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- 411: Illumaniti
- ... sent to the Illuminates in France, who were headed by Robespierre, whom Weishaupt had delegated to foment the French Revolution. The carrier was struck and killed by lightning as he rode on his way from Germany to France. The police found the subversive documents on his body, and turned them over to the proper authorities. After a careful study of the plot, the Bavarian Government ordered the police to raid Weishaupt ... to engage in another international plot. This time they organized the Napoleonic Wars to topple several more of the Crowned Heads of Europe. One branch of the Financiers financed Napoleon, while another branch financed Britain, Germany, and other nations. Of course, both branches received their orders from the masterminds of the Illuminati. Immediately after the Napolionic Wars, the Illuminati assumed that all the nations would be so desperate and so weary ... their names to conceal this fact. There is a similar establishment of the Illuminati in England, operating under the name of the British Institute of International Affairs. There are similar secret Illuminati organizations in France, Germany, and other nations operating under different names. All of these organizations, including the CFR, continuously set up numerous subsidiary or front organizations that are infiltrated into every phase of the various nations affairs. But ...
- 412: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... persistence of strong isolationist sentiment among the voters and by congressional passage of a series of neutrality laws intended to prevent American involvement in a second world war. Roosevelt won the contest when, alarmed by Germany's defeat of France in 1940, Congress passed his lend-lease legislation to help Great Britain's continued resistance to the Germans. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, brought the United ... Atlantic Charter. It denied territorial ambitions, favored self-government and liberal international trade arrangements, and pledged freedom from want and permanent security against aggression. At Casablanca, Morocco, in January 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill insisted on Germany's unconditional surrender as a means of preventing the enemy's future military resurgence. The Québec Conference (August 1943) planned the Normandy invasion. At Moscow (October 1943) the Allied foreign ministers approved in principle a postwar organization for world security. Military strategy and the problem of postwar Germany came under discussion at Cairo (November-December 1943) and Québec (September 1944). Finally, at Yalta in the USSR (February 1945), Roosevelt, Churchill, and Joseph Stalin broached their plans for a postwar world. In the ...
- 413: Hemp Around The World
- ... Corporation manufactures specialty hemp papers, including Bible and cigarette papers, there. French companies are also experimenting with combining hemp fibers and lime to make a lightweight natural cement that can also be used as plaster. GERMANY Since the German ban on the farming of hemp (hanf) in 1982, there has been little activity until recently. The last German hemp grower farmed 350 acres, selling the fiber to manufacturers of ropes, textiles ... papers, and the inner stem (or hurds) for conversion into particle board and insulation material. Hemp has been grown for research purposes at the Agricultural Research Laboratory in Braunschweig since 1992. The 1993 publication in Germany of The Rediscovery of the Resource Hemp, Cannabis Marijuana, by Herer, Brockers and Katalyse, helped spark renewed interest in the media and general public. The German Association of Farmers has come out in support of the reintroduction of hemp for cultivation. Meanwhile, many German firms are developing technologies and products based on imported hemp. A seven-store chain, the Hanfhaus (Hemphouse), specializes in hemp products. In 1993, Schneidersohne, Germany's largest paper manufacturer, introduced a line of hemp-based paper products. According to the Nova Institute of Cologne, total 1994 sales of hemp products surpassed DM 20 million (US $14 million), up from ...
- 414: Manhattan Project
- ... on the bomb in the United States. The research was called "The Manhattan Engineer District Project" but it was more commonly known as "The Manhattan Project."1 The Manhattan Project was brought by fear of Germany and it's atomic research. On account of the fear of Germany the United States took action upon testing their own atomic bomb. Once the bomb was tested, the United States had to decide whether it should be used and if so, where? Then there was the ... the atomic bomb was finished, the presidency had changed. President Roosevelt died of polio, so Harry S. Truman was left in charge of the decisions involving the bomb. The focus of the war was changing. Germany was starting to lose in the war day by day. So the U.S. decided to focus much of their attention on the war with Japan. A committee was formed to advise the president ...
- 415: Explain the U.S. & Russian Positions In The Cold War
- ... settled on November 20, 1962 when the Soviet Union agreed to remove it missiles from Cuba. The Berlin Wall The Soviet Union erected the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961; therefore, separating both Berlin and Germany. Krushchev built the wall in order to remove the Western Powers from their outpost (Berlin) in East Germany. He also intended to stop the emigration of East Germans to the West through West Berlin. Some Russians saw Krushchev's solution as being a weak and unsatisfactory solution for expelling Americans from the East. The US had intended to strengthen their positions in East Germany before the wall was built. Kennedy's reaction was that of minor protest; as a result, he was accused of being soft on communism because he didn't send any troops in to tear ...
- 416: Adolf Hitler's A Oratory Genius
- ... his famous speeches during the pre-war Nazi years, when his party was only coming into power and Adolf Hitler, as a personality, was making his presence known on the scene. This historical backdrop of Germany in the 1930's reveals a country knee-deep in economic depression, and as would well be expected, the climate was ripe for a new leader. Adolf Hitler made his presence known in the form ... Hitler had found a home and glorified the raw majesty of life under fire, the beauty of comradeship and the nobility of the warrior. His soldierly dreams of victory and fulfillment were shattered, however, by Germany's defeat. He became convinced that Germany had been stabbed in the back by Jews and Marxists.1 Oratory and the printed word were much a part of Adolf Hitler's rise to save the "fatherland." It is my personal view ...
- 417: The First Battle of the Somme
- ... one of the largest land battles ever fought during a war. After the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria on on June 28, 1914, war began to break out among Western countries (“World“ 1). Germany declared war on Russia, then on France, and then invaded Belgium, which was a neutral country (“World” 1). Much needless Belgian blood was shed by innocent people as the German troops tore throughout the land. Since Belgium was backed up by the Allies and since Great Britain knew Germany planned on attacking Britain as well, Great Britain went ahead and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914 (“World” 1). On September 27, 1914, the Germans began entrenching themselves in strategic locations north of the Somme River in France under Thiepval Ridge (“Somme”). There they stayed for nearly ...
- 418: A Little Bit About Einstein
- ... what went on in this man s mind but he was defiantly one of the greatest men of all times. The following is a description of this great scientist. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879. He was born to Herman and Pauline Einstein, middle class German Jews. Einstein was a very bright child; a magnetic compass sparked his interest in the natural world, at the young ... properties were confiscated by the Nazi government, The Nazi s put Einstein at the top of the list of people stripped of their German citizenship. Einstein moved to the United States to escape the Nazi Germany, and also settled in Princeton New Jersey with Elsa. After World War II began Einstein urged President Roosevelt, after a series of letters, to push the study of nuclear war power and its effects. He was informed that Nazi Germany had the intelligence to create nuclear weapons of mass destruction. Einstein then became a United States citizen, he also remained a Swiss Citizen. He remained in the United States until his death in 1955. ...
- 419: History Atomic Bomb Essay
- ... July of 1940 the United States placed an embargo on materials exported to Japan, including oil in the hope of restraining Japanese expansionism. Nevertheless, tensions remained high in Asia, and only increased in 1939 when Germany ignited World War II with an invasion of Poland. America’s determination to remain isolated changed abruptly following Japan’s “surprise attack” on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941. Military strategists and politicians poured the ... Midway Island, America supporting conventional bombing. Under the guidance of President Roosevelt, a top-secret joint effort between America and the United Kingdom had begun to build an atomic bomb that could be used against Germany. Run by General Leslie R. Groves at locations such as Los Alamos, New Mexico, this project then called by its code name only to a handful of scientists and politicians. Truman learned of the project ... were “savages, ruthless, merciless, and fanatic…”14 Furthermore, there was fear amongst Truman’s advisors that if they were to, “interpret the supreme war goad more leniently for Japan than had been the case with Germany.” They would, “leave an unwanted impression, at home and abroad, of “appeasement.15” Truman knew that if he backed down and did not remain firm on his stance with Japan the American public might ...
- 420: D-day
- ... about D-day is infantry. The infantry formed the backbone of the attacks and defending forces on D-day. An American infantry division contained fourteen thousand thirty-seven men, who were divided into three regiments. Germany's infantry divisions had twelve thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine men but had a greater number and more powerful firepower. The last term some use when talking about D-day is artillery. Artillery supported ... fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.” By the end of the day Commander Eisenhower had smoked four packs of cigarettes and drank fifteen cups of coffee. It is surprising when looking at Germany’s numbers on D-day because if you knew that they did not have as many soldiers as the Allies you would wonder how they took over Europe in such a short time. Germany only had eighty thousand troops, and only eight hundred and ninety airplanes. Germans also had many miles of barbwire and planted four million mines. They did not need any landing craft because they were ...
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