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India And Pakistan Jiang Zemin
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Hadrian Wall Emperor Roman
608 wordsHadrian (in Latin, Publius Aelius Hadrians) was emperor of Rome from 117 - 138 AD. He declared and end to the expansion of the empire and drew back to the limits established by Augusts. One of the most cultured of the emperors, he was a patron of virtually all arts. He surrounded himself with poets, philosophers, and scholars. Passionately interested in architect, he erected Rome in such magnificent buildings as the Athenaeum, the Temple of Venus and Roma, the Pantheon (rebuilt), and his massive...
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Sun Yat Sen Yat Sen Nationalism
459 wordsNationalism has played an important role throughout world history. The quotations below express various views about nationalism. Count Camillo di Cavour expressed the view that Italy should be free of foreign rule and that the Italian states should unite to form a single nation for the peninsula. In 1852 Cavour, the Prime Minister of the kingdom of Sardinia, developed a plan to drive the Austrians out of the territories they controlled in Italy. He signed a secret treaty with Napoleon III of Fra...
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Bay Of Pigs Soviet Union
1,272 words... intake. The initial story released was not widely reported and only told of a missing pilot near the Soviet border who's oxygen equipment was out of order. "From an intelligence point of view, the original cover story seemed to be particularly inept... A cover story has certain requirements. It must be credible. It must be a story that can be maintained [no live pilots knocking about] and it should not have too much detail. Anything that's missing in a cover story can be taken care of by say...
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Chinese Communist Party Prime Minister
1,055 wordsLeader and leading theorist of the Chinese communist revolution, born in the village of Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China, the son of a farmer. He graduated from Changsha teachers' training college, then worked at Beijing University, where he was influenced by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. He took a leading part in the May Fourth Movement, becoming a Marxist and a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (1921). During the first united front with the Guomindang (Nationalist Party), he concentrat...
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Puerto Rico Civil War
1,422 words"When you cross the mountains that divide France from Spain you step into another world. Europe ends at the Pyrenees, and the land beyond the mountains has a character and personality that are strikingly different. The sun beats down mercilessly on a country that is beautiful. " The Civil War in the late 1930 's brought General Franco to power as dictator. He ruled the country until he died in 1975. Spain became a democracy after the death. Until the mid 1900 's, Spain was one of the most undeve...
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Marcus Opellius Macrinus Caracullas Father In Law Emperor
426 wordsBibliography For Marcus Opellius Macrinus 1) web 2) web 3) web 4) web 5) web 6) web 3. html Marcus Opellius Macrinus, otherwise known as Macrinus, was born in Caesarea, a town in Mauretania, in approximately 164 AD. He lived in a middle class family and studied law, in his younger years Rome was under the rule of Severus. When he was older and Rome was under the rule of Caracalla, Caracalla made Macrinus the legal advisor of the praetorian prefect. (A praetorian perfect is the post second in com...
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Germany And Italy Pearl Harbor
756 wordsBy the year 1941, WWII was in full effect. Germany seemed to be the victor, gaining control of France and Poland as well as successfully bombing England. Many people believe that Germany would have indeed won the war if not for the intervention of the United States. Because of the horror Americans had witnessed in WWI, the United States did not originally want to get involved in the conflict. In the early morning of December 7 th, 1941 all that changed when the Japanese air fleet scattered in th...
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Ptolemy Xiii Ptolemy Xiv
964 wordsSignificant Woman: Cleopatra I chose to write my "Significant Woman" paper on Egypt's last pharaoh, Cleopatra. When I began my report, I knew very little about Cleopatra, except that she was the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony of Rome. I wondered what impacts on history Cleopatra made on her own. I feel that Cleopatra was a very significant woman in history because she was very aggressive and assertive, characteristics that have always been considered unfeminine. At the same time,...
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One Of The Main Fourteenth Amendments
727 wordsFor a long time equality has been one of the main principles of a democratic society. Those problems were number one for American government. The principals on which equality was based in America were signed in the Constitution. John Adams said about equality in education, Education for every class and rank of people down to the lowest and the poorest. It proves that from the very beginning education in the country is considered to be for all. But was it really so? Everybody understood that the ...
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India And Pakistan Nuclear Tests
807 wordsIn May 1998, India carried out five nuclear tests and formally declared itself a "nuclear weapon state" (NWS). This dramatic move stunned the world and immediately triggered a new round of the nuclear arms race in South Asia. India's archenemy, Pakistan, responded by setting off six announced nuclear tests just two weeks later. The nuclear crisis in South Asia was intensified by the Indian-Pakistani military conflict in Kashmir and almost brought the two countries into another major war in summe...
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Presidential Elections Voter Registration
989 wordsVOTING IN THE U. S. Martin Wattenberg, in his book, Where have all the voters gone? delves into the reasons why there is a low voter turnout and what that implies on the idea of democracy. Most people need to have the electoral decisions to be simplified and spelled out for them/ This can be done through a strong party system. He suggests that the American electoral process be more user-friendly, stating that the American elections can be complex. Even the rise of candidate-centered politics has...
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Napoleon Army
858 wordsNapoleon Napolean Bonaparte Napolean Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 on the small island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea. He was born at a very hectic time. Corsica was trying to gain independence when French troops invaded. He was born during a war, and he? ll die because of one. When he turned ten his parents sent him to a military school just outside of Paris. He devoted himself to learning and gaining experience to military tactics, it paid off. When he was 16 he became a l...
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W W Ii Truman Doctrine
1,103 wordsThe conflict in ideologies between capitalism and communism resulted in one of the greatest conflicts of the twentieth century. The belief that freedom and democracy would die under communist rule caused the United States to start a conflict that would last for decades. The decisions made by the United States in W. W. II caused tensions to rise between the U. S. and the Soviet Union. Fear of Communism in capitalist nations, caused the United states government to use propaganda to raise Cold War ...
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Oliver Cromwell Sixteen Years
943 wordsGreetings dearest cousin! I hope all is well with you and your estate in the Netherlands. You must be relieved with the decade of peace your land has seen since the Treaty of Westphalia. I, however, have not been as fortunate as you have. Much has changed in London since you departed sixteen years ago after the outbreak of the Civil War. Oliver Cromwell, the poor MP from Huntingdon, has risen up through the army and shown that he possesses unexpected talent and ability. Even though he lacked pre...
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President And Vice President Electoral Votes
778 wordsEvery four years we elect our President and Vice President, and every four years we have to subject ourselves to an endless debate about the Electoral College. We are barraged with rhetoric and demagoguery from multiple factions fighting to justify and implement their ideology. Some want to keep the Electoral College, others claim it takes away the effectiveness of the peoples votes. Those wanting to abolish the electoral college are in favor of leaving the election strictly up to a count of the...
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First World War France And Britain
900 wordsGermany s Eagerness to Rule In exploring the causes of the First World War, many diverse theories have been argued. Many people indicted imperialism as the principle cause of the war. Many others say that the arms race (militarism) was the culprit. I believe that several of these things combined caused the First World War. The Alliance system caused many fears throughout Germany. Germany felt like they had their backs against the wall with no allies. This caused Germany to fight back, leading to...
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Afl Cio Wagner Act
819 wordsThe modern American Labor Movement grew from an economic depression into a surging organization that has seen extensive corruption. In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of an economy that was in shambles. During his Presidency, he enacted several new programs that were part of his New Deal. One of the programs that were passed was the National Recovery Administration. In this program, Section 7 a specifically placed on the statute books the rights of unions to exist and negotiate...
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Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln
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Protestant Reformation Martin Luther
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