Hitler, Nazis, And The National Socialist German Workers' Party
.... to an establishment populated by the elderly,
the weak, and the dissolute.
Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy,
he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to
Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy
of fine arts.
When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer's army as a
Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a
Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its
consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices, including
a powerful prejudice ag .....
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Megellan's Voyage
.... and with it the crew and many
provisions. They finally arrived at Puerto San Julian, where, according to
Winchester, they found "patagones" which means big feet. They captured
several "patagones" and named the land Patagonia. On October 21, 1520,
Magellan finally sighted Cabo Virjenes, the eastern end of the M agellan
strait, the entrance to the Pacific Ocean. Magellan sent two ships, the San
Antonio and the Conception into the bay, only to watch them be destroyed by
the strong current. A storm toppled over his ship, the Trinidad and the
Victoria was turned as well. The storm raged on for a long time, and
finally it stopped, leavi .....
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The Hundred Years War
.... the III for three reasons. One he was still a minor, two, his
mother was said to have disgusting character and a scandalous life, and
three the French declared, “It should never be seen or known that the
kingdom of France should be subject to the government of the king of
England.” At first Edward agreed to take an oath of homage to Philip VI,
but after conflicts in Guyenne Edward III contested the validity of his
declaration of homage towards the King of France since the declaration of
Edward's homage was made when he was still a minor. In 1337 Edward III
sent Philip VI a declaration of war. (Goubert)
There were three m .....
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The Crusades: Both Failures And Successes
.... This time, two kings led their armies to
take back the land. This Crusade and sever others to follow failed. The
Turks kept the land.
Though England did not regain the land the Turks had taken, the
Crusades were not a complete failure. Because of the Crusades, trade
increased, new lands were explored, new weapons were discovered, many other
changes occurred. The Crusades increased the demand for rice and other
foods. Europeans also discovered cotton. Warriors learned about the
crossbow and gunpowder. With men away, the status of women changed. Women
took charge of some of their husbands' feudal estates. Also the power .....
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Chinese Occupation Of Tibet
.... world continue to do business with China. Last
year, despite continuing pressure, the United States renewed China's Most
Favored Nation trading status. Unfortunately, since China represents such a
potentially gigantic market, politicians are reluctant to impose any trade
sanctions.
The Chinese government claims to be helping the Tibetan culture, but in
reality they have created hogemy over the Tibetan people. China has damaged the
society of Tibet in such an extensive way that if Tibet ever regains its freedom,
it will take many years to correct the damage inflicted by the Chinese
government. Hopefully, in the near future Chi .....
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The Titanic - History Of A Disaster
.... on board and enough lifeboats for only 1,178 people (Lord, Lives On 83). The Captain was going to have to make a choice as to who would be the first allowed on the lifeboats. Around 12:30 a.m. the bridge informed the crew that only women and children would be loaded on the lifeboats (Eaton,Haas,152). By 1:30 a.m., there was panic among some of the passengers. One example was on the port side of the boat. A group of passengers threatened to jump into a boat full of passengers. To scare them, one of the officers fired three shots on the ship's side. The warning proved to be successful. Nobody was injured and the passen .....
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World War II In Europe
.... Hitler attacked Yugoslavia and Greece in the spring of 1941, the Nazis overran those countries before lend-lease aid could reach them. When Hitler's bombers failed to knock out Britain, he ordered his submarine fleet to starve that nation into submission. By the end of 1941, American and German warships were exchanging fire, and in October a German U-boat sank an American destroyer, killing more than 90 of its crew.
In June 1941 Hitler, wanting Russia's vast wheat and oil supplies, suddenly attacked the Soviet Union. As German armies quickly advanced into the USSR, Stalin signed an alliance with Great Britain, and .....
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Operation Barbarossa: A Good Plan?
.... pact with Stalin was only meant to give Germany time to prepare for war.
As soon as Hitler controlled France, he looked east. Insisting that Britain was as good as defeated, he wanted to finish off the Soviet Union as soon as possible, before it could significantly fortify and arm itself. 'We only have to kick in the front door and the whole rotten edifice will come tumbling down'ii he told his officers. His generals warned him of the danger of fighting a war on two fronts and of the difficulty of invading an area as vast as Russia but, Hitler simply overruled them. He then placed troops in Finland and Romania and created hi .....
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Rebellions Of 1837
.... similar or possibly more rights for themselves. Another example is the Great Migration, where many people migrated to Canada. The increased population meant more people and more thoughts and ideas heading towards rebellion. A third example is the Industrial Revolution. It began in Britain, then spread through Europe and North America. The Industrial Revolution brought much change in Britain. That was exactly what the Canadians were looking for. Once Britain had it, they wanted it, too. With the new population increase, they would try to get it through revolution. People as a result of these reasons were immigrating to Cana .....
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The Effects Of The Great War
.... that there was no love loss between the two. One very important factor with America trying to stay neutral was the trade barriers between the two sides. At first the neutrality was toward both sides, but with the British placing a naval blockade on shipping to Germany the neutrality became one-sided. Britain and France raised the value of trade from $82 million in 1914, to $3.2 billion in 1916. America saw that increased trade had produced a great economic boom. Thus making the neutrality one-sided. With the U.S. trading with Great Britain we knew this was going to cause problems in the long run.
Several reasons caus .....
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Shih Huang Ti
.... What Shih did not know was that the construction would cause many deaths and much suffering to the builders of the wall. The wall which Meng and his men created had watchtowers, forty feet tall, every two hundred yards. The purpose of these towers was to alert the defending soldiers of approaching, attacking tribes. The soldiers at the towers signaled to each other by day using smoke signals, waving flags, blowing horns, and ringing bells; by night by lighting firework-like objects in the sky. The wall, itself, was approximately fifteen hundred miles long, thirty feet high and, at the base, twenty-five feet thick. It was made of .....
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The Moche Period
.... brown over a white background with a Moche priest performing a ritual beneath a starry sky. Such a ceramic would have been actually used in a religious ceremony to store various sacred liquids needed for the completion of such an act.
The most important people, the priests and warriors, were members of the urban classes and lived closest to the large ceremonial pyramids and other temples. They were surrounded by a middle class of artisans and then, in descending order: farmers and fishermen, servants, slaves and beggars. The priests and warriors were both honored and obeyed. They are the people most frequently shown in ce .....
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