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- 241: French Revolution 3
- ... Prussian advance at Valmy. Thereafter, French armies assumed the offensive, successfully capturing enemy territory. The newly elected National Convention abolished the monarchy and, in the first major test of strength, a majority approved the Montagnard proposal that Louis be brought to trial for treason. The convention found the monarch guilty and sent Louis to the guillotine in January 1793. After the king's execution, the Girondins began to lose influence. Military ...
- 242: Frederic Douglass
- ... the last meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society was held. Douglass spoke very highly of the many people who helped the blacks win their struggles and get to where they were at. He was modest about his own achievements though but no one had fought harder for black rights than Douglass. In 1870 Frederick Douglass was asked to serve as editor of a newspaper based in Washington, DC. The goal ...
- 243: Essat On Taiwan Now And Then
- ... marshal law, which didn't end until 1987. In 1949, Taiwan became a rebel province of China when it split from Mainland China. In 1995, Chinese Communist Party Chief Jiang Zemin offered an "eight point proposal" for Taiwan's reunification with Mainland China. Taiwan formally rejected Jiang's offer. Latter that year Taiwan held direct legislative elections, resulting in a smaller majority for the Taiwanese Nationalist Party. Many believe that Chinese ...
- 244: Early Resistance To British Na
- ... a certain group conscience. According to the same Ronen, there must be an intelligentsia as well as a proletariat to form an effective nationalist movement. In India, the development of the proletariat was late and modest. Nevertheless, the western penetration made new social categories emerge, like the intelligentsia. 1. The Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress was created by a group of English-speaking urban intellectuals in 1885 to lead ...
- 245: Euripides! Master! How Well Yo
- ... question of her own: "And is that injury a slight one, do you imagine, to a woman?" Jason doesn't really hear the queston and--perhaps unwittingly--get off his paring shot: "Yes, to a modest woman...." Medea eloquently expresses the feelings of every woman who has been spurned by the man who commands her sense fo worth. I don't believe this agony could be more movingly depicted by a ...
- 246: Diarmement
- ... out that a simple numerical unit of 30 000 is meaningless as the effectiveness of any such unit would depend on the level of armaments,training and back-up available to each army.Thus,the proposal was dropped. A.J.P Taylor makes the point that German disarmament could only work if the Germans chose to make it work.He argues that `They could wreck the system of security against them ...
- 247: Determinism In Quicksand
- ... she wasn’t one of them. She didn’t at all count” (70). The realization that she does not count in Denmark is not apparent to Helga until she is faced with Axel Olsen’s proposal. She tells him that she “couldn’t marry a white man” (88). Although Helga’s refusal of Axel is deeper than her explanation, it is obvious that she knows she will never be able to ...
- 248: Deterioration Of The American-
- ... the American-Soviet relationship. Some of the decisions taken at Yalta pertained to Europe. The most critical of these had to do with the liberated nations of eastern Europe. Roosevelt and Churchill rejected Stalin's proposal that they accept the Lublin government in Poland. Instead, the three leaders agreed on a reorganization of the Polish government to include leaders from abroad- this provisional government to be "pledged to the holding of ...
- 249: Cold War 4
- ... compensation for delaying an opening of a second front, the Russians proposed a US loan of $1000 million at 1.25% interest rate over a period of twenty-five years. The US Congress rejected the proposal: for one, reserves were exhausted and post-war credits seemed to great a risk, and secondly, given the current inflation rates, the terms would equal more to a present. Although "Lend-Lease" was granted to ...
- 250: Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... both leaders to inform their vessels to avoid confrontation at all costs (Walton 131). Both agreed and it seemed as though the crisis would soon be over. On the 26th of October, Moscow sent a proposal that seemed reasonable to the White House. The Soviet Union would turn its ships around and either destroy or dismantle the missiles already present in Cuba as long as the United States agreed to never ...
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