Answer:
Eric Hobsbawm, the Marxist British historian, wrote a book called The Short Twentieth Century. The 20th Century had been shorter than other centuries because it had begun in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War and terminated of course early in November 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The problem however, and of course we historians we like problems, is that everybody knew what we had left behind with the fall of the wall, but nobody knew what we were heading towards. As Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary at the time, put it, “this was a system [the Cold War], this was a system under which we had lived quite happily for 40 years.” Or as Adam Michnik, again my Polish solidarity intellectual, put it “The worst thing about communism is what comes afterwards.” While our populations were in jubilation in front of the television screens or on the streets of Berlin, governments were, it has to be said, seriously worried about the implications of this unforeseen, uncontrolled and uncontrollable collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the communist system. Tom Wolf, the American author, at the time had a bestseller called the Bonfire of the Vanities and a British MP that I knew at the time famously rephrased that as the ‘bonfire of the certainties.’ All of the reference points with which we’d lived for half a century and which had organized our diplomacy, our military strategy, our ideology, were like as many props that were suddenly pulled from us.
Answer:
No
Explanation:
Because the way people were treated differently and making some
YEARS IN EMPIRE MODERN COUNTRY % CORRECT
1847-1848 Mexico
93.4%
1776-Present Day United States of America
92.5%
1899-Present Day Cuba
92.3%
1945-1972 Japan
89.6%
1945-1990 Germany
88.7%
1898-1946 Philippines
85.2%
1944-1945 France
81.4%
1903-1999 Panama
77.5%
1845-1863 China
75.5%
1945-1948 South Korea
74.1%
2003-2004 Iraq
73.4%
1914-1995 Haiti
72.3%
1943-1947 Italy
70%
1945-1955 Austria
68%
YEARS IN EMPIRE MODERN COUNTRY % CORRECT
1903-1924 Dominican Republic
67%
1776 Bahamas
64.1%
1944-1990 Marshall Islands
61.1%
1950 North Korea
60.8%
1894-1971 Nicaragua
57%
1944-1990 Micronesia
56.6%
1983 Grenada
55.7%
1944-1994 Palau
53.7%
1942-1945 Netherlands
52.6%
1863-1972 Honduras
52.2%
1942-1944 Iceland
47.5%
1938-1979 Kiribati
41.5%
1944-1945 Papua New Guinea
34.3%
1941-1945 Suriname
18%
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Answer:
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.
Explanation:
(born November 22, 1942) is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, who is the first African American and the second person of African descent to go to space.
