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- 9251: Operation Barbarossa: A Good Plan?
- ... regime's inspiration but with the fact that the Russian people had been so used to intimidation and suffering under Stalin's iron fist that they had absolutely nothing to lose by fighting to the death, particularly if your only alternative was to be executed by your own government for treason. When Stalin addressed his people, he spoke to them as fellow citizens and brothers and sisters and not with the ...
- 9252: A Histographical Analysis Of Four Central Asian Leaders And Their Role During The Mongol Age
- ... and permanent camp by which to rule from. Bentley, on the other hand, has nothing to say about Tamerlane and for that matter the Timurids. Bentley stops his book with the beginning of the Black Death. Bentley goes on to say that the plague "disrupted the political, social, economic, and cultural orders of the people that it encountered" thus "interrupted the cross cultural encounters that had flourished during the Mongol era ...
- 9253: Iwo Jima
- ... on the island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.” (John Man 117-118) The Japanese were fierce and very honorable fighters. Armed with small arms fire they defended every part of Iwo Jima until the death. The Japanese believed if fascism, fascism was valuing the nation before the individual. The Japanese would do anything for Japan, and to save Iwo Jima. The Japanese would fight any amount of soldiers until they ...
- 9254: The Scientific Revolution & the Enlightenment in Europe
- ... enlightenment. He spent much of hi life arguing for religious toleration and freedom of thought. He was famous for his quote “ I do not believe a word you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltaire favored a strong monarch, and thought that rulers should be strong but enlightened. An enlightened monarch was a ruler who studied the science of government and protected basic rights ...
- 9255: The Rise of the Manchus
- ... declared independence. With opposition at every quarter and the nation breaking up into warlord factions, Yuan Shikai died of natural causes in June 1916, deserted by his lieutenants. Nationalism and Communism After Yuan Shikai's death, shifting alliances of regional warlords fought for control of the Beijing government. The nation also was threatened from without by the Japanese. When World War I broke out in 1914, Japan fought on the Allied ...
- 9256: The Assyrians
- ... son Ashurbanipal (r.668-627 BC). Ashurbanipal, was the last great king of Assyria and had to deal with many revolts. He led an expedition against Elam and captured Susa, its capital city. After his death, however, the empire gradually disintegrated. In 626 BC, Nabopalassar, a Chaldean nobleman, proclaimed Babylonian independence and, allied with the Medes, set out to challenge Assyria. In the years 614-609, Ashur and Nieveh were captured ...
- 9257: The Byzantine Empire
- ... empire. On the downside, he replaced the power of many older families with a new group of loyal families. This failure damaged the revenues, authority, personnel, and other military resources of the state. After his death though, the empire prospered in economic expansion but suffered from many mediocre emperors. These emperors neglected new technological, cultural, and economic developments in the western part of the empire. Meanwhile the army deteriorated. The old ...
- 9258: The Trojan War
- ... remained unquestioned for more than 100 years Most Ancient Greeks were suspicious of philosophers and their theories. They continued to believe in superstitions and in myths. In 399 BC, an Athens jury sentenced Socrates to death for showing disrespect to the gods. Greek architects, sculptors, and painters made great contributions to the arts. They were trying to create ideal beauty based on equal proportions. Greek sculptors portrayed figures of gods, goddesses ...
- 9259: World War 2
- ... election. Soon after he made himself absolute dictator, calling himself the Fuhrer which means "Leader". By the end of the 30's he was already sending Jews off too concentration camps to meet a horrible death. I believe that Hitler was one of the greatest causes of World War 2. Although there are many other reasons, he was definitely one of them. Another reason was the Treaty of Versailles. This was ...
- 9260: The Reign of Edward VI
- ... policy in that such policy was clearly defined. Protestant ideals and ideas were strengthened, but not necessarily for devotional or theological motives. The key protagonist of radical change, Northumberland, still proclaimed his Catholisism on his death-bed. Also, the country as a whole did not view Protestantism as a great religious advancement, and only in London and East Anglia can local level religious policy be said to have hardened. Another factor ...
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