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- 7341: France 2
- ... Everyone assumed the war would be over in a few months. Instead, the war lasted for four years. Germany finally agreed to sign an armistice on November 11, 1948. (A kind of peace agreement). The death toll had been the largest of any previous wars. France had lost over 1.4 million men and in all of Europe over 8.5 million were killed. People said it was the war to ...
- 7342: Famous People Of The Civil War
- ... raid in 1859. During the Civil War she served as an army cook, a nurse, and became a spy for Maryland and Virginia. After the war she ran a home for elderly blacks until her death. Clara Barton Clara Barton is most remembered for organizing the American Red Cross Society. As a young girl she was shy, but she overcame her timid nature to become a very influential women during the ...
- 7343: Fall Of The Roman Empire
- ... a downfall. The fall of the Western Roman Empire was caused by internal decay in political and military issues, economics, sociology, and religion. The political and military state of Rome started to decline after the death of Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 180. When he died, his spoiled son, Commodus, took over. Commodus was a poor leader causing civil wars and tribes around the Mediterranean to invade. The Roman Empire declined ...
- 7344: Falkland Islands War Paper
- ... pariah by the Humphrey-Kennedy sanctions enacted by President Jimmy Carter in reaction to the gross human rights violations of the dirty war. From the terror of the later Peron years to Jorge Videla’s death squads, it is likely that few Argentines had much hope for their country at all. Yet it is hard to ignore the fact that Argentina was on an upswing! The economy was improving, the sanctions ...
- 7345: Essay On Origins Of World War
- ... that Germany’s youth in population gave the ‘national consciousness’ a feeling, which reinforced the demand for market and industrial expansion. Furthermore, the life expectancy of the Germans was on an incline, and the infancy death rate was on the decline. Fischer was making the point that Germany was developing into a highly industrialized country and “ … the problem of finding markets and raw materials to support her population was growing increasingly ...
- 7346: Egyptian And Mexican Pyramids
- ... Olmec and Maya about 7th century CE. These pyramids had different purposes and usage then the ones in Egypt but they stand as memorials to ancient civilizations as well. Egyptian people believed in life after death. One of the way pharaohs prepared themselves for the afterlife journey was by building a pyramid and putting there all their belongings and riches. Egyptian people believed that pharaoh is the closest person to the ...
- 7347: Egypt Civilization
- ... painted images of these gods on their walls or wore them as good luck charms. They believed that everyone had several parts. The ka; spiritual double, created at birth and released from the body at death. The ba; soul, and the akh; supernatural power. As long as the body was preserved, the ka and ba would live. That is why they carefully mummified their dead and laid them in tombs where ...
- 7348: Economic Recovery During The 1
- ... not in others. In the Shipbuilding industry 20% of the workforce was still unemployed. In society as a whole 1 million people were still unemployed, there was also families still living in poverty and high death rates also occurred. By examining areas such as depression, labours response, national governments response and other reasons for recovery it can be seen that recovery was hard to tackle but once the National Government found ...
- 7349: East-timor-conflict
- ... 6th, the home of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ximenes Belo, was set on fire. The bishop sought refugee in Baucau, though he was impotent to save the hundreds of refugees in his frontyard, now facing death or deportation to West Timor, like so many before them. More than 1,000 refugees were sheltered at the UNAMET compound in Dili, and the UN convoys were shot at in the road to the ...
- 7350: Early Resistance To British Na
- ... the riots in Calcutta in September of 1947 as well as causing a truce in Delhi in January of 1948. Alas, he was not able to celebrate freedom for long, as he was shot to death on January 30, 1948, on his way to the evening prayer. Yet he died with freedom, peace, and love within his heart. 3. The Muslim League The Muslim League was a Muslim political organization founded ...
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