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- 1321: Louis XIV
- ... nearly drowned because no one was watching him as he played near a pond. This began to shape in his young mind an early fear of God. Louis' character was also shaped by the French Civil War. In this, the Paris Parlement rose against the crown. For five years, Louis would suffer fear, cold, hunger and other spirit-breaking events. He would never forgive Paris, the nobles, or the common people. Finally ... as king. Even though Louis XIV was now of age, the Cardinal remained the dominant authority in French politics. French kings gained respect as a soldier; Louis served with the French army during France's war with Spain. His biggest battle, however, was sacrificing his love for Mazarin's niece for politics. In 1660 he married the daughter of the king of Spain to bring peace between the two countries. ...
- 1322: The Watergate Scandal
- ... started when the White House staff made up a list called "enemies list". Nixon had enemies which include 200 liberal politicians, journalists and actors. Most of these people made a public speech against the Vietnam war. Nixon's aides formed a conducts tax audits on these people that he thought were enemies. He also had agents find out secret information that would harm them. Nixon was always worried about govt. Employees ... was so worried that during the Cambodia bombing he had to wiretap his own staff members. On June in 1971, The New York Times formed work that was published about the history of the Vietnam War, these were known as the Pentagon Papers. They got the information from secret government papers. The papers blamed the policies that were formed and caused the beginning of the war in Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg, a former employee , gave the documents to the paper. Nixon became very angry by their publishes. Nixon tied to make Ellsberg's actions a form of treason, but he was ...
- 1323: Analyze the Triumph and Tragedy of the Manhattan Project
- ... the time, Truman didn't know anything on the Manhattan Project, but he sought to carry out Roosevelt's plans. Roosevelt's thought went beyond the use of the atomic bomb as a weapon of war. He saw it also as a powerful tool of diplomacy which could be used to influence postwar relationships among other nations. He thought it could have an impact on both former enemies and uncooperative allies such as USSR. By the time Harry Truman became president of the United States, the war in Europe was winding down. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Allied forces under Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower had landed at Normandy and gained the foundation in Europe that signaled the beginning of the ... counter offensive launched in December was effectively checked at the Battle of the Bulge. On April 30, as the victors were entering Berlin, Adolf Hilter committed suicide. Germany surrendered unconditionally on May 7, 1945. The war in Europe, which had eaten up the lives of nearly 39 million people, was over. America now turned its full attention to the war in the Pacific. The atomic bomb was originated as a ...
- 1324: Condemnation of the Church and Foreign Intervention
- ... institution that told the people to remain submissive and let the oligarchy control them. Now the church supported the community to revolt. This led to the revolutions in the 1970. in central America. During the civil wars in central America the United States intervened to support the governments. Labeling the guerrillas as communists and at the height of the Cold War the United States sent billions of dollars to fund the governments military. It would not be in the best interest of the United States to have the guerrillas to take control. El Salvador is a strategic location, and If the guerrillas in El Salvador win the war it would have a domino effect on the rest of Latin America. If the countries became communist they could ally with Russia. Therefore the United States must not allow the guerrillas to win the ...
- 1325: The Watergate Scandal
- ... started when the White House staff made up a list called "enemies list". Nixon had enemies which include 200 liberal politicians, journalists and actors. Most of these people made a public speech against the Vietnam war. Nixon's aides formed a conducts tax audits on these people that he thought were enemies. He also had agents find out secret information that would harm them. Nixon was always worried about govt. Employees ... was so worried that during the Cambodia bombing he had to wiretap his own staff members. On June in 1971, The New York Times formed work that was published about the history of the Vietnam War, these were known as the Pentagon Papers. They got the information from secret government papers. The papers blamed the policies that were formed and caused the beginning of the war in Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg, a former employee , gave the documents to the paper. Nixon became very angry by their publishes. Nixon tied to make Ellsberg's actions a form of treason, but he was ...
- 1326: Saddam Hussein
- ... man. If Hussein stays in power, the future looks bleak for the Gulf region. Iraq used to be a prosperous country. Oil was the main source of income for the area. During the Iran-Iraq War (Gulf War 1), which was from September 1980 to August 1988, Iraq went from being a wealthy country to a very poor country, nearly over night. Hussein had used all energy available in that war, and he came out of it losing over 1/3 of the entire male population of Iraq (Allman 61). Saddam feels that is actions were justified because he believes the Iran-Iraq war was ...
- 1327: Communism: Overview
- ... with the running of his government, especially from Joseph Stalin. Stalin helped to advise Lenin on almost all of his problems. He even went as far as to help lead the Red Army in the Civil War (Brzezinski 25). The theory of communism was developed by Karl Marx. He was born in Trier of the Rhineland Germany to Jewish parents and spent his life in an effort to improve the life of ... in decison making with Lenin, and in 1922 he was raised to the Secretary-General of the Bolshevik party (Miller 68). Stalin became a primary leader at Lenins death. Stalin helped to create the Cold War Period. The cold war was essentially created as a result of the soviets wanting to keep itself secure and happy on their own. The Soviet Union also made demands from other countries to help ...
- 1328: The Rise of Communism in Russia
- ... program which called for an immediate peas, the transfer of land to peasants, and control of factories to workers. But the provisional government stood in conflict with the other smaller governments and the hardships of war hit the country. The provisional government was so busy fighting the war that they neglected the social problems it faced, losing much needed support (Farah, 580). The Bolsheviks in Russia were confused and divided about how to regard the Provisional Government, but most of them, including Stalin, were inclined to accept it for the time being on condition that it work for an end to the war. When Lenin reached Russia in April after his famous "sealed car" trip across Germany, he quickly denounced his Bolshevik colleagues for failing to take a sufficiently revolutionary stand (Daniels, 88). In August of 1917, ...
- 1329: Vietnam War - Summary Of Vietnam
- ... fought before. Images of the terror and disarray reached back home, and the U.S. began to wonder how effective their involvement in Vietnam really was. As we got further and further into the Vietnam War, few lives were untouched by grief, anger and fear. The Vietnamese suffered the worst hardship; children lay dead in the street, villages remained nothing but charred ashes, and bombs destroyed thousands of innocent civilians. Soldiers ... although it did not contain a single enemy troop. Over a hundred villagers were slaughtered. It became clearer to Americans how soldiers were losing control, and how there was no easy way to win this war. The draft took more and more people in as the years went on, and in1968 it peaked to over 500,000 soldiers involved in Vietnam. The government was so desperate for troops that even men ... and no education was needed. The people began to strike out and a revolution took place to restore peace to the nation. Some key ways to get the movement attention included student activism and anti-war messages present in songs and literature. The National Guard and other patrolmen often became violent in order to gain control of situations, and several people were killed. Growing Protest of the war caused Johnson ...
- 1330: Contrasting Poets Lawrence and Shapiro in Their Views of Nature
- ... same century have multiple views, many differing. Two major twentieth century poets are D.H. Lawrence and Karl Shapiro. D.H. Lawrence loves and is in touch with nature, while Karl Shapiro cares more of war and satires of government, not giving much thought to nature. Even though both poets share and differ in views, both are twentieth century poets. The twentieth century lasted from 1900-1939. It began at the ... England, is set by the death of Queen Victoria. Reading attracted a large audience because of the tremendous growth in education opportunities (Granner, 616). One major downfall and factor of the twentieth century was World War I. This was had pulled up new roots that were "buried in the past," causing multiple conflicts between nations (Granner, 611). The war reflects the bitterness and troubles put on twentieth century poetry. The poets wrote of science fiction, anti-war protagonists, and ridicule of authority. Leading poets in the twentieth century are D.H. Lawrence, James ...
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