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- 1061: Isolationism
- ... In 1794, Congress passed a neutrality act that forbade Americans to participate in the war and prohibited the use of American land as a base of operations for either side. Even with these efforts, the French and British challenged American neutrality by seizing American ships and using American ports for warships. After Jay’s and Pinckney’s treaties of 1794 and 1795, American relations with Britain and Spain improved, but relations with France worsened. Attempting to reach a peaceful settlement, John Adams sent John Marshall, Charles Pinckney and Elbridge Gerry to negotiate with the French and this was the beginning of the XYZ Affair. The French demanded a loan and a bribe from the U.S.; Adams was outraged and urged readiness for war. Another war was sparked by the British impressment of American ships, for example the Chesapeake affair, ...
- 1062: Immigrants 2
- ... 1910, 1913, and 1914. Totaling over 23 million immigrants to America between the years 1880 and 1921. These new immigrants were largely Italians, Hungarians, Jews, Serbians, Irish, and Slovaks. Other small, but notable groups included French Canadians, Chinese, and Japanese. This so called "new immigration" was different in many other ways from previous immigration. Until 1897, 90 percent of all overseas immigrants had come from Protestant northern and western Europe. But ... American magnet. However, most of the immigrants came to the United States for economic reasons. In the late 1800’s, the agriculturally based economies of many European towns declined as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Farmers and local craftspeople often could not compete with the technology and the mass production of the cities. Many of these farming families lived on tiny plots of land that barely provided the foodstuffs they ...
- 1063: Images Of Control Progaganda
- One of the greatest revolutions in the twentieth century was not political in nature. It however aided in many different political revolutions. This revolution was the communications revolution. The twentieth century has experienced one of the greatest changes in mean of communication including technologies such as radio, television, motion pictures, advanced telecommunications and the Internet. These technologies have been used to fulfill the ... been regarded as the greatest propaganda film of all time (Maltin, 1995, CD-ROM). The film was carefully staged to present Adolf Hitler as a god and to present the glories of the National Socialist revolution and the newly founded Third Reich. The film has many long scenes of marching troops and endless formations Hitler Youth, SA, SS, and German workers. Constant themes throughout the film are positioning Hitler above ...
- 1064: Homosexual Persecution In The
- For most of the medieval and early modern times death was the penalty for homosexual acts. Due to the impact of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, many German States, starting with Bavaria , decriminalized homosexuality. Prussia was the exception. It heightened legislation concerning this issue which eventually was carried over in 1871 on to the Reich as a whole. (Burleigh and Wipperman ...
- 1065: How Did The Franco-german Alli
- ... creation of the European Economic Community (EEC), to eventually become the European Union. EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY. The man responsible for concocting this idea is a man by the name of Robert Schuman, the French Foreign Minister from 1948 to 1953. He announced his plan in 1950, a plan which he said was " the first step in the realisation of a vision, a vision of a united Europe which would ... the two countries. Schuman was even quoted as saying that " the solidarity in production thus established will make it plain that any war between France and Germany becomes not merely unthinkable but actually impossible." The French also saw this treaty as an opportunity for a "rapprochement" with Germany, and as a chance to establish its leadership in Europe. So this association was more of a political one than an economic one ... the Union. Who know's what might have become of the European Economy if it wasn't for the Schuman Plan and for the co-operation that it brought ? Many people may not like the French, but for this once, they had the right idea. BIBLIOGRAPHY. - Bok, Derek Curtis, The first three years of the Schuman Plan, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1955. - Heckscher, August, Europe's Coal & Steel Community, ...
- 1066: Extent Of European Influence B
- ... continent. All this is important because finding this new land was untouched resources is how Europe turned a new trade route into a whole new very wealthy economy. It was not very long until the French, English and even the Swedes figured out that this was something that they should probably start doing. The bottom line with any country at this time was to expand and start building a solid economy ... the Spanish first started their explorations everywhere they went they destroyed, literally every bit of evidence that there was human civilization. Even if the Spanish were using less than honorable modes of establishing themselves, the French and English were being business minded in the north. They approached the Indians as more of a business partner. They were imitating what the Portuguese were doing with the Africans. They were able to introduce metal and could profit ten fold. Not to mention that at that time beavers were discovered. This is important because beaverskin repels water and are good for making hats. All the sudden the English, French and a few other European countries with their advanced weapons were able to control all the waterways and defend their villages from the Indians. This massive pilgrimage from Europe to America expanded an already ...
- 1067: Evaluation Of The Agricultural
- ... and food shortages. The political situation was changing very quickly due to the Government problems, the Tsar was an absolute ruler. Others wanted to share the power. Russian industry was undergoing great changes. An industrial revolution was happening. After the disaster war with Japan there was a navy plan which would have made Russia the third world greatest naval power in the world by 1931. All of this led to certain changes in the regime that was used. A new chief minister Stolypin planned important changes in the countryside. He wanted to prevent another revolution carried out by peasants and he wanted to turn Russia into modern industrial country. For this to happen Russia would had to be more efficient to produce the extra food for the increasing numbers of ... how the country was ruled and a proletariat who were forced to live and work in appalling conditions. The policy designed to make Russia successful also produced much of the discontent which led to the revolution in 1905. While the Tsar and prime minister hoped to buy the support of the bourgeoisie through the creation of the Duma, nothing was done to improve the conditions of industrial workers. The people ...
- 1068: Cold War 4
- ... weakpoints of Yalta was that no specific agreements were reached concerning the two major problems. Germany, it was decided, should be divided into three zones – a British, an American and a Russian – whereby an additional French one would be cut out from the Anglo-American share. Similarly the capital, Berlin, would be parted into four sectors. Stalin furthermore urged for the reparations payments to be fixed at $20,000 million which ... future discussions. What the decisions meant in effect was that Germany would be geographically divided and the different policies of East and West would be stamped onto either zone or sector. The British, Americans and French would join to rebuild Germany economically for a united, stable Europe, while the Russians would cripple their partition by exploiting the resources they believed adequate to the agreed reparations. Even more, if problems would arise ... of Berlin was not accepted by the Stalin due to his anti-Soviet remarks. The division between East and West centralised and reflected onto Germany. When the Americans and the British (and soon after the French too) integrated their zones economically, it was seen as a threat by the Soviets of an Anglo-American domination. After a secret meeting, where the Western Allies agreed on creating a unified West German ...
- 1069: Code Of Behavior
- ... the works of the troubadours, finally developing their own genre, which although similar in subject and musical form to that of the troubadours, placed more emphasis on heroic epics. The trouvères wrote in the northern French language (also called langue d'oïl). About 1400 melodies and 4000 poems by them have survived. The most famous trouvère was Adam de la Halle. See also Minnesinger; Provençal Language; Provençal Literature. I INTRODUCTION Lyric ... as the canzone and rondeau for singing. In Germany the earliest lyricists were the minnesingers. Although most medieval lyrics were written anonymously, two names are notable. The 15th-century poet François Villon was the greatest French lyric poet after the troubadours; the earliest English lyrics were by the 14th-century master Geoffrey Chaucer. Ballads, often classed as narrative poems, are considered lyrics by some scholars because they are sung. By the ... Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning also wrote fine sonnets. In 1859Edward FitzGerald produced a famous volume of translations from the Persian collection of verse Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (12th century). The chief French lyric poets of this period included Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stéphane Mallarmé. In the United States the outstanding lyricists included Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Giacomo Leopardi was the leading Italian ...
- 1070: Canadian Confederation
- ... federal union, with the capital located in Ottawa. While many of the English speaking delegates from Upper Canada and Lower Canada and the Maritimes would have preferred a legislative union, they generally realized that the French Canadians would never agree to one level of government for the whole nation for they would lose control of their language and culture.12 Maritimers too were reluctant to lose their own provincial assemblies. The ... laws concerning education and separate schools. While the central government would control finance, the postal system, defense and banks, the provincial governments would look after roads, healthcare and other local concerns. Both the English and French languages could be used in the debates in the Parliament of Canada and in the judicial courts. The Intercolonial Railway would be completed between Nova Scotia and Quebec. Provisions were made permitting the entrance of ... The more they considered taking over the responsibility for their own affairs from England, however, the greater trust they had to place in Confederation.”25 Confederation struck a balance between the rights of English and French speaking Canadians. Nevertheless, many divisions, conflicts, and debates would occur not only in Quebec but also in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick over this balance. Economic disparities between the Maritimes and the rest of ...
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