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Shih Huang Ti Filial Piety
1,334 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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Dwight D Eisenhower World War Ii
871 wordsDwight David Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas. He was the third of seven sons from David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower. After his birth the family moved to Abilene, Kansas where Dwight graduated from high school in 1909. He was awarded a scholarship to West Point military academy. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant upon graduation in September of 1915. After being stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Dwight met Mary (Mamie) Geneva Doud, and they were married o...
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Rise And Fall Social And Political
1,416 wordsOn November 18 th of 1918, Germany, a member of the Central Powers, surrendered unconditionally to the allies. World War I had ended with a total of 37 million casualties, including 9 million dead combatants. German propaganda had not prepared that nation for defeat, and its suddenness resulted in a sense of injured German national pride. Following the defeat of Germany in World War I and in the midst of a great worldwide depression, both the social and political climates were prime for a dictat...
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American Troops High Ground
1,280 words... from heights on the other side of the Meuse, General Pershing broadened his attack to include the east bank. To control that phase, Pershing created the Second Army under General Bullard. Relinquishing command of the First Army to General Liggett, Pershing himself moved up to the level of army group. Despite the added strength on the east bank, the fight continued slow and costly, for Ludendorff looked on the offensive as such a threat to the vital railroad through Mzires that he eventually ...
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Federal Reserve Act Federal Trade Commission
1,161 wordsFun Fact: Sheep on the White House lawn? A flock of sheep grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I. Fast Fact: Woodrow Wilson tried in vain to bring the United States into the League of Nations. Biography: Like Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the President, " he said, "seems to be expected... to look out for the general interests of the country. " He...
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Brave Mouse Reepicheep University College Oxford Lewis
1,154 wordsThe story begins in the bedroom of Eustace Clarence Scrubb... he disliked his cousins, the Pevensies: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. He was small of stature, but somewhat of a bully. The Pevensies had come to stay with him and his family, which they did not want to do, as they dislike Scrubb as well. Edmund and Lucy were sharing some memories of their adventures in Narnia in a room at the Scrubb house, in which hung a picture of ship sailing straight towards you... the ship had a dragons head o...
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German Workers Party Adolf Hitler
1,561 wordsOn the evening of April 20, 1889, at 6: 30 p. m. , the screams of one of lifes most precious things was born. A boy, but not just any boy. This fair skinned child with loving parent, would one day become one of the most feared men ever to walk the earth. This mans name was Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Among, just across the border from German Bavaria. He was born into a poor family with an embarrassing past. This past would prove to be a lifelong e...
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Aviation Museum Canada National Aviation Museum Canada War
669 wordsFlying for the Allies in the First World War On 4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany. Canada, as part of the great British Empire, was at war, a war in which the airplane changed forever the way nations do battle. The war brought new words to the aviation dictionary, among them: dogfight, ace, bomber, air raid. At first the airmen's main job was reconnaissance. They brought back birds-eye views of the enemy and later photographs. The pilots didnt want enclosed cockpits. They would have ...
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Sq Km Roman Empire
1,464 wordsThousands of years ago, the great valley of the Danube River was an important pathway for the tribes who came to Europe from the east. Settled in prehistoric times, the central European land that is now Austria was overrun in pre-Roman times by various tribes, including the Celts. Traders also came from the north, carrying goods to trade in Rome and Alexandria. The route from the north and the route from the east crossed at a place in the Danube valley in the region now called Austria. A settlem...
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Door To Door Small Children
2,027 wordsThe zipper is a very common fastener used to secure all kinds of things, especially clothing. But the zipper wasn't always around. Before the zipper was invented, buttons were used in fastening clothes, and so were hooks and eyes that had to be fastened manually. When the zipper first came out, it was somewhat of an oddity; it wasn't widely accepted. But slowly, more and more people started noticing its convenient applications, and soon it could be seen everywhere. The zipper started off as a no...
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Declared War On Serbia Francis Ferdinand
728 wordsWorld War I was a war that took place I Eastern Europe during the years of 1914 - 1918. This war involved the countries of Austria-Hungary and Serbia. The Serbians sparked these wars. In 1912, several Balkan states attacked Turkey. This sparked wars over these lands. Economic tension was also present. As international tensions grew, the great powers expanded their armies and navies. This gave the possibility of wars emerging at any time. Fear of war also gave military leaders great influence. Br...
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Oxford Oxford Economic Effects
2,056 words... ad, the Somme, Jutland etc. and a reportedly growing movement for a negotiated peace, all added to 'war-weariness' and the fragile truce between the workers and their government disappeared in 1917, after a severe winter of food and fuel shortages sparked a wave of industrial unrest. The strikes were ended by firmness and concession, and arrests were made under Regulation 42 of the Defence of The Realm Act (DORA) impeding the production of war material The leaders were in fact shop stewards,...
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Early Nineteenth Century Eligible To Vote
1,471 wordsBritain aimed to become a democratic country throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By 1928, a democracy was very close to being achieved. For a democracy in Britain, there had to be universal suffrage, where every man and women have the right to vote regardless of class. Also a secret ballot must be in place to prevent corruption. Equal sizes of constitutions need to be enforced, with regular elections and elected members of government. In a democracy, the voters must have civil rig...
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Chief Of Staff Austria Hungary
1,870 wordsThe instability in the Balkans was the weak link in the complex relationships that had developed in Europe. A little Balkan war was swamped in a struggle of European powers and there became a general upheaval in Europe, which destroyed its stable civilization. The clash with Serbia in July 1914 affected an issue of such magnitude, it is not surprising all the powers soon became involved; all of them had interests at stake. The underlying conflict of interest of particularly Russia and Austria-Hu...
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Upper Class Key Factor
1,961 wordsAll of the above factors played a part in the change in attitude towards women. However, some of them were more important than others; Womens work in WWII, Articles and Magazines, and the campaigning of the suffragettes, among many other reasons which were also equally important. But the most important and a key factor that links all of them together, was the increase in womens confidence and assertiveness, without which nearly all of the other factors would not be possible. Womens work in World...
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Nobel Peace Prize Guerrilla Warfare
1,053 wordsOn his first day of school, Rolihlahla is given the English name Nelson by an African teacher. After receiving a good education at local boarding schools, Mandela enters Fort Hare University and completes two years before deciding to leave for Johannesburg to avoid a marriage arranged for him by his guardian, Chief Jongintaba. Mandela then earns his B. A. degree, enrolls in law school and joins the ANC (AFRICAN NATONAL CONGRESS) which is an organization est. in 1918 to promote black freedom. Bel...
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Enlightenment Of The First World War
1,504 wordsEnlightenment of the First World War "Lead this people into war, and they " ll forget there was ever such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life, infecting the Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street. " Nowadays more and more scientists devote much of their works to the enlightenment of the First World War. They hold the opinion that it was Woodrow Wilson ...
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
2,415 wordsCommunism in Russia Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup d? tat gave birth to 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 live in ...
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Amounts Of Money End Of The War
2,185 wordsGlobal Effects of World War I- Everywhere in the world was heard the sound of things breaking. Advanced European societies could not support long wars or so many thought prior to World War I. They were right in a way. The societies 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 metamorphic Europe socially, political, economically, and intellectual. European countries...
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Power In Europe Treaty Of Versailles
803 wordsHitlers Road to Defeat Adolf Hitlers statement there shall never again be a November 1918 clarifies his fierce rage by the abortive November 1918 revolution in Germany and as well as the humiliating defeat in WWI. His career focus was to rescue a humiliated German nation from democratic ideology, the shackles of the Treaty of Versailles and eliminate internationalism, by which he meant the Jews within the German Empire (Haffner: 10), to create a Greater-German nationalism under despotic rule. Th...
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