There are a lot of people who want to make sure they have money in their later years, so she thought about becoming the first person to ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Starting even before 1914, the means that a European country use to build up a strong military would be recruiting men and training them, as well as increasing the budget for the military in order to purchase for their weapons. For example, some countries built or bought ships to scare the other countries and to demonstrate power.
Several factors contributed to the Soviet Union being able to stop the German invasion, called Operation Barbarossa.
First, Hitler and the German High Command underestimated the strength of the Soviet troops and the number of reserves the Soviets could call up. They also underestimated the number of tanks, airplanes, and other war machinery that the Soviets had, although much of the machinery was old or in poor repair. Hitler and his advisors also wasted time by arguing about the course they should follow. They also thought that the Soviet Regime would collapse from lack of domestic support.
The Soviet policy of scorched earth also affected the German invasion. As the Germans advanced, the Soviets burned crops, destroyed bridges, dismantled and moved steel and munition plants, evacuated factories, and destroyed or moved railroad cars (Germaine railroad cars used a different gauge of track that that of the Soviets, so they could not use German rail cars on Soviet tracks). As the Germans advanced into Russia, it became more difficult to keep the troops supplied.
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Weather was another important factor. Rains in July turned the sandy Russian roads into mud, slowing the transport vehicles which traveled behind the German tanks. In October, during the Battle of Moscow, the weather turned to rain and then to snow and sub zero temperatures. The German troops were ill-prepared to fight in the cold weather, with no provisions of winter clothing, and the cold affecting the Germans’ mechanized transport, tanks, artillery, and aircraft. The Soviets were well provided for in the cold weather and fought more effectively in the cold weather than the Germans. Added to the cold weather was the fact that the German troops were tired and the number of troops began to decline with no new troops sent to replace them. </span>
(A) Members of Congress called for for the colonies to declare war on on England due to the harsh punishments of the intolerable acts.
In 1776, the Continental Congress took a historic step of declaring America's independence from Britain.
Throughout most of colonial history, the British Crown was the only political institution that united the American colonies. The Imperial Crisis of the 1760s and 1770s, however, drove the colonies toward increasingly greater unity. Americans throughout the 13 colonies united in opposition to the new system of imperial taxation initiated by the British government in 1765. The Stamp Act of that year–the first direct, internal tax imposed on the colonists by the British Parliament–inspired concerted resistance within the colonies. Nine colonial assemblies sent delegates to the Stamp Act Congress, an extralegal convention that met to coordinate the colonies’ response to the new tax. Although the Stamp Act Congress was short-lived, it hinted at the enhanced unity among the colonies that would soon follow.
Almost every significant political figure of the American Revolution served in the Continental Congress, including Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Patrick Henry and George Washington.
