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- 1781: Communism in the Soviet Union and Why it Failed
- ... dictatorship so they could ensure the Soviet transition from capitalism to socialism. The communist party arose in opposition to both capitalism and socialists of the Second International who had supported their capitalist governments during World War I. The name communists was specifically taken to distinguish Lenin's followers in Russia and abroad from such Socialists. Following their victory in the Russian Civil War in 1918, the Soviet Communists followed a cautious policy of limited capatalism during the New Economic Program until Lenin's death in 1924. Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin, forcibly accomplished the transition from capitalism ...
- 1782: Hazing A Benefit Or Burden
- ... the corruptness of the school and church. Militaries were made to hold secret agendas for the purpose of keeping the freedom of the nation and protect it from others trying to harm it. During the civil war, many students were forced into war and fraternities ran thin. When the war was over, the brothers went back to school and brought life back to their fraternities. They brought with them their new knowledge of how to form unity ...
- 1783: Evolution Of Canada
- ... missionaries penetrated the interior, and French officials made peace with the Indians, thus encouraging French immigration. Seeking a share of the lucrative fur trade, the British in 1670 established the Hudson's Bay Co. Continental war between France and England extended to the New World, and the 1759 defeat of French commander Montcalm brought the fall of Quebec; the 1763 Treaty of Paris gave Canada to Britain. In 1791 a constitutional ... 40 years were marked by trade and expansion. Alexander Mackenzie, the first white man to cross the continent, reached the Arctic in 1789 and the Pacific in 1793. The United States invaded Canada during the War of 1812, which ended in a stalemate with the Treaty of Ghent. French Canadians demanded political reform, and in 1840 Upper and Lower Canada were joined and self-government approved. Border questions between the United ... line. A movement to join the isolated colonies spread across the continent was spurred by promises to build a railway system linking the provinces and to provide future protection against US invasion, especially during the Civil War, when there was anti-British feeling in the United States. In 1867 the British North America Act joined four provinces--Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick--and provided for a parliamentary system. ...
- 1784: The Kent State University Tragedy
- The Kent State University Tragedy Kent State University was placed in an international spotlight after a tragic end to a student demonstration against the Vietnam War and the National Guard on May 4, 1970. Shortly after noon on that Monday, 13 seconds of rifle fire by a contingent of 28 Ohio National Guardsmen left four students dead, one permanently paralyzed, and ... an observer. Some students were walking to and from class. The closest student wounded was 30 yards away from the Guard, while the farthest was nearly 250 yards away. The divisive effect of the Vietnam War on American society was especially evident on campuses throughout the country. At Kent, the day after the announcement to send U.S. troops into Cambodia marked the start of a weekend of anti-war protests that began on campus and spilled into the city of Kent's downtown. Broken windows and other damage to a number of downtown businesses prompted fear, rumors, and eventually a call by the ...
- 1785: The Rise and Fall of Hitlers Reich
- ... 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 ...
- 1786: The Red Badge Of Courage 2
- The Red Badge of Courage The Red Badge of Courage is the tale of a young American in the Civil War. Our male lead is Henry Fleming. A new recruit in a new regiment coming from New York. Henry has to wait a long time to see action. When he does, he withstands his first test ... his thoughts, though, are idle speculation. He has no basis for thinking what does half the time. Henry has been raised in an area where his physical and emotional limits have not been tested. The war gives him an opportunity to do so. It is very important for him to feel like he can succeed in the world; and he puts emphasis on the tests he is undergoing. I think ...
- 1787: The Life and Rule of Cleopatra
- ... had him arrested, but the pharaoh’s army- led by eunuch Pothinus and Cleopatra’s sister Arsinoe- laid siege to the palace. In hopes of appeasing the attackers Caesar sent Ptomely free, but the Alexandrian war continued for six months. It ended when Pothinus was killed during the battle and Ptolemy drowned in the Nile while trying to get away. Alexandria surrendered to Caesar, who captured Arsinoe and returned Cleopatra to ... A year later he invited her to visit him in Rome. She arrived in the autumn of 46 B.C., accompanied by Caesarion and her young brother/husband, Ptolemy XIV. In September Caesar celebrated his war triumphs by parading around in the streets of Rome with his prisoners, included in which was Cleopatra’s sister Arsinoe.( Caesar spared her life, but later she was killed by Mark Anthony at Cleopatra’s ... Rome with her entourage. Before of immediately after their return to Egypt Ptolemy XIV died, possibly poisoned at Cleopatra’s request. Cleopatra then made Caesarion her co-regent. Caesar’s assassination caused anarchy and a civil war in Rome. Eventually the empire was divided onto three men: Caesar’s great-nephew Octavian, who later became the emperor Augustus, Marcus Lepidus, and Marcus Anthonius, who is better known as Mark Anthony. ...
- 1788: History Of The Original Teddy
- ... whose antics had America nicknaming them the "White House Gang," and he indulged in their playtime. He allowed their pets such as ponies and snakes into the White House and relayed attack refusals through the War Department when their mock army forayed their government home. Though Teddy's prominent parental personality eminated a caring, loving, emotional playmate, his disciplinary side hid closely beneath. His children unexpectedly discovered his dual personality as ... man as well. Before T.R.'s presidency, he headed the Rough Riders which were a volunteer calvary regiment compiled mostly of former college athletes and Western cowboys. February 15, 1898 during the Spanish American War, the U.S. battleship Maine fulminated in the Havanna harbor; two months later on April 25, the United States declared war on Spain and Teddy, who was then Secretary of the Navy, recruited his men. July 1, the troops, already prepared for battle, deracinated the Spanish blockhouse on San Juan Hill in Santiago, Cuba. Teddy ...
- 1789: Romanticism Vs. Survival In Th
- ... I survived. You died (PAGE 236). After everything is passed, he stops to think about what he did wrong and regrets it, but at the time, he just cared about himself. When he went to war he met Regina and they started to have a relationship, but since he is a survivor, once again he saved himself. Regina got killed, but he didn t. However, his son Lorenzo, has a completely different life story, but of the same importance. Lorenzo was a romantic. He had his ideals and although he wasn t involved in the Spanish Civil War, he fights only to reach his dreams. He fights against the Fascists because they were oppressive, and not only that but because he wanted to make his father proud of him. At war, Lorenzo ...
- 1790: Herman Melville
- ... for poetry, but the chances for publication were not favorable. With two sons and daughters to support, Melville sought government patronage. A consul post he pursued in 1861 went elsewhere. On the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered for the Navy, but was again rejected. He had apparently returned full cycle to the insecurity of his youth, but an inheritance from his father-in-law brought some relief and "Arrowhead," increasingly a burden, was sold. By the end of 1863, the family was living in New York City. The war was much on his mind and furnished the subject of his first volume of verse, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866). Four months after it appeared, an appointment as a customs inspector ...
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