What is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimea can you clarify that. They were could do would have barely spoken of a quote but the most of the most go full of the below. As long ago as 1804 sevastopol the naval base became the main military port of the russian empire on the black sea. During the 2nd world war the heroic defense of sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. Therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the Russian Black Sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. Those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were and how angry and how we almost went to a Nuclear Confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the United States. Just so if the United States considers cuba to be in its backyard. Then crimea lays at russias doorstep. The cons
Explain in advance that this history course looks at responses to disasters in American History with an emphasis on research and writing over the semester but exam various disasters from various perspectives. First of all psychological and psychological problems. Disaster sermons in responses to fires, hurricanes and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the donald party, and routes it in california. Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country. Disaster tourism, at the johns down flood of 1889 the impact of the triangle shirt waste factory fire in new york city and disaster that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing david osha skins book book polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted. And im really interested in this topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and, of course, thats when so much of this book takes place and i think just looking at polio really reveals so
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