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The End Of The First World War
766 Words - 3 Pages.... became known as the Paris Peace Conference. Up until this time, there had never been such a diplomatic gathering of this size in history. At first there were five leading countries that lead the conference. They are as follows Great Britain, Italy, France, Japan, and the United States. Not long after things got started, Japan left the Big Five so it became known as the Big four. Considering that the country of France was not there much, it was really only the Big Three. These three countries made the major decisions for all the allies. President Wilson ranted to make special demands on the allies, along with their commitments to each other. The treaty was signed o ....
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Gandhi
471 Words - 2 Pages.... true.
Many people would find "non-violence in its dynamic condition" ironic.
By the word non-violence Gandhi did not mean mere ignorance of the
injustices that came upon his people, He supported active non
cooperation, organizing non-violent marches and other events to protest
the unfairness of the British occupation of India. In the salt marches
Gandhi protested the British monopoly on salt and the salt tax Indians
had to pay. He tried to a provoke violent a response from the colonial
government. Such a response would show him to the world as a victim and
not a tyrant. This approach would expose the British injustice and
would get the world’s public opinion on hGan ....
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Atomic Bombs
1710 Words - 7 Pages.... to make the atomic bomb. Therefore, the United States initiated a top-secret program called the Manhattan Project. Even the Vice President didn't know about this project. The Manhattan Project cost over 2 billion dollars. Yet, Congress never voted to fund this program (Smyth, 87). Roosevelt authorized scientists to find out if an atomic bomb could be built. On December 2, 1942, scientists working in a secret laboratory under the bleachers of a football field in Chicago achieved the first man-made nuclear reaction. An atomic bomb could now be developed. Many scientists and other skilled workers participated in the making of the first atomic bomb. However, only few kn ....
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A Plan In The Making The Const
922 Words - 4 Pages.... He says that even though they were great politicians, they had to proceed with caution. This was because they did not want to upset the public. They needed to keep the people’s interest in concern at all times. Roche said that the “Founding Father’s” relied on experience not reason.
He argues that even though the politicians wanted something else, they still had to conform to the general population. If they did not, then the public would not accept anything that came out of this convention. Roche also says that there were those that wanted a monarchy or a different type of government other than what the Articles of Confederation prov ....
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Attack Of The Normans In 1066
843 Words - 4 Pages.... time a Roman society evolved.
In the fifth century A.D. more invaders arrived, and the Roman Britons, on their own since the western Roman empire had begun to dissolve, were ill-equipped to repel them. It is even possible that some were invited by a Briton king to help fight the Picts in Scotland. Whatever motivated them and however they came, the various groups that settled over the course of the next few decades were not a single, homogenous unit, although most--perhaps even all--spoke a similar language. In his history, the Venerable Bede tells us of Angles, Saxons and Jutes (from Jutland), but these were by no means the only tribes who descended on Britain.
There is ....
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Hitler's Impact On Germany
884 Words - 4 Pages.... he went on changing the party¡¦s name to the National Socialist German Worker¡¦s Party, more well known as the Nazi.
After the changes which Hitler has made to his party, the number of members increased to 3000 members by1921. By then, some people in the party wanted to strip Hitler of his high position, but Hitler soon settled all this by letting them realise that they were nothing without him. He later became the rightful Fuhrer of the Nazi Party.
Between 1921 and 1923 Germany experienced horrendous financial troubles, creating a suitable environment for anyone to start a revolution. It¡¦s the start of the so called "Depression¡¨. Germany was forced to pay 33 billio ....
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Romanticism
224 Words - 1 Pages.... to in France, it looked to other surroundings for development. Some basic beliefs introduced at this time were love, faith, religion, reality versus illusion, and artistic creativity. Allegory took a major role in its literary characteristics. Much of the is reactions against forms and rules. is an attitude of imagination and vision, which values a vast freedom in style!
Romantics of this period saw the imagination as the means for tapping into the universal truth and finding knowledge. Many objects of the physical world became symbols of spiritual or intellectual truth. For example, Edgar Allen Poe pursued with great intensity the Gothic mood. He made material ....
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Birmingham, Alabama And The Civil Rights Movement
1215 Words - 5 Pages.... campaign was uneventful. In its wake, King directed the energies of the civil rights movement to Project C, for "confrontation." In Bull Connor, the civil rights movement found "the perfect adversary," to coin the author's term. There was no more vivid a picture of the injustice of segregation as "the confrontation between grim-faced, helmeted policemen and their dogs, and black children chanting freedom songs and hymns." (p.163) For a seven-day period in May 1963, the nation was exposed to these and similar pictures (some of which appear in the book). Reports of the incidents in Birmingham moved President John F. Kennedy to remark that "the civil rights movement ....
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