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- 1771: Stephen Crane
- ... most of Crane’s work, Throughout his writings he tried to shake the thought that God was wrathful (Colvert, 12:101). Stephen Crane began his formal education at a military school where he studied the Civil War and military training ("Stephen" n.p.). After military school he proceeded to attend Lafayette College in the fall of 1890 where he played baseball. Eventually, he was forced to withdraw from Layette because he refused ... law wife, Cora Taylor ("Crane" n.p.). The lived together at the Hotel Dedream, a hotel, nightclub, and brothel. While in Jacksonville he wrote about the Commodore sinking. He also reported on the Spanish-American War for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World in an attempt to pay off debts that he had incurred during this time. Crane made famous friends here such as H.G. Wells and Henry James. ...
- 1772: Benito Mussolini
- ... the Socialist newspaper Avanti, and in 1914 he started his own Socialist newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia. At this time he wrote a novel, then translated into English as the Cardinal’s Mistress. During World War I he served for nearly 2 years as private in the infantry. After the war there was much poverty and industrial unrest in Italy. Mussolini’s political views were changing during this time. The desire grew in him to be the strong man of Italy who would vesture order, rule ... abroad. He conquered Ethiopia in 1936, and colonized Libya. He seized Albania in 1939, and he laid claim to Malta, Corsica, and, Tunis. He sent Italian troops to help defeat the republicans in the Spanish Civil War. His fatal mistake was his alliance with Germany’s Adolf Hitler in 1939. During World War II his armies were swept from Ethiopia and North Africa; and when the Allies invaded Italy in ...
- 1773: Augustus Caesar
- ... men elected from the senate, the senate which was made of 300 patricians, and the assembly made from plebeians. Many years later Rome started to reject the republic when it went into a series of civil wars. 3 men form the first triumvirate, Julius Caesar, Pompeii, and Crassus. Julius Caesar became the victor. He was then rewarded dictator for life. On the date September 23, 63 BC a boy was born ... The first thing Augustus did to restore peace was present to Rome a new constitution. This constitution "transferred the State to the free disposal of the Senate and people ("Augustus" 370)." There were still several civil wars but definitely not as many as before. He had many military operations continuing in many frontier areas. By the year 25 BC rebellious Alpine tribes were defeated and destroyed. In central Asia Minor an ... known as the Secular Games, to filter the Roman people of their past sins and provide full religious initiation of the new age. Around the years 16-15 BC, was formed the beginning of a civil service in Rome. This had never been done before but was destined to become an essential feature of the imperial system. Around the same time, a completely reformed administrative structure of Rome, Italy, and ...
- 1774: The Rise And Fall Of Hitler Re
- ... formally given by him before his death, SS officers immersed Hitler’s body in gasoline and burned it in the garden of the Chancellery. Soon after the suicide of Hitler, the German forces surrendered. The war was officially over; however, the world was only beginning to realize the extent of its horror. The rise and sudden fall of Hitler had a sensational effect on people and nations around the world. On ... When he hit an adolescent age, he began to rebel. When Hitler’s dad acquired a top ranking job in the military, he wanted his son to work hard so that he might become a civil servant. Hitler wanted nothing of it. He wanted to become an artist like he always dreamed. One of the teachers in his high school classified young Hitler as "notorious, cantankerous, willful, arrogant, and irascible. He ... and peddled them on the streets. He drew several advertising posters for such things as soap, cigarettes, and deodorant. In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich. Life was not much better there until the First World War started in 1914. While many people were frightened and sad at the thought of a world war, Hitler was delighted. He held the rank of corporal, and in forty-seven battles he served on ...
- 1775: Fort Henry And Donelson
- Fort Donelson, Tennessee, guarding the Cumberland River, became the site of the first major Confederate defeat in the Civil War. Victory at Donelson started Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant on his road to Appomattox and the White House. His cool judgment under pressure saved the day after the Confederates threatened to break his troop lines ... him a victory that he did not fully earn on his own. Possession of the better part of two states vital to the South depended on the outcome of the battle at Fort Donelson. When war began in April 1861, Kentucky declared its neutrality, in response to deep conflicts of opinion among its citizens. Considering neutrality impossible to maintain, North and South maneuvered for position once Kentucky was opened to ...
- 1776: French Revolution 3
- ... advocated a federal republic, and Montagnards, consisting of Jacobins and Cordeliers, who favored establishment of a highly centralized republic. The Girondins soon emerged as the most powerful party. In April 1792 the Legislative Assembly declared war on the Austrian part of the Holy Roman Empire. Austrian armies then invaded France. When Sardinia and Prussia joined the war in July, the assembly declared a national emergency. In August insurgents stormed the royal residence at the Tuileries. Louis and his family took refuge with the assembly, which promptly placed him in confinement. Simultaneously, Montagnards ... brought to trial for treason. The convention found the monarch guilty and sent Louis to the guillotine in January 1793. After the king's execution, the Girondins began to lose influence. Military reverses occurred after war was declared against Great Britain, the United Netherlands, and Spain. In March the convention voted to conscript 300,000 men, and peasants in the Vendée region rebelled. Civil war spread to neighboring areas, and ...
- 1777: A Seize Of Power
- A Seize of Power After WWI, Germany was in a exceedingly unpleasant state. It had been forced, by the Treaty of Versailles, to take full blame for the war. This meant that Germany would have to pay reparations for all of the other countries. Reparations were even harder to pay since Germany was in the midst of one of the worst stagflation epidemics in ... nothing to do with the signing of this treaty, had taken over power. All of the people of this once superpower of a country were in a state of perplexity because they had lost a war that had been fought entirely on enemy soil. Germany was searching for an answer to its insurmountable problems, and found that answer in a Nazi named Adolf Hitler. Hitler was born in Austria, into a ... army. Instead of going to fight for his country, he chose to flee to Germany. Which is a bewildering thought seeing as how he voluntarily joined the German army when he got there. After the war, Hitler joined up with a right wing campaign whose job was to spy on other government groups. Upon spying on one of the parties, the N.S.D.A.P. or Nazi party, he ...
- 1778: India's Hunger Problem
- ... in food supply, affects much of the region in India. Many health and economic problems result due to famine. As India became independent their economy failed and left most of the region starving. After World War I, India was fighting for its independence from Britain, when it finally succeeded, they began to modernize the nation. This led to future problems in India. The economy was poorly ran and they suffered from ... to India's famine problem, natural causes such as droughts, floods, earthquakes and monsoons ruined crops and farmlands. Insect plagues and plant diseases destroyed crops. Another cause is humans, the people of India began wars, civil disturbances, and sieges. A farmer may have more crops than the another farmer this caused conflicts and therefore resulting in fighting between countrymen. Others deliberately destroyed crops, there are many ethnic groups in India, and ... needed to increase food production. Attempts that have been made to assist in India's famine problem have been successful and some have failed; yet attempts were made to help the starving nation. Before World War II, the United States and Canada provided relief programs for Indian people and aided entire country. These measures failed after World War II, starvation was more obvious than ever and increased. Another attempt to ...
- 1779: Mexico
- ... opposed to the criollos, or Creoles-people of pure European descent who had been born and raised in New Spain. The peninsulares were sent from Spain to hold the highest colonial offices in both the civil and church administrations. They held themselves aloof from the criollos, who were almost never given high office. The resentment of the criollos became an influential force in the later movement for independence. From the inception ... the parent country. To these internal conditions was added the importation of liberal political ideas from Europe, particularly after the French Revolution of 1789. The occupation of Spain by Napoleon eventually resulted in the Mexican war for independence. Disorganized by the disaster that had overtaken the home government, the administrative leaders of New Spain began to quarrel among themselves, with no central authority to intervene. In 1808 the viceroy, under pressure from influential criollos, permitted them to participate in the administration. Other peninsular officials objected and expelled the viceroy. In the midst of these factional struggles a political rebellion was begun by the Mexican people. War for Independence On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a priest in the small village of Dolores, raised the standard of revolt, demanding the abolition of Native American serfdom and caste distinctions. Although ...
- 1780: What is Fascism and Why does it Emerge?
- ... the state. Nationalism often relies on the use of a scapegoat. The most blatant example of this was Hitler's scapegoating on the Jews. He would blame them for the defeat of Germany in World War 1, or claim they were the downfall of Germany. Hitler took this idea to an extreme and later went on to ethnic cleansing which resulted in the death of 6 million Jews. Another method of ... violence ways if necessary. The other use of force that the fascist utilises for conformity is to misinform the masses or not inform them at all. Examples of this can either be the dismissal of civil rights such as freedom of speech or assembly or controlling the means of informative sources such as newspapers television and other sorts of communication. These are tactics the fascist utilises if the population does not ... trying to mobilise the nation to its full capacity. This system of government usually emerges when other forms of government have failed. Where democracy lacked in a sense of hope and faith, fascism excelled. Post war Germany, Italy and Argentina in 1955 can all exemplify this theory of emergence: After World War 1, Italy had a poor economy and its national identified diminished. To build the nation and strengthen it ...
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