World War I still costs taxpayers $20 million a year, World War II $5 billion and the Korean War $2.8 billion. The total cost of the Vietnam War, estimated to be more than $1 trillion in current dollars, includes $270 billion paid out in benefits.
The Haitian people eventually gained independence from France and became the first nation established by former slaves as a result of their struggle. The excesses of that despicable treatment were the very reason for the success of the Haitian Revolution: the treatment of slaves and Mulattoes in Haiti was so terrible that it prompted the most violent and eventually victorious slave insurgency in history. The Haitian Revolution was the first and only slave rebellion that resulted in the creation of a free state governed by non-whites and former slaves, free of slavery. This achievement needs to be remembered as one of history's major transformations in today's culture.
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3. Almost all people in the middle ages were christian.
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Transcript of 1920's v 1950'sCurious as to how the 1920's and
1950's compare in America? Let's take a look and see. First let's start with the commonalities They both started after the end of World Wars The 1920's began after WWI The 1950's began after WWII They were both decades of Economic
Prosperity for the wealthy and Upper
Middle Class Consumer Goods Increased Exponentially Higher Wages Than Ever Before and Less Hours Media Focus on
Advertisements and Entertainment Suburban Shopping Centers Films and Sports flourish Teenage
Rebellions Urban and Suburban Life