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- 501: Max Planck
- Max Planck Justin Thomas Period 4 Chemistry 10/08/96 On April 23, 1858 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany. He was the sixth child of a law professor at the University of Kiel. At the age of nine his interest in physics and mathematics was developed by his teacher Hermann Muller. When he graduated ... relativity. After he retired as a physicist which was around the time Hitler rose to power Planck focused on philosophical and questions of faith in his writings. During the World War I he stayed in Germany to preserve as much as he could of German physics. The later part of Max Planck's life is filled with sadness. In 1909 his first wife died after twenty- two years of marriage. He ...
- 502: Benito Mussolini
- ... and his power grew stronger and wiser. He was a reformer and than came a believer in power. Benito wanted to have power over all Italy. He wanted Italy to enter a war, immediately against Germany, but they never did. In 1919, the fascist attacked a socialist rally in Milan. Mussolini and over a hundred of his own men were thrown in prison for possession of illegal arms. All the men ... change the name of the Mediterranean into "Mare Nostrum." Which means "Our Sea." In 1935, Mussolini helped create an anti-Hitler front to defend the independence of Austria. His successful war against Abyssinia with Nazi Germany, which had withdrawn from the League of Nations. Mussolini and Hitler both were forced to seek an alliance on the side of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War ended any possibility to consist ...
- 503: The Steam Engine
- ... saw that the potential of this was enormous, many entrepreneurial companies were formed to build railroads. The railroad caused an economic boom for many countries. The country that was the most effected by this was Germany. When they started the development of the railroads, they made over 2000 miles of connecting tracks to every part of the country. These railroads caused Belgium, Germany, and France to become the most industrialized Continental powers during the mid-nineteenth century. (Johnson, 33-34) The steam engine allowed the people to travel to almost any destination safely, and at an extremely fast ...
- 504: Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The reformation began within the Catholic Church . On Oct. 31, 1517 , Martin Luther a professor and a monk of theology, posted his 95 Theses on the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany . This theses were series that attacked the sale of indulgences . Luther criticized what he considered other abuses in the church . Luther taught that God justifies human beings . What Luther meant was that God makes them ... the people . In Jan. 1521, Pope leo X excommunicated Luther and declared him a heretic . Emperor Charles V and the members of the imperial diet ordered Luther to appear before the diet in the Worms, Germany .In May 1521 , the emperor signed the Edict of the Worms , a document which declared Luther to be an outlaw whom anyone could kill without protest . Frederick the Wise protected Luther. Luther continued to the ...
- 505: Korean War 3
- ... anticommunism. In 1948 the United States launched the $13 billion Marshall Plan to rebuild Western and Central Europe. When Stalin responded by extending his control over Eastern Europe and threatening the West's position in Germany, Truman helped to create a military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and to establish an independent West Germany. War erupted in Korea on June 25, 1950, along the thirty-eighth parallel that separated North and South Korea. As North Korean units pushed deep into South Korea, the U.N. Security Council, at the ...
- 506: Karl Marx Biography And Synops
- Karl Marx Biography and Synopsis of Views Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a constitution for Prussia and reading such authors as Voltaire and Kant, known for their social ... political isolation" ended when he joined the International Working Men's Association. Although he was neither the founder nor the leader of this organization, he "became its leading spirit" and as the corresponding secretary for Germany, he attended all meetings. Marx's distinction as a political figure really came in 1870 with the Paris Commune. He became an international figure and his name "became synonymous throughout Europe with the revolutionary spirit ...
- 507: Animal Farm Book Report
- ... factories and health care. Karl Marx objective was to put communism forth. He also tried to put forth totalarism, which is where people are dependent are totally dependent on government and people have no say. Germany was getting more power, and they started the First World War. In England the church was in power, not the isolationists, and they had the best Navy. In America, the country was growing and was ... representation of the Aristocracy, who was a traitor and always got away without doing any work. Fox Wood farm was supposed to be like England in Churchill. Pinchwill farm was a representation of Hitler in Germany and how they stole from people. The sheep were the followers, who couldn’t think for themselves, and were mindless and loyal. The dogs were the army and the bodyguards. Moses represented organized religion during ...
- 508: Biograhy of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- ... he could represent the military as a bodybuilder. With his time in the Army complete, Schwarzenegger went on to win a string of titles in Europe, including the Mr. Universe, and eventually settled in Munich, Germany. However, Schwarzenegger looked overseas and saw America and it's superior bodybuilders. "While I was battling for titles in Europe, I was very much aware of the competitions in the United States.I n the ... an American" (Shaw 142). Other countries look at America and see Schwarzenegger as the embodiment of the United States, making Schwarzenegger an internationally-appealing star. "He [Schwarzenegger] is the most bankable star in the US, Germany, and Japan" (Hoberman 22). Additionally, Schwarzenegger's films appeal over international waters because of their violent content. "…he has become such a huge box-office star abroad primarily because action is understandable everywhere…Everyone gets ...
- 509: Israel And The Palestinians
- ... garrison. In Palestine Britain was now caught between Jewish and Arab demands, and found it increasingly difficult to satisfy both sides. Reacting to the phenomenal Nazi oppression of Jews, fully 225,000 Jews had left Germany and East and Central Europe for Palestine between 1933 and 1939. In February 1947 after various partition plans had failed in the face of Arab command on a unitary state, Britain referred the Palestine question ... autonomy talks, and sought direct negotiations with Jordan. Relations with Egypt had deteriorated after the recall of Egyptian ambassador. Israel received military aid from the USA, and also increased contacts with France, the UK, West Germany and China. Peres maintained his efforts for diplomatic advance and met king Hassan of Morocco. He tried to show PLO as “the greatest obstacle to peace”. At the same time, the Israel’s economy was ...
- 510: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... the border between East and West Berlin. West Berlin had been under the control of the United States, France, and Britain since the end of World War II, although the city lay deep inside East Germany, a state that was an ally of the USSR. Kennedy and other Western leaders protested, but the wall was built. Kennedy had already asked for more military spending and had called up reserve troops for duty in Europe. When East German soldiers began blocking the Allied route through East Germany into Berlin, Kennedy sent a force of 1500 soldiers marching along the route into West Berlin. The troops went uncontested. Communist interference stopped, allowing Allied forces travel to and from Berlin . Amongst other problems President ...
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