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- 531: Russian Revolution of 1917
- ... of the tsarist system under the lots of pressure of World War I. The main cause was the backward economic condition of the country, which made it hard to have a war against the powerful Germany. russian manpower was virtually hard to fight. Russian industry, however, lacked the capacity to arm, equip, and supply the the 15 million men who were sent into the war. Factories were few and not enough ... later known as Leningrad. Hew had been living in exile in western Europe; hoping that with him there more people would join his cause and create chaos and so remove Russia from World War I Germany sent Lenin in a sealed train to Petrograd.
- 532: Great Depression 8
- ... only prayer is that we never see another time like this again. The United States was and still is a great power in the world's manufactured goods - twice as much as Great Britain and Germany combined. When American producers cut back on their purchases of raw materials and other supplies, the effect on other countries was devastating. The policies of the Federal Reserve Board in the early 1930's put ... were out of work than in any period in the past. It has been estimated that in 1933 about thirty million workers were jobless, about two-thirds of these in three countries - the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. If anything, this estimate is low." In New York City a survey was conducted by the Welfare Council and in New York alone 100,000 families were being treated for physical and ...
- 533: Who Was To Blame For The Cold War?
- ... was much more severe than that of Roosevelt. He was quoted as saying “We must stand up to the Russians...We have been too easy with them.”4 Both Truman and Churchill were annoyed because Germany east of the Rivers Oder and Neisse were being occupied by Russian troops and were being run by the pro-communist Polish government, who expelled over five million Germans. This went directly against the agreements ... Stalin dissolved all non-communist political parties. Stalin began to implement a reign of terror using the Russian Army and his secret police force. Moreover, Stalin had increased his influence in the Russian zone of Germany as if it belonged to Russia. He allowed only the communist party and drained the area of its vital resources. The West reacted. It appeared to them that Russia's attitude went against all of ...
- 534: Modern European History
- ... a great opportunity and gain their gasp on these soldiers. They knew that these soldier couldn't resist the excitement of war and thus posted appeals on the street corners for volunteer units to defend Germany's eastern borders. In a way, the soldiers fulfilled both Germany and themselves. 4. How did Sigmund Freud describe the prevailing mood in Europe just prior to the war. How did the war alter this mood and create a "legacy of embitterment"? Life prior to the ...
- 535: Who Was to Blame for the Cold War?
- ... was much more severe than that of Roosevelt. He was quoted as saying "We must stand up to the Russians...We have been too easy with them."4 Both Truman and Churchill were annoyed because Germany east of the Rivers Oder and Neisse were being occupied by Russian troops and were being run by the pro- communist Polish government, who expelled over five million Germans. This went directly against the agreements ... Stalin dissolved all non-communist political parties. Stalin began to implement a reign of terror using the Russian Army and his secret police force. Moreover, Stalin had increased his influence in the Russian zone of Germany as if it belonged to Russia. He allowed only the communist party and drained the area of its vital resources. The West reacted. It appeared to them that Russia's attitude went against all of ...
- 536: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- ... of Japan, the actual bombing an destruction of both cities, the surrender of Japan and the impact the atomic bomb would have in the future. During World War II, the United States was afraid that Germany would develop the atomic bomb first. Germany had taken over Norway, which was a heavy water supply and Czechoslovakia, which was a uranium supply. Both of these, water and uranium, were needed to make the atomic bomb. Therefore, the United States initiated ...
- 537: Mozart
- ... In 1762 the Mozart children played at court in Vienna; the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, received them cordially. Later the Mozart children displayed (1763-66) their talents to audiences in Germany, in Paris, at court in Versailles, and in London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and was befriended by Johann Christian Bach, whose musical influence on Wolfgang was profound). In Paris the young Mozart published ... Abduction from the Seraglio (1782). His concerts were a great success, and the emperor, Joseph II, encouraged him, later (1787) engaging him as court composer. In 1782 the now-popular Mozart married Constanze Weber from Germany, much to his father's dismay. The young pair visited Salzburg in 1783; there, the Kyrie and Gloria of Mozart's great Mass in C Minor, composed in Vienna and never finished, were performed. Mozart ...
- 538: Timeline History of Russia 1533-1991
- ... War I led to the abdication (resignation) of the Czar as the people revolted against his useless monarchy. Famine, disease and death were spreading like wildfire as the Russians aided France against the militia of Germany during World War I. The population lost its faith in the monarchy and installed a provisional government that would keep the country from disintegrating. However, this government refused to intervene during the fragile years of ... aptly named collectivization, reprimanded all of the average worker's liberties and created great suffering during the Stalin regime. Such suffering was magnified during an anti-war treaty that Stalin had signed with Hitler's Germany in an effort to avoid a confrontation with the Nazi military. However, Hitler violated this treaty in an effort to dominate all of Europe and was denied at the expense of millions of Soviet lives ...
- 539: Canada in WWI
- ... slowly began to increase. As it turns out, however, only another World War would end the Great Depression. On September 1st, 1939, German forces invaded Poland. On September 3rd Britain and France declared war on Germany, World War II had begun. On September 10, 1939 Canada declared war on Germany. This spelt the end of the depression as once again because of the war, many new industries were formed in Canada's cities. In these factories guns, food, munitions and other war supplies that were ...
- 540: The Holocaust: The Devaluing of Human Life
- ... Life The German Holocaust is a vivid part of American history. People try to deny that the Holocaust ever happened, but in all reality there is more proof then not of what has happened in Germany. The Holocaust is a simple example of the devaluing of human life. The question is could a Holocaust of this magnitude happen today? I feel that this could happen and I can see it happening ... The Nazi Soldiers and Hitler decided that the best way to cure this is to eliminate all the Jewish people. Eliminating all the Jewish people was the way that Hitler came up with so that Germany could get a hold of their social and economic problems. With Hitler's ideas to eliminate the Jews, devalued the lives of so many people. The Jewish people that were obviously killed and the people ...
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