper, thus Germany collapsed and lost the war because of these mistakes. Therefore many of the allies of Britain in Europe won their battles. In this essay how , when and what will be discussed regarding the consequences for using coded radio communication. history.co.uk The Enigma story began in the 1920s, when the German military - using an ‘Enigma’ machine developed for the business market – began to communicate in unintelligible coded messages. The Enigma machine enabled its operator to type a message, then ‘scramble’ it using a letter substitution system, generated by variable rotors and an electric circuit. To decode the message, the recipient needed to know the exact settings of the wheels. German code experts added new plugs, circuits and features to the machine during the pre-war years to make it more complex. Although its basic principle remained the same. Therefore if it was hacked once...
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...Confederation, they were a complete success. During the earlier time of the Articles, the government was designed how it needed to be. America had won the war against Britain and America was beginning its life as a new country. Also achieved under the Articles were many things such as negotiating the treaty of Paris, provided...
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