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- 131: Analysis Of The French Revolut
- ... the radicals distrusted the king and wanted a republic. These were the causes of the French Revolution. Many peoples' lives were changed during this time. Peoples' ideas also changed. After the war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred. When Louis XVI and his wife fled to the Legislative Assembly, they were imprisoned. They called for a national convention to write a new constitution. The ... that the Revolution would spread. By 1793, the French armies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia. But, in 1793, Great Britain, the Dutch Netherlands, and Spain went along with Prussia and Austria in a war against France. With these five powerful nations fighting against France, the French were outnumbered and outmatched. This one war was very hard for France. This war caused many deaths at home due ...
- 132: Nazism
- ... presented themselves as the party of the young, the strong, and the pure, in opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly, the weak, and the dissolute. Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy, he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy of fine ... a Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices, including a powerful prejudice against Jews. Again, he was a product of his times... for many Austrians and Germans were prejudiced against the Jews. In Hitler's case the prejudice had become ...
- 133: Adolf Hitler
- ... sometime he dominated most of Europe and North Africa. He caused the slaughter of millions of Jews and others whom he considered inferior. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20,1889 in Branau am Inn, Austria. Adolfs father, Alois Hitler was a minor customs official. He died in 1903.Adolfs mother, Klara Hitler was a peasant girl. She died in 1907.Hitler did not do well in school and ... Mussolini. In November 1936, he signed a pact with Japan. In 1940 Germany signed an alliance with Italy and Japan. They would become known as the Axis Powers. In March 1938 Hitlers troops invaded Austria. It was then annexed and became part of Germany. In September 1938, France, Great Britain, and Germany met over the German occupation of the Sudentenland in Czechoslovakia. Out of this came the Munich Pact which ...
- 134: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... rapidly gained currency in literature, but does not describe a cohesive literary movement. In poetry and drama, expressionism represented a reaction to the sentimentality of late-19th-century romanticism. Expressionist poets, writing in Germany and Austria between 1910 and 1924, were influenced by Freudian theories of the subconscious, the antirationalism of Friedrich Nietzsche, and the novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky to probe their own imaginations for subject matter. The poems of Johannes ... television film Terrible Joe Moran (1984). LESLIE HALLIWELL Bibliography: Bergman, Andrew, James Cagney (1973); Cagney, James, Cagney by Cagney (1976); McGilligan, Patrick, Cagney (1975). Muni, Paul -------------------------------- {myoo'-nee}^Paul Muni, b. Muni Weisenfreund in Lemberg, Austria (now Lvov, USSR), Sept. 22, 1985, d. Aug. 25, 1967, was a character actor who became a top Hollywood star in the 1930s. He went to the United States with his family in 1907. As ...
- 135: Yugoslavia-a Land Torn Apart
- ... Montenegrins, Croats, Slovenes, and Macedonians; each had its own republic, with an additional Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina for a mixed population of Serbs, Croats, and Serbo-Croatian-speaking Muslims; Yugoslavia was bordered by Italy, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania, all of whom harbored some grievances against it; and the "autonomous regions" of Hungarian Vojvodina and Albanian Kosovo within Serbia functioned until 1990 in an independent manner comparable to ... escalation of conflict took place in 1991. The first republic to express anti-Serbian sentiments was Slovenia. They felt that although they and Croats had prospered the most in Communist Yugoslavia, they were lagging behind Austria, Italy, and even Hungary. They saw the transfer of their profits to the southern republics as the reason behind it. During the 1980s many started calling for separation from Yugoslavia. Serbia boycotted Slovenian products in ...
- 136: Conquests Napoleon Made Domestically As Well As Militarily
- ... these areas Napoleon sent cash and art back to the government of the Directory in France. In 1805, in the Campaign of Austerlitz, Napoleon again showed his brilliant strategic skills in defeating the forces of Austria and Russia. It was at this time that he dictated to Austria the Treaty of Pressburg. Although these were great accomplishments at the time, the land gained was soon lost and didn't benefit France in the long run. In a few short years, Napoleon's luck ...
- 137: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... to marriage witrh Hedwig (the heir to the Polish throne). Furthermore, he agreed to the baptism of his family and the nobility of Lithuania, in addition to paying 200,000 florins to Prince Wilhelm (of Austria) for breaking the betrothal to Hedwig; also he agreed to the return of all Polish lands taken by the enemies, the release of all Polish prisoners, and the pledge to keep the Lithuanian and Russian ... a dozen Latvian journalists received sentences in 1970-71. The most notable Latvian dissent may have been the "Letter of the Seventeen Communists," published July-August, 1971, "addressed to party leaders in Romania, Yugoslavia, France, Austria and Spain." Later, a Roman Catholic petition signed by 5,000 of the church's membership came to light, as did the existance of three Latvian political dissent groups. All three emerged in 1975 via ...
- 138: Germany
- Germany Basic Facts Germany is in central Europe, at 50 degrees latitude, and 10 degrees longitude. It is bordered by Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czechs Republic, And Poland. The capitol of Germany is Berlin. The population of Germany is 81,264,000. The estimated population for Germany in the year 2000 is 82,583,000. Germany is smaller than ... were Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, and Frederich Nietzsche, among others. German composers are very well known, and include Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, Strauss and Schoenberg. Mozart can also be considered German, as Austria was historically connected to other German states. During the Renaissance, German artists created some wonderful paintings and engravings. Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein the Younger are famous for portraits and other paintings. Matthias Grunewald painted ...
- 139: WW2 Causes
- ... or with out consent, and that same year they left the league of nations. France responded by letting Germany have a standing army of 300,000 men and an air force 50% that of Frances. Austria had a party modeled after the nazi party and when Austria's chancellor was assassinated the party attempted a coup detat. However Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini would not stand by and let this happen so he sent Italian troops to the borders in order to ...
- 140: The Ss
- ... Soviets, this time in Hungary, and took part in the last official German offensive of the War in an attempt to rescue the besieged forces in Budapest. Failing that, the LAH was pulled back to Austria to await the coming Soviet onslaught. Soon after, the LAH moved itself into position in Austria to surrender itself to the Americans. The conclusion of the book ended the well known surrender of the German forces to the Allies. With the end of the war the SS corruption and order fell ...
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