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- 511: International Charter Of Human
- ... up and take notice of human rights issues in the world. Before it was drafted, many cases involving human rights were simply ignored or kept quiet. Take for example just before World War Two, Nazi Germany was known to want to eliminate a great percentage of people not fitting into their Aryan master race, yet they still hosted the Olympics of 1936. At those Olympics they refused to grant a gold medal to a Jewish person, Jesse Owens, and still America and many other countries chose to ignore Germany for political reasons. After the war, almost in response to the declarations, various human rights organizations, such as amnesty international have been created. They almost always use the Declaration as their basic outline for the ...
- 512: Info On Ww1
- ... in all of history. The main wars on the western front were between Britain, the ruler of the worlds' largest empire covering over a quarter of the full land mass, and a new country called Germany. The reason that Britain was in the war was because it was upholding some treaties it had made some years before such as the treaty of London which said that Britain would protect Belgium if she was ever invaded, which was the first thing that Germany did. Britain with France made another treaty and Russia this was called the Triple Entente it was the first military alliance made by Britain after it got out of splendid isolation. The armies first form ...
- 513: Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein March 14 1879 - April 18 1955 Born Ulm, Germany. Died Princeton, USA. Albert Einstein was a very famous Scientist, he was mostly famous for his theory of Relativity. In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan and Einstein decided officially to relinquish his German ... a number of false starts he published, late in 1915, the definitive version of general theory. When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions, Einstein was idolised by the popular press. Einstein returned to Germany in 1914 but did not reapply for German citizenship. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 but not for relativity rather for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect . He worked at Princeton on work ...
- 514: Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
- Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein My name is Albert Einstein. I was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. I was not an inventor in the conventional sense. I was a physicist and theorist. My inventions were not tangible things, but ideas I put on paper and may later on have led to inventions ... still not been proven by modern scientists. Probably the most noticable invention to come from my work was born from necessity. During World War II, it was believed here in the United States that Nazi Germany was attempting to create an atomic bomb. As a result of this believed, and startlingly real, threat the U.S. put forth a major effort at construction of an atomic bomb. Even though I myself ...
- 515: Industrial Revloution
- ... country to experience an Industrial Revolution. Attempts to specify dates for the Industrial Revolution in other countries are controversial and not particularly rewarding. Nonetheless, scholars generally agree that the Industrial Revolution occurred in France, Belgium, Germany, and the United States about the middle of the 19th century; in Sweden and Japan toward the end of the century; in Russia and Canada just after the turn of the 20th century; and in ... abroad in order to apply them successfully to the country's own conditions. Although government intervention to promote industrialization was far from negligible in the British case, the role of government has been considerable in Germany, Russia, Japan, and nearly all the nations that have been industrialized in the 20th century. By definition successful industrialization leads to a rise of national income per capita. It also leads to changes in the ...
- 516: How Far Did The Policies Of Ol
- ... the vellon was withdrawn and debased by 50%. Although this deflation brought ruin upon many individuals it relieved the massive burden on the treasury. Since hostilities with England had faded; the Hapsburgs were secure in Germany; and Richelieu was busy with the Huguenot problem in France; now was the time to make lasting fiscal reform. Unfortunately this final chance to economise and reform was ruined by the Mantuan War. In December ... steadier source of income was required. For Olivares, the only conceivable way of doing this was by making a more concerted effort to make the Union of Arms work. Following various successes in France and Germany, the war was rapidly degenerating again with the loss of Breda 1637 and Breisach in December 1638. The loss of Breisach meant that the Spanish road was severed and the only way to get reinforcements ...
- 517: How Did World War 2 Change The
- ... at the expense of a large portion of the U.S. fleet. With that, President Roosevelt, who had been avoiding entering the War, declared war on Japan and then eventually entering in the war against Germany (Hayes, p.659). As a result of this declaration, a military conscription was put into effect as the first step to the allocation of soldiers. Thus where there were men in jobs before, there was ... been a stable economy or production lines for the needed equipment, the U.S. might not have been able to retaliate and defeat Japan, let alone aid Russia, France, and Britain in the war against Germany and Hitler. For about six years, from 1939 to 1945, the women ruled the work place. There wages also increased from approximately $100 per week in 1930 to $150 per week in 1940 and later ...
- 518: How And Why Australia Became A
- ... great idea. In the next few paragraphs, the reasons how and why Australia became a Federation will be discussed. Some of the reasons 'why' are trade (NSW/Victoria rivalry), communication and fear of invasion by Germany. On January 1, 1901, Australia's six self-governing colonies became states in an "indissoluble Federal Commonwealth." In other words, January 1st, 1901, is when Australia became a Federation. For over fifty years many individuals ... between NSW (who believed that trade should be free) and Victoria (who believed a tax should be imposed for trade). There was a need to uniform defence as there was fear of an invasion by Germany and if the colonies fought as one single nation, it would be stronger than if they remained seperate colonies. Before the sub-division of Australia was complete, suggestions were made to link the colonies. In ...
- 519: Biography of Bob Marley
- ... An increasingly political figure, he survived a 1976 assassination attempt at his home in Jamaica. He subsequently went to Europe and experienced a new degree of popular success in England, Sweden, the Netherlands, and West Germany (now part of the united Federal Republic of Germany). Rastaman Vibrations (1976) and a United States tour brought him unmatched success with American reggae fans, and his popularity was furthered with Exodus (1977), Babylon by Bus (1978), Kaya (1978), Uprising (1980), and reissues of ...
- 520: Napolean
- ... to the defeat of Joseph, death of thousands of French troops and it inspired patriots and nationalists of other lands to resist Napoleon. This war between 1808 and 1813 is called The Peninsular War. In Germany, anti-French feelings broke out. But the French invasions carried German nationalism beyond the small ranks of writers. In 1807 writers attacked French occupation of Germany. This nationalistic feeling spread to the Prussians. In 1806 the Prussians were defeated by the French troops. To drive the French out of Prussia there would have to be a spirit of cooperation and loyalty ...
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