Your responses should help you to write the essay. HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Before leaving office, George Washington sounded a warning about political parties and their potential to divide and destroy America. TASK A: Using information from the documents and your knowledge of social studies, answer the questions that follow each document. Your answers to the questions will help you write the essay. TASK B: Write an essay that addresses the following question: To what extent was George Washington correct in his warning about political parties?
Book Critique In my critique of Stephen V. Ash's A Year in the South: 1865 I will discuss his theme and his use of evidence to support his thesis. I will also identify Ash's purpose in writing this book. Additionally I will discuss his writing style. Ash's ultimate goal in writing this book is to educate the reader on the rapid and drastic changes to living in America immediately after the Civil War, specifically in the Confederate South. He does this by providing the stories of four individuals who lived in different places in the South under very different circumstances the year the Civil War ended.
To what extent did Mussolini become involved in the Spanish Civil War in order to repress Communism? Assessment: Historical Investigation Subject: History SL Name: Jasper Bailey School Name: SCECGS Redlands School Code: 000505-002 Word Count: 1957 (excluding section headings and footnotes) Table of contents Section A: Plan of the investigation…………………………………………………1 Section B: Summary of evidence…………………………………………………….1 Mussolini………………………………………………………………………..1 Alignment with Hitler…………………………………………………………..2 Establish fascist state in Spain………………………………………………….2 Vengeance against Britain and France………………………………………….2 Section C: Evaluation of sources…………………………………………………3-4 Section D: Analysis………………………………………………………………..4-6 Section E: Conclusion………………………………………………………………..7 Section F: Bibliography………………………………………………………….….7 Part A: Plan of Investigation Between 1936 and 1939, Spain was engaged in a civil war between the Republicans, who were faithful to the democratically appointed Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel body led by General Francisco Franco. Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator of Italy, aligned himself with the rebels alongside Hitler and Salazar, whilst the Republicans received support from the Soviet Union. In order to answer this question, the scope of the investigation is: to what extent did Mussolini become involved in the Spanish Civil War in order to repress Communism? To address the question, the investigation will examine: Mussolini’s aims to align with Germany; Mussolini’s hope to establish a third fascist state in Spain, and as vengeance against Britain and France.
The Selma to Montgomery marches was three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. They grew out of the voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama, launched by local African-Americans who formed the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL). In 1963, the DCVL and organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) began voter-registration work. When white resistance to Black voter registration proved intractable, the DCVL requested the assistance of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who brought many prominent civil rights and civic leaders to support voting rights. Planning the First March With civil rights activity blocked by Judge Hare's injunction, the DCVL
In With Open Arms: Cuban Migration to the United States (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1988) Felix Masud-Piloto provides an overview of 20th century Cuban migration to the United States within the context of U.S.-Cuba relations and the Cold War. A comparative study that examines relations between Cubans, Blacks and new immigrants is Alex Stepick, This Land is Our Land: Immigrants and Power in Miami (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). As mentioned above, the large majority of Central Americans arrived in the United States during the1980s to escape war, political upheaval and economic insecurity in their respective countries. One of the first books to document the highly ambiguous legal status of Salvadoran immigrants living and working in the “margins” of American society was Sarah Mahler’s American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995). Cecilia Menjivar’s Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) challenges the conventional image of immigrant solidarity by showing how harsh economic
This has been a corrupt system for as long as people can remember so who can they trust? “The system of a working relationship between Mexican authority’s and drug lords prevailed between 1940’s and 1990’s.” In 1997, the president was exposed as a top leader in the Juarez cartel. (Francisco Gonzales, John Hopkins University press 2008) To try and make a difference, when Enrique Pena Nieto took presidency in Dec. 2012, he pledged to “add a new 10,000 member security force to concentrate on the drug war, separate from the federal police.” (La Times 12/17/12) The United States helped in the war by working with the Mexican government, by giving a 1.4 billion dollar initiative for technology and training. (Francisco Gonzales) They added security to rural areas, and cameras with ground sensors to main crossing points of the Rio Grande. This helps the Border patrol to find immigrants trying to sneak over in the middle of the night.
Some Mexicans were already living in the Southern and Western regions of the North American continent centuries before the United States existed. Many more Mexicans came to the country during the 20th century, and Mexican immigrants continue to arrive today. The multicultural inheritance of Mexican Americans is rich and complex. It reflects the influences of Spain, Mexico, and indigenous cultures, and has been shaped by hundreds of years of survival and adaptation in the crucible of North American history. Their history was also shaped by wars and depressions, by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase, and by shifting attitudes toward immigration.
We have supported each other out in various wars, such as World War ll. Did you know the honoring of Cinco de Mayo began in the U.S. by Mexicans in California who wanted to express ownership to their mother country? In 1863 a Mexican business person initiated a Cinco de Mayo dance and this idea traveled around with the performance of private Mexican and Spanish dances. The honoring contained speeches about the significance of the day and parades primarily in the Mexican communities, as well as custom foods that later became regular Cinco de Mayo recipes. Cinco de Mayo represents “the right of the people to self-determination and national sovereignty, and the ability of non-Europeans to defend those rights against modern military organizations."
For a better analysis of the topic it is necessary to understand the theory of Fascism, its roots, the people, and how it has influenced the 20th century. The term Fascism is derived from the Italian word fascio, which means "bundle", group, or "union" (Milza). Fascism is defined as a philosophy or a system of government the advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an aggressive ideology of nationalism (www.spu.edu). Fascism approaches politics in two central areas, populist and elitist. Populist in that it seeks to activate "the people" as a whole against perceived oppressors or enemies and to create a nation of unity.
Summary This paper will discuss at length three major points in Mexican political history, the regimes of José López Portillo, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and Vicente Fox Quesada. The paper will discuss the major accomplishments or failures of each regime as well as any major political and economic policy changes that took place during their respective times in office. It will cover topics like Portillo and the end of the Mexican Miracle, Salinas and NAFTA, and Fox’s immigration reform, and will conclude with a comparison between the three regimes. Introduction “Mexico must be given credit for two remarkable achievements: She has sustained, over long periods of time, extremely high rates of economic growth, approaching, and sometimes passing, 10 percent per annum. And for over 50 years she has provided an example of political stability, and of orderly and peaceful transitions of power, unique in Latin America and almost so in the third world.” (Needler 2) However, underneath this apparent success that Mexico has had lies deep rooted corruption in almost every facet of society.