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- 71: The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
- The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes Massive black rebellions, constant strikes, gigantic anti-war demonstrations, draft resistance, Cuba, Vietnam, Algeria, a cultural revolution of seven hundred million Chinese, occupations, red power, the rising of women, disobedience and sabotage, communes & marijuana: amongst this chaos, there ... state from the fifties to the sixties, the Black Panther Party, women moving into the work force, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy Jr., the war in Vietnam, the Kent State protest, and finally the Woodstock festival. The electric subcurrent of the fifties was, above all, rock'n'roll, the live wire that linked bedazzled teenagers ... and prosperity, now frantically clawing their way out. The winds of change began to sweep across America in the late fifties. The political unrest came with fear of thermo-nuclear war and the shadow that had been cast by Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. The civil rights leaders were unhappy with President Eisenhower's reluctance to use his powers for their cause, ...
- 72: War Of 1812
- War of 1812, conflict between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815. Fought over the maritime rights of neutrals, it ended inconclusively. Background Over the course of the French revolutionary and the Napoleonic wars between France and Great Britain (1793-1815), both belligerents violated the maritime rights of neutral powers. The United States, endeavoring to market its own produce, was ... they had first stopped in Britain. Collectively, the belligerents seized nearly 1500 American vessels between 1803 and 1812, thus posing the problem of whether the United States should go to war to defend its neutral rights. Americans at first prepared to respond with economic coercion rather than war. At the urging of President Thomas Jefferson, Congress passed the Embargo Act ...
- 73: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- The world was at the edge of a third world war. This was the result of a variety of things: the Cuban Revolution, the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, US anti-communism, insecurity of the Soviet Union, and Cuba’s fear of invasion all made causes for war. However, war was not the result due to great cooperation from both President Kennedy and President Khrushchev and each of the decisions made by the leaders was crucial in the outcome ...
- 74: Bolshevik Revolution
- ... totalitarian rule over Russia. This period can be divided into two distinct eras. Firstly, there was the period from 1917-1924, which included the decision to seize power, the civil war and a consolidation of power under the new economic policy. The second period occurred after Lenin's death, where opposing factions emerged in the party, and a leadership struggle occurred ... say what these people want to say but don't know how to say. " Lenin's genius combined with the harsh conditions suffered in the cities during the first world war, and the failure of the provisional government meant that the Bolsheviks were able to gain a majority of in both the Petrograd and Moscow soviets by October 1917. The Provisional Government became increasingly separate from mainstream society, because it continued the war and misread the mood of the people who "said that all the party had managed to do during its term of office was put up tram fares. " Consequently, Lenin ...
- 75: Civil War - Monitor vs. Merrimack
- Civil War - Monitor vs. Merrimack The battle on March 9, 1862, between the USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimack, officially the CSS Virginia, is one of the most revolutionary naval battles in world history. Up until that point, all battles had been waged between wooden ships. This was the first battle in maritime history that two ironclad ships waged war. The USS Merrimack was a Union frigate throughout most of its existence, up until the Union Navy abandoned the Norfolk Naval Yard. To prevent the Confederate Navy from using ...
- 76: Orwell And Marx
- ... copies, however, omitted the rest of the sentence: "and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.˛ It is in Animal Farm, written in 1944 but not published until after World War Two in 1945, which Orwell offers a political and social doctrine whose ideas and ideols can be seen in all of his proceeding works. In an essay published in the ... The paradox, however, is that Orwell wanted to show that capitalism was not the only social injustice nor the only cause for dystopian societies while Trotsky wanted to use the revolutionary process to overthrow a government. Orwell believed that a nation would always exist where there are people, thereby allowing for nationalism, something Marx said, just like religion, would fade away ... revolution as well. Whereas old Major's Animalism preached revolution through working "day and night, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race˛ (20), the animals revolted with war and bloodshed, symbolized by the gun and the war cry of Snowball (Trotsky) at The Battle of Cowshed ‹ "The only good human being is a dead one˛. A serious ...
- 77: War Of 1812
- Background Over the course of the French revolutionary and the Napoleonic wars between France and Great Britain (1793-1815), both belligerents violated the maritime rights of neutral powers. The United States, endeavoring to market its own produce, was ... they had first stopped in Britain. Collectively, the belligerents seized nearly 1500 American vessels between 1803 and 1812, thus posing the problem of whether the United States should go to war to defend its neutral rights. Americans at first prepared to respond with economic coercion rather than war. At the urging of President Thomas Jefferson, Congress passed the Embargo Act of 1807, prohibiting virtually all U.S. ships from putting to sea. Subsequent enforcement measures in 1808- ...
- 78: Mao Zedong
- ... China emerged from a half of a century of revolution and moved toward a place of economic development and social change, Mao Zedong (Wade -- Giles: Mao Tse Tung) its principle revolutionary thinker and for many years its unchallenged leader, held a critical place in the History of the country’s reemergence. He did not play a dominant role throughout the whole ... revolution that would be prevalent during the twentieth century until it suprisingly disappeared 90 years later. Mao decidedly drew both from Marx and Lenin (Schram 1994). While Marx assuredly promoted revolutionary violence. He might be thought of less a political thinker than an economist and sociologist. Lenin, on the other hand, was an overall extremely skilled in the application of political ... 1905. He had no faith at all in the ability of the average citizen to change his or her own fate. Linin wanted disciplined action under precise guidance of a revolutionary elite to seize powerful control and drag Russia into the 20th century. Mao’s approach was largely in harmony with Linin’s position. He gleaned from Linin not only ...
- 79: Privateers
- ... their expeditions, and a successful privateer could easily become quite wealthy. In times of peace, these men would be common pirates, pariahs of the maritime community. Commissioned in times of war, they were respected entrepreneurs, serving their purses and their country, if only incidentally the latter. However vulgar their motivation, the system of privateering arose because it provided a valuable service to the country, and indeed the Ame rican Revolution might not have been won without their involvement. Many scholars agree that all war begins for economic reasons, and the privateers of the war for independence contributed by attacking the commercial livelihood of Great Britain's merchants. It is ironic that the entire notion of privateering began in Great Britain. In 1649 a ...
- 80: Russian Revolution
- ... after the death of Alexander I. The revolt failed, but it provided an inspiration to succeeding generations of dissidents. The next revolution took place in 1905, after the Russo-Japanese War, which Russia lost. It appeared briefly that public discontent would force Czar Nicholas II to establish a constitutional monarchy. Such a change would not have satisfied either the czar or ... Radical revolutionaries continued to fight for a democratic republic, and the czar wanted to retain his control of the peasants. The next two revolutions were successful. They occurred during World War I, when Russian military forces were hard pressed by the Germans. The March Revolution of 1917 led to the abdication of Nicholas and the installation of a provisional government. The ... fall of 1915. This left a power vacuum in St. Petersburg, the capital. The collapse of the government suddenly came in March (February, old calendar) 1917. Food riots, strikes, and war protests turned into mass demonstrations. The army refused to fire on the demonstrators. A Soviet (or council) of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies was elected, and it formed the provisional ...
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