Category: American History

Table of contents A Deeper Dive Into the Historical Context The Salem Witch Trials as a Major Turning Point in History Conclusion Works Cited The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was brought about by the Puritans severe religious standards and intolerance of anything not acknowledged with their scripture. The biggest record of witch trials as…

Table of contents Introduction Background What has the U.S done to solve this problem? International involvement Consequences Current situations Proposed solutions Conclusion Introduction The war on drugs has been around for decades. From rich countries to poor countries a solution to the problem hasn’t been discovered and very little improvement has been made. The producer…

When we think of the relationship the United States has with Japan today, our first thoughts usually go to their cuisine, technology, pop culture such as anime, and traditions that could be considered the exact opposite of our own. Many of those things have managed to weave their way into the American way of life.…

Concentration Camp- a large number of people, mostly political prisoners or minorities. Deliberately imprisoned in uninhabitable facilities in a very small area. The prisoners are forced labor and awaited execution. The first concentration camp started in 1895 by Arsenio Martinez Campos, the camps were set up to relocate Cuban rebels. Camps were held by the…

The Vietnam War was an atrocity which involved the U.S.A, Cambodia, Vietnam, China and other U.S.S.R backed allies. Lasting from 1st November 1955 to the 30th April 1975, it not only secured the Communists an upper hand in the Cold War it also meant an end to French colonialism in Indochina. The conflict was spurred…

America at the end of the 19th century was a place of rapid change and economic progress. The dilemma American’s faced was that they lived in an incredibly resource rich country, but lacked the means of production (machines and labourers) to exploit these resources. However, the developments of the second made production easier than ever,…

Shortly after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, the lives of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Japenese people, both aliens and Citizens of the United States, would be changed in some major ways. Executive Order 9066, signed two and a half months after these events, allowed the government to remove any…

Throughout the destruction of , there was one day specifically that rattled America forever and it was the day December 7, 1941, a day many of us would not remember considering the fact we were not born yet. But the people who were alive and had to live, who witness this atrocity on a firsthand…

December 7th, 1941 was the day that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor naval base in Honolulu Hawaii. The Japanese came in two waves from the air and unleashed their fury. They managed to damage 8 battleships and sink 4 of those ships and kill thousands. This inevitably brought the United States into the second world…

In May of 1945, surrendered, thus starting the beginning of the end of World War II. The already uneasy wartime treaty between the allied United States and Great Britain and the Soviet Union began to unravel. By 1948, the Soviets had placed left-wing governments into the countries that had been liberated by the Red Army.…