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- 1401: Nikita Sergeyevich
- ... job but continued his activism, helping to organize strikes in 1915 and 1916. In 1917, after the Russian Revolution had ousted the Czar, Khrushchev joined the Bolshevik forces of the Red Army in the Russian civil war, serving as a political commissar. He was now a dedicated communist. After the war, Khrushchev was given a series of political assignments and received his first formal training in Marxism at a Technical College. After graduation he was appointed to a political post in Ukraine, where Lazar Kaganovich, ...
- 1402: Henry David Thoreau
- ... asked to pay up, Henry flat out refused to pay the poll tax. Henry objected to the use of the revenues of this poll tax. The revenues were used to help finance the United States' war with Mexico and supported the enforcement of slavery laws. Henry refused to pay his taxes and refused the offers made by Sam Staples himself to pay the tax. Since Henry refused to have his tax ... to be in jail. The evening he spent in jail prompted Henry to write what became one of his most famous essays and one of the most important political essays ever, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience." It is in "Civil Disobedience" that Henry asks all of us to question our actions and the actions of our state. He writes, "Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to ...
- 1403: National Socialism
- ... Treaty of Versailles signed in June of 1919. The rise of the Nazi party, and their extremist National Socialist doctrine appealed directly to these attitudes and beliefs that permeated Germany society after the first World War. Since the unification of Germany in the late 19th century, attitudes of nationalism, Prussian militarism and expansionism saturated German society. As one can clearly see in the writings of the influential German historian, Heinrich von Treitschke, war and territorial expansion were seen as being necessary to the preservation and advancement of German society. He states that, War is for an afflicted people the only remedy
Those who preach the nonsense about everlasting peace do not understand the life of the Aryan race, the Aryans are before all brave. The mobilization of ...
- 1404: Regeneration
- ... man at the institute whose life is rotting away because society believes that is the only just place for him. Burns experienced a very traumatic event when he was on the front line in the war. During his stay at Craiglockhart he had a hard time eating because of his experience. During his meals he would try to eat but just throws it all up. During the war a bomb exploded near him. The blast sent him flying in the air. When he landed, he came down face first in a dead man's carcass, with his mouth full of rotting entrails. One has to think to oneself, "How can putting him there at the institute with all other war stricken men help him." The point is, it can't help him. He spends his whole day reliving the war. He has to see people in uniform walking around. He constantly has a psychologist ...
- 1405: Japanese Americans During WWII
- ... American civilians to be arrested, jailed, and convicted of nothing more than being Japanese Americans. Why Pick On The Japanese Americans? Why did the American government go after only Japanese Americans? Were we not at war with Germany and Italy? Did German Americans or Italian Americans go to internment camps? The answer was no. The U.S. government did not do anything against the German and Italian Americans who were citizens ... went on, sadly, this mistreatment would only get worse. The Munson Report With America's track record, in dealing with the Japanese, it is not too difficult to predict our behavior when Japan went to war. As early as November of 1941 President Roosevelt had a fear of Japanese Americans. Roosevelt had Special Representative of the State Department Curtis B. Munson to gather intelligence on the loyalty of Japanese Americans. Briefly ... were less developed than ours, and late comers to the modern [ age] 8 With advisors like these, it was no surprise that Roosevelt would sign Executive order 9066. This order stated that the Secretary of War and his officers provide security against sabotage and espionage. The army, under John L. Dewitt placed all persons of Japanese ancestry into internment camps and removed them from the pacific coast. These Japanese Americans ...
- 1406: Purposes of the Concentration and Death Camps In Europe During World War II
- Purposes of the Concentration and Death Camps In Europe During World War II During World War II there were two different types of Nazi camps, the concentration camps and death camps. Concentration camps are places of detention for civilians considered political enemies, imprisonment usually takes place without trial. On the other ... some criminal offense; they are places where political dissidents and members of national or minority groups are confined for reasons of state, security, exploitation, or punishment for imagined or accused crimes. With the onset of war in 1939, the need for laborers resulted in the creation of forced labor camps in which prisoners became virtual slaves. Jews were subdued to inhumane treatment, which resulted in death through illness, starvation, beatings, ...
- 1407: Colonial Impact On The Indian
- ... the defeat of the Nawab of Bengal by Robert Clive. The East India Company ruled India for a century, i.e., from the decisive Battle of Plassey in 1757 to 1857 when Indians fought a war of independence. The British defeated the Indians in this war and in 1858 Queen Victoria assumed the responsibility of direct rule over India. The rule of East India Company ended and the British Parliament became directly responsible for the governance of India and this continued ... element of British exploitation of India, linked, with other sources of exploitation like heavy taxation and an unfavorable trade. The British benefited immensely from the plunder and exploitation of India. The Company obtained Dewani or civil administration rights of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in 1765 and this opened new opportunities for plunder by the Company. The land revenue because of Dewani rights was remitted by the Company to England. (Bagchi, ...
- 1408: Comparison Of Racism In Histor
- ... I have a dream... where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. -Martin Luther King Jr. We have come a long way since the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Our cities are filled with numerous minority groups with different religions and cultures. We live in a multicultural society where we don t have to think about hate crime ... between a true-story novel called Obasan, by Joy Kogawa, and a fictional play called The Komagata Maru Incident , by Sharon Pollock. Each story is set in a different period during Canada s history: World War I and II. In the play The Komagata Maru Incident , Sharon tells a story of the racist Canadian Government. The setting of the play is in Vancouver and it takes place right after World War I. It s about a group of 376 East Indian Immigrants who sail to Canada to start a new life, but are not excepted due to the racist immigration officials. The immigrants had a ...
- 1409: A Separate Peace - Thematic Analysis
- An analysis of John Knowles A Separate Peace brings up the theme of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. What makes this novel unique is that in protesting war, Knowles never overtly referred to the blood and gore of war; he showed the consequences of war, some paralleling the nature of war and some simply laying out how World War II affected noncombatants thousand miles away. There have been many books written about war, what happens, why it happens, and ...
- 1410: Jewish History
- ... incident was something the Jewish people were striving to obtain for generations. This, however, led to four major conflicts between Israel and the Arab countries. One of the most meaningful wars was the Six-Day War. Events such as the holocaust have also had a dramatic effect on world history and whose mysteries are still being unravelled. For twelve years following 1933 the Jews were persecuted by the Nazi's. Jewish ... in practically any business or profession, own any land, associate with any non-Jew or visit public places such as parks and museums. The victories of the German armies in the early years of World War II brought the majority of European Jewry under the Nazis. The Jews were deprived of human rights. The Jewish people were forced to live in Ghetto's which were separated from the main city. Hitler ... horrific events of the holocaust have let to some consequences which are beneficial and some are unfortunate to the Jewish people. The population of the followers has greatly declined. Also the Jewish people after the war still had problems finding jobs. They had to essentially start there life over. Most of them lost a close relative or at least knew someone who died in the gas chambers of the Nazi ...
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