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- 3191: The Raid of Dieppe
- ... but not forewarned. The failure was due to poor and overly detailed planning, insufficient training, little fire support, and the use of largely inexperienced troops. Of these troops two received the Victoria Cross. Honorary Captain John Foote received the Victoria Cross for he had dragged wounded men to an aid post amid the hail of fire. He was a chaplain at Dieppe. He refused the opportunity to return to England. He ...
- 3192: The Marshall Plan
- ... Frightened by the talk of war, urged to recall that isolationism after World War I succeeded only in producing World War II, Congress waved through the European Recovery Plan that spring. In April the SS John H. Quick sailed from Galveston, Texas, with 19,000 tons of wheat. Before long, there were 150 ships every day carrying food and fuel to Europe. There were new nets for the fishermen of Norway ...
- 3193: Exploration of the New World
- ... their colonies. Prior to England's victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588, English exploration had been limited by religious and political turmoil. There were only two notable English explorers during this period: the Italian John Cabot who was sponsored by the king of England to search for the Northwest Passage in 1497, and Sir Francis Drake who at the approval of Queen Elizabeth I, raided Spanish settlements and boats in ...
- 3194: The Atrocities of the Vietnam War
- ... The many decisions made by the policymakers in Washington regarding the War in Vietnam, perhaps America’s greatest foreign policy failure, had many consequences that, though unforeseen, could have been avoided. The main policymakers include: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. These men and their advisors created a "policy of atrocity" in Vietnam. The decisions that created the most widespread destruction, besides the bombing escalation’s by ...
- 3195: The Renaissance Period
- ... early artworks. Perguino was an Umbrian painter who loved to incorporate beautiful landscapes into his paintings. Raphael’s early works resembled Perguino’s so much that paintings such as the crucifixion with the virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene were thought to be Raphael’s until the church of San Gimingniano proved that they were in fact Perguino’s. Unlike the other great painters of this time such ...
- 3196: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... images of each other, and both have poverty and a corrupt government; England is slightly better than France though. Most of the story takes place in France rather than England. Charles is the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens, and was born on February 7, 1812 near Portsmouth on England's south coast. He was taught to read by his mother, and had a passion for reading his father's collection ...
- 3197: Literary Analysis of Lennie
- Literary Analysis of Lennie Thesis: Though out John Steinbeck’s Of mice and Men, Lennie is a slow witted, innocent, non-violent man, unaware of his strengh, with a mind of a young child. 1.Quote: “…{Lennie}, a huge man, shapeless of face ...
- 3198: Holocaust Revisited
- ... the Nazi regime. I have read several books on the history and theories of the Holocaust. Although Michael Marrus has written a terrific book, The Holocaust in History. The book Holocaust, Religious & Philosophical Implications, by John K. Roth and Michael Berenbaum examines a number of different religious and philosophical issues in regard to the Holocaust. The most prominent theme in this book is the consideration of the uniqueness of the Holocaust ...
- 3199: The End of the First World War
- ... far as anything went. Germany had to give up the coalfields to France for ten years. The United States allies gave a bill of 25 billion dollars to Germany to cover the costs of damages. John Maynard Keynes said, “I believe that it would have been a wise and just act to have asked the German Government at the peace negotiations to agree to a sum of ten billion in final ...
- 3200: The Catholic Church and The Middle Ages
- ... However, the movement was not only confined to Luther's Germany. Native reform movements in Switzerland found leadership in Ulrich Zwingli, who eventually sought an alliance with Luther and the German reformers, and especially in John Calvin, whose Institutes of the Christian Religion became the most influential summary of the new theology. On most important doctrines, Calvin was in agreement with Luther. Calvin differed from Luther in his belief in the ...
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