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- 1851: Russian Revolution
- ... to establish a constitutional monarchy. Such a change would not have satisfied either the czar or his opponents, however. Radical revolutionaries continued to fight for a democratic republic, and the czar wanted to retain his control of the peasants. The next two revolutions were successful. They occurred during World War I, when Russian military forces were hard pressed by the Germans. The March Revolution of 1917 led to the abdication of ... Wilson in his book 'To the Finland Station'. Lenin's slogan was "All power to the soviets!" and he used it to undermine the provisional government. He demanded peace at once, immediate land reform, workers' control of factories, and self-determination for the non-Russian peoples. Once in power he turned his back on all programs of reform, but he kept his promise to take Russia out of World War I ... Economic Policy. But in politics he was rigid. No opinions other than those sanctioned by the Communist party were allowed. The party itself was controlled by its Central Committee and increasingly by smaller units. Effective control passed finally to the Secretariat of the party. When Lenin died in 1924 power passed to the first secretary of the party, Joseph Stalin. Under him still one more revolution took place: the centralization ...
- 1852: Bolshevik Power In Russia
- ... in favor of the Bolshevik revolutionary platform. Several of the Bolshevik party lines were directly influenced by the Parties strong belief in the proletarian class ( ). These men felt that the workers should be in direct control of production and distribution in the factories, banks and the industries that the Bolshevik party deemed necessary to organize. The Bolshevik leadership also felt the pain of the proletarian class and their struggle against the ... and the Soviet Union, noting that on the third week of October in 1917 Trotsky was named the chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd in the Bolshevik party. This gave Trotsky total control of the Bolshevik military forces. After Trotsky was placed in charge of the Military Revolutionary Committee party officials were placed within regular Russian military units and given the mandate that, all orders must have their counter signature to be considered official. Thompson adds that this action caused the Provisional government to lose further control of the Russian military. The majority of these troops had already decided not to protect the Provisional government because they were in favor of the Bolshevik party and their idea to conduct a social ...
- 1853: A Comparison of the French and Russian Revolutions
- ... a man named Lenin. Lenin was a firm believer of the theories and ideas of Karl Marx. So with his slogan of "Bread, Peace and Land", Lenin gained the support of the peasants and gained control of Russia and setup a communist state. The French revolution was also caused by a bad ruler and a bad economy. During the early 1780's a big percent of annual budget went towards king ... and an out-dated tax system which only taxed the poor who had no money to begin with. Signs of revolution first appeared when the peasants stormed the fortress known as the Bastille looking for gun powder. The Bastille incident set off revolts all over France and Louis was soon deposed afterwards.A democratic goverment was setup in place of the old monarcy. A doctrine called the Declaration of the Rights ...
- 1854: Rebellions of 1837
- ... way to handle the situation. Public works projects were a bone of contention. Groups of people such as the Family Compact in Upper Canada, and the Chateau Clique in Lower Canada had most of the control of everything and would do everything they could to benefit and profit themselves, not the middle and lower class people. A great illustration for this is in an imaginary story involving the colony of Good ... not respected. They felt as though they had no other option besides rebellion. Language and culture in Lower Canada had a lot to do with the rebellion because in culture the Chateau Clique had complete control of most of the government. They were mostly wealthy British businessmen who believed they should run the government. They enjoyed the support of the Roman Catholic Church. They favoured themselves. In the French Canadien community ... British as arrogant conquerors and the upper class thought of the lower class as uneducated fools. The lower class wanted equality and rights, which they were willing to fight to achieve. The upper class wanted control and didn't want to give anything up for the lower class. The goals or objectives of the rebellions were to take over the government, and run it in their own way, not the ...
- 1855: World War II in Europe
- ... leadership in its new prime minister, Winston Churchill. For months, London suffered bombing day and night by hundreds of German planes. The fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force, however, kept the German from gaining control of the skies over Britain and forced Hitler to abandon his invasion plan. When Hitler attacked Yugoslavia and Greece in the spring of 1941, the Nazis overran those countries before lend-lease aid could reach ... Soviet troops were left to face the Germans alone. In September 1942, the Red Army made a desperate and heroic stand at Stalingrad. For four months, Soviet and German troops battled house-to-house for control of the city. Although the German invasion was halted, Stalingrad was reduced to rubble and the soviets suffered many casualties. In November the soviet army counterattacked. Taking advantage of the Russian winter, the Red Army ... and the new Italian government quickly surrendered. But German forces still occupied Italy and put up fierce resistence in the mountainous terrain. Not until June 1944 did the Allies enter Rome. Axis forces remained in control of northern Italy. On June 6, 1944, the greatest naval force in history, 176,000 troops carried in 5,000vessels, crossed the English channel to land along a 60-mile stretch of coastline in ...
- 1856: Ancient Greece
- ... on these, called Cretan or Minoan was centered on the island of Crete. The other culture, Helladic (who became Mycenaean) populated mainland Greece. The Minoan culture dominated trade until 1500 BC when the Mycenaeans took control. During the third millennium BC a series of invasions from the north began. The most prominent of the early invaders, who were called the Achaeans, had, in all probability, been forced to migrate by other ... culture. Ancient Greece Gradually, in the last period of Bronze Age Greece, the Minoan civilization fused with the mainland. By 1400 BC the Achaeans were in possession of the island itself, and soon afterward gained control of the mainland. The Trojan War, described by Homer in the Iliad, began about 1200 BC and was probably one of a series of wars waged during the 12th and 13th centuries BC. It may ... took place. Between the 8th and 6th centuries BC, Athens and Sparta became the two dominant cities of Greece. Each of these great states united its weaker neighbors into a league or confederacy under its control. Sparta, a completely militarized and aristocratic state, established its leadership mainly by conquest, and kept its subject states under strict rule. The unification of Attica was, however, carried on by mutual and peaceful agreement ...
- 1857: The Yugoslavian Conflict
- ... on June 25 1991, when Slovenia and Croatia proclaimed their independence and sovereignty, suspending the constitution of Yugoslavia and federal legislation on their territories. The first thing that Slovenian state did was to take over control of their borders, removing Yugoslavian border posts and replaced them with Slovenia Republic posts. Federal authorities responded to this challenge by proclaiming the Slovenian acts illegal and charging that in the Republic of Slovenia some federal functions, notably customs services and air traffic control, had been forcibly taken over. The taking over of the borders by Slovenian militia was deemed sufficient grounds to call out the Yugoslavian National Army. This order was given from the ministry of defense, who had no authority to do so. Yugoslavia was without a president at the time and control of the country was given to the supreme commander of the armed forces. The whole affair was organized as military support to the federal police and customs personnel. The Slovenians offered strong resistance with ...
- 1858: Hitler, Nazis, and The National Socialist German Workers' Party
- ... could no longer afford to tolerate the disruptive Brownshirts; under the ambitious Rφhm, the SA had grown to be an organization of three million men, and its unpredictable activities prevented Hitler from consolidating his shaky control of the Reich. He had to dispose of the SA to hold the support of his industrial backers, to satisfy party leaders jealous of the SA's power, and most important, to win the allegiance ... even for Hitler. They went about their business of terrorizing Jews with no mercy. But that is not what bothered Hitler, since the SA was so big, (3 million in 1933) and so out of control, Hitler sent his trusty comrade Josef Dietrich, commander of a SS bodyguard regiment to murder the leaders of the SA. The killings went on for two days and nights and took a tool of perhaps ... liberated after four years of German occupation when General Jacques Leclerc's French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division broke into it and found that French resistance units were largely in control.
- 1859: The Nazis and Their Rise to Power and Downfall
- ... could no longer afford to tolerate the disruptive Brownshirts; under the ambitious Rφhm, the SA had grown to be an organization of three million men, and its unpredictable activities prevented Hitler from consolidating his shaky control of the Reich. He had to dispose of the SA to hold the support of his industrial backers, to satisfy party leaders jealous of the SA's power, and most important, to win the allegiance ... even for Hitler. They went about their business of terrorizing Jews with no mercy. But that is not what bothered Hitler, since the SA was so big, (3 million in 1933) and so out of control, Hitler sent his trusty comrade Josef Dietrich, commander of a SS bodyguard regiment to murder the leaders of the SA. The killings went on for two days and nights and took a tool of perhaps ... liberated after four years of German occupation when General Jacques Leclerc's French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division broke into it and found that French resistance units were largely in control.
- 1860: World War I
- ... warfare. The Germans, in turn, developed new weapons to deal with the tanks which included field guns such as the German 77 mm and French 75 mm (Young World Book 369). A famous long range gun was called Big Bertha. This was also the first war in which cars and trucks were used to carry men and supplies to the front. World War I marked the beginning of chemical warfare in ... for bombing raids ( Young World Book 370). The submarine came into use for the first time on a large scale during World War I. The Germans speeded up production of submarines in an effort to control the bottom of the sea. These U-boats (short for unterseebooten or undersea boats) were valuable weapons for Germans (McGowen 52). The German submarine fleet threatened British naval supremacy. The U-boats had little trouble ...
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