The Enlightenment

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On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a wall to stop refugees from crossing over from East to West. Also, this was to stop the Westerners from entering the East and undermining the state. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when it was announced that citizens could cross the border whenever they pleased. This resulted in citizens from both sides celebrating by removing the wall with .This was a moment that show unity and peace to the world, which is why we think in the most important. In 1941, an American naval base was bombarded by hundreds of Japanese bomber planes. This attack killed 2,000 American sailors and soldiers and wounded another 1,000. The attack prompted President …show more content…

its objectives were to maintain international peace and security, promote human rights, foster social and economic development, protect the environment, and provide humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict. But the principal purpose was to prevent another war from happening. This is an extremely important factor in history because this organization has been successful in keeping the member nations united and under control. The Enlightenment was one of the biggest factors in shaping the United States government and one of the main causes of the French Revolution which is why it's important. Philosophers started expanding knowledge in a different direction than the Scientific Revolution, proposing laws and methods like the social contract. Philosophers like Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Locke became the faces of the Enlightenment. This was significant because it helped complete the process of individuality and …show more content…

It was the main European power in the seventeenth century, until the defeats against France in the Thirty Years War and the rise of Dutch naval power ended up reducing it to one more power. The Industrial Revolution came to the United States as an echo of the Industrial Revolution that occurred in Britain and Europe at the end of the 18th century. This process, that is, the change from manufacturing production to mechanized production and the development of factories, completely transformed the country. In the United States, it took place between 1820 and 1870, and revolutionized the economy, society, lifestyle, being the cause in turn of the trade union movements, when the workers carried the greater weight of change. In the half century since the declaration of independence of the United States, in 1776, until the collapse of Spanish power in Peru, in 1824, a whole continent was released of colonial tutelage. Latin American emancipation, in particular, was precipitated by the French intervention in the Iberian Peninsula. In America, as in Spain itself, the submission of monarchical institutions to Joseph I deprived them of legitimacy and emerged new local