From 1774 to 1789, the Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States. The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened after the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) had already begun. In 1776, it took the momentous step of declaring America’s independence from Britain. Five years later, the Congress ratified the first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, under which the country would be governed until 1789, when it was replaced by the current U.S. Constitution.
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In 1935 Hitler had 2 laws passed that accomplished the following.
- Jews were deprived of their German citizenship and
- German purity (blood) was protected by forbidding Jews from Marrying German Citizens. Any sexual relations between the races was also prohibited.
- These two laws were the Nuremberg Laws.
The Holocaust was the attempt by Hitler and the German Nazi Party to murder every Jew (in the world if they got that far) but certainly in Europe. They diminished the Jewish population in Europe by 1/2 killing 6 million of them -- a number I find incomprehensible and an act even more incomprehensible.
I urge you to search out the word Holocaust. The German Holocaust was not the only one. There were quite a few even after world war II. You would think that the one in Europe would have been enough. It certainly wasn't.
Answer: B is correct.
Explanation: there were many who wanted to follow isolationism arguing that the war was problem of Europeans, there were also those (many Americans were of European origin with their roots in different corners of the Old continent). Situation changed and USA (country of European origin and roots) entered the war and continued engaged in (especially) European security policy.
Answer: a. The War Production Board helped factories quickly shift from only making consumer goods to making war materials.
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A key part of the U.S. being able to join the Second World War and contribute so effectively in the time that it did, was the War Production Board's efficiency in shifting American consumer production to war materials for use by the U.S. military and the Allies.
Thanks to the Board, companies shifted their focus from consumer goods even though there was initially some massive pushback. Following a national campaign, opposition subsided and the U.S. was able to pump out so much war material that the war would not have been won without.
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The Monroe Doctrine was a principle of United States foreign policy from the 19th century onwards. This doctrine, created by Henry Clay, declared any form of European interference in the Western Hemisphere as a direct confrontation against the United States, thus seeking to guarantee that the European nations would not interfere in the affairs of the American continent, which would guarantee the territorial expansion of the United States. However, it promised to respect the existing colonies in the hands of the European powers.
