Category: Social studies

Who created the first atomic bomb? Robert Oppenheimer Who were the 6 scientists responsible for the atomic bomb? Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, DuPont’s Crawford Greenewalt and Kellogg’s Percival Keith, MIT’s Vannevar Bush, Harvard’s James B. Conant, and Berkeley’s Ernest O. Lawrence. Who started the Manhattan Project? The story of the Manhattan Project began in […]

What was the first event of the Russian revolution? On November 6 and 7, 1917 (or October 24 and 25 on the Julian calendar, which is why the event is often referred to as the October Revolution), leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the Duma’s […]

What caused the uprising in Tunisia? The demonstrations were caused by high unemployment, food inflation, corruption, a lack of political freedoms (such as freedom of speech) and poor living conditions. What was the Arab spring trying to achieve? The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي‎) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that […]

What happened to the right to a speedy trial? A violation of the Speedy Trial Clause is cause for dismissal with prejudice of a criminal case. Within these parameters, it was determined that the five-year wait for this case to go trial was not in violation of the Constitution. In response, in 1974, Congress passed […]

What did the Khartoum conference say? The conference has agreed on the need to consolidate all efforts to eliminate the effects of the aggression on the basis that the occupied lands are Arab lands and that the burden of regaining these lands falls on all the Arab States. What happened at the Khartoum conference? The […]

How did appeasement contribute to the rise of Adolf Hitler? Appeasement emboldened Hitler’s Germany, essentially leading to WWII. As Hitler continued to invade territories and build a military capable of fighting a major war—despite the Treaty of Versailles—Britain and France allowed him to continue, hoping he would leave them alone if they left him alone. […]

What did James Marshall say when found gold? I then collected four or five pieces and went up to Mr. Scott (who was working at the carpenter’s bench making the mill wheel) with the pieces in my hand and said, “I have found it.” What was James Marshall’s primary concern after he discovered gold? James […]

How does the media influence how the community and the police interact? There is evidence that supports media’s false reporting increases individual’s negative attitudes as well as actions toward law enforcement across America. Police officers are among those being falsely targeted, attacked, and killed by individuals as well as groups acting out based on media […]

What are the two analytical frameworks used by historians? Answer: The two analytical frameworks that sport historians begin to use in the 1970s to make sense of data they collected in their research of the history of physical activity were modernization theory and human agency. What does a physical activity historian do? What Does a […]

When the body produces waste products in the form of lactic acid? Cells get the energy they need from the chemical reactions of glucose. When you run fast there is a chemical reaction called anaerobic respiration. This reaction transfers energy from glucose to your cells without oxygen. There is just one waste product called lactic […]