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- 5931: Catherine II, Empress of Russia (Catherine the Great)
- ... the publication of Aleksandr Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (1790), in which the author denounced the evils of serfdom, the immorality of society, and the abuses of government, prompted Catherine to impose repressive measures, which in turn alienated many of the educated. Finally, Catherine vastly expanded the Russian empire. Following two successful wars against Turkey (the RUSSO-TURKISH ...
- 5932: Vietnam War - The Vietnam War
- ... major stress was the fact that neither the citizens of the United States nor of South Vietnam accepted American interference. A solider was usually uninformed of the intentions of their government. Soldiers are taught to carry out orders without asking questions. This could lead to a solider developing a belief that all fighting was being done in vain. Eventually, a solider ...
- 5933: Watergate Scandal
- ... scandal in the White House shocked the nation. The Department of Justice announced that they had been investigating Vice President Spiro T. Anew for taking large bribes in return for government contracts. He then resigned from office October 10, 1973. (Westerfled 47) On October 15, 1973 the court of appeals sustained Judge Sirca's ruling and demanded that the president give ...
- 5934: Famous Explorers of Africa
- ... two thousand miles when he reached the Victoria Falls. Livingstone had returned to Engaland in 1856. In 1862 Livingstone had returned to Central Africa with a backing of the British Government. He was on his journey and he become sick and was in a African hut for 6 months. Livingstone had been in Central Africa for 8 years and the outside ...
- 5935: Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman
- ... His wife and child had left him, leaving Charles alone once again. Several arrests for car theft and pimping followed; in 1960 Charles was given ten years imprisonment for forging government checks. While he was serving his ten year sentence at McNeil Penitentiary, he studied philosophy, took up guitar, and taught himself sing and compose songs. His newfound musical skills would ...
- 5936: The Life of Anne Frank
- ... the family's helpers,brought her ledgers and loose sheets of paper to continue writing. She kept these in a briefcase that belonged to her father. In 1944, the Dutch government, which had been in exile in London for most of the occupation,broadcast a request over the radio for people to save their wartime diaries. Anne Frank then began to ...
- 5937: 1968
- ... man he was. The collapse of communications made it impossible to determine the fate of the pacification program, but most assessments were pessimistic. When the communists launched their attacks, the government pulled nearly half of the five hundred and fifty revolutionary development teams out of the hamlets to help defend the cities, along with eighteen of the fifty-one army battalions ...
- 5938: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... intervene in any Latin American law He did so that if any of those countries posed a threat we could just invade them and do what we wanted to the government. In 1902 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing the Russians and the Japanese to the Portsmouth Conference. In 1909 after he secured Taft's nomination he left the ...
- 5939: Childhood’s Own World in The God of Small Things
- ... love means love, not just pretending to; that’s how it was for the “two-egged twins.” Otherwise, Rahel and Estha must fight against a world of dysfunction: a clumsily government struggling to establish itself, a country cut off from it’s present, a people turning away from each other. That world makes Rhael and Estha different from others, they were ...
- 5940: Asian-Americans And Concentration Camps In WWII
- ... having faith in the American system. But, who cared about the numbers then? We were at war with the Japanese, and the Japanese-Americans were a threat. According to the government, it had to be handled, no matter how small the threat. In short, there were facts, but the overwhelming war mania pertaining to the encompassing war caused a protective hysteria ...
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