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- 1401: Napoleon and the Battle of Moscow
- ... problems over trade as well as economic agreements. Russia began to let up helping France against England, their enemy, because Alexander was beginning to side with England over France. When Napoleon captured Italy, Spain, and Germany, Russia began to feel pressured. In 1812 Napoleon led his army onto Russian soil (Resnick 77). On June 24, 1812, Napoleon led an army of 640,000 troops onto Russian soil. The Grand Army, as ...
- 1402: The Raid of Dieppe
- ... were light although they could not afford the loss of forty-eight aircraft. Of the eighteen hundred and seventy-three Canadians taken prisoner in Dieppe five hundred and seventy were wounded. Most were imprisoned in Germany until their release at the end of the war. Of the twenty-two hundred and eleven Canadians who returned to England, almost half had not taken part in the raid. "The lessons learned at Dieppe ...
- 1403: The Impact of the Second Industrial Revolution on Europe
- ... supply of raw materials. Africa and all it’s rich land was spilt between the European countries. Most of the continent went to Britain and France. Belgium acquired the very rich land of the Congo. Germany and Italy were late comers and were forced to take parts that were not as profitable As far as Europeans were concerned the colonies helped their economies, and therefore even though the treatment of the ...
- 1404: Bystanders are the Real Criminal
- ... bystanders is that they do not act to make the situation better. Historic examples such as those from the Holocaust during World War II may aid in explaining the inaction of bystanders. The citizens of Germany during this period, many of whom did not support the Hitler regime, still refused to take in or hide Jews who could have otherwise been saved from execution by the German military. Although there were ...
- 1405: Medieval Castles
- ... empires were constructed in Europe. Many of the stone castles of the late Middle Ages still stand. Some are tourist attractions, in various states of repair, along the Rhine River from Mainz to Cologne in Germany, dotted about the French countryside, or perched on hilltops in Spain. The original French castles had been built on open plains. Later ones, however, were situated on rocky crags, at river forks, or in some ...
- 1406: Holocaust Revisited
- ... long before the result of the conditions of the war itself. Hitler wrote the Mein Kampf in 1923 while serving a sentence in a Landsberg prison. Moving ahead several years after Hitler took control of Germany, he and his men discuss those who should be included in the “final solution”. “In the course of the final solution, the Jews should be brought under appropriate direction in a suitable manner to the ...
- 1407: The Catholic Church and The Middle Ages
- ... through faith. His publishing of the Ninety-Five Theses, which covered the abuse of indulgences, is often seen as the beginning of the Reformation movement. However, the movement was not only confined to Luther's Germany. Native reform movements in Switzerland found leadership in Ulrich Zwingli, who eventually sought an alliance with Luther and the German reformers, and especially in John Calvin, whose Institutes of the Christian Religion became the most ...
- 1408: Did Napoleon Preserve Or Pervert The Gains Of The Revolution
- ... It was his soldiers who ousted the old dynasties throughout Europe and gave rise to both German and Italian nationalism that eventually unified the numerous minor kingdoms, states, and principalities into the respective nations of Germany and Italy. After Brumaire (9-10 Nov. 1799) --the coup d’etat which first set Napoleon on the path to becoming the supreme executive of a French empire—Napoleon declared, “The Revolution is made fast ...
- 1409: Israeli Arab Conflict
- ... on Israeli schools, marketplaces, bus stations, and airports, with the stated objective of redeeming Palestine"(Peretz). Yet another terrorist attack was carried out against Israel, but this time at the 1972 Summer Olympics in West Germany eleven Israeli athletes were killed. In October 1973 Egypt and Syria joined forces on a surprise attack against Israel on Yom Kippur its most holiest holiday, there objective was to gain back the territories that ...
- 1410: Philippine Annexation
- ... the people of the Philippines meant that they would have the right to govern their own country. Another argument that was presented was that not only did the United States have to deal with Britain, Germany, Russia, and France for possession, they would also have to deal with Japan who had formidable ships of war. Europe and Japan also were prepared for a struggle for possessions of the Far East close ...
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