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- 2211: Reasons For The Downfall Of The Russian Empire In The Year Of 1917
- ... During this period, Vladimir Lenin arrived in Petrograd hoping he could radicalize the revolution. Lenin issued his “April These.” Lenin urged his party, the Bolsheviks who represented the Russian Social Democratic Party who believed that violence was the key to the improvement of the workers, to not support the provisional government or the war effort. He also wanted to give the soviets the government’s power. Many moderate liberals and socialists ...
- 2212: The New World
- ... their calabashes full of water to the Europeans (Documents Set,13). The Indians were unaware of the hostile environment that was to lie ahead. "The first stages of the Spanish invasion of America included frightful violence. Armies led by conquistadors marched across the Caribbean island, plundering villages, slaughtering men, and capturing women" (Out Of Many,33). This was just the beginning of encomienda, an early form of slavery. Indians later made ...
- 2213: The Holocaust
- ... the Holocaust. Students will learn it is wrong to have racial injustice by studying the Holocaust. They will learn the consequences when prejudice gets out of control. We see the beginnings of this sort of violence already occuring even in Bexar County as evidenced by gang disturbances such as drive by shootings and the killing of law enforcement officials. The study of the Holocaust well help students know how to prevent ...
- 2214: Is Saddam Satan?
- ... oil and ethnic interests”(McGeary 61). Saddam is indeed a stabilizing force in the Mid-East, and were he to leave the scene, there would be yet another area of the Mid-East engulfed in violence. The United States first began to destroy Iraq because Iraq supposedly began a war with Kuwait; however, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was justified, and supported by a majority of the Arab world. In the ...
- 2215: Who Was Responsible For The Cold War?
- ... World and controlled its allies in Europe, while the Soviet rulers kept an iron grip on their own internal empire and their satellites in Eastern Europe -- each side using the other to justify repression and violence in its own domains. Of course, both the US and USSR would have preferred that the other simply disappear. But since this would obviously have involved mutual annihilation, a system of global management called the ...
- 2216: The French Revolution
- ... a higher toned despotism than the one which existed before.”(George Washington). The Third-Estate in France went through a rough time of inequality and punishment. A revolution was needed, but the extreme cruelty and violence seems unnecessary. In the end, it worked; however, there was a significant risk of placing themselves in a worse position than they were previously. The new government may not have been better than the old ...
- 2217: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... the party were banned at Lenin’s insistence. Stalin used arrests and executions to eliminate all stirrings of opposition and branded all who took issue with him as foreign spies. Although Khrushchev and Brezhnev eschewed violence, they consistently refused to allow potential adversaries within the party to band together against them. The party used two main means to enforce its will. First, it required all who wished to be active in ...
- 2218: The Holocaust, An Injustice And Tragedy
- ... 175 synagogues demolished, nearly 100 Jews had been killed, and thousands more had been injured, all for the assassination of one official by a Jew. In many ways, this was the first major act of violence to Jews made by the Nazis. Their intentions were now clear. THE FINAL SOLUTION The Nazi's plans for the Jews of Europe were outlined in the "Final Solution to the Jewish question" in 1938 ...
- 2219: The Holocaust
- ... Jews had been killed, and thousands more had been injured, all for the assassination of one official by a Jew ("Holocaust, the." Microsoft Encarta 96). In many ways, this was the first major act of violence to Jews made by the Nazis. Their intentions were now clear. The Nazi’s plans for the Jews of Europe were outlined in the "Final Solution to the Jewish question" in 1938. In a meeting ...
- 2220: The Aztecs
- ... ruthlessly created an empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americas only by that of the Inca in Peru. As early texts and modern archaeology continue to reveal, beyond the violence of their conquests and many of their religious practices, there were more positive achievements: the formation of a highly specialized and stratified society and an imperial administration; the expansion of a trading network as well ...
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