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- 4111: Franklin Delino Roosevelt
- ... oppose President Roosevelt meant that your chances for reelection were slim to none. So whatever Franklin Roosevelt wanted he usually got. This was the closest the United States of America ever has come to being control by a monarchy. Roosevelt turned out to be the short term savior for American economics. They are still proving the long term effects. The cost of supplies and to pay the workers built up and ...
- 4112: Hitler's Ambitions
- ... a party. He successfully kidnapped and forced the leaders to accept him as their leader. However when Hitler left to attend business in several military barracks the leaders left the beer hall and Hitler’s control (Flood p496, 499). The next day they broke their ally with Hitler. Hitler, with his men, marched to the War Ministry building demanding the police to surrender. The police then shot Hitler and his men ...
- 4113: Abraham Lincoln
- ... his second inaugural address Lincoln set an example that all Presidents are still measure by for eloquence and brevity. During Lincoln’s presidency, the Civil War broke out. For Lincoln the country was out of control. Falling into a depression that would plague him throughout his life. Lincoln underwent endless crises that would have shattered a weaker man. Lincoln was a president that lacked administrative experience, suffered from depression, and was ...
- 4114: The Accomplishments of Peter The Great
- ... interested in his family, he was very much interested in an atmosphere which was open to progressive influences from the West. In 1689, Sophia's regency ended when once again she tried to take full control of Russia. Peter expelled her from the palace and sent to the Novodevichi nunnery. Many of her close associates were executed or exiled. Peter returned from hiding to Moscow but at that time he was ...
- 4115: Man Vs. The Environment
- ... have looked like it was a mov-ing carpet of bison. With over 60 million buffalo roaming the plains (Pendley, 1995,p. 124) at one time man saw this as a threat to its complete control of the continent, so he sent out his fingers of death, the buffalo hunter. It was these fingers that slain approximately 60 million of these ingenious creatures (Pendley, 1995, p. 125). The re-ward for ...
- 4116: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... surface. The machine operates so that while one row is being systematically fired the other ones are being loaded. This succeeds in a constant stream of fire at a rapid pace much like the machine gun in our time. One of his more unique blueprints drawn is a mechanical military drum which plays different beats through the use of revolving pegs. This is a device considered by some as the first ...
- 4117: Al Capone
- ... the gang with the violent demise of Big Jim Colosimo, and Capone gained experience and expertise as his strong right arm. In 1925, Capone became boss when Torrio, seriously wounded in an assassination attempt, surrendered control and retired to Brooklyn. Capone had built a fearsome reputation in the ruthless gang rivalries of the period, struggling to acquire and retain "racketeering rights" to several areas of Chicago. That reputation grew as rival ...
- 4118: Mark Antony
- ... became co-rulers with Marcus Lepidus after the death of the Roman ruler Julius Caesar. Antony later married Celeopatra, the queen of Egypt, and the two combined their military forces. Antony hoped to gain sole control of Rome. However the forces of Antony and Celeopatra lost the decisive Battle of Actium in 31 BC. Antony was born into an important Roman family. In 54 BC, he became a cavalry officer under ...
- 4119: Benjamin Banneker
- ... Benjamin spent most of his young life on the family farm. Around town it was known as “Bannaky Springs” because of the fresh water springs on the land. Bannaky used ditches and little dams to control the water from the springs for irrigation. His work was so reliable that the Bannaky’s crops flourished even in dry spells. The family of free blacks raised good tobacco crops all the time. There ...
- 4120: Adolf Hitler
- ... of the World War I peace treaty), sent troops into the demilitarized Rhineland in 1936, and annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland in 1938. In March 1939 he brought the remainder of Czechoslovakia under German control. He also came to the aid of Francisco Franco's rebels in Spain's civil war (1936-39). Outmaneuvered and fearful of war, no national leader offered resistance to his moves. Hitler realized, however, that ...
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