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Woman Suffrage Association American Woman Suffrage
1,059 wordsWoman suffrage is the right of women to vote. Today, women in nearly all countries have the same voting rights as men. But they did not begin to gain such rights until the early 1900 's, and they had to overcome strong opposition to get them. The men and women who supported the drive for woman suffrage were called suffragists. During colonial times, the right to vote was limited to adult males who owned property. Many people thought property owners had the strongest interest in good government a...
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Allied Forces Western Front
1,179 words... ed the people rebelled and demanded fair rule. Later in 1682, Peter the Great come to power. He decided Russia needed to be Westernized and he set forth a great campaign to collect technologies from the West. Peter also built St. Petersburg (the new capitol of Russia) The Westernizaton of Russia made it considerably stronger. Most people in the time were agricultural. Many starved to death in bad-winter weather. There simply was not enough food to go around. Sometimes towns lost 1 / 3 or 1 /...
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Nonviolent Resistance Nationalist Movement
1,175 wordsMohandus Gandhi has had many influences on the world today. He was born on October 2 nd, 1869 in Porbandar, West India. He became one of the most respected, spiritual and political leaders of the 1900 's. He acquired the name Mahatma, which means "soul force. He helped free the Indian people through nonviolent resistance, also given the name satyagraha, instead of the violent warfare that was being used by Britain. Gandhi also promoted social and economic reforms. He is still honored by his peop...
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Animal Farm Provisional Government
1,314 words... the Duma doing little to satisfy the people the revolutionaries and others began to take matters in their own hands. Many of the laborers showed no enjoyment at all. Alexandra wrote to her husband about the riots but he was too far away to realize how serious they were. Russias economy was dropping dramatically. Massive price rises and severs e shortages of food and fuel caused anger against the whole government. The Duma was at loss and had nothing they could do to help the people. During F...
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British Home Front Ww
1,152 wordsc) Britains immediate reaction to World War I was a combination of excited anticipation, curiosity and patriotism. The majority of people were swayed by the initial euphoria and the country settled into a state of patriotic unity. Initially, Britain was sure that the war would be over by Christmas. They had only ever before seen small outbreaks of conflict like the Russo-Japanese War, which was quiet insignificant when compared to the results of the Great War to come. Whether it was soldiers abo...
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Heat Theorem Physical Chemistry Nernst
669 wordsWalther Human Nernst was born in Briesen, West Prussia, on June 25, 1864. His father, Gustav Nernst, was a district judge. He spent his early school years at Graudentz, and subsequently went to the Universities of Zurich, Berlin and Graz, study physics and mathematics, before proceeding to Wurzburg, where he graduated in 1887 with a thesis on electromotive forces produced by magnetism in heated metal plates. He joined Wilhelm Ostwald at Leipzig University, where van't Hoff and Arrhenius were alr...
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2000 From The World Wide William James
1,667 wordsMary Whiton Calkins was born on March 30, 1863 in Hartford, Connecticut, but spent most of her childhood in Buffalo, New York. Mary was the oldest of five children born to her Puritan mother and minister father. According to some sources, Calkins father had a great distrust of public education, and preferred educating his children by boarding them with French and German families. It is recorded, though, that Mary Calkins graduated from an established high school in Newton, Massachusetts. Calkins...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Weimar Republic
1,399 wordsFrom the ontological, epistemological, and ethical Irrationalism to the psychological and social irrationality of individual psychology, manipulation of the masses has always gone hand in hand. During the infantile stages of its discovery to the full blown power seen in todays world, nothing alone has contributed more to the near total destruction or utopian existence in humankind's evolution than time itself. And with that I will briefly recite my perceptions of the latter. For the most part, t...
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Economic And Social War Communism
780 wordsLenin and Problems After the October Revolution What were the problems facing Lenin after the October Revolution and how successfully did he deal with them? The initial difficulties faced by the new Soviet Union were so severe that its survival seemed almost miraculous? . The remains of the czarist regime left Lenin to face a country wrought with war, devastated economically. Russias involvement in World War I, followed by its Civil War, wide spread famine and a change in political and social id...
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538 wordsLucretia Rudolph Garfield 1832 - 1918 In the fond eyes of her husband, President James A. Garfield, Lucretia " grows up to every new emergency with fine tact and faultless taste. " She proved this in the eyes of the nation, though she was always a reserved, self-contained woman. She flatly refused to pose for a campaign photograph, and much preferred a literary circle or informal party to a state reception. Her love of learning she acquired from her father, Zeb Rudolph, a leading citiz...
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
1,480 wordsModern 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 fearful beating...
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Il Popolo D Il Popolo Socialist
302 wordsBorn My Ass Mussolini Factfile Born in small town of Predappio in the Romagna in 1883 Son of a Catholic Schoolmistress and a blacksmith with revolutionary views Not academic, but had strong character? being noted for his bullying and overpowering nature After leaving school Mousolini had a few teaching jobs in village schools 1902 Mussolini went to Switzerland, where he did odd jobs He did read widely and was soon preaching the need for revolution Returned to Italy in 1904 to become a journalist...
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Proportional Representation Weimar Republic
648 wordsThere Nazi S Nazi s There were many circumstances in Germany that led to the one party state. In 1918 military positions collapsed and the abdication of the Tsar was a reality. Who became the nest prime minister? Shortly after the abdication, a new government known as the Weimar Republic went into power by gaining a majority. The SPD was led by Ebert and he began to draft the parties new constitution. The policies of the constitution enabled Hitler and his party to enter Parliament by proportion...
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Machine Gun Gatling Gun
1,698 wordsThe title of the book we read was The Social History of the Machine Gun. This publication basically outlined the progression of machine guns, starting with the 14 th century s organ gun and ending around 1940. This advancement through technological eras showed man s relationship with this technology and how well we dealt with the responsibility of the awesome power of the automatic weapon. First mention in 1339. No metals that could with stand the pressures of regular mass or sustain fire. Techn...
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Long Term Free Trade
486 wordsThe Fourteen Point Program (January 1918? Woodrow Wilson) Open Diplomacy Freedom of Navigation Free trade Disarmament Self-determination Evacuation of all Russian Territory Belgium must be evacuated and restored (from German occup. ) Freeing of French territory (Alsace-Lorraine) Readjustment of Italian borders Autonomous dev. for the peoples of A. H. Independence for the Balkan states Securing of Turkish territory / sovereignty / the Dardanelles as a free passage The establishment of an independ...
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President Woodrow Wilson Espionage Act
1,044 wordsThe United States decision to enter W. W. I. was not greatly supported by the people. To gain the support they felt was needed to send troops to war; the government began a propaganda campaign to change the minds of the American citizens. Not only did they create propaganda but also created legislation that made it illegal to question the government in the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. Political enemies must be created to achieve the greater good of the country. The use of ...
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Secretary Of Labor Red Scare
822 wordsThe Red Scare took place twice in American History. First in the period of 1919 to 1921 which was triggered by a Communist take over of Russia. The Red scare never really stopped since its first appearance, but occurred again in the 1950 s. It was a label given to the actions of legislation, race riots, and the hatred and persecution of revolutionary objectors during that period of time. After the war formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. It ...
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
2,381 wordsRise of Communism in Russia -Unless we accept the claim that Lenin+s coup d+-tat gave birth an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today+s Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians the only empire that survived into the mid 1980 +s+ (Luttwak, 1). In their Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism in which all class differences would disappear and humankind would li...
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Austria Hungary Central Powers
549 wordsWorld War I Romania World War I was said to be inevitable. For years there was controversy and quarrels between European countries. On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo Gavril o Principal, a young Serb belonging to the secret society of the Black Hand shot and assassinated Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The killer was a Serbian. So Austria-Hungary decided to use the murder as an excuse to teach Serbia a lesson with help from its ally Germany. This was now the begging of World War I. Soon countrie...
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World War Ii First World War
1,084 wordsSocial Conditions Affect Writing by Anthony Meszaros Advanced European societies cant support long wars. That was thought prior to World War I. The truth was that the Europeans could not support a long war unchanged. The First World War left no aspect of European civilization untouched, as pre-war governments were transformed to fight total war. The war drastically changed Europe's social conditions thus affecting the writing during this period. During this time many movements shared a resolute ...
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