Gonzalez Jesse Period 3 5/5/2011 Japan and Haiti’s earthquake Japan and Haiti, two countries that got hit by enormous earthquakes. Japan of the richest countries in the world, was shookened by a 9.0 magnitude after a tsunami and then nuclear crissis. Haiti, one of the poorest countries, got hit by a 7.0 earthquake and then an outbreak known as cholera. Japans earthquake caused a lot of casualties , damage, and weakened its economy. Haitis earthquake had casualties, a lot of damge, and their economy was weaker than it was.
Michael Squillacote 9/28/11 Professor Blum Business paper Challenger Shuttle The Challenger space shuttle was set off to launch on January 28th 1987. This turned into a tragic day for NASA and the United States. At 11:38 am Challenger took of from the launch pad. Everything was going smoothly until 73 seconds into the flight the shuttle disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean killing seven astronauts. There are a few different theories on what went wrong to the shuttle.
Jennifer Mrs. L English II Honors 11 April 2011 The Attack on Pearl Harbor On December 7th 1941 at 7:55 a.m. the U.S. naval base stationed at Oahu, Hawaii was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the Japanese nation. This was a devastating attack on the U.S nation and many lives were lost. Japan deceived America into thinking they wanted peace with America while planning the attack. Ignored warnings and miscommunication caused America to suffer greatly from the deceitful and surprise Pearl Harbor attack that the Japanese went to great lengths planning but inadvertently made a mistake by failing to realize the American resolve. The Japanese spent many careful months planning the people, date, time and outline for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
There are exactly 12 steps of human footprints abandoned, untouched, and unchanged. 7. Summary: Charles Kauthmmer laments the decision the United States made to postpone the exploration of the moon. Krauthmmer speaks about the beauty of the space shuttle and how we have made no use of it in almost a decade. Krauthmmer believes that we shouldn’t let the problems on earth jeopardize the exploration of the moon.
After Hiroshima, who announces they made their own atomic bomb? The Soviet Union 39. Why do the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the U.S. decide not to test anymore atomic bombs in the air? Because Japanese fisherman become sick and one of them died 40. How much money has the U.S paid for bombs, missiles, and beakers?
Hiroshima “My God, what have we done?” a chilling comment made by Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, just moments after the Atomic Bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. What began as a clear, beautiful day, instantly turned into a day of infamy for the Japanese people, and nearly sixty-eight years later, it remains one of the most important and controversial subjects of scholarly and popular debate. Due to the many immediate and invisible devastating after effects of the bomb, many historians, as well as ordinary people, continue to question the necessity and morality of the United States’ fateful decision to unleash the world’s deadliest weapon on thousands of innocent Japanese civilians. The high moral ground that the United States had so gloriously and painfully assumed in its conduct of the war through 1945 was diminished in the catastrophic bombing of Hiroshima. In less than ten seconds, Hiroshima disappeared under a thick, churning foam of flames and smoke.
There were series of bombings by the Japanese navy. The war came to an end after the atomic war attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The attack was so severe that the Japanese could not bear to continue because they had lost much. After the war, there were concerns about the use of atomic bombs in war (Alan 32). During the war, the United States was the main contributor of money,
victory in the Gulf War shaped the neoliberal worldview, so earlier historic events — the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and America’s extraordinary mobilization of labor and resources during World War II — shaped the thinking of social democratic liberals in the mid-20th century and continues to do so today. As social democratic liberals see it, the Great Depression, the third in a series of major depressions since the 1860s, proved that industrial capitalism at both the national and global levels is inherently unstable, without intelligent government regulation and intervention. The abandonment of democracy in many countries during the Depression convinced social democratic liberals that an economic safety net, protecting citizens from unemployment, sickness, poverty in old age and other disasters, is necessary if democratic government is to retain popular support. And the remarkable mobilization of the U.S. economy during World War II convinced social democratic liberals in America that public policy was capable of organizing full employment and high levels of private sector production, even if market forces on their own were
The reason for World War II was because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941, 188 US Aircrafts were destroyed, 2,402 Americans were killed, and 1,282 wounded. World War II ended but it did pave the way for the Cold War. According to Wisegeek, “The Cold War was a period of tension and subdued hostility which gripped most of the world between the 1940s and the early 1990s. The primary actors in the Cold War were the United States and its allies,
The Mexico Peso Crisis - 1995 In 1995 Mexico was amidst what was known as the “Mexico Peso crisis or The Tequila crisis” (2016, Wikipedia). This resulted in the Mexico Peso devalued against the American dollar which caused first world nations to come to Mexico’s financial aid. Those funds were “…administered by the IMF” (2016, Wikipedia) in hopes to “…deter illegal immigration…boost investor confidence in the economy and prevent further collapse…” (2016, Wikipedia). The issues that resulted in this financial aid included Mexico experiencing a severe recession, the countries “GDP declined by another 6.2% over 1995…before the bailout” (2016, Wikipedia), hyperinflation and extreme poverty increased, real wages and unemployment doubled. What