Russia In 1910
.... To obtain more advanced machines, the government traded grains to other
countries in exchange for machinery, though it meant more people would now
starve. Compound this with the devastation and desperation brought on
shortly thereafter by the first world war, and there was no confidence left
in the government. Liberal constitutionalists wanted to remove the Czar
and form a republic; social revolutionists tried to promote a peasant
revolution. Marxist promoted a revolution among the proletariat, or .....
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Weapons Of World War 1
.... been making alliances. Europe had been divided into
two camps. Germany, Austria, and Italy were members of the Triple Alliance,
also known as the Central Powers. Russia, France, and England formed the
rival Triple Entente Powers. Later called the Allies. The States sided
with Serbia and the Allies. Serbia's enemies were on the side of the
Central Powers.
The Industrial Revolution with its large, manufacturing ability,
massive assembly-line production , and expanded shiping distribution had
a powerfu .....
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The Causes Of World War 1, And The Battles
.... causes of the war, it is very helpful to
know what was the opinion of the contemporaries about the causes of the
Great War. In the reprint of the article "What Started the War", from
August 17, 1915 issue of The Clock magazine published on the Internet the
author writes: "It is thought that this war that is been ongoing for over
a year, began with the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
However, many other reasons led to this war, some occurring as far back
the late 1800's. Nationalism, mil .....
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Life In Victorian England
.... one room where on some
nights the only thing they had to eat was bread. People in the lower class
would only receive jobs that had no skills involved; some of these jobs
were only seasonal. The lower class would have jobs such as picking cotton
in a cotton field, working in factories, or search sewers for what they
could find. Some parents made children stay up until 11 or 12 PM to finish
up their stitching. Both boys and girls had to work at a young age because
they had the necessity of getting eve .....
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Cuba And Its History
.... became extremely bloody due to the use of Guerrilla warfare.
This military operation, conducted on its home terrain, consisted of
inhabitants fed up with oppressive rule. The men involved operated from
bases located deep in the jungle, dense forests, and high rocky elevations.
Guerrillas depended on natives for food, shelter, and useful information.
While striking swiftly was a must, the bands of men were specialized in the
undetected raiding of enemy camps. They could ambush a patrol, kill .....
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Spanish Influence
.... those born from black
and Indian marriages. Viceroys were another political establishment in the
New World. The viceroys were the king's assistants. They helped manage the
government in the colonies, and carried out orders from the king. This
method did not work too well since orders from the king took months and
even years before reaching the viceroys, after which a message may be
outdated and irrelevant.
New social institutions changed the way people lived. The Church
was the first and most .....
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The Reign Of Terror
.... the Paris prisons held 8,000
prospective victims. Opponents to the Terror held that the victims were no
longer the clergy or the aristocrats, but rather ordinary citizens accused
of hoarding, profiteering, or one of the various offenses included under
the Law of Suspects. In 1794 the dictatorship of the Committee intensified,
but from fear, not popular support. Executions continued to increase (258
in April of 1794, 345 in May, and 688 in June) and differences in the
Committee became dramatically. And .....
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The Scientific Revolution & The Enlightenment In Europe
.... proving beliefs. Such as referring to
traditional authorities such as Aristotle, Ptolemy, as well as the church.
Third, the general scientific orientation changed from theological
questioning to secular which focused on how things worked. these
developments were not very popular in Europe until the eighteenth century
when the ideas and methods became known as part of the Enlightenment.
Philosophes, a group of thinkers, developed related ideas forming a basis
for modern thought. Emphasizing again skept .....
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The Horror Of The Black Plague In Europe In 1347
.... plague didn’t have much effect on Europe. The
Hundred Years’ War was being fought, and the plague added more fatalities
to the war. The war was suspended and the fighting stopped in 1348 because
of the number of soldiers that died. But it soon enough started back up.
There was no permanent effect on the course of politics. Parliaments were
adjourned, but were quickly reconvened. King Alfonso XI of Castile was the
only reigning monarch to die of the plague, but many lesser notables died,
including .....
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China's Influence On Korea
.... about Buddhism. They brought home the arts and the learning of China..
Under the Shilla dynasty, Korea became a tributary state, acknowledging
Chinese overlordship but preserving its independence. Koreans also adopted
the Confucian emphasis on the family as the foundation of the state.
Although Koreans adapted and modified Chinese ideas. For example, they
adapted the Chinese civil service examination to reflect their own system
of inherited ranks. In China, even a peasant could win political influenc .....
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Ancient Egyptians And The Norsemen: Creating The Past
.... the
head of the family, and upon his death the son stepped into the head
position. Due to a loose culture the women had almost as many rights as
men. Women could own land, buy and sell goods, make a will, and obtain a
divorce. In Egypt like in most other places only a small percentage of
boys and girls attended school, and they were from upper class families.
Most boys took on their fathers trade while the girls were taught by their
mothers the ways of wife and motherhood. Throughout most of history t .....
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Chernobyl Revisted
.... structure to blow apart. The second was the reactor core blowing.
Nearby neighbor of Tribneat (mainly the workers town) thought that the
explosion was just an everyday steam discharge, while it was an awfully
large discharge. 31 firefighter tried helplessely to put out the blast, of
the 31 1 survived. When asked why they fought the fire instead of not, he
replied who else would of put the fire out it was his job. When the
surface fire was put out there was yet another problem. The reactor cor .....
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The Slavery Of Africans
.... of indemnity and
requite. The point of the follow critique is not to say that Africans
were not mistreated, nor that they are not worthy of reparations, but that
perhaps reparations are not an adequate solution to this situation, and
indeed will only serve to worsen.
Africa is a continent in dire straits. European colonization and
colonialism damaged the native structure and society - some might say that
this simply proves that European man caused, and ought to pay for, the
damages done to Afric .....
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NATO Airstrikes In Kosovo
.... Anyway it still was under control. However
when Marshall Tito died in 1980, the Yugoslav Federation became unstable
and some republics wanted to be independent. By 1992 the Federation had
collapsed and nationalism dominated the Balkans again. Conflicts between
different nations broke out sporadically.
Now let's look at the sequence of the Kosovo crisis. In 1989 Serbian
leader Slobodan Milosevic cancelled Kosovo's autonomy for Albanians who
constituted the majority population in Kosovo wanted to .....
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The Korean War And The Damage
.... Fighting began on June 25, 1950, when the North Korean army,
substantially equipped by the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea. South
Korean positions along the 38th parallel, which marked the frontier
between the two republics, were swiftly overrun, and the Communist forces
drove southward. North Korea was aided during the war by personnel and
equipment from both China and the Soviet Union. The UN Security Council,
with the Soviet delegate voluntarily absent, invoked military sanctions
against Nort .....
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