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- 1151: The Effects of the Great War
- ... coast of Ireland. With 128 Americans dying Wilson denounced the act as inhuman, and the press called the act barbaric. Almost a year later in March another U-boat sank the Sussex, which was a French passenger ship that was carrying four Americans. The effects of the two German attacks caused the U.S. to start preparing for the Great War, the regular Army more than doubled in size with the ... the great uses of the government with new social issues such as women working out of the house, organized labor, prohibition, and the desire for "normalcy". It also provoked what many call the second industrial revolution. Overall the nation endured a great economic change. We saw greater production, a steady climb in wages, and average work week declined. Bibliography John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, Daniel, Czitrom, Susan H. Armstong, Out ...
- 1152: World War II in Europe
- ... launched an invasion of Norway and Denmark for resources such as the fjords. Next the German armies swept into the Netherlands and Belgium, where for the first time they met resistence from the British and French troops. In the spring of 1940, German forces defeated the Allied army and drove it to the sea at the French town of Dunkirk, breaking through the Maginot Line. Cut off from retreat by land, the army was saved when 300,000 British and French troops were evacuated across the English Channel in a heroic nine day rescue effort aided by 600 private boats, known as Operation Sea Lion. In June 1940, Italy suddenly invaded France and declared war ...
- 1153: World Wars of the 20th Century
- ... 1,400,000. Great Britain had only all-volunteers army in Europe, had only 120,000 at the start of the war.?????dont under stand sentence???? By 1917 the British Army had increased tenfold the French land forces had been enlarged to 2,600,000 and in 1918 the American Army in France numbered 1,200,000. It was the addition of troops from the United States that made it possible ... country had been betrayed by its politicians in World War I, the Germans continued to prepare secretly for another conflict. Russia, allied with France against Germany, had been knocked out of the conflict by the Revolution of 1917 and a hastily arranged treaty with the new Communist government. The gravest mistake made by the former Allies between 1919 and 1939 was the failure of the military to keep up with industrial ...
- 1154: A Statistical View of European Rural Life, 1600-1800
- ... big problem was that food prices kept rising, and soon the worker did not make enough money to buy food. There was much uprising in regards to the sky high food prices, resulting in the French Revolution. In Southern France, according to Document 5, the Plague killed more than half of the population in some areas. At this time, the prices of wheat were quite low, as were the temperatures. This means ...
- 1155: The Evolution of the world
- ... of Jesus Christ, who said that Jerusalem was the center of a flat earth, one might be able to relate this period in time to a much more recent and modern one. Prior to the French Revolution in 1789, France was ruled by an absolute divine right monarchy. The institution that had the most power at the time was the Catholic church. No one in France would ever dare question the word ...
- 1156: Bosnia-Hercegovina
- ... dynasty became quite close to the Angevins, and the daughter of Stjepan, king of Bosnia, married Louis I, king of Hungary. The kings of Naples were the Anjou fami ly, a junior branch of the French royal family, and bore France differenced with a label gules. I can well imagine the Kotromanic adopting, or being granted, fleur-de-lys on their coat of arms as reward for taking the Angevin side. For the moment, Bosnian history books are hard to come by, so I can't easily confirm my hunch. For some reason, these arms were forgotten after the 16th century. A 18th c. French genealogy of the Angevin kings of Hungary blazons the arms of Louis' wife as: Or, issuing from the sinister flank an arm embowed proper, vested Gules, holding a sabre Arge nt. These are also the arms attributed by the Austrians to Bosnia-Hercegovina after it was annexed from Turkey in 1908. However, a number of 19th century encyclopedias give yet another coat of arms (for example, the French Larousse), namely: Gules, a cres cent Argent beneath an 8-pointed star of the same. The crown over the shield is an Eastern crown, i.e. with "spikes". These arms recall the old symbol ...
- 1157: The Battle of the Spanish Armada
- ... country, France, were fighting each other, and Philip needed to keep England neutral. But alliances were never permanent in Europe; countries that were bitter enemies one day became close allies the next. In 1572, the French decided to join Spain in a Cath-olic alliance against the Protestants. (Howarth 17-22) The second reason was more personal to Philip. He greatly wanted to seek retribution on Elizabeth for all of the ... the fleet of Spanish warships that were needed for the invasion of England, the Spanish Armada, was begun in 1583 by the Spanish naval officer, Marquis of Santa Cruz. It was his defeat of a French Protestant fleet in June of that year which really demonstrated Spanish supremacy of the seas. Santa Cruz's main confidant was the Duke of Guise, who led the Catholic League in France. Their plan was ... over ten million ducats, and a ducat today would be worth about $12.50, bringing the cost to about 125 million dollars. (Marx 28) Philip decided that, instead of using the land forces that the French Duke of Guise had offered, he would send his own army from the Nether-lands. All of his spies in England and on the continent agreed that the most Elizabeth would be able to ...
- 1158: Chivalry
- Chivalry Chivalry, the order of knighthood, and especially, the code of knightly behavior, comes from many origins. In Middle English, the word "chevalrie" meant "mounted horseman". In Old french, the word "chevalrie" meant knightliness or "chevalier" meaning knight. (Microft, Encarta) Almost all origins of the word meant horseman. Warfare was not an option in the medieval period and the knight was the most crutial ... a child of noble birth would be placed in the castle of a lord or govenor. This is where the training for knighthood began. As a page, the boy would be tutored in Latin and French, but he devoted most of his time to physical exersice, and duties. A page was educated in wrestling, tilting with spears, and military exercises that were done on horseback. He was also taught dancing and ... him. The knight gave the squire a tap on the back of the neck with his hand. Another knight, or King would confirm these actions in the ceremony. This tap, called the "accolade" from the French word "col", meaning neck, was followed by the words, "I dub you knight." (Gies) When Christianity became more closely linked with knighthood, religious ceremonies became part of the knighting process. Before a squire was ...
- 1159: Sexuality
- ... bottom when they have sexual intercourse. Men dominant over the women in sex. In modern societies, women play an important part in sex. Women break free from the repression, fear and anxiety following the sexual revolution. Some of the women in America tried to break free from the male-dominant society by discussing their feeling about sex with other woman. Education leads them know more about sex. There are handbooks teaching ... defined sex ... are searching instead for that rare man who is willing to forsake the the divisive power of pornographic sex for the confusing, frightening, vulnerable intimacy of eroticism. (Women, 68) After the second sexual revolution, female could refuse the men's sexual needs. Som of the women turned to each other during the second sexual revolution to explore lesbian sex. Women were not punished. Sodomy is not uncommon in Greek myths. The Greek Gods would have intercourse with animals in the form of an animal, "Zeus approaches Leda as a ...
- 1160: Analysis of the Human Cultural Identity
- ... the resources to educate himself in many topics including history, literature, law, architecture, science, and philosophy. He had the motivation and the connections to apply Enlightenment political philosophy to nation-building. Denis Diderot was a French encyclopedist and philosopher, who also composed plays, novels, essays, and art. He greatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers with his translations of Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, usually known as ... was characterized by flying buttresses and stained glass. The flying buttresses not only enabled the churches to be built higher, but also gave them a majestic look. The Renaissance-Reformation culture is that of a revolution of changes in western civilization. Humanism, the revival of classical learning and speculative inquiry beginning in the fifteenth century in Italy during the early Renaissance, disabled the monopolies of the church's learning, and spread ...
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