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- 2161: World War I
- ... army first established the use of tanks, a new weapon in warfare. The Germans, in turn, developed new weapons to deal with the tanks which included field guns such as the German 77 mm and French 75 mm (Young World Book 369). A famous long range gun was called Big Bertha. This was also the first war in which cars and trucks were used to carry men and supplies to the ...
- 2162: The Vikings
- ... out and then t urned, leaving the stitching on the inside. Subsistence and survival is a main factor in any culture for it to live and be prosperous. The Vikings were around during the agrarian revolution and when they stayed in one area for a long enough time they grew a lot of their food. They also were involved with animal husbandry for sheep and cattle on their farms for food ...
- 2163: Henry Ford
- ... mother), the explosion sent pieces of glass and boiling water crashing around the kitchen! Miraculously the young observer was left untouched! This result is eerily reminiscent of the effect Ford would have on the industrial revolution in times to come. As he grew up his father allowed him to tinker with many of the tools on the farm. Ford s mother called him a born mechanic and provided him with darning ...
- 2164: The Civil Rights Movement
- ... the Voting Rights act of 1965. However, there has been debate about when it began and whether it has ended yet. The Civil Rights Movement has also been called the Black Freedom Movement, the Negro Revolution, and the Second Reconstruction. There were three main tenets to the Civil Rights Movement, the Post Civil War Period, the Educational Period, and the Social Movement. Following the Civil War, the 13th 14th and 15th ...
- 2165: Henry James And William Dean Howells
- ... James continues the theme of placing Americans without sufficient social experience into the complex society and culture of Europe with The American, which chronicles a man whose finds himself unable to buy his way into French society. (Matthiessen 14) For Henry James, the years of 1882 to 1895 brought less success. His novels now took on a more political tone. (Matthiessen 15) In 1886, he published The Bostonians, regarding the feminist ...
- 2166: Hitler 2
- ... in August 1939 and in the pact, the two countries secretly divided up Poland. Having neutralized the USSR, Hitler attacked Poland in September 1939. The Poles were quickly overpowered, and their allies, the British and French, who had declared war on Germany, would do nothing to help. In the spring of 1940 Hitler's forces overran Denmark and Norway and a few weeks later routed the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. The ...
- 2167: Truth and Consequences: Taking Advantage of the Loser of WWI
- ... forced to renounce the government of the Saar in favor of the League of Nations as trustee. France went so far as to take German coal mines in the Saar Basin as compensation for destroyed French mines during battle. France also got back the territories of Alsace and Lorraine and they had any territories ceeded to Germany returned. Germany was forced to go against their views and acknowledge the complete independence ...
- 2168: Is The History Nonsense?
- ... of history. We absorb knowledge from our history, remold our society, make new inventions and make progress. For example, the interaction of bursts of technological development First, appeared the steam power and drove the industrial revolution ; then introduced the railways; third , with the electrical power; fourth with cheap oil and the car. Not only are the history of innovation of technologies closely connected each other, but also are the political policies ...
- 2169: Isadora Duncan
- ... her life, Isadora was constantly depressed, lonely, and full of sorrow. She had brought three lives into the world, only to have them die in childhood. She gave up her most recent school to the French to use for battered veterans of World War I. Isadora decided that the best way to forget what was making her depressed was to abandon her romance and concentrate on her art. She went once ...
- 2170: The Titanic
- ... was 92 ft. wide and 114 ft. long. (Titanic, p.2) . The restaurant sat about 500 people (Titanic, p.2). There were a few other places to have dinner on the boat, even a real French restuarant called, "Cafe Parisien" (Titanic, p.2). During the day many rich people went to the Lounge at the Promenade deck, the walls were similar to the ones at Versailles Castle near Paris, it was ...
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