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- 301: France 2
- ... estimated that on the eve of the French Revolution one-fifth of the population had no resources at all. World War I broke out August 1914, setting France, Russia, Britain, Belgiumand Serbia at war with Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Everyone assumed the war would be over in a few months. Instead, the war lasted for four years. Germany finally agreed to sign an armistice on November 11, 1948. (A kind of peace agreement). The death toll had been the largest of any previous wars. France had lost over 1.4 million men and in all of Europe over 8.5 million were killed. People said it was the war to end all wars. Only twenty years later France was plunged into another war with Germany. On June 22, 1940 France was forced to sign an agreement with Germany. By 1942 France was totally occupied by the Nazi army. This was a very hard time, Jews were persecuted and thousands ...
- 302: Ferdinand Von Zeppelin
- ... gone aloft in military observation balloons. During Zeppelin's military career, he fought in the Seven-Weeks War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), serving in the armies of Wόrttemburg, Prussia and Imperial Germany. In 1890, Zeppelin retired from military service as a brigadier of cavalry, but the 52 year old count was not ready to retire completely. He had been nursing a dream since 1874 of giant flying ... 1908, the imperial German government bought the LZ 3 and gave it the army designation of LZ 1. Airplanes were still flimsy and extremely limited. Zeppelin's airships had an enormous performance advantage. By 1914, Germany had the largest fleet of airships of any nation. While impressive, the airship's performance advantage over airplanes had all but disappeared. Over 100 airships were used by Germany during the Great War for reconnaissance and bombing. Those chores shifted to airplanes later in the war. Count von Zeppelin died in 1917 without seeing his vision of regular airship passenger lines come to ...
- 303: The Ss
- ... 1934 the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler started action. As a result of a the political situation that had been growing within the NSDAP over Ernst Rφhm and his stated desire for a second revolution in Germany, with the ultimate creation of a true "People's Army" in place of the regular armed forces, a move was made to remove the problematic heads of the SA. This action culminated in what is ... the Saarland as an advanced group, and soon after, on the 28th of February Bataillone stabs, were sent into the Saarland to take part in the festivities marking the recent return of the Saarland to Germany. Later on the 1st of March, other units of the LSSAH joined the rest of their unit in the Saarland. After the Polish Campaign, the LAH was pulled back into Germany for rest and refitting. The LAH then took part in the Western Campaign, first against the Low Countries and then against France. The LAH was initially in Army Reserve, while one of its motorcycle ...
- 304: Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power
- ... Benito Mussolini rose in to power very fast. His Fascist Party Blackshirts marched into Rome in 1922, one year before Hitler's first failed try to seize power. When Hitler became the Fuehrer (Leader) of Germany, Mussolini had been "IL DUCE" (Leader) of Italy for more than ten years. Mussolini had been successful in improving the Italian economy, as it was said, "He made the trains run on time" (by shooting ... Ethiopia was carried out with a ruthless disregard for world opinion,including the use of poison gas. When the British and French leaders condemned him for these acts, he looked elsewhere for allies and found Germany and Japan. He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936- 1939 Spanish Civil War. This gained him an ally, Spanish Generalissimo Franco, but being associated with the atrocities of this brutal war lost him still more support in the rest of the world. His biggest mistake, however, was the decision to enter the Second World War. On 10 June 1940, Germany had been at war with Britain and France since the previous September, but Italy was still at peace, and had little reason to fear that any of the other powers would attack it. Germany ...
- 305: Put Myself In My Shoes
- ... seen in "Neighbors" and "What's in Alaska?"; in this case, the Myerses go to visit the Morgans, whose house they had lived in for a year while Professor Morgan and his wife were in Germany, but whom they have not seen since. Furthermore, the issue of empathy that surfaced in "Fat," "Neighbors," and "The Idea," the ability to visualize oneself in another's perspective, is so central here that in ... into question the appropriateness of his vocation as a writer. Hilda Morgan later narrates another story, that of Mrs. Attenborough, an Australian woman who had collapsed and died while visiting them in their home in Germany. Hilda had left her purse (containing ID cards, a check, and some cash) in a museum, where Mrs. Atttenborough had found it, minus the cash; she has taken an taxi to the Morgnas' house to ... was lying unconscious, Hilda went through her purse in search of identification, only to find the missing money. When Hilda tells that " Fate sent her to die on the couch in our living room in Germany", Myers cannot restrain his laughter. As Myers continues to giggle, Morgan pounces on him: "If you were a real writer, as you say you are, Mr. Myers, you would not laugh
You would not ...
- 306: The Dropping of The Atomic Bomb: Was It The Best Way to End The War?
- ... reason had very much to do with the World War?. America was the first country that succeeded inventing this weapon, and that invention was epoch-making at that time. In fact, the able doctors in Germany, which was the enemy of the Allied Forces including America, found the principles of the atomic bomb at first, and Nazis made them invent the atomic bomb. Some doctors thought that Nazis would use the ... more than three thousand B29s.(116) Thinking of the circumstances at that time, it becomes clear that America tried to invest the atomic bomb for opposing the Nazis. Probably, it was to be dropped on Germany after being completed. Then, why did America drop the atomic bomb on Japan? Was it really necessary? Now many countries besides America have the nuclear weapon, and it becomes the worldwide problem to experiment with ... Soviet Union.(83) In addition to these facts, Ronald Takaki conjectures another reason why America dropped the atomic bomb. He says that the Pacific War gradually became the racial war. American military was fought with Germany, too, but there was not such a racial prejudice for the German. Most of them thought that the German looked like themselves.(99) However, the Japanese did never. He thought that this fact caused ...
- 307: Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879.As a kid he had trouble learning to speak. His parents thought that he might be mentally retarded. He was not smart in school. He suffered under the learning methods that they used in the schools of Germany at that time so he was never able to finish his studies. In 1894 his father's business had failed and the family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein who had grown interested in science, went ... rays passing near the sun would be bent out of a straight line. When this was verified at the eclipse of 1919, Einstein was instantly accepted as the great scientific thinker since Newton. By now Germany had fallen in the hands of Adolf Hitler and his Nazis. Albert Einstein was Jewish. In 1933 when the Nazis came to power, Einstein happened to be in California. He did not return to ...
- 308: The Reformation
- ... said he would not do so until he was convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures. Other scholars also helped the Reformation. Philip Melanchton, Luther's colleague became the main theologian of the Reformation in Germany. Johannes Reuchlin enlarged the field of ideas by allowing the study of Hebrew and Greek. Knowledge of ancient languages allowed people to read the Bible in its original form. Johannes Tauler of Strausbourg had the ... was passed. The Reformation also spread to Scandinavia Forms of Protestanism After the Reformation, many Protestant religions were formed. The most dominant was Lutheran, which was the original Protestant religion. Lutheran was mostly followed in Germany and Scandinavia. Lutheran taught the ideas of Martin Luther. Another major Protestant religion was Calvinist(Now called Presbyterian).Calvinism taught the ideas of Martin Luther and John Calvin. A major idea of Calvinism was predestination ... leaving the Church, and tried to make Protestants return to the Catholic Church. Jesuits set up colleges and seminaries and sent missionaries to spread Catholicism to other lands. The Counter-Reformation created many conflicts. In Germany, Catholics and Protestants began to fight, and the Thirty Five Years War erupted. The war left Germany devastated. Results of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation The Reformation and Counter-Reformation devastated Europe. The religious ...
- 309: Slaughterhouse Five
- ... they left him. He includes a character from his home state of Indiana in every novel in order to put himself into the novels (Lundquist 4). Slaughterhouse Five takes place almost entirely within Hitler's Germany. It is perhaps Vonnegut's most autobiographical work to date, the action occurring in and around Slaughterhouse Five, the very hellhole in which he toiled for his captors. The former is no doubt less autobiographical, but the main character certainly has many things in common with his creator: an American artist within Nazi Germany, doing what he felt was necessary to stay alive and to further his work. The author himself tells us he had to write this book. His subtitle A Duty-Dance with Death also takes on ... the death, and its impact on him. Tools and Context (war) Through the use of philosophies and ideas, characters, and entire settings, Kurt Vonnegut makes his experiences as a soldier and a prisoner in the Germany of World War II an important part of his writing, as it is no doubt an important part of his life. He is able to take the attitudes and feelings of himself and of ...
- 310: Economic Espionage
- ... is called the LAKAM, and is one of Israel's most effective intelligence organizations> LAKAM is an Hebrew acronym for Israeli Defense Minuister's Scientific Liaison Bureau. Its agents operate in United States, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Sweden. LAKAM's biggest operation is in the US. Their agents operate out of the Israeli ambassy in Washington as well as two other shops, in Los Angeles and the ... are in direct contact with the Prime Minister through the telephone and telex, but if it is something that is extremely sensitive diplomatic pouches are used to transport it. Next lets turn our attention toward Germany. Germany's intelligence service is called the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). Since the 1960's the Germans have been actively involved in spying on the US, France, Great Britain, and Italy. The BND regularly monitor telecommunications of ...
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