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Born On December George Gershwin
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African Americans Cuba Wanted War
451 wordsImperialism: strong nations extend economics political or military control over weaker countries Sun never set on a british empire British controlled all over world Americans wanted Cuba for sugar and Slaves in 1825. Spain took control of Cuba wanted U. S. help to get spain out. President was Mckinley. Doom wrote a letter mad abou cuba, wanted mckinley to resign The U. S. Maine blew up, we blamed it on spain - 1917 WIB: War Industrial Board went up % 20 George Cell: Selling war to America, Food ...
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End All Wars War To End All Wars Remember
405 wordsWhy is there a Remembrance Day? Why, on November 11 th every year, do Canadians stop from their daily work commitments and observe this day as a special holiday? Schools close and government, public and private offices all across the nation shut down and "remember"! Remember what? Canadians will gather on November 11 th, all across our nation, at war memorials for a two minute period of silence to pay tribute to and honor the memory of the more than 100, 000 Canadians who were killed in War-Worl...
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Order To Gain Working Environment
1,033 wordsWomen living as pioneers in the late 1800 s endured many difficulties. However, after accomplishing long sought after goals and overcoming tremendous obstacles, they achieved great lengths and received many honors. Women had to fight for their education, fair wages in highly respected and mostly male professions, and finally, the right to vote. Females had to work continuously in order to gain respect and achieve a level of equality between themselves and the men surrounding them. When women cho...
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Bubonic Plague Middle Ages
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
1,457 wordster> Modern Russia and The Soviet Union: Stalin's character was the main reason for his rise to power Stalin was born as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879 in Gori, Georgia. He grew up in a mountain town of about 5, 000 people. He was the third and only surviving child of Vissarion Dzhugashvili and Catherine Geladze. His father used to drink and beat him and his mother; this made Stalin very cold hearted. A friend commented on his behaviour, Those undeserved and fea...
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Government Of The United States Thousands Of People
1,326 wordsWhen Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1916, he narrowly gained victory on the platform He kept us out of war, referring to World War I. Wilson was against US involvement in the war for several reasons; the US was isolated geographically from the nations of Europe, and detached from the issues that were argued there, the confusing entanglements and causes of the war in Europe, and the many ethnic groups and divisions in the US at the time. However, by April of 1917, with German U-boats attacking US ...
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Dwight D Eisenhower Cold War
423 wordsIn this review I will discuss with you the birth and death of Dwight D. Eisenhower. I will also include his family size, education, marriage, jobs, and accomplishments. The purpose of this review is to give you information about Dwight D. Eisenhower. It is also so that people will know who one of our presidents was and what he did fir our country. This review is on Dwight D. Eisenhower. Dwight David Eisenhower was born on the 14 of October in 1890. He was born in Design, Texas. He is te third bo...
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Allied Powers Mass Murder
1,304 words... tured, then hanged or shot. Next, there were mass arrests of Armenian men throughout the country by Turkish soldiers, police agents and bands of Turkish volunteers. The men were tied together with ropes in small groups then taken to the outskirts of their town and shot dead or bayoneted by death squads. Local Turks and Kurds armed with knives and sticks often joined in on the killing. Then it was the turn of Armenian women, children, and the elderly. On very short notice, they were ordered t...
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Hear What Happened Flander Fields Mccrae
1,479 wordsJust north of the Danube River, west of Chartres, the earth is scarred with the trenches of the most vile and destructive conflict anyone has ever witnessed, or experienced. The earth, viewed from the heavens, has been disfigured to resemble the surface of the moon, with craters from the persistent onslaught of the German artillery. The shell smoke eclipses the sky and the only light is the man-made stars that light the horizon from the rifles and not the night sky as they have always been for t...
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Czar Alexander Bolshevik Party
1,057 wordsThe most dedicated leader of the revolution, and future leader of the Bolshevik Party in Russia, was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He was born in 1870 in Simbirsk, Russia, a small town on the Volga River, to a family of hereditary nobles that were not what but quite comfortable. Vladimir Ulyanov, who would later change his name to Lenin, was the third of seven children. His oldest brother, Aleksandr, was hanged in May of 1887 for having joined in a plot to kill Czar Alexander III. The czar signed a w...
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E Cummings Life And Work
770 wordse e cummings e e cummings (no, this is not a typographical error, take note to the way he writes his name) was an unusual, yet highly acclaimed writer of the 20 th century. His style of writing was much different than that of any other contemporary or even 18 th and 19 th century writers. Although difficult to understand at times, e e cummings is a very profound and inventive writer. e e cummings was born Edward Estlin Cummings on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge Massachusetts. His parents were Edw...
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19 Th Century Peoples Party
1,419 wordsFeeding The Wolf John B. Rayner was one of the most prominent leaders of Peoples party in the South during the last decade of 19 th century. His figure is being largely forgotten now and the main reason for this is that, even during his lifetime, he had lost all credibility for easily switching his political ideas, in order to please public. This approach proved to be failure only historical prospective gives us a proper insight on the importance of any politician. According to this approach, Ra...
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Concentration Camps German Workers
1,417 wordsHitler, Adolf (1889 - 1945) Early Years Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, the son of a minor customs official and a peasant girl. A poor student, he never completed high school. He applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna twice but was rejected for lack of talent. Staying in Vienna until 1913, he lived first on an orphans pension, later on small earnings from pictures he drew. He read voraciously, developing anti-Jewish and antidemocratic convictions, an admiration f...
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Picasso And Braque Analytical Cubism
1,097 wordsBefore the twentieth century, art was recognized as an imitation of nature. Paintings and portraits were made to look as realistic and three-dimensional as possible, as if seen through a window. Artists were painting in a flamboyant style. French post impressionist Paul C? zanne's flattened still lives, and African sculptures gained in popularity in Western Europe when artists went looking for a new way of showing their ideas and expressing their views. In 1907 Pablo Picasso created the painting...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen
907 wordsIt is sweet and meet to die for ones country, better known as? Dulce et Decorum Est? is a great poem written by war poet Wilfred Owen. It involves a tragic war situation. It is easily understood. The poem also has a very unique sound to it. Wilfred Owen was born on March 18 th in 1893. He was the eldest of four children born in Oswestry. He was brought up in the Anglican religion of the Evangelical school. An evangelical man is saved not by the good he does but by faith he has in redeeming power...
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League Of Nations Declaration Of War
1,603 wordsThomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va. , on Dec. 28, 1856. He was profoundly influenced by a devoutly religious household headed by his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister, and his mother, Janet Woodrow Wilson, the daughter of a minister. Woodrow attended (1873 - 74) Davidson College and in 1875 entered the College of New Jersey graduating in 1879. Wilson studied (1879 - 80) at the University of Virginia Law School, briefly practiced law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entere...
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Edison Illuminating Company Ford Motor Company
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Adolf Hitler Hitler Decided
903 wordsHitler and Germany Adolf Hitler, one of the 20 th century's most powerful dictators, was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. He first became interested in politics after witnessing a large protest by German workers. Finding the outbreak of World War I as an opportunity to show his loyalty to Germany, Hitler volunteered for the Imperial Army. Later faced with fierce resistance from the British and French armies and an economy in ruins, German generals requested armistice ne...
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Treaty Of Versailles Versailles Treaty
489 wordsHow the Treaty of Versailles Effected Germany Wen World War I ended on November 11, 1918, peace talks went on for months due to the Allied leaders wanting to punish the enemy and dividing the spoils of war. A formal agreement to end the war was made and called the Treaty of Versailles. The issue that took the most time were the territorial issues because the empires of Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman, and Germany had collapsed. These fallen empires had to be divided up and America s Preside...
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