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- 351: The Reasons Why the South Went to War
- The Reasons Why the South Went to War The Civil War which lasted from 1861 to 1877 was mainly caused by the diverging society between the North and the South. The North and the South had different goals. There were many factors that led to ...
- 352: Cleopatra 2
- ... Ptolemy Caesar. Ptolemy Caesar, (The son of Julius Caesar), was one of main factors in the fall of Rome. Some of the things that could be linked to Ptolemy would be Caesar's assassination, the civil war between Octavious Caesar and Mark Antony and the death of his mother Cleopatra. This essay will be based on these accusations. First off, one of the greatest achievements of Julius Caesar would be the "Relationship ... convinced the council that Caesar was getting to powerful and must be stopped. Thus lead to the unexpected assassination of Julius Caesar. Besides the death of Caesar, Ptolomey could have well been the reason for civil war. Marc Antony, (Caesar's most trusted horse master), was entitled to half of the Roman empire while sharing the other half with Octavious. Octavious and Antony made a marriage with each other which ...
- 353: Adolf Hitler
- Adolf Hitler was a German political and government leader. And he is one of the 20th century’s most powerful dictators, when he ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.He turned Germany into a powerful war machine and provoked World War II in 1939,when he invaded Poland. He built the Nazi party into a mass movement. For sometime he dominated most of Europe and North Africa. He caused the slaughter of millions of Jews and ... he applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1907 and 1908 but he was rejected both times. During his spare time he read alot, developing anti-Jewish and antidemocratic views. When World War I started Hitler was rejected by the Austrian Army, but accepted by the German Army. He served as a messenger on the Western Front for most of the war, taking part in some of ...
- 354: Unity Amid Diversity
- ... were being challenged. Negroes in the south wanted equality and justice. The nation was in need of an ethic of caring and a solid identity of what it meant to be an “American.” With the war in Vietnam and the war for equality, people were fed up with all of the hate. The public cried, “Make love, not war (Tallulah).” During this time of hardship, the Civil Rights Movement introduced us to many influential Americans that helped make equality possible and also made everyone proud to be American. From the famous court case ...
- 355: The Transcontinental Railroad and Westward Expansion
- ... one crossed Southern Ontario between Niagara, New York, and the Detroit River. During the 1850's, North and South routes were developed both East and West of the Alleghenies. It was not until after the Civil War, however, that a permanent railroad bridge was constructed across the Ohio River. After the Civil War, the pace of railroad building increased. The Pacific railroads, the Union Pacific building from Omaha, Nebraska, and the Central Pacific building from Sacramento, California, had started to build a transcontinental railroad during the ...
- 356: Presdent James Abram Garfield
- Presdent James Abram Garfield Born in a log cabin, James Abram Garfield rose by his own efforts to become a college president, a major general in the Civil War, a leader in Congress, and finally president of the United States. Four months after his inauguration, he was shot by an assassin. After weeks of suffering he died. Birth and Boyhood James Abram Garfield was ... nonfraternity group and at the end of his first year was elected president of his class. The next year Lucretia came east to see him graduated with high honors (August 1856). From College President to Civil War General Garfield returned to Hiram to teach again at the Eclectic and after one year he was made president. The next year, in 1858, he married Lucretia. The couple began their life together ...
- 357: Stalin
- ... nationality issues at a time when the Bolsheviks were trying to keep the territories of the former Russian Empire under their power, Stalin’s post was crucial to the Bolshevik victory in the ensuring Russian Civil War (1918-1921). He was elected a member of the Communist Party’s highest decision-making body, the Politburo, and the Central Committee’s Orgburo (Organizational Bureau) in 1919. As a political commissar in the Red Army during the height of the civil war, Stalin supervised military activities against the counterrevolutionary White forces along the western front that were led by General Pyotr Wrangel. During the war between Russia and Poland from 1920 to 1921, his decisions ...
- 358: Ulysses S. Grant 2
- ... to West Point. Graduating 21st in a class of 39 in 1843, he was assigned to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. There he met Julia Dent, a local planter's daughter, whom he married after the Mexican War. During the Mexican War, Grant served under both General Zachary Taylor and General Winfield Scott and distinguished himself, particularly at Molina del Rey and Chapultepec. After his return and tours of duty in the North, he was sent to ... unsuccessful farming and business ventures in Missouri. (Grant Moves South, 18) He moved to Galena, Illinois, in 1860, where he became a clerk in his father's leather store. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Grant was appointed colonel, and soon afterward brigadier general, of the Illinois Volunteers, and in September 1861 he seized Paducah, Kentucky. After an indecisive raid on Belmont, Missouri, he gained fame when in ...
- 359: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... latest ten outlined here. The first of these ten specific icons is Harry S. Truman; born in Lamar, Missouri in 1884 and lived his life as a farmer. During his life he served in World War I as a captain in Field Artillery and then returned and married an Elizabeth Virginia Wallace; living together and opening a haberdashery in Kansas City. He was then elected as a judge in the Jackson County Court in 1922 then becoming a senator in 1934. Slightly later he headed an investigation committee in the Senate war checking waste and corruption saving large amounts of money even 15 million dollars. Truman was elected vice president to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the hardships in Soviet Russia. Truman was inaugurated on April 12 ... 1972 when he died. Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower was the thirty-fifth president of the United States. Among his many accomplishments was his prestige he gained as commanding general in Europe during World War II where he obtained a truce in Korea and worked to ease tensions of the Cold War. He followed policies of “Modern Republicanism” stating that “America is today the strongest, most influential, and most ...
- 360: Gibbons Vs. Ogden, 1824
- ... of slaves being freed by an all-powerful Congress, Chief Justice John Marshall was faced with his choice to say that Congress was the supreme power over all commercial aspects would split the country and civil war would ensue. Thus, the court was forced into a "middle of the road" decision-they said that Congress had the power to legislate on the Commerce of the United States, as opposed to direct control ... of steamboat traffic. New York was deeply influenced by Sectionalism, purporting that by signing the Declaration of Independence, each state had become a sovereign power. This being so, the states had the ability to "levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do to all other acts and things which independent States may of right do," and thus, New York made its Legislature the supreme power, as opposed to ...
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