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and How it Affected the view of the CIA by the American Public In the present as in the past the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) has been looked down upon. The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs is one of monumental proportion…

On September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, formally ending the American Revolution and declaring the recognition of the independence of the United States of America. Over the years, people have argued one question about this war, was…

more to the Revolutionary War than is seen on the surface. It is true that the war was fought for intellectual freedoms, as well as political and economical freedoms. However, the mere ideas of free intellect and politics and economics could not…

unnecessary. Slavery had been ended in other nations with the stroke of a pen, and yet in the mighty United States the country was willing to go to war over the issue of whether slavery should remain. The southerners felt that it was their constitution…

who had the right to succeed, and whose power was more effective. The Civil War began as a test of states’ rights versus federal rights, and augmented into the bloodiest battle to ever be fought on American soil. When it began, both sides…

around the world. A civilization is the broadest level to which a person belongs and identifies with and must share something like religion, culture, language, race, etc. with the other people of its same civilization. On the past, the want for…

it experiences a constant growth of the knowledge which increases skills of its people. When the civilization develops and progresses far enough, artisans, merchants, and traders form to help advance the community. As the population grows, so does…

the breakdown of the western-soviet coalition against Hitler's Germany and the countries allies during World War 2. The cold war was a nonmilitary conflict between the group of nations led by the USSR and the other side led by the United States.…

the United States and the Soviet Union. Direct military conflict never really occurred between the two superpowers, but many economic and political struggles emerged. These struggles led to mutual suspicion and hostility between the two. After…

Cold War between the superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union was a clash of distant ideologies in a changing world. Friction developed between the two on many occasions as either side tried to expand their spheres of influence in politics,…