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- 1831: Prince William
- ... to England to see her boys in a Mercedes Benz followed by the paparazzi. The driver, supposedly intoxicated, was driving at a horrendous speed of one hundred and twenty miles per hour when he lost control of the car and slammed into a support beam of a bridge. One of the three passengers of the car was pronounced dead at the scene and only two remained, Princess Diana and her bodyguard ... The victory of Kingship of King William I, "the Conqueror" who was King from 1066 to 1087, at Hastings and his subsequent coronation in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066 did not give him complete control of England. Remaining resistance after his first battle was, however, severely crushed and castles were built to control the country (including a fortress at Windsor and the White Tower at the Tower of London). The lands of defeated Saxon nobles were given to King William's followers in return for military service ...
- 1832: Hitler's Life
- ... troops surrounded the place. Hitler and his troops broke into the beer hall, causing everyone to panic. Hitler fired a shot into the air and told everyone to be quiet. Hitler, with his people in control went to the front. He told them that a National Revolution had begun and no one was to leave. He told them the police and army were under control marching around the city with swastika banners. None of that was true. Hitler told the three highest officials from the Bavarian government that they were to join in making the Nazi revolution and they would ... German men at the top, having fair skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes. At the bottom were Jews and slavier people, mainly Czechs, Poles, and Russians. He accuses Jews of conducting an international conspiracy to control world finances, controlling the press, inventing liberal democracy as well as Marxism and promoting prostitution. He calls them liars, dirty, crafty, sly, wily, without any true culture, maggots, blood suckers, repulsive, monsters, blood thirsty, ...
- 1833: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... allowed them to starve. Stalin said that the Soviet Union was behind the rest of the world in industry and agriculture, and needed to catch up fast. Stalin also made all economic activity under government control. Under this command economy, he owned all businesses and made all economic decisions. Even though Stalin had complete control over the Soviet Union, he still felt that people were going against him. In the Great Purge, Stalin went after and killed anyone that proposed any kind of threat to him. In the end, almost ... a complete communistic state. He also industrialized their agriculture and their manufacturing. Stalin was a cruel and harsh man. He didn’t care what he had to do, as long as he was ensured complete control and power. He has had a major effect on Russian and World history.
- 1834: Death Of Pol Pot
- ... brings to an end one of the most bloody days of the twentieth century. Pol Pot was born in Saloth Sar in Kampong Thom Province. At that time Cambodia was a Buddist kingdom under French control. His family had royal connection. Sar had a strict, sheltered childhood. In 1934 he joined his brother at the palace compound in Phnom Pech, Cambodia capital, and spent a year in a roual monastery followed ... and Thailand. Pol Pot also sought to restore the “Purity” of his race by eliminating what he considered to be “impure” elements, such as foreign-educated and long time enemies, especially the Vietnamese. After taking control, Pol Pot cut Cambodia from the the world. Foreign and minority languages were banned and all nieghboring countries Laos,Vietnam, and Thailand were attacked. Rice and other edangered wildlife were exported to China for weapons ... Hitler by their cruelty and harsh punishemt toward human being. The Two men have many in comment but their death has bring a new light in the live of people who have suffer from their control and now these people can enjoy thier life once again in peace.
- 1835: Comparing Hitler And Stalin In Their Rise To Power
- ... court was sympathetic towards him, he was sentenced to only five years in prison for his crime. After nine months of his sentence had been served, he received parole. Being able to gain Nazi party control and gain enough supporters, proves that he was an efficient user of propaganda. Hitler also had his own minister of propaganda when he became leader of the country. This proves that Hitler was an user ... one of his agents to kill Trotsky, who was in exile in Mexico. Stalin felt that if he eliminated his only threat, that it would mean less opposition to his ideas. This assured Stalin full control over the communist party. Hitler was the other example of an amoral person. He demonstrated this after he got into power with the holocaust, but he did not foreshadow his amorality much before he got ... therefore opposition to Hitler. On May 2, 1933 many Trade Union leaders were arrested and beaten up. Their offices were looted and their funds and property seized. A Nazi-led "labour front" was established to control the workers and ensure the peace in factories and workshops. A week after the destruction of the Trade Unions the Social Democratic Party suffered a similar fate, soon to be followed by the Communists. ...
- 1836: Mao Zedong
- ... time to preserve select portions of China’s tradition. He sought to promote national resurgence and cultural transformation (Schram 1994). Mayo’s aim was to purify the revolution, what he really wanted was to regain control over the party and purge his political rivals. To this end, he set fourth a decade of savagery and chaos. "Bad elements" were beaten to death, no one knew who would be next as friends ... assuredly promoted revolutionary violence. He might be thought of less a political thinker than an economist and sociologist. Lenin, on the other hand, was an overall extremely skilled in the application of political power to control the pace of the revolution and to maintain a low level of objective conditions. Marx had experienced the upheavals that had brought many European rulers from their thrones in the nineteenth century. Lenin had known ... 1905. He had no faith at all in the ability of the average citizen to change his or her own fate. Linin wanted disciplined action under precise guidance of a revolutionary elite to seize powerful control and drag Russia into the 20th century. Mao’s approach was largely in harmony with Linin’s position. He gleaned from Linin not only how to produce revolution, but also how to become a ...
- 1837: Adolf Hitler: Ruthless Leader of Germany
- ... Germany that caused the loss. It was then that his extreme dislike for Jews most likely developed. After the war Germany was in chaos. There was no structured government and many groups were fighting over control. Since there were not many chances for employment Hitler stayed in the army. Hitler was assigned the job of going to various meetings of underground radicals attempting to set up their own rule. In September ... propaganda. The party was small at first but Hitler’s great skill at delivering speeches attracted more and more listeners. The party soon became the largest and most powerful in Germany. Adolf Hitler eventually took control of the party. He ordered the creation of another force that would transfer and eliminate all inferiors. The name of the force was the feared SS. Mass propaganda was used to persuade the German people ... Germans needed more space. Later Hitler’s army marched into Reihnland, an area lost under the Versailles Treaty. Next he moved into Austria and annexed it without a shot being fired. Following Austria, Hitler wanted control of Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia which was mainly German speaking (Herzstein 174). The allies didn’t want another war so they let Hitler have his way. Hitler attacked Poland on September 1st, 1939. ...
- 1838: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... 1863. Grant's leadership and persistence throughout the campaign has gone down in history as one of the most brilliant displays of generalship ever. One of the main goals of the Union was to gain control of the Mississippi River. Vicksburg was the largest obstacle to this goal, and it was considered a virtually inpenetrable fortress. All through the winter of 1862-63, Grant's troops advanced across the Mississippi River ... Scaturro 2) Throughout the entire Vicksburg Campaign, over 31,000 Confederate forces were killed while Grant's army lost only about 4,500 men. Grant's victory at Vicksburg led to the Union taking complete control of the Mississippi River. This divided the Confederacy in half, probably the worst strategic blow the South suffered in the entire war. This caused Grant to receive much praise from President Lincoln and in October ... Division of the Mississippi, which placed him in command of the entire western theater of the war. In November Grant won victories at Orchard Knob, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge. These victories gave the Union control of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a major east-west railroad junction, and marked the successful completion of Grant's Western Campaigns. (Scaturro 2) Grant's first campaign in the East was as commander of the Army ...
- 1839: Stalin
- ... in the New Style calendar) phase of the Russian Revolution. He went to Petrograd (later Leningrad; now Saint Petersburg), where he became a member of the party’s Central Committee bureau. He then asserted editorial control over the party newspaper, Pravda (Truth). Although he did not play a prominent role in the Bolshevik takeover of the government in October (November, New Style), Stalin became a member of the new government’s ... married Nadezhda Aliluyeva in 1918 and moved with the government from Petrograd to Moscow. After the Bolshevik victory in the civil war, Stalin threw himself into organizational work and administrative tasks. Having served for state control since 1919, he continued this post until 1923, while in 1922 he was elected general secretary of the Communist Party, a position that gave him control over appointments and established a base for his political power. Stalin’s rude and aggressive behavior brought him into conflict with the ailing Lenin, who shortly before his death in 1924 wrote his political “ ...
- 1840: The Rule of Halie Selassie
- ... importantly, the Emperor. After holding this position for eighteen months, Ras Tafari received word that he had been made Governor of Harar in the province of Harige, his homeland(Gorham 1966). Tafari was finally in control of Ethiopia in 1916, although he was not emperor, he ran the country for the next sixty years. From the beginning, Ras Tafari pushed the development of Ethiopia and stressed the importance of education. Education ... also kept from the people because once a culture learned to read or write, it was only one step further to being able to think. This was a way of ensuring power to those in control, and keeping it from the people not in control. Before Ras Tafari's rule, there were no paved roads, highways, or railroads that connected Ethiopia. Another problem was that there was a severe lack of professional men like engineers, doctors, and teachers. Ras ...
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