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http://www.school.ebonline.com/elementary/article?
articleId=352967&query=civil%20war&ct=null – Civil war in America
http://www.history.com/topics/titanic - the titanic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II - World War II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars - Hong Kong Opium War
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1945JAP1.html Nuclear bomb in Japan
http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-attacks -9/11
Civil War
Time: 1861-1865
Place: United States (South& Northern)
The Civil War was also called “War between the states”, because it was
fought between the Southern and Northern states of United States.
Sothern wore gray uniform and was called confederate soldiers
Northerners wore blue uniforms and were called Union soldiers.
The civil war was a cruel and bloody war. More people died in this war
that in all the other wars put together. One out of every five young men
in the nation died or was wounded.
More than 3,000 women helped out as nurses during the Civil War.
Nursing was a new job for the women in America. Before the war, only
men had been nurses.
In 1800s, the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. The
North wanted the country to end all the slavery. But the South wanted to
keep slaves because more than four million African-American slaves
worked in the huge plantation fields there. This disagreement between the
North and South led to the Civil War.
Titanic
Time: April 14 1912
Place: New York
Late Night, on April 14th 1912, an English ocean liner was making her first
voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. She was going to New York City,
carrying 2,200 passengers, the ship was four city blocks long. Most
people believed the ship was unsinkable.
After the Titanic hit the ice berg at 11:40pm, the ship’s radio operator
sent an SOS. An SOS is the international distress signal in Morse code.
Unfortunately, the only ship near the titanic has turned off its radio for
the night. All the other ships who received the message were too far
away from help. When the titanic sank around 2:20am, she was alone.
The titanic hit the ice berg in the North Atlantic, approximately 400
miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
More than 1,500 people perished in the titanic disaster, while 705
people escaped in the lifeboats and were eventually rescued by a ship
named: Carpathia.
World War II
Time: 1939-1945
Place: Germany and Poland
In August of 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression treaty. One week later, Germany invaded Poland and World
War II began. The first attack of the war took place on September 1,
1939, as German aircraft bombarded the Polish town of Wielun, killing
nearly 1,200. Five minutes later, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire
on a transit depot at Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig. Within
days, the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany and
began mobilizing their armies and preparing their civilians.
Once Hitler had a base of operations within the target country, he
immediately began setting up "security" forces to annihilate all enemies
of his Nazi ideology, whether racial, religious, or political. Concentration
camps for slave laborers and the extermination of civilians went hand in
hand with German rule of a conquered nation. For example, within one
day of the German invasion of Poland, Hitler was already setting up SS
"Death's Head" regiments to terrorize the populace.
More than 10 million people died during the World War II.
Hong Kong Opium War
Time: 1839-1842
Place: Hong Kong
Opium is a type of drug that is used for dysentery, cholera and other
diseases. Not until 18 century were there any accounts of any opium
smoking in China.
But this didn't stop Britain, which had gradually been taking over the
opium trade from its European capitalist rivals, Portugal and Holland.
Much of the opium at this time was grown and manufactured in British
India. Capt. Hamilton, a private British adventurer who spent 40 years in
India in the first part of the 18th century, described the city of Patna
there as "frequented by Europeans, where the English and Dutch have
factories. It produces so much opium that it serves all the countries in
India with that commodity."
This was the bloody origin of Hong Kong's 155 years as a British colony.
It paralleled imperialist conquest in Africa, Latin America, the Middle
East and the rest of Asia — a heritage that in the 20th century has
brought both great misery and great revolutionary movements for
national liberation.
Nuclear Bomb in Hiroshima
Time: 1945, 6-9 of August
Place: Japan
The United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima,
Japan. This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of T NT.
While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation three days
later, the United States struck again, this time, on Nagasaki
The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed
80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation
exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on
Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced his country's unconditional
surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the
devastating power of "a new and most cruel bomb
9/11
Time: September 11, 2001
Place: New York Twin Towers
9/11 toke place in New York City and the plane hit the twin towers at
different times. First Plane hit the first tower and collapsed at 8:45am
and Second plane hit the second tower and collapsed at 9:03am.
2,985 victims died during the 9/11 attack.
People say that Islam caused all this, and that Islam is a bad religion.
However, Islam is not violent without other causes.
Vocabulary
Interpretation: The action of explaining the meaning of
something
Perspective: The way someone looks at things and what they
think about things
Bias: Show prejudice for or against unfairly
Civilization: Process by which society reaches stage