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- 2161: Assassination Of JFK
- ... did they inform Congress or the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy. They didn't even tell then-CIA director John McCone, probably because he was appointed by President Kennedy following the Bay of Pigs disaster. In short, as Anthony Summers has observed, "in September and October 1963--a crucial moment politically--CIA officers were acting in a way that gravely endangered White House policy". A key figure linking the Agency to the ... to discuss some oil business. After he was arrested, Brading gave the Dallas police an alias, and told them he had merely gone into the building to use the phone. The police released him a short time later. Without question, a Mafia man, Jack Ruby, silenced Lee Harvey Oswald before he had a chance to tell his side of the story. Furthermore, right after the President's visit to Dallas was ...
- 2162: Origins Of Communism
- ... Europe. The Great Peasants War of 1524-1525 threw a radical Protestant, Thomas Mόnzer, into the public eye. He preached of Heaven on earth; a world without private property or power. Mόnzers realization was short lived though. Anabaptist communities in Germany drew attention away from Mόnzer. By the mid-1600s, communism resurfaced in England, spawning the creation of The Law of Freedom in a Platform by Gerrand Winstanley, a ... Mao Tse-tung at the helm. The process continued. Next, Cambodia, under the power of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge, experimented with Communism until they were invaded by Vietnam in 1978 which resulted in a short war between Vietnam and China. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union went through more changes and by the 1980s, a new leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, was in control. He introduced many new reforms which attempted to modernize ...
- 2163: Oskar Schindler
- ... our lives. If we do not have a purpose, we will never find an answer to Why was I put on this world? Some people think that the time we spend on Earth is so short that we should try to get and receive as much as we possibly can to be completely happy. These people may think that that is the answer to the question: Why are we here? People ... of peace and love that we feel each time we do something to make someone happy. They let us make them laugh and that was the biggest gift we received from them. Life is so short. However, what we do in the few years we are here can be forgotten right after we are put in the grave, or they can be remembered forever. If we give to others, those who ...
- 2164: Orwell And Marx
- ... tool of the state. Feeding off crusts of bread soaked in beer (an allegory for the body and blood of the ruling bourgeois) left by Mr. Jones, Moses is his especial pet, feeding lies and stories to the animals to give them something to live for. After old Major's speech was heard by the animals and his school of thought, to be known as Animalism, began to spread across the ... successfully revolt, Moses disappears, only to return a little while later, after Napoleon, the eventual totalitarian leader of the animals, uses him as a tool just as Mr. Jones did. He begins to tell his stories again and gets paid in beer, just as he did before with the animals' leader. Orwell, unlike Marx, believed religion would not fade away after revolution because there would always be a people hard on ...
- 2165: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... Dr. Gachet planted sunflowers around the grave. His brother Theo died just six months after, and is buried next to him in the cemetery. Vincent van Gogh was an artist whose life was cut terribly short. He sold only one painting during his lifetime, Red Vineyard at Arles, and was little known to the art world at the time of his death, but his fame grew rapidly thereafter. His influence on ... providing the most auspicious material for the 20th century vogue in romanticized psychological biography. Who knows of how many other great paintings he could have completed in the following years. Although his life was cut short, Vincent van Gogh has since been recognized as one of the great geniuses of modern art. He was clearly one of the greatest postimpressionism painters of all time. Bibliography Internet Word Count: 1473
- 2166: Battle Of Bunker Hill
- ... of death to enter many of the soldiers' minds. It is remembered that freedom is what the fight is for, so we must continue to gain independence. The battle has been going on for a short time now, although vision is already obscured from all the smoke and dust in the air. It is becoming increasingly difficult to breathe, with all of these air borne substances entering my lungs. People are ... group of men up to Dorchester Heights, aiming their canons at the British, and then watched the Red Coats retreat from the hill. So even though the British had won the battle, it was a short lived victory since the colonists took control of the hill again, but this time with more soldiers to defend it. The Battle of Bunker Hill was important for a variety of reasons. The first one ...
- 2167: WWII
- ... Roosevelt's master plan was very complex and involved a great deal of people. Two of the people who would be affected the most by this plan were Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Gen. William Short. The reason they would be greatly affected was because they were the scapegoats. Adm. Kimmel, the Pearl Harbor commander, was kept in the dark by his superiors in Washington. Officials in Washington left Adm. Kimmel without any knowledge of the attack until it was too late, and then they blamed Adm. Kimmel for not being ready. The futures of Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short were a small price to pay for the possibilities of what economic fortunes laid ahead of the U.S. All the planning and effort that went into this scheme, ended up allowing Roosevelt to enter ...
- 2168: Crazyhorse
- When I think back of the stories that I have heard about how the Native American Indians were driven from their land and forced to live on the reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that the Oglala Sioux made history with them being the ones who left the battlefield as winners. When stories are told, or when the media dares to tamper with history, it is usually the American Indians who are looked upon as the bad guys. They are portrayed as savages who spent their time raiding ...
- 2169: Ww1 From Begining To The Us En
- ... Belgium, encircle and capture the capitol of France and then move east. This plan relied on a big right wing. The Belgin army was fighting tough and holding up the Germans but only for a short time. By Aug. 16, 1914 the right wing of the German army could begin its pincher move. They drove back the French and a small British force in southern Belgium. They then swept into France ... poison gas over allied lines in the second battle of Ypes. The fumes raised vomiting and suffocation. German commanders had little faith and the gas and they didnt launch a major attack. The allies short after began to use the gas, so gas masks became a necessity in the trenches. They also produced a flamethrower. The Battle of Verdun In 1916, Falkenhyen chief of the German general staff decided to ...
- 2170: Hitler
- ... government, he went to talk to the triumvirate anyway. The triumvirate then hesitantly agreed to join because of the great esteem they held for Ludendorff. Each one then went onto the platform and made a short speech. Everything seemed to be going smoothly, so Hitler left the beer hall a short time to personally deal with a clash between his armed men, leaving Ludendorff in charge. The Downfall When Hitler came back to the beer hall, he found that all three of the triumvirate had left ...
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