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- 5441: Chicago Politics
- ... chair. This was pushed further by the campaigning of William Singer, a democrat, in Daley’s last term as mayor. The machine would soon feel the loss of another major supporting community, Chicago’s African-American neighborhoods. Michael Belandic, the adequate stand-in after the loss of Daley, managed to lose the confidence of these peoples throughout his term in office. The victim of inexperience, nature punished Chicago with a mighty ...
- 5442: Causes Of World War 1
- ... Archduke Ferdinand was an immediate cause. Gavrilo Princip, working with a Serbian anti-Austrian secret society called “The Black Hand” shot Archduke Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 in order to make way for a Slavic revolution. The assassination didn’t do as Princip hoped, and it was used as an excuse for Austria to take hostile action against Serbia. That was not the only cause of the war. The Alliance System ...
- 5443: Causes Of World War I 2
- ... had a militarism conflict with Russia, told Russia to demobilize… which was ignored and started the war with the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente. Around 1917, United States joined the Triple Entente because Germany killed American Passengers on a British ship that Germans sank. By 1917, the two alliance system broadens. Triple Alliance changes its name to Central Powers and Triple Entente changes its name to the Allies. The name was ...
- 5444: Central America
- ... subdued as seen in Argentina. The process of educating the common person so that he/she would not only understand, but be able to participate in political affairs was a major force in the Cuban revolution. In the 1980's, Central America saw both violence and education used as political devices to promote or prevent political change. The most common and horrific form of oppression in Central America is violence. Violence ...
- 5445: Contrasting Views
- ... was encouraging blacks to become educated in the "white man's world". He tried to get blacks into working in agriculture, helping with industry and, to accepting that they get a second class status in American society. DuBois felt that Washington's plan would cause blacks to give up. While DuBois respected Booker T. Washington and his accomplishments, he felt that blacks needed political power to protect what they had and ...
- 5446: Civil War-54th Massachusettes
- ... Fifty-Fourth, into the Civil War. President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1. Within weeks, on January 26, the Secretary of War authorized Governor John Andrew of Massachusetts to raise the first African American corps in the North. Prejudicial beliefs that blacks would lack military discipline and fight badly set a negative attitude, but Andrew, a strong abolitionist, supported enlistment of African Americans. Recruitment began in Boston on February ...
- 5447: Communistic Society
- ... wages, product pricing, and lives of the workers. To eliminate this problem, means of production should be government owned. Communists, Marx stated, were to lead society into its new era. Marx stated that following a revolution the proletariat would seize control of both the social and economic world. The distinction between classes would be lessened, and class struggle would cease to exist. Government, social structure, and economic development were three important ...
- 5448: Cao Daiism
- ... A. 1987.http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/~tdao/tam.htm http://www.vietinfo.com/non_profit/religion/caodai/caodaism.html Raskin, Marcus G. and Bernard B. Fall. The Vietnam Reader: Articles and Documents on American Foreign Policy and the Vietnam Crisis. New York: Random House, 1965. Scigliano, Robert. South Vietnam: Nation Under Stress. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964.
- 5449: Classical Greece, The Seed Of
- Modern Western though has been shaped by emphasis on scientific thinking and reasoning from the time of Copernicus, Galileo and Newton. The scientific revolution gave birth to a new era of thought, in which observations were made to support an idea. This involved what man could prove through sense, not religion or superstition. Notable ancient Greek historians, philosophers and ...
- 5450: D-day
- ... to the shore. (1-8) The seventh term that some people use when they talk about D-day is infantry. The infantry formed the backbone of the attacks and defending forces on D-day. An American infantry division contained fourteen thousand thirty-seven men, who were divided into three regiments. Germany's infantry divisions had twelve thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine men but had a greater number and more powerful ...
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