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Austria Hungary Triple Alliance
1,463 wordsMussolini and the intervention crisis Benito Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, on July 29, 1883. Like his father, Benito became a fervent socialist. He qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901. In 1902 he emigrated to Switzerland. Unable to find a permanent job there and arrested for vagrancy, he was expelled and returned to Italy to do his military service. After further trouble with the police, he joined the staff of a newspaper in the Austrian town of Trento in 1...
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National Debate Over Slavery
1,081 wordsThe National Debate over Slavery in 17 - 1860 was important. Events from the cotton gin, to the Dred Scott case all played an important roll in slavery and history. Here are a couple more. In June 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed. It was a statement of reasons for the separation between Britain. The declaration sited that "all men are created equal. " It meant that people shouldnt be judged by the color of their skin nor their religion. Throughout the whole declaration, amendments...
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The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
1,254 wordsIn early October 1945, the four powers victorious after the Second World War issued an indictment against 24 men and six organizations. Fifty years ago the Prosecutions opening statement was read by Associate United States Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. Just eight months prior to that reading, the very building in which the historical trial took place was "an enemy fortress in the hands of German troops" The Nuremberg Trials are historically significant because they represent the first ti...
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Fest Tells Anti Semitism Hitler
845 wordsFest, Joachim. Hitler. New York: Harcourt Brace Adolf Hitler was one of the most celebrated yet feared man of his time. Hailed for his accomplishments, Hitler ultimately uplifted Germany to its highest realm. Hitler, however, in the eyes of others was the anti-Christ. Fest describes Hitler as a builder and a wrecker; a creator and a destroyer. Fest discovers Hitlers extraordinary complex personality and portrays him as a man of the most complex contradictions in his literary work, Hitler. Fest o...
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Anti Slavery Society American Anti Slavery
981 wordsABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT. Beginning in the 1780 s during the time of the American Revolution there arose in Western Europe and the United States a movement to abolish the institution of slavery and the slave trade that supported it. Advocates of this movement were called abolitionists. From the 16 th to the 19 th century some 15 million Africans were kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. They were sold as laborers on the sugar and cotton plantations of South and North Ame...
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Civil War Republican Party
611 wordsThe Civil War was one of the events that added to the rich history of the United States capitol. The Civil War started in April 12, 1861 through April 9, 1865. It took more American lives then any other war in history. It divided the people, in some families fought against there own brothers. The war was between the Southern States and the Northern States. The Southern States were trying to preserve slavery and an agricultural way of life, and the Northern States dedicated to a more modern day o...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Ice Hockey
1,259 words... the building of dams. One species of beaver occurs in North America, the other in Eurasia. The two species differ chiefly in the shape of the nasal bones and are so much alike that some authorities consider them to be varieties of the same species. They are large rodents; the average adult beaver weighs about 16 kg (about 35 lb), but specimens as heavy as 40 kg (90 lb) have been found, and some extinct beavers were almost bearlike in size. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1975). Beavers have long ...
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Middle Class Upper Class
1,197 wordsColonialism changed the roles of Europeans of the early 1900 's or late 1800 's? One of the most famous slogans of the age of global colonization was: "The sun never sets on the British Empire. " As recently as 1940, world maps showed large areas colored pink, representing regions dominated by the British. Much of Africa was pink, along with India, Malaya, Hong Kong, and other scattered territories in Asia and the Americas. The existence of an empire on which the sun never set helped instill in ...
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Nation State Cell Phones
489 wordsIn earlier times you had many different nations that did things their own way and did not communicate among on another. This is because they were not very technologically advanced. However as technology has improved in such ways as cell phones and the internet, it has become much easier for different nations and cultures to communicate with each other. It has brought and is continuing to bring the world closer and closer together. According to the text this would be considered globalization. The...
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Part Of The United States Manifest Destiny
913 wordsTerritorial expansion is most likely one of the most important steps that America took in becoming a self-sufficient nation. During the first half of the nineteenth century America blossomed in all directions. Through this growth there were risks America took and sacrifices that it made. Manifest destiny was the catalyst to territorial expansion and did bring around problems. Sectionalism emerged within the nation but nationalism still held strong. Throughout the first half of the 19 th century ...
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Queen Victoria Opium War
898 wordsThe original quest for colonies, which began in the 17 th century, was economically justified by the dominance of the mercantilist system. One of mercantilism's key assumptions was that a country could only become wealthy through the accumulation of gold stock. The only way to maintain a large gold stock was to block trade with other nations, and extract resources from far off colonies. This was the major justification for early colonization. In the quest for profit, England led the way in the i...
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Source Of Income Industrialized Societies
900 wordsOur Industrialized Societies Industrialized Societies Our modern world consists mainly of industrialized societies. We live in one place most of our lives, have specialized occupations, rely heavily on modern technology, and are ruled by a bureaucratic central government. However, there are still people around the world that follow a less complex way of life. In a world dominated by industrial nations, it can be extremely difficult for these nonindustrial cultures to survive. In Nomads on Notice...
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League Of Nations Versailles Treaty
1,940 wordsWhat Were the Main Defects of the International System between 1919 and 1939? The year of 1919 was one of massive importance to the system of international affairs, a year in which the people of the world were unanimous in their commitment to avoiding another war. It was hoped that the notion of the Great War of 1914 to 1918 being the war to end all wars, could be proven true and such a tragedy would never be repeated. So what happened in the years of 1919 to 1939, years which we now refer to as...
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Millions Of Years Square Miles
1,316 wordsTigers are descended from civet-like animals called niacin that lived during the age of the dinosaurs about 60 million years ago (Dang, 1994). These small mammals, with long bodies and short flexible limbs, evolved over millions of years into several hundred different species, including cats, bears, dogs and weasels. About 37 cat species exist today (Dang, 1994). Tigers evolved in eastern Asia, but it is not exact. Sabre-tooth tigers are not the ancestors of todays tigers. In fact, sabre-tooth t...
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Territorial Integrity Ethnic Groups
1,328 wordsSince the end of World War I, Kurdistan has been administered by five sovereign states, with the largest portions of the land being respectively in Turkey (43 %), Iran (31 %), Iraq (18 %), Syria (6 %) and the former Soviet Union (2 %). The Pkk's origins can be traced back to 1974, when can, in Ankara, led a small group of radicals out of Revolutionary Youth (DEV-GEN&# 1047; ). The Kurdistan Workers Party, " Party Karkeren Kurdistan" (PKK) was established in 1978. &# 1062; can, the lead...
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Medicare Beneficiaries Clinical Trials
580 wordsProviding Cancer Clinical Trials for Medicare Beneficiaries Less than three percent of cancer patients participate in clinical trials of new therapies. Many scientists believe that higher participation could lead to the faster development of therapies for more of those in need. Moreover, the elderly, who are most likely to get cancer, often cannot participate in such trials because Medicare does not pay for such treatments until they are established as standard therapies. Americans over 65 make ...
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African Slave Trade Founding Fathers
800 wordsThe Founding Fathers and Slavery William W. Freehling presents his view of the Founding Fathers and slavery in the article The Founding Fathers and Slavery. He contends that America s Founding Fathers were antislavery but gives viewpoints of other historians to the contrary. The first sentence of the article states, Only a few years ago no man needed to defend the Founding Fathers on slavery. This implies that there was a change in the interpretation of the Founding Fathers position on slavery a...
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Holy Roman Empire German States
746 wordsThe two treaties of M? nster and Oscar? ck, commonly known as the Peace of Westphalia, was the culminating element for the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years War. It established a final religious settlement and provided for new political boundaries for the German states of central Europe. The impact of the Peace of Westphalia was broad and long-standing, as it dictated the future of Germany and ex-territories of the Holy Roman Empire for some time to come. The Peace of Westphalia put down the...
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Separate But Equal Doctrine 14 Th Amendment
610 wordsThere Racial Cases Racial Cases There are many court cases discriminating towards African Americans that have occurred throughout the United States history. Many of these cases had a major impact on the daily lives of blacks and brought the civil right movement to a start. One of these cases were Dred Scott v. Sandford. Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, Scott lived in Illinois, which is a free state, and in an area of the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by t...
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Stamp Act Sugar Act
1,029 wordsTwo of the major events commonly regarded as preludes to the American Revolution were the enactment of the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765), designed to increase British tax revenues. In the American colonies these Acts were not only dealt with in terms of economic disadvantage but increasingly in terms of right, the focal point being the question whether Parliament had the right to tax the colonies. After the last French and Indian war the British gained Canada and the Mississippi area...
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