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Cold War Propaganda
1897 Words - 7 Pages.... U.S would take a side and The Soviet Union would take a side and they would use the country as a battle ground. This was the only actual fighting that occurred.
The Cuban missile crisis was an important event that took place during the cold war. In the Cuban missile crisis, America was fearing that The Soviet Union had certain missile instalations in Cuba . The U.S found out about these missile installments from satellite imagery that showed the missiles being transported to Cuba and show the missile sites inside Cuba. "With Castro's approval, the Soviet Union began building secret missile bases in Cuba. On October 16, President Kennedy was shown photographs of the mis ....
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Offensive At St. Mihiel
1675 Words - 7 Pages.... plains with some spots of woods here and there. It was all fairly low ground with large ponds and swampy areas.
Holding the salient was a German force known as Army Detachment “C”, commanded by General Fuchs. Which was composed of eight divisions and two brigades, with five divisions in reserve. In the Southern most part of the salient, the Germans occupied two hills: Loupmont and Montsec, (see map 2), which made excellent defensive positions for them, and gave the Germans the high ground. The reason the salient was so important to the Germans was that it interrupted the Paris-Nancy Railroad and completely cut off the Verdun-Toul Railroad. Which gave the Germans com ....
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Inherit The Wind
534 Words - 2 Pages.... took the stand. Although
his partner Tom Davenport strongly disagreed with Brady’s actions. Brady thought that this
would benefit his trial. “Your Honor, this is preposterous!” (page 75) said Davenport as he tries
to object to Drummond’s witness (Brady). The judge believed the actions of Drummond to be
highly unorthodox and claimed to have never known a prosecuting attorney to be called as a
witness. Brady agreed replying, “Your Honor, this entire trial is unorthodox. If the interests of
Right and Justice will be served, I will take the stand.” (page 75) Brady, at times, can be quite
ignorant and the decision he made to take the witness stand prove ....
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Ancient Egyptain Art
1305 Words - 5 Pages.... are very blunt, giving it a very healthy, powerful appearance. The eyes are empty as are the eyes of most ancient sculptures so as not to give them any particular focus or expression, and they are styled with regular upper and lower curves, making them semicircular. The mouth is long and fine-lipped which is typical of Fourth Dynasty kings. It curves neither up nor down, showing no emotion whatsoever, creating a very vacant, placid stare. The Seated Statue of Gudea and The Female Head from Uruk are just a couple of other statues with the same empty, expressionless stare. However, the rest of the features of the sculpture and the thick neck are more like images from t ....
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Baroque Architecture
968 Words - 4 Pages.... rules of classic architecture as far as they were understood. The baroque style flouted these laws. By mid-century the carefully controlled and subtly refined Classical Baroque trend was clearly established. In France, its pre-eminent position was never seriously challenged. French was more restrained in its expression than its Italian counterpart. The most common and remembered details that made the two styles different were its culture, economy, religion, government, and economics. These can make one style very different from the other, but there were also other reasons why.
Italians were the first to come up with , they became very interested in the surroundings ....
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Society During The French Revo
1707 Words - 7 Pages.... scholars tends to downplay the social class
struggle and emphasize political, cultural, ideological, and personality factors in
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the advent and unfolding of the conflict.” The Fre ....
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Louis XIV Had A Greater Impact On European History Than Peter The Great
1063 Words - 4 Pages.... His seventy-two year reign was the longer than any other ruler in modern European history.
“Louis XIV brought France to its peak of absolute power and his words ‘L’etat c’est moi’ (I am the state) express the spirit of a rule in which the king held all political authority. His absolutism brought him into conflict with the Huguenots and the papacy, with damaging repercussions. His many foreign wars became a financial burden, yet his long reign is associated with the greatest age of French culture, symbolized by the Palace of Versailles.” (Biographies: Louis XIV). His influence was paramount to all other monarchs prior to him and the glorification of France was his ....
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The Golden Age Of Greece
2562 Words - 10 Pages.... and ruler both of the Olympian family and of the human race. He was lord of
the sky, the rain god, and the cloud gatherer, who wielded the terrible thunderbolt. His
breastplate was the aegis, his bird the eagle, his tree the oak. Zeus presided over the
gods on Mount Olympus in Thessaly. His principal shrines were at Dodona, in Epirus,
the land of the oak trees and the most ancient shrine, famous for its oracle, and at
Olympia, where the Olympian Games were celebrated in his honor every fourth year.
The Nemean games, held at Nemea, northwest of Argos, were also dedicated to Zeus.
Zeus was the youngest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea and the brother of the deitie ....
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