Posts Tagged 'american political history'

What does monotheistic mean?

Posted on April 24 2008 by Daniel

Answer

To understand the word monotheistic you have to break it down:
mono- one
theistic- religion / god.

it’s the belief that there is only one god.

Did imperialism benefit the people it happened to?

Posted on April 24 2008 by Daniel

Answer

In many cases, people have thought that imperialism has been non-beneficial towards the country. In my opinion, Japan started to go down when they abolished imperialism. japan worked just fine as it was, though there were poor peasants, it still worked out for them. I mean, what country to this day, doesn’t have [...]

Where is El Alamein?

Posted on April 24 2008 by Daniel

Answer

In Northern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea.

Why isn’t Nigeria the richest country in Africa given its large oil production and enormous mineral reserves?

Posted on April 24 2008 by Daniel

Nigeria and the Wealth of Nations

Nigeria actually isn’t even in the top 20 in Africa. The island of Mauritius is actually the richest, with a GDP per capita of $11,400. Here’s the list:
http://www.aneki.com/africa_richest.html

The CIA’s website lists Nigeria as 209 overall.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html

Economics is not based entirely on natural resource wealth.

Nigeria has tremendous corruption and [...]

How did Nigeria gain its independence?

Posted on April 24 2008 by Daniel

Answer

According to the U.S. Library of Congress summary:

By an act of the British Parliament, Nigeria became an independent country within the Commonwealth on October 1, 1960. Azikiwe was installed as governor general of the federation and Balewa continued to serve as head of a democratically elected parliamentary, but now completely sovereign, government. The [...]

How did the US change during World War 2?

Posted on April 24 2008 by Daniel

Some of the more noticable changes that came about involved women stepping out into the workforce in much larger numbers. This allowed the men to go fight the war and still have their jobs or businesses to return to.

Taxes were increased to help fund the war effort.

The unemployment rate dropped tremendously.

The effects of the Great [...]

How did Cuba’s location and political system contribute to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Posted on April 24 2008 by Daniel

Answer

Cuba is within firing range of the US. The communist dicatator is friendly to Russia’s commnist dictator. THe Russians used CUba to get back at teh US for planting Warheads in Turkey.

What was the most valued weapon of the civil war?

Posted on April 24 2008 by Daniel

The most valued weapon of the Civil War to the average soldier and cavalry trooper was the Henry Repeating Rifle in 44-40 rimfire caliber. Many Union soldiers spent the equivalent of 4 months pay to privately aquire this lever action rifle. Col. Mosby of the Confederate Partisan Rangers strained every nerve to aquire these guns [...]

Who used machine guns in World War 1?

Posted on April 24 2008 by Daniel

Answer

All the sides involved used machine guns, although the Germans used it to its best advantage. The Germans considered the standard infantry tactics in setting up their machine gun nests (one gun would be placed in the firing arc of another, so it was harder to capture without being fired on from many [...]

Who were the minutemen and what was their job?

Posted on April 24 2008 by Daniel

Minutemen were soilders of any age that could no dought be ready to fight on a minutes notice.

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