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- 461: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... General George C. Marshall called him to Washington for a war plans assignment. Eisenhower impressed both the general as well as The President (Theodore Roosevelt) with his well thought out plan to focus on weakening Germany before assaulting the Japanese. Because of this, he was placed in command of the Allied Forces landing in North Africa in November 1942. On D-Day, 1944, he was Supreme Commander of the troops invading France. After heading many decisive victories for the U.S., Eisenhower accepted Germanys surrender on May 7, 1945. He returned home a national hero. Eisenhowers Term in Office (1952-1960) After the war, he became President of Columbia University, then left to assume the first position ...
- 462: Joe Louic
- ... Scheming. The thing about Max Scheming was that he was German, so therefore, he was portrayed as a Nazi, and was personally visited in the locker room before the match by the man of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler. Louis' war-time patriotism in a racially divided country made him a symbol of national unity and purpose. Twice he donated his winnings to the military relief funds. He advertised himself even more ... he showed to all Americans, both black and white, that no matter who he was, or what he looked like, he was going to fight for his country. His fight with Scheming ( or fight with Germany ) was the apodeme of his patriotism and his will to make his country proud of him. Joe Louis is a hero, in boxing and most definitely in life.
- 463: Beer
- ... and was promoted by the authorities of the day. Throughout the Middle Ages, hops became widely used as a way to make beer refreshing and also as a natural preservative. In fact, in France and Germany, hops were documented as being cultivated in the ninth century. (Alabev) Grut was a mixture of all sorts of herbs used to flavor beer. The flavoring license was similar to a patent, allowing a brewery ... the purity of the fermenting process has been improved and beer taste perfected. (Alabev) Wooden barrels have been almost completely replaced by metal barrels for most pub trade. In 1964 metal kegs were introduced in Germany. Firstly, cleaning and filling was much simpler. Secondly, tapping and closing off was much easier for the bar personnel. This was well liked by pub and restaurant owners. (Alabev) "For most of the past ten ...
- 464: Cold War
- ... Big Three Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin met in Crimea at the Lavidia Palace on the Black Sea. The main purpose of Yalta was the re-establishement of the nationas conquered and destroyed Germany. Poland was given back its independence and given its own natinal election in order to create a new, independent government. The Yalta Conference agreed to divide Germany into zones controlled by each of the three nations present. One result of this discussion was that Stalin was persuaded to endorse a Declaration on Liberated Countries which pormosed free elections and other democratic practices ...
- 465: Sigmund Freud
- ... brothers some 20 years older than himself. His family moved to Vienna when he was four years old, and though he often claimed he hated the city, he lived there until it was occupied by Germany in 1938. Freud's family background was Jewish, though his father was a freethinker and Freud himself an avowed atheist. Freud was a good student, and very ambitious. Medicine and law were the professions then ... was 67. He would have 30 operations over the next 16 years to treat the progressive disease. Meanwhile, a political cancer was growing in Europe. By 1933, the Nazi party had risen to power in Germany. They burned books by Freud, among others. They took over Austria in 1938. Freud's passport was confiscated, but his fame and the influence of foreigners persuaded the occupying forces to let him go, and ...
- 466: Johann Sebastian Bach - The Brandenburg Concertos
- Johann Sebastian Bach; The Brandenburg Concertos One of the most profoundly inspired and masterful composers in history, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 1750), was born into a musical family in Eisenach, Germany. Born into a musical family his father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills of string-playing. Another relation, the organist at Eisenach s most important church, intructed ... a professional organist, and continued his younger brother s education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brothers tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a violinist in a court orchestra in Weimar ...
- 467: Johann Bach
- One of the most profoundly inspired and masterful composers in history, Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a musical family in Eisenach, Thuringia - until recently part of East Germany. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills of string-playing; another relation, the organist at Eisenach's most important church, instructed the young boy on the ... a professional organist, and continued his younger brother's education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court ...
- 468: Morocco
- ... include fruits, fish, vegetables, clothing, and such handicrafts as leather goods and rugs. The chief imports are oil, industrial equipment, and food and other consumer goods. The nation's key trading partners include France, Spain, Germany, and Italy. Farming communities existed in what is now Morocco at least 8,000 years ago. By 1000 B.C., Spanish had migrated to the region. They may have come from Europe, southwestern Asia, or ... influence in Morocco. Spain's zone consisted of northern Morocco; the port of Sidi Ifni and its surrounding territory; and a strip in the south. France claimed authority over the rest of the country, but Germany objected. The major powers met in 1906 in Algeciras, Spain, to discuss France's growing power in Morocco. The conference upheld Morocco's independence, though France and Spain kept their special privileges. France sent troops ...
- 469: The Rise Of Communism In Russi
- ... struggle would end, according to Marx, in the socialist revolution and the attainment of full communism (Groiler's Encyclopedia). Socialism, of which "Marxism-Leninism" is a takeoff, originated in the West. Designed in France and Germany, it was brought into Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century and promptly attracted support among the country's educated, public-minded elite, who at that time were called intelligentsia (Pipes, 21). After Revolution ... including Stalin, were inclined to accept it for the time being on condition that it work for an end to the war. When Lenin reached Russia in April after his famous "sealed car" trip across Germany, he quickly denounced his Bolshevik colleagues for failing to take a sufficiently revolutionary stand (Daniels, 88). In August of 1917, while Lenin was in hiding and the party had been basically outlawed by the Provisional ...
- 470: Joseph Stalin
- ... which also raised significantly.(Five) Also in 1934 Stalin began a massive slaughter of party members and military leaders.(Tyrant) From 1939 -1941 Stalin had a pact formed between him an Adolf Hitler ,ruler of Germany.(Stalin) The German invasion on June 22 found Stalin very unprepared and by the end of the war the Soviet Union had lost 20 million people. From 1941-1945 Stalin was allied with Britain and The United States of America, and after he had defeated Germany he turned his forces against Japan(Stalin,Joseph) One Stalins major ways in imposing terror on his country was the secret police. His purges had removed any power formerly held by the military. During ...
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