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- 1071: Cathedrals
- ... the form to the Goths, Germanic invaders who helped lead to the downfall of the Holy Roman Empire and its classic ideals. In it's own time; Gothic architecture was referred to as "modern" or "French" architecture. The basic concepts and standards of Gothic form are colored, darkened and diffused light. A vertical rush to the sky, a synthesis of naturalistic and rational forms with mysticism and faith, the Cult of ... the vault sections from sexpartite intoquadripartite vaulting. Gothic also appeared in other countries, notable England and Germany, and although not very popular, somewhat in Italy. The styles in each country differed slightly from the traditional French Gothic structures, although Germany stayed quite close to the High French style with one of it's better known Gothic structures, Cologne Cathedral. Italian Gothic never quite won enough popularity, with Italian architects who never fully accepted into the Northern Gothic style. Italian structures that ...
- 1072: Causes Of World War 1
- ... Archduke Ferdinand was an immediate cause. Gavrilo Princip, working with a Serbian anti-Austrian secret society called The Black Hand shot Archduke Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 in order to make way for a Slavic revolution. The assassination didnt do as Princip hoped, and it was used as an excuse for Austria to take hostile action against Serbia. That was not the only cause of the war. The Alliance System ... people of a similar race and nationality wanted a nation to themselves. But the nationalism that contributed to the war was extreme nationalism. People started putting the governments issues and views before their own. French nationalists wanted Alsace-Lorraine back from Germany. German nationalists wanted to extend control and power. Russian nationalists wanted to unite the Serbs and to protect them. This was just one of the many causes of ...
- 1073: Causes Of The Revolutionary Wa
- ... that in 1764, the colonists were of a submissive nature, and were weakly pleading for self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly nullified; therefor, a revolution was viable. On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "That his Majesty's subjects in these ... should be destroyed, thus separation from England. A new society would follow, where the people of the society would have these rights necessary for self-autonomy. The Declaration of Independence was a strong justification for revolution. The Revolution follows the Declaration of Independence, where a transition occurs. The transition has to do with the rights of the colonists. The colonists acquire their rights through resistance to British imperial conformity, by resisting certain ...
- 1074: Civil War 6
- ... their efforts into the war. Even though it was considered wrong and illegal, over 400 women fought during the Civil War (Carrigan, personal interview). Many women in the United States had strong feelings toward this revolution and fought alongside their husbands in this four-year war. However, because the Civil War fell into a time period of great prejudice and stereotype against women, any female caught fighting was ordered by law ... up their fellow Union soldiers (Grunn, personal interview). Clarkson 5 Many other ethnic groups also fought in the United States Civil War even though they are very seldom talked about. Many Irish, English, Italian, and French Americans who were born in their native lands but came to America for one reason or another, ended up fighting in this war against slavery. Most of these people who immigrated from across the Atlantic ...
- 1075: Comparing Britain To Japan
- ... of the British monarchies were much different from Japans. Britain is one of the few states that has never been conquered and reshaped by another government. They have also never had a full-fledged revolution, ousting one regime and putting in place a totally different one. From 1066 to the eighteenth century British politics consisted of rule by the crown and the aristocracy. There was usually tension between the crown and the others. However, it was out of this tension that legal and representative institutions evolved which would later be picked up and adopted to democratic government. Britain did however have one brief revolution. The British monarchy was overthrown by the Puritan Revolution in 1649, and from 1653 to 1658 Oliver Cromwell ruled Britain as a republic. Once again, the monarchy was restored in 1660. (Shively p.107) One of the main factors that led to a ...
- 1076: Conscription Crisis Of 1917
- ... was a time of worry and despair. As there was not enough people in Europe to fight in the war. Ideas of conscription floated through the minds of members of Parliament. Before WW1 began, the French and the English were already having disagreements over Regulation 17, which was introduced by the Ontario Department of Education in 1913. The French felt they were having their rights taken away and that the English were being strongly favoured. Many French Canadians were beginning to have serious doubts about the need to go and fight against the "Prussians" Tempers flared at both ends of the school debate. An angry Henri Bourassa declared that the real ...
- 1077: Colonization
- ... final motivations for colonization any longer. Each country also had their individual set of objectives for exploring the Americas. Spain, along with its quest for riches became determined to convert the "heathens" to Catholicism. The French and the Dutch stuck to the primary objectives of new riches and the discovery of the Northwest Passage. England, spurred by growing national rivalries with France and especially Spain, explored the New World for the ... motives for colonization: the quest to save the "heathens". This religious motive fit into the scheme of the Spanish plan for colonization since the Spanish were coexisting with the Indians in the first place. The French and the Dutch both had the same goal of searching for the Northwest Passage as a purpose for exploring the New World. Both countries also ended up with fur trading as their final motivation for ... profitable fur trade was carried on and became the main source of revenue for the Dutch West India Company, the joint-stock company that ran the colony. The original intentions for the Dutch and the French was to search for the Northwest Passage, but as both nations decided to colonize they had to change their goals to establishing a viable market economy. The initial intentions of the European nations were ...
- 1078: Cambodia And United Nations
- ... group that makes up 90% of the total population is Khmer. The major religion in Cambodia is Theravada Buddhism. About 95% of the people in Cambodia follow this religion. The official language is Khmer, and French is the second most common language. The French colonized Cambodia for 83 years. Cambodia became independent in November 1953. This was because Norodom Sihanuk led a peaceful independence movement against the French. Norodom Sihanuk was the current Prince of Cambodia at that time. Soon after this, a communist group called the Khmer Rouge, which was lead by Pol Pot and backed up by the Chinese stepped ...
- 1079: British Appeasement
- ... was effective in achieving its aim. After World War I, Britain wanted a purged Germany to take her place among European nations once again. Many of the British ruling class preferred the Germans to the French. The British treated Hitler as a responsible statesman who would keep his bargains. He was in a responsible position and had to be treated like a head of state. Britain and the League of Nations ... Slovaks and the possibility that Czechoslovakia would break up anyhow. Then Chamberlain made a grand diplomatic gesture in March 1939 as he gave a guarantee to Poland of military protection if Germany attacked. The British-French alliance pledged to aid Poland with all available power, "...in the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces ... costly to maintain. To a great extent, appeasement was a course that tended to ignore some hard political ideas. The question of the Rhineland occupation presented differences in diplomatic procedures, testing the durability of the French-British alliance. The western Allies emerged from the war having defeated Hitler and his army in 1945, yet somehow; the word "winner" seems inappropriate. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Calvocoressi &Wint Total War: The Causes and Courses of ...
- 1080: Brian Mulroney And The Free Tr
- ... Canadian history, winning 211 seats in the House of Commons. Brian Mulroney was also a party animal, having "attended his first PC convention in 1956 as vice- chairman of Youth for Diefenbaker." He learned his French easily, growing up bilingual in the company pulp town of Baie-Comeau. Mulroney thrived on campus Tory politics and networking. "Unlike Clark, Mulroney finished his law degree and began making a name for himself practising ... S. market." History, no doubt, will properly credit Brian Mulroney and the government he led but it is safe to say that from 1984 to 1993 Brian Mulroney and his government brought about a major revolution in Canadian politics and fundamentally changed the way the government operates. This included "reversing unchecked government growth with a steady program of budget cuts and freezes, attacks on inflation, the free-trade treaty with the ...
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