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Caribbean History: Account for the emancipation of slaves in any one Caribbean territory. Territory choosen: French
... . After the 1848 revolution, Schoelcher was made Under Secretary of State and president of the commission set up to examine the slave ... to have the slaves who complained whipped. The reality of the treatment of slaves ridiculed the laws in the Code Noir. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Essay Question: Discuss at least three reasons that you feel best explain why the Cold War began, how it affected the peoples of the world, and why it lasted for such a long time.
... Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard which would further harden the United States' position toward the Soviets. Marshall proposed a scheme of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
The development of Nuclear Weapons.
... named Dulles the secretary of state in 1952 and accepted his nuclear strategy. Eisenhower ordered rapid increase in the production of nuclear ... deterrence. He ordered a study by the Department of State's policy planning staff and the result, NATIONAL ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts
"the cuban missile crisis" 2500 words detailed analysis of the cuban missile crisis 1962, including long and short term causes, the crisis itself, and the long and short term consequences
... of Soviet borders. After convening with EX-COMM , Kennedy, with help from his brother Robert, decided to go against suggestions from Secretary of State ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts
"The Berlin Blockade was the turning point in the outbreak of the Cold War in the period 1945-1949." How far is this statement accurate?
... favour of it. At Potsdam, the issue was further aggravated when Truman's secretary of state ... secretary of state Byrnes asked Russia to obtain compensation from its own zone, which specialized in agriculture. The Soviet Union was only entitled to 25% of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
The dropping of the atomic bombs on japan, right or wrong?
... of the bomb was 'the first major operation of the cold diplomatic war with Russia. American Historian, Gar Alperovitz, notes in his diary that Secretary of State ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
Atomic Energy and The Development of Drugs
... General McGraith, and Secretaries of State Dean Acheson and General George Marshall. Hoover also chose not to tell the CIA of the Venona ... of the United States. He came into office right after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Truman seen the dropping of both of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Pearl Harbor DAY OF INFAMY
... draft of a letter to be sent to Emperor Hirohito. It was sent to Secretary of State, Cordell ... Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, to be checked and sent to Ambassador Joseph C. Grew in Tokyo. (Rice 52) Grew?s wife coincidentally was the great-granddaughter of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
American Policymakers, on the Whole, Failed to Heed the "Lessons" of the past During the Vietnam War.
... of the North Vietnamese. Dean Rusk, secretary of state under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, finally admitted in 1971 that he had personally underestimated the ability of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Impact of Imperialism in Africa Case Study: Congo
... acts of inhumanity seized to exist in the Congo. These documents were presented to the British Secretary of State for ... of an empire, based on ideas of superiority and practice of dominances and involving the extension of authority and control of one state ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History