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- 751: Austria
- ... and 1500's, the Habsburg emperors acquired new lands of Bohemia and Hungary, but their control was shaken by the Protestant Reformation in the 1500's and the Thirty Years' War of 1618 to 1648. During these centuries, Austria emerged as the chief state in the empire. The ottoman turks tried to drive Austria from Hungary and made two unsuccessful attacks ... Then, in 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Slavic nationalist movement in Serbia, killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungaraian throne. In response, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, which started Word War I. Germany, Britain, Francs, Russia, and the United States helped Austria Hungary in fighting. In 1918, Austria-Hungary was defeated. The last Habsburg emperor was overthrown and the empire ...
- 752: Muckraking Newspapers And Maga
- ... and crime. The “Land of the Free” had turned to the “Land of the Few.” One of the biggest factors in this corruption was the rise of industrialism. Before the Civil War, a large corporation had a few hundred workers and a bank account with thousands of dollars. However, the corporation of the post-Civil War period made the previous companies look like small home-run businesses. As Ellen F. Fitzpatrick in Muckraking writes: “Railroads, with their huge administrative structure, large capital investment, extensive ...
- 753: The Ku Klux Klan
- ... C. in 1862, even he could not have foreseen the slaughter that would take place over the next three years in his country: more Americans were to die in that Civil War than what were ever to be killed in any war before or ever since. Once the Union had been established, it faced two critical issues: whether the United States of America should be a federation or a confederation; and ...
- 754: Stanley And Livingstone And Th
- ... Henry Morton Stanley who helped him get a job and took care of John and was practically like a father to John. After a few years he served in the Civil War. By now John Rowlands had changed his name to Henry Morton Stanley. He took a job with the New York Herald and was sent to Africa as a correspondent. He ... Belgium. These decisions were made without any input from the African tribes and countries and were met with much resistance but only Ethiopia was able to defeat Italy. After World War 1 the colonial empires concentrated on keeping the land they had and started many new and stable white settlements in Africa. Railroads were built and other forms of transportation ...
- 755: Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet
- ... as the greatest president ever to stand at America's helm. This reputation is extremely well deserved, as Lincoln was able to preserve the Union and gain victory in the Civil War, despite his fighting an uphill battle against his own presidential cabinet. Had he not been struggling against this divided government, President Lincoln could have achieved victory with extreme efficiency and ... He grew so furious with the President's capable rule that he finally resigned his position (Williams 202). Another weak link in Lincoln's cabinet was his first secretary of war, Simon Cameron. He was considered an honest politician, being that he "would stay bought when he was bought." His reputation as a swindler caused dissent among the cabinet, and ...
- 756: Anti-Censorship
- ... nothing negative could be said about the gods. When America was an English colony, if anyone spoke out against the King of England, it was considered treason. In the pre-civil war period, books like "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were banned in the south. And even today, censorship laws have been implemented on the internet. In all these cases ,it did nothing positive. The Egyptian empire collapsed, The United States had a revolution, the Civil War broke out, and pornography has spread even more across the internet. If there is nothing to gain with censorship, then schools shouldn't try to censor the books ...
- 757: The Birth of a Nation: The Pros and Cons
- ... story, with many different smaller stories that are minor plots of their own, but which also come together to form one big plot. Their are vivid, violent action in the war sequences, such as the African American raid on the South after Lee surrenders, and the "heroic" episode when the Ku Klux Klan come along and save the day. There are ... and the Klan on their way to the rescue. He is well know for his fighting scenes because they often contain a large number of extras. Almost any of the war scenes is a good example of this. Before getting into the negative reaction of the film, it is just as important to learn what is so negative about the film ... film is his personal interpretation, and he is solely responsible for the visuals. Furthermore, the fact that he is from the south, and many of his relatives fought in the Civil War, it is safe to say that his decision to create a film based on The Clansman is due to more than simply thinking it would make a good ...
- 758: Jefferson Davis
- ... a farmer in Mississippi from 1835 to 1845. Then he was elected to the U.S. congress. In 1846, he resigned his seat in order to serve in the Mexican War and fought at Monterrey and Buena Vista, where he was wounded. He was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1847 to 1857, and a U.S. Senator again from ... office by popular vote for a 6-year term and was inaugurated un Richmond, Virginia, the new capital of the Confederacy. He failed to raise enough money to fight the Civil War and could not obtain help for the Confederacy from foreign governments. One of the accomplishments of Jefferson Dacis, was the raising of the Confederate army. Davis had a difficult ...
- 759: History Of Social Security
- ... this, deeper compassion was felt for those who couldn’t get a job, mainly children and the elderly. One person who recognized the severity of the situation was the Revolutionary War hero Thomas Paine. In 1795 Thomas Paine called for the creation of a “public system of economic security for the new nation”. Thomas Paine recognized the tragedy of being poor ... was never fulfilled, at least during his lifetime. It wasn’t until 1862 that the Federal government established a form of economic security. It was at this time that the Civil War pensions program was set up. This provided soldier, who were wounded as a result of the war, with benefits so that they could sustain a normal life. This program ...
- 760: Genocide
- ... century was the attempt by Nazi Germany during the 1930's and 1940's to destroy the Jewish population of Europe, known as the Holocaust. By the end of World War II, 6 million Jews had been killed in Nazi concentration camps. The known objective of the Nazi rule was Jewish extinction. In November 1938, shortly after the assassination of a ... hundred thousand people were able to find refuge in other countries, but a nearly equal number, including many who were old or poor, stayed to face an uncertain destiny. When war began in September 1939, the German army occupied the western half of Poland and added almost 2 million Jews to the German power sphere. Limitations placed on Polish Jewry were ... be burned. In 1944 the camp was photographed by Allied reconnaissance aircraft in search of industrial targets. It's factories, but not it's gas chambers, were bombed. When the war ended, the Jewish dead in the Holocaust were more than 5 million: about 3 million in killing centers and other camps, 1.4 million in shooting operations, and more ...
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