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- 251: Hitler And World War I
- ... Moreover, he and the German army denied being defeated in the war and blamed the loss on cowardly politicians. The treaty restricted the size of the German army and forbid Germany to join together with Austria. Adding to Germany's already vast economic problems, the country had to pay financial reparations for the war. Hence, the Treaty of Versailles fueled nationalist propaganda and played a major role in collapsing the Weimar ...
- 252: Freud 2
- ... necessitated constant, painful treatment in addition to many surgical operations. Despite his physical suffering he continued his literary activity for the next 16 years, writing mostly on cultural and philosophical problems. When the Germans occupied Austria in 1938, Freud, a Jew, was persuaded by friends to escape with his family to England. He died in London on September 23, 1939. Freud created an entirely new approach to the understanding of human ...
- 253: Franz Joseph Haydn
- ... as the inventor of string quartets, his best ever was the Emperor Quartet where he took a wonderfully simple hymn and used its melody as a theme for a set of variations. The emperor of Austria was so impressed that he made it the Austrian National Anthem until the end of World War I. The piano sonatas were also part of many of the new genres of music we can attribute ...
- 254: Francisco Franco
- ... Spanish foreign legion in 1923. Franco became a national hero for his role in suppressing revolts in Morocco, and at the age of 33 he was made brigadier general. Having quelled a leftists revolt in Austria in 1934, he became army chief of staff in 1935. In February of 1936 the leftist government of the Spanish republic exiled Franco to an obscure command in the Canary Islands. The following July he ...
- 255: Benito Mussolini
- ... Pope within the Italian State. In 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany and was greeted cautiously by the Italians. Hitler in turn expressed friendship for the Italian Fascist government. During Germany s annexation of Austria, Italy improved her French relations when she rushed 75,000 troops to the Italo-Austrian frontier announcing that she would intervene if Germany took overt action. Italy drew closer to he WWI allies in 1935 ...
- 256: Arnold Schönberg
- Arnold Schönberg Arnold Schönberg was born September 13, 1874 in Austria: died on Los Angeles July 13, 1951. Arnold was an American citizen as of 1941. He began violin lessons when he was eight and almost immediately started to compose. Berlin was very important for Schönberg ...
- 257: Al Capone 2
- ... crime the courts could prove against him. He went to jail at Alcatraz for eight years until he became very ill withsyphilis and died from the disease in 1947 RL:http://www.broonale.co.uk/austria/capone.html 1-3). Al Capone was born somewhere in Brooklyn on January 17,1899 but knowbody really knows for sure. Capone grew up in a tough neighborhood inBrooklyn, N.Y. He attended school through ...
- 258: A Little Bit About Einstein
- ... also very involved with the public around him. Einstein traveled throughout the world. His visited many countries as a member of the physics community and a representative for liberal causes. These countries included England, France, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and as far east as Japan. In 1922, he went to Sweden to accept a Nobel Prize. As the Nazi movement grew, Einstein developed a non-partisan group, inside his Jewish Community, that was ...
- 259: JFK
- ... 20 billion for the first ten years. The Alliance for Progress and President Kennedy's particular concern for democratic institutions brought the United States renewed popularity in Latin America. On June 3, 1961, in Vienna, Austria, Kennedy and Khrushchev met and reviewed relationships between the United States and the USSR, as well as other questions of interest to the two states. Two incidents contributed to hostility at the meeting. The first ...
- 260: Comparing Hitler And Stalin In
- ... Hitler had plans for Germanic unity and German living space. German unity meant the gathering together of all Germans in Europe, one people into one empire, ruled by one leader. This involved people living in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Memel and other isolated pockets. Germany did not have enough farmland to feed her population of enough raw materials to supply her factories. New lands to the east would then have to be ...
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