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France 2
Number of Words: 970 / Number of Pages: 4
... that on the eve of the French Revolution one-fifth of the population had no resources at all.
World War I broke out August 1914, setting France, Russia, Britain, Belgiumand Serbia at war with Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Everyone assumed the war would be over in a few months. Instead, the war lasted for four years. Germany finally agreed to sign an armistice on November 11, 1948. (A kind of peace agreement). The death toll had been the largest of any previous wars. France had lost over 1.4 million men and in all of Europe over 8.5 million were killed. People said it was the war ...
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Operation Barbarossa
Number of Words: 950 / Number of Pages: 4
... headed towards Moscow and a southern group moved to capture the food producing area of the Ukraine. By now, the Germans were thrilled with their fast advancements and initial success, including the fact that they had captured over 400 000 Russian soldiers.
In late July, the advance on Leningrad and Moscow slowed, with forces moving south to capture Kiev and the Ukraine. While Germans generals wanted to make Moscow the primary target so that a final battle could take place to crush the red Army, Hitler believed that seizing territory was more important.
The German army once again succeeded here, with ...
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Francisco Goya, Life Of An Art
Number of Words: 387 / Number of Pages: 2
... make him feel alienated and separated from everyone else, provoking him to paint the darkness and weakness of mankind. He began to paint his own version of caricatures, showing the subjects as he saw them.
In 1795 he was elected director of painting at the Royal Academy and served until 1797, then being appointed Spanish Court Painter in 1799. Goya soon after begins a time where his imagination goes wild, and he enters a world of surrealism, which at the time proved to be unexceptable. Being unable to present these paintings, he withdraws his works and continues his job.
During Napoleons inva ...
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Gibbons V. Ogden (1824)
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... particular waters. Therefore, he had a right to seize Ogden’s ship. Ogden, on the other hand, claimed he had a federally approved license to navigate any waters in the United States. Gibbons declared the supremacy of the New York Steamboat Act, while Ogden stated the Federal Coasting Law as the rule. The stage had been set for the Supreme Court.
The case came to the Supreme Court as the infamous Federal versus State battle for power. Once again the question plagued Marshall whether to support Federalism, or keep States’ rights alive.
Certain things became apparent to Marshall. The Constitution did ...
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Nomandy And Stolingrad
Number of Words: 1859 / Number of Pages: 7
... mainly because of two large, powerful armies meeting each other head on.
Originally, Stalingrad hadn't really been an objective. It became one however after Hitler grew to have a personal obsession with it. It being named after Stalin himself, his enemy, made it a conquest he had to take on. The loss at Stalingrad could be partially blamed on Hitler himself. He withdrew into a shell during this period, concentrating on nothing more than the city. In the meantime, allowing for things to crumble around him.
Fortunately for Hitler, an equally obsessive leader faced him. Stalin had a similar obsession ...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
Number of Words: 2625 / Number of Pages: 10
... Castro's army quickly stopped the exiles that hoped to find local support. Ninety of the invader's were killed and twelve hundred captured. This failure was a big embarrassment to the Kennedy administration.
As of 1962 the Soviet Union was loosing a desperate arms race, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev conceived an idea of placing intermediate-range cruise missiles in Cuba. This deployment would double their strategic arsenal as well as act as a deterrent to a potential U.S. attack. Ever since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Fidel Castro was also looking for a way to prevent what he felt was a ...
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The Fall Of The Roman Empire
Number of Words: 632 / Number of Pages: 3
... warriors from Asia, known as Huns, moved into eastern Europe and in turn put pressure on the German Visigoths to move west across the Danube into Roman territory. The Goths were originally Roman allies, but they soon revolted and became enemies. The Goths sacked Rome in 410 AD and the Vandals, who attacked Spain and Northern Africa, sacked Rome in 455 AD. This theory, based almost solely on fact, is a direct and easy explanation of . However, it is not the sole reason for the demise of Rome.
New values had entered the Roman world and had a strong presence in Roman society in the third through f ...
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A Comparison Of Medieval And R
Number of Words: 1532 / Number of Pages: 6
... During the Middle Ages, drama was aimed mainly at making advancements in the church. Thus, the Cycle Dramas or English Passion Plays were performed with the permission and "help" of the church. It is thought that church clergy probably wrote the playlets and then gave it over to the Guilds to be performed. Although the appearance of the Cycle Dramas seems unimaginative and commonplace at a first glance, there are some striking innovations in terms of furthering a dramatic structure. This is the first time we see the use of a double plot in which the honored and revered story is compared to ...
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Effects Of The Great Depression On Canada
Number of Words: 2818 / Number of Pages: 11
... important export, was being over-produced
around the world, despite the fact that the 1928 supply of wheat was still
available in 1929.
A good reason for the stock market crash in 1929 was that,
the values of stocks of the New York Stock Exchange were
grossly over-valued, but government and business appeared to
ignore the signs. 2
Canadian revenues that came in from export sales were dependent
largely upon the United States who had the money for growth; the
commodities were grain, pulp and paper and metals. Then when the New York
crashed on October 1929, stock prices fell dra ...
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The Vietnam Era
Number of Words: 1001 / Number of Pages: 4
... his parents didn't try to understand him, they just gave up. They were more concerned what other people thought than what he thought. Many parents could not understand their kids because their lives were so different. It was more than just a gender gap. The generation of changed the way our contry worked. They changed the dress codes, the music and even the laws.
Hippies lived by the concepts of free-love, racial equality and peace. These principles marked a great change in society. The spirit of lives on today. This generation experienced what no other had ever gone through or has since. ...
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