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severe conflicts in Vietnam which led to Vietnamese revolutions and ultimately, the Vietnam War. Imperialism is defined as “a policy or practice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world” (Merriam). The French ruled in Vietnam from the late 1800s up until WWII; during this time, the Vietnamese often faced complications with them.

during this time period was the development of Isaac Newton’s famous Laws of Motion. One of the most renowned laws established by Newton was the theory that “every body continues in its state of rest . . . unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it” (Newton). What Newton achieved, which most scientists at the time had not, was conveying a scientific message to the common people. These people were either uneducated or not experts in the field that Newton was studying. When Newton

emerged. The colonists began to realize that if they all worked together, they could ultimately be a free nation, and they wouldn't have to be controlled by they English government in which they were not represented. Unity however, is not the same as identity. A sense of identity was harder

India and Brazil (Hassan). This does not mean that France has no accomplishments to the technology field. In December of 2013, physicians in France implanted the world’s first fully implantable artificial heart (Allen). The device was created by the French Carmat biomedical firm and is made of bovine tissue to decrease the chance of rejection (Allen). The artificial heart is intended to replace a real heart for up to five years and the

Many forces lead both the French and Russian Revolutions. Both countries were faced with huge debts from wars. For France, this was the debt caused by their support in the American Revolution. For Russia, this was the higher cost in lives and money during World War I. The French’s middle class, who had more liberal ideas and progressive economic practices, continued to have less prominence and privileges that the noble class had. Most of the Russian people were peasants whose economic progress which

have any say in it either. They called it taxation without representation, and they showed their discontent by boycotting and even smuggling products. But no matter how hard they tried, Britain would not give in very easily. After the long and hard French and Indian War, a seven-year conflict between England and France, they had a great deal of debt to pay off. Although England had repealed most of the taxes, they continued tax one thing that was important to the colonists, tea. The many protests

Jeanne d’Arc made a huge difference In the world history today. She made a positive impact on the French culture by leading the French army in many victories during the Hundreds’ Year War. Unfortunately, Joan was captured by the English and burned at the stake for impersonating a male by wearing Mens clothing and trimming her hair short (“Joan of Arc Biography”). She claimed to have been sent by God to reclaim her homeland; Domremy, in the Champagne district of Northeastern France. After her demise

subject people in the Ottoman, German and Hapsburg Empires. None of these survived the war, and the Poles, Czechs and other Europeans did gain national homelands, although this was not the case for the non-white subject peoples of the British and French Empires. Nor did it even hold true for the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean, where Wilson intervened during World War I. Indeed, Haiti was occupied from 1915-34 and the Dominican Republic from 1916-24, while Wilson intervened repeatedly

goals, defensive developmentalists undertook extensive reforms to establish their empires as relevant worldwide powers. Defensive developmentalists adopted extensive reforms in order to accomplish their goal of asserting their autonomy over outside forces. As the chief worry for these empires was outside penetration, military restructuring became an essential aspect to their reform. A centralized, organized military gave empires the ability to do the picking apart, or at the very least prevent from

four years later political parties were apart of the election. These two parties were the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. There are many views that they shared, but also lots of issues they disagree on. For example both parties supported the French Revolution, but only to a certain degree. Human nature was one of the main issues the parties encountered. Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists thought that “Every man ought to be supposed a knave” he summarized, “and to have no other end in all