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League Of Nations Submarine Warfare
1,987 wordsTHOMAS WOODROW WILSON was the 28 th president of the United States. Born on the 28 th of December 1856, he was an American scholar and statesman who was best remembered for his high-minded and leading the United States into World War I. Wilson was born to religious and well-educated people, mainly of Scottish background. Wilson's father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, studied for the clergy at the Presbyterian directed Princeton University. He married Janet Woodrow, and early in the 1850 s the Wilsons m...
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First World War Social And Economic
1,413 wordsWhat was Prohibition Introduced? In the 1920 s American politics was dominated by democracy and the idea of isolationism to keep America prosperous was incredibly apparent. However in 1919, President Wilson passed the 18 th Amendment to the American Constitution prohibiting the manufacture, distribution and consumption of alcoholic drinks (any drink containing over 0. 5 % alcohol). Prohibition was not just a novel American idea, at the turn of the Twentieth Century, other countries were also exp...
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World War Ii Benito Mussolini
1,348 wordsWho was Benito Mussolini? Benito Mussolini was the Fascist dictator of Italy. He was dictator from 1922 to 1943. Benito was five foot six inches, with black hair and eyes. He centralized all of the power of Italy in himself and on one else as the leader of the Fascist party and tried but failed to create an Italian Empire. Italy would eventually be in an alliance with the all powerful Germany. Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, a poverty stricken district of central Italy. ...
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League Of Nations Treaty Of Versailles
723 wordsDespite Woodrow Wilsons plan for peace near the end of World War I, he failed to gain Congressional support for the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles was intended to be a peace agreement between the Allies and the Germans. However, once the negotiation of the Treaty, the Allies found they had conflicting ideas and motives surrounding the reparations and wording of the Treaty. The Treaty formally placed the responsibility for the war on Germany and its allies and imposed on Germany t...
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Shih Huang Ti Filial Piety
1,353 wordsDressed in the drab military uniform that symbolized the revolutionary government of Communist China, Mao Zedong's body still looked powerful, like an giant rock in a gushing river. An enormous red flag draped his coffin, like a red sail unfurled on a Chinese junk, illustrating the dualism of traditional China and the present Communist China that typified Mao. 1 A river of people flowed past while he lay in state during the second week of September 1976. Workers, peasants, soldiers and students,...
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Cape Cod Susan Glaspell
622 wordsProvincetown town (township), Barnstable county, eastern Massachusetts, U. S. , at the northern tip of Cape Cod. It is located among sand dunes within a fishhook-shaped harbour that was visited by the explorers Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602 and Henry Hudson in 1609. Before the Pilgrims founded Plymouth, they landed there. An event that is now commemorated on Nov. 21. It was on board the Mayflower in Provincetown harbour where the first European child in New England (Peregrine White) was born. The ...
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Versailles Treaty Peace Treaty
1,166 wordsThe Versailles Peace Treaty, signed by Germany in 1919, can only be partially held responsible for the crisis faced by the Weimar Government. In 1923, the Weimar Government reached a terrible crisis point in which it sank into chaos, facing serious problems both politically and economically. Politically, the Weimar Government encountered extreme opponents from both the right and left wing; however, not all political threats faced by the Weimar Government were due to the Versailles Peace Treaty. ...
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20 Th Century Paradise Lost
1,199 wordsBorn in Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 29, 1898, Clive Staples ("Jack") Lewis was raised in a very educated home, one in which the reality he found on the pages of the books within his parents' extensive library seemed as tangible and meaningful to him as anything that transpired outside their doors. As adolescents, Lewis and his older brother, Warren, were more at home in the world of ideas and books of the past, than with the material, technological world of the 20 th Century. When the ...
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German Army President Hindenburg
609 wordsOn the 11 th November 1918 the Armistice was signed which brought the dreadful Great War to an end. Germany Surrendered to the Allies. The following year the leaders of the Allies met at Versailles to decide how Germany was to be treated. When the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were given out in June most Germans were fuming. Adolph Hitler left the German army in January 1919. He had spent the last weeks of the war in hospital recovering from gas blindness. He believed that the army had not b...
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Armed Forces Baseball Teams
444 wordsPost 108 Oxford, MI The American Legion was chartered on November 11, 1919. It was formed with the purpose of helping out retired war veterans and the communities surrounding their posts. All members, or former members, of the U. S. Armed Forces are eligible to become members of their local American Legion. They are eligible as long as they were honorably discharged after serving on active duty during basically any major war in our history. Presently there are 325 legion members in Oxford, and n...
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Artists No Longer Chose This Picture Painted
1,001 wordsImpressionism originated in Impressionism impressionism Impressionism originated in Paris, starting in 1870 going to 1890. When impressionism was introduced the artists where just coming from paintings and drawings of photo images and changing to subjects such as a? Luncheon of the Boating Party? or? The Prima Ballerina? . The subjects where no longer boring portraits of people but interesting daily objects. The aim of an impressionist was to capture the fleeting vision of joyful everyday scenes...
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Duke Ellington Piano Lessons
809 wordsDuke Ellington By the time of his passing, he was considered amongst the worlds greatest composers and musicians. The French government honored him with their highest award, the Legion of Honor, while the government of the United States bestowed upon him the highest civil honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He played for the royalty and for the common people and by the end of his fifty-year career, he had played over 20, 000 performances worldwide. He was the Duke, Duke Ellington Edward Ke...
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Organized Crime Alcoholic Beverages
682 wordsIn 1919 Gangsterisum GANGSTERISUM In 1919 congress passed the eighteenth amendment. Which abolished alcohol and legally prohibited the manufacturing or sale of any kind of alcoholic beverages. Thus bringing the rise and increase of organized crime and criminal activity. This amendment would be a huge mistake for the country and the United States would suffer severely. If there is a demand for something, no mater what it is, there will always be somebody there to partake in the process of fulfill...
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German Workers Party Twenty Five Points
1,294 wordsAdolf Hitler was responsible for more evil and suffering than any other man in modern history. There were many occurrences during his lifetime that triggered the outcome of what would happen later in history. Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889. As a child he did very poorly in his studies; he did not complete high school. He was a great artist and actor. He applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna but was rejected for lack of talent. (Andreas D...
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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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Roman Catholic Church Major League Baseball
1,342 wordsOn February 6, 1895, George Herman Ruth, Jr. , was born in his grandparents house in Baltimore, Maryland. Ruth as a young child. Ruth s dad worked as a bartender and owned his own bar. They spent very little time with George because they worked long hours. Eventually, his parents felt that they couldn t take care of George, and on June 13, 1902, he was taken to St. Mary s Industrial School for Boys. His custody was also signed over to the Xaverian Brothers, a Catholic Order of Jesuit Missionarie...
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Treaty Of Versailles Nazi Propaganda
1,035 wordsOn 30 th of January 1933 Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) became Chancellor of Germany. Only five years previously his party received just more than 7 % of the national vote. By 1932 the Nazi Party received 43 % of the national votes. How did such a change in popularity come about for the party? To understand how the rise of Nazism came about, one must look at why the Weimar Republic fell, the German Constitution and Nazi propaganda. The most i...
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General Motors Dayton Ohio
942 wordsI believe that General Motors Has one of the best technical development facilities. When an ambitious young inventor named Charles E Kettering set up a small laboratory in a Dayton, Ohio, barn in 1909, he laid the foundation for what was to become the automotive industry's first research laboratory. Today that organization survives and thrives as the General Motors Research and Development Center. Charles F. Kettering's first laboratory, 1909 - 1911, was in E. A. Deeds barn in Dayton, Ohio. This...
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Eighteenth Amendment Organized Crime
614 wordsProhibition One of the most controversial, the Eighteenth, and later, its repeal, the They-First amendment, made a big impact on America, and their ideas are still talked about today. Prohibition has had many different view points from the beginning. Prohibition started long before the Eighteenth Amendment. Organizations against alcohol such as the Anti-Saloon League and the Womans Christian Temperance Union were succeeding in enacting local prohibition laws, turning the campaign into a national...
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Overthrow The Government Communist Movement
808 wordsWorld War I was finally over, however, there was a new threat to Americans. This threat was Communism, which was greatly feared by most U. S. citizens. Communism is a system of social and economic organization which property is owned by the state or group, to be shared in common to be distributed among members of the community equally or in proportion to their respective needs. In 1919, no more than one-tenth ofthe adult American population belonged to the newly formed Communistmovement, and eve...
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