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- 1161: Mexico
- ... Creoles—people of pure European descent who had been born and raised in New Spain. The peninsulares were sent from Spain to hold the highest colonial offices in both the civil and church administrations. The peninsulars held themselves higher than the criollos, who were almost never given high office. The resentment of the criollos became an influential force in the later ... of Mexico City. New armed revolts under Zapata, Villa, and Venustiano Carranza began, and Huerta resigned in 1914. Carranza took power in the same year, and Villa at once declared war on him. In addition to the ambitions of rival military leaders, intervention by foreign governments seeking to protect the interests of their nationals added to the confusion. In August 1915 ... oil in U.S., Dutch, and British territories. Mexico was forced to arrange barter deals with Italy, Germany, and Japan. The oil trade with these nations was interrupted by World War II. In 1940, the so-called Good Neighbor Policy of the United States became dominant in Mexican politics. This policy involved close cooperation with the United States in commercial ...
- 1162: Nicaragua
- ... founded Granada in 1523 and León in 1524. Nicaragua was governed by Pedrarias Dávila from 1526 to 1531, but later in the century, following a period of intense rivalry and civil war among the Spanish conquerors, it was incorporated into the captaincy-general of Guatemala. Colonial Nicaragua enjoyed comparative peace and prosperity, although freebooters, notably English navigators such as Sir Francis Drake ... An election was held under American supervision in 1928, and General José María Moncada, a Liberal, was chosen president. One Liberal leader, however, Augusto César Sandino, engaged in a guerrilla war against U.S. forces for several years. The marines were withdrawn in 1933, leaving Anastasio Somoza commander of the National Guard. Somoza had Sandino killed and was elected president ...
- 1163: Did Sparta Achieve Her Goal
- ... focused almost all her attention on achieving her goal. Known as the ‘tamer of men’, her strength made all but Spartan men shrink in fear. However, Sparta did not wage war any more lightly then any other army, she simply waged it better. Despite the cold, military driven surface, Sparta often engaged in merriment. Festivals were celebrated with vigor, men were good to their families and their women were renowned for their beauty. Nevertheless, they always refused to become distracted from their purpose. Civil wars and ancient rivalries made it painfully clear that Sparta had no intention of allowing Athens or any other rival take over. However, she was still quite willing to join ... but dire mistake. Foolishly underestimating the power of Thebes, Sparta failed to see that Thebes was incredibly similar to her younger self. Sparta began as a small city merely waging war in order to survive; Thebes had the same motivation for war, except that their key to survival was to knock out Sparta. In the end, Sparta died away with ...
- 1164: Flying Home
- ... this time that Ellison composed "Flying Home." "Flying Home", is the story of a young man who is one of a very small number of African-American pilots in World War II. The story begins as the young man, named Todd, crashes his trainer plane into a Southern crop field. Injured and unable to move, Todd is helped by one of ... symbol of the buzzard and the tale of the Colored Man in heaven, Ellison has made a statement about the black situation in the south during the time of World War II, which was when "Flying Home" was written. Ellison himself was no stranger to the oppression of blacks in the south at the time. Although born in Oklahoma, which has ... worked to break down racial barriers throughout her life(Busby 9). Ellison was educated at the Tuskegee Institute, which has a history of being on the forefront of African-American civil rights. His road to Tuskegee was a bumpy one however. Ellison became sort of a hobo to get himself to the institute and on his way got tangled in ...
- 1165: Martin Luther King Jr. 6
- ... monumental because they offered promise to oppressed people, and a nonviolent means to achieve it. He was a powerful speaker and became a figure head for large movements for the civil rights of blacks in the South. One of his many achievements began in 1955 after Rosa Parkes was arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a white person ... other things he also organized huge rallies against poverty. Early in 1968, he initiated a Poor Peoples campaign designed to help economic problems that had not been addressed by early civil rights reforms. Kings overall effectiveness in achieving his goals where limited because of divisions among blacks. He also encountered resistance from national political leaders. The FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's extensive efforts to undermined King's leadership grew during 1967 as urban racial violence increased and King criticized American intervention in the Vietnam war. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, while seeking to assist a garbage workers' strike in Memphis. After his death, King remained a controversial symbol of the African-American ...
- 1166: Michael Collins Biography Figh
- ... be introduced. Seeing the threat, nationalists in Dublin responded by forming the Irish Volunteers with the help of the IRB. Despite this persistent feuding the outbreak of the First World War, the UVF and the Irish Volunteers came together to protect Ireland from invasion. On Easter day April 24th 1916, approximately 2000 Volunteers succeeded in taking over several main buildings in ... for bail and once granted bail he went on the run. Sinn Fein had now aimed to achieve "international recognition of Ireland as an independent Irish Republic" and had declared War of Independence. In 1920 Collins was left in control of the guerrilla warfare strategy, which was proving enormously successful and the Irish Volunteers became known as the IRA (Irish Republican ... a peace agreement and after signing the agreement he turned to "Lord Birkenhead," and said "I have signed my death warrant." De Valera decided to reject the Treaty and a civil war broke out. Many of Collins close associates were now dead and Collins was distraught. On August 22, Michael Collins was on a tour of inspection in the Cork ...
- 1167: Kkk 2
- ... the superiority of whites, soon began to terrorize blacks to keepthem from voting or exercising other rights they had gained during Reconstruction, the period following the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The Klan threatened, beat, and murdered many blacks and their white symphathizers in the South. To hide their identity, Klan terrorists wore robes and hoods,draped sheets over ... The KKK spread rapidly throughout the Southern United States and became known as the invisible Empire. Its attacks helped drive blacks out of Southern political life. The crazy members:Increased civil rights activities during the 1960's brought a new wave of Klan violence. Klan members were involved in many terrorist attacks, including the killing of three civil rights workers ...
- 1168: George Washington Carver
- George Washington Carver George Washington Carver was the son of a slave woman owned by Moses Carver. During the Civil War, slave owners found it difficult to hold slaves in the border state of Missouri, and Moses Carver therefore sent his slaves, including the young child and his mother, to Arkansas. After the war, Moses Carver learned that all his former slaves had disappeared except for a child named George. Frail and sick, the motherless child was returned to his former master's ...
- 1169: Life of John F Kennedy
- ... when Soviet missiles were spotted in Cuba. This made the United States venerable to a nuclear attack from Russia. Kennedy put into effect quarantine on all weapons entering Cuba. Nuclear war was a real threat that week, as the world watched and waited, Russia withdrew their weapons. Kennedy was a hero; he possibly stopped World War 3. Kennedy took a middle of the road approach to Civil Rights. He was against the war in Vietnam, which made him unpopular within the government. He was making it impossible to proceed with what the military wanted to do. ...
- 1170: Canterbury Tales: Who is the Narrator?
- ... Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was not a hodgepodge of resurrected body parts. Neither was Chaucer identical with the narrator in the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was at various times a courtier, civil servant, ambassador, and prisoner of war, but the text doesn't indicate that the plump little narrator tagging along with the jingling, colorful group speaks as any of those(2). The narrator remains a writer and ... an ability to write (which he would have needed in a job such as customs-official or comptroller, both of which Chaucer held)(2). But whether a writer became a civil servant or a courtier, he wasn't limited to legal writing. Courtiers, of course, might have needed to be expert creators of tales and poems for entertainment on long ...
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