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- 1641: French Revolution 3
- ... In August insurgents stormed the royal residence at the Tuileries. Louis and his family took refuge with the assembly, which promptly placed him in confinement. Simultaneously, Montagnards under the leadership of Georges Jacques Danton took control of the Paris government. They swiftly achieved control of the Legislative Assembly and called for the creation of a new constitutional convention. In September a French army checked the Prussian advance at Valmy. Thereafter, French armies assumed the offensive, successfully capturing enemy territory ... the French army. In April the convention established the Committee of Public Safety as the executive office of the republic. After a Parisian mob forced the arrest of many Girondin delegates, the radical faction assumed control of the revolution. Leadership of the Committee of Public Safety passed to Jacobin leader Maximilien Robespierre, who instituted extreme policies to crush counterrevolutionary activity. From April 1793 to July 1794, the committee presided over ...
- 1642: Expansion Of Government Power
- ... this power during the Civil War. Then, as Reconstruction began, they initiated other methods of increasing their authority over the citizens. Military was placed in Southern states, by the federal government, in order to keep control over the rebellious people. Not only that, but, the idea of putting the federal government in charge of Reconstruction and rebuilding an entire nation gave them an enormous amount of power. Finally, the creation of ... drafted in the South (20-45 in the North); bodies were needed. And the government made sure that they got what they needed. Along with drafts, the federal government also monitored elections in order to control who the people were voting for. Ballots only contained candidates which were appropriate according to the government, and various colored slips were associated with the different nominees. Everyone could see what color slip everyone else ... full responsibility of rebuilding and revising many areas of our nation. That is some incredibly power– having the authority to change an entire country to what they thought was correct. This group of individuals had control of rebuilding Southern cities and its infrastructure along with redesigning its government, now that they were going to be part of the Union once again. As Reconstruction began to take place, the government divided ...
- 1643: Effectiveness Of The Articles
- ... The Articles of Confederation were incapable of providing the United States with an effective form of government. The Articles of Confederation presided weakly over the government as it allowed little or no power to tax, control trade, and branches of government were missing. In addition to this, the thirteen states acted as separate nations and the national government had little control over them. As seen in Document C, Congress had so little money that it couldn’t afford to pay the army their bonuses. The army, of course, was discontented in this lack of action and ... were going to get paid. This, in itself, exhibits the great need for the national government to acquire the power to tax. Document D openly shows the little power that the national government is in control of. In the document, the U.S. attempted to remove British troops off of U.S. soil and had quite a time trying to do so. The British had no respect for the U. ...
- 1644: Eleanor Aquitaine
- ... of the court, which she had made the gayest and most splendid courts in western Christendom.6 Louis continued his fathers' policies and did so with considerable success, eventually he established a complete and lasting control of the Ile de France. He also carried the extension of the royalty authority throughout the country by issuing charters to the towns. Fiercely energetic and masterful Eleanor soon established control over her husband. Eleanor managed to take her husbands place by sending him on missions which hardly received Sugers blessings, who continued to be Louis VII advisor after the death of his father Louis VI ... had expected that anyone who were to marry the former queen of France would come and ask for permission and the same for his vassal. If they were to marry and Henry was to get control of England he would become the most powerful man in the western Christendom. A rumor was spread that Henry's father Geoffrey of Plantagenet was one of Eleanor's lovers, thus forbidding the marriage ...
- 1645: Egypt-israeli Conflict And The
- ... Moscow and asked the Soviet Union to establish an air defense system manned by Soviet pilots and anti-aircraft forces protected by Soviet troops. To obtain this aid, Nassar agree to grant the Soviet Union control over a number of Egyptian airfields as well as operational control over a large portion of the Egyptian. Although recent and possibly future analysis may see otherwise, it currently seems that the Soviet Union took a calculated risk of possible superpower confrontation over the Middle East ... television. Also, for the first time captured Israeli hardware was exhibited in Cairo. Sadat's prestige grew tremendously. The war, along with the political moves Sadat had made previously, meant that he was totally in control and able to implement the programs he wanted. He was the hero of the day. In 1977 the outlook for peace between Israel and Egypt was not good. Israel still held most of Sinai, ...
- 1646: Declaration Of Independence -
- ... four words, I chose liberty as the word that most exemplifies truth in the document. Liberty has many meanings, all of which applied to the American colonists as they attempted to get out of British control. Through enacting a separation from a political paradigm, overturning political and theological thought, and gaining the right to form a government however they saw fit, the logic behind liberty makes it the best example of ... of liberty is that it means a separation from an oppressor and the oppressed. When feudalism ended around the 16th century, the surfs gained liberty from the vassals, and they were no longer under their control. Similarly, in America after the signing of the Declaration and the Revolutionary War, the colonies were no longer under the control of the king. Jefferson established that the right to liberty was given to them by God (Creator). This outweighed the commonly held idea that a king was chosen by God to rule. Another definition ...
- 1647: Democracy -- Good Or Bad
- ... what he intended to be a routine traffic stop. The officer tried to pull over Russ for driving "erratically."Russ refused to pull over. A five-mile pursuit followed culminating when Russ spun out of control forcing him to stop. When approached by the Police officer he refused to exit the car. The officer then smashed the car's tinted window and with the motivational prowess of a 9-mm handgun asked Russ again to exit the car. Russ, in an attempt to take the weapon away from the officer, was killed when the gun fired. This situation is not only an example of the perverse democracy, but it also shows, by Aristotle's definition, tyranny. Tyranny is, "a kind of monarchy that has in view the interest of the ...
- 1648: Chernobyl
- ... to the reactor is heated by the nuclear reaction and turned into steam to turn the turbines of the generator. Leonid forced the reactor up to 7% power by removing all but 6 of the control rods. (Medvedev 26-36) This was a violation of procedure and the reactor was never built to operate at such low power. This type of reactor is very unstable when filled with water. (Medvedev 37 ... because of the reduction in water flow caused by the turbine shutdown, which led to an increase in boiling. The operator initiated manual shut down, which led to a quick power increase due to the control rod design. The reactor reached 120 times its full power. All the radioactive fuel disintegrated, and pressure from all excess steam broke every one of the pressure tubes and blew the entire top shield of the reactor. All of these factors including serious violations of safety operations, dangerous design flaws, and imperfect control systems is what led to the virtually instantaneous catastrophic increase of thermal power which led to core meltdown. The steam explosion also destroyed part of the building. Radioactive material was then thrown out into ...
- 1649: Canadian Confederation
- ... and Lower Canada and the Maritimes would have preferred a legislative union, they generally realized that the French Canadians would never agree to one level of government for the whole nation for they would lose control of their language and culture.12 Maritimers too were reluctant to lose their own provincial assemblies. The central government would be the House of Commons where members would be elected based on the concept “representation ... the same opposition but unlike Howe he decided to fight an election on the question of Union. The anti-Confederates worked hard on the campaign. They predicted higher taxes, a loss of New Brunswick’s control of its own affairs and a loss of local trade if Upper and Lower Canada were to send in cheap goods. The only benefit which Tilley promised the people was the Intercolonial Railway but even ... grant form the federal government rather than the eighty cents a head stated in the Seventy-Two Resolutions. Provincial governments would male their own laws concerning education and separate schools. While the central government would control finance, the postal system, defense and banks, the provincial governments would look after roads, healthcare and other local concerns. Both the English and French languages could be used in the debates in the Parliament ...
- 1650: China And Japan
- ... Warring State’s era was an all out war inside Japan from 1467 to 1600. The other was the Tokugawa era from 1600 to 1868. The wars came to an end and Japan established Government control and unity under Tokugawa Ieyasu’s command. The Warring States era started in 1467 when a dispute over the next Ashika Shogun arrised. It led to war between two lords who supported Bakufu. Other lords ... the next century. 100’s of local states would give way to 10’s of regional states. Then the regional states fought it out until in the late 16th century all of Japan came under control of one lord, Oda Nobunaga. He started the initial unification of central Honshu. He was assassinated in 1582. Toyotomi Hideyoshi completed unification in 1590. Then he died in 1598. After his death, wars started again ... the end of the wars. Japan had established unity though out the country. The leaders sought peace and a stable society. In the mid 16th century, Japan had vigorous demographic and economic growth. The Tokugawa control involved strict military housing for soldiers. The soldiers were called Samurai. Wives and children of soldiers were held hostage. They could not leave and the husbands could not see them. In 1854 Japan was ...
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