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Origins Of Distrust Between Th
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... the Arab leaders to revolt by promising them their independence. But what was meant, was independence from Turkish rule with the aid, supervision and/or protection from Britain and France. In simple terms, the Europeans powers would be the new occupiers of the Middle East.
The deception came in the form of two documents; one important to the Europeans powers, and the other to the Jews. The Sykes-Picot Agreement of February 1916, was the document that divided the Middle East between Britain and France. The agreement stated that Lebanon and Syria would be set aside as areas of French interests and ...
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Why Did The Textile Workers Un
Number of Words: 3261 / Number of Pages: 12
... numbers. Textiles was the foundation of southern economy. In 1900 there were one hundred seventy-seven mills in North Carolina, but by the early nineteen twenties, that number had grown to over five hundred, with fifty in Gaston County alone. Textiles was a booming industry in the south. South Carolina employed only 2,053 people in the industry at the turn of the century, but by 1920 nearly 50,000 people worked in mills, one sixth of South Carolina’s population. Virginia’s textile industry grew just as quickly with the incorporation of the Riverside Cotton Mills which had only 2,240 spin ...
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Arab-Israeli Conflicts
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... Liberation Army
in northern Palestine, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. British military
forces withdrew to Haifa; although officially neutral, some
commanders assisted one side or the other.
After the British had departed and the state of Israel had been
established on May 15, 1948, under the premiership of David
BEN-GURION, the Palestine Arab forces and foreign volunteers
were joined by regular armies of Transjordan (now the kingdom
of JORDAN), IRAQ, LEBANON, and SYRIA, with token support from
SAUDI ARABIA. Efforts by the UN to halt the fighting were
unsuccessful until June 11, when a ...
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Term African Slave Trade
Number of Words: 1699 / Number of Pages: 7
... findings should not be construed as being accurate or to be relied upon with any degree of certainty: but rather an accuracy range of about 20% approximations.
“It should also be understood that some estimates would not even reach that standard of accuracy. They are given as the most probable figures at the present state of knowledge. These considerations have made it convenient to round out most quantities to the nearest one hundred, including data taken from other authors...”
By the following chart you can see clearly the late eighteenth century was the apex of the slave trade, as described ...
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The Cause For The Great Migrations
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... Their great chief Attila established his horde on the plain of the Danube and from there he led the Huns on raids into both Gaul and Italy. With Attila’s death in 453, the Hunnic empire disintegrated, but the Huns had already given impetus to the great movement of peoples that marks the beginning of the middle ages. The beginning of the Middle Ages would be the final outcome from the “Great Migrations.” There would be many small kingdoms that would become known as medieval kingdoms.
The Visigoths were the first of the Germanic tribes that the Huns dislodged. Fleeing before the Huns, the Visigoths asked ...
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Communism An Overview
Number of Words: 555 / Number of Pages: 3
... their oppressors. The revolution would do away with private ownership of the means of production. Society would be run by and for the people.
Marx and Engels expected that this movement would happen in the most highly industrialized nations of Western Europe, the only part of the world where the conditions were ripe for these developments. This had not happened, though, and capitalism, though all its shortcomings, had been retained in Western Europe. Yet in other nations that lacked the conditions they considered essential for communism to thrive, Marx followers had attained power. The first o ...
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The Holocaust
Number of Words: 459 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the
dictionary, "great or total destruction especially by fire." And by no means is
the genocide of European Jews, and other groups by the Nazi Germany during WWII.
To me the Holocaust means the most current gigantic thing to happen to a
group of people. In my opinion, not the last either. To those of you who say
that there is no way this is going to happen again, I laugh at you. It is a
fact that there is a religous war going on right now in the middle east, and has
been going on for as long as people can remember. For those who say that what
is going on in the middle east is not a genocide, ...
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Articles Of Confederation DBQ
Number of Words: 605 / Number of Pages: 3
... public education.
One major problem with the Confederacy was its inability to create a national tariff. A tariff required a two-thirds majority to be enacted, and there was very little chance of ever getting a two-thirds vote. A letter from Rhode Island rejecting a tariff in 1782 indicates that states did not want to give up any powers to Congress.
While Congress could not get the states to agree upon a tariff, they did not even have the power to tax the states. Joseph Jones' letter to George Washington points out that Congress did not have power to demand a tax, only suggest one. Jones indic ...
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General Denis Sassou Nguesso And The Congo-Brazzaville Conflict
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... mission, made up of field representatives from DHA, UNICEF, WFP, WHO and leading NGOs, also reported the cargo and passenger units of the Maya-Maya international airport were badly damaged, but said the tower seemed to be functioning. A field hospital in Kintele, set up by MSF-H two weeks ago, was reported to be in an appalling condition with no supplies or medicines left. Some 2,000 Rwandan refugees, including 200 children under the age of five, were found to be in a "satisfactory condition" with sufficient supplies for another week. Another 7,000 Rwandan refugees are at Lukolela in northwestern Con ...
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Africa
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... this continent to reform their democracies, to give praise on their efforts in social and economic growth, and to ultimately promote a new relationship with . The residents of are hoping that with the President visiting, a new world of opportunities will be opened to them and that they will be partners insead of patros with the U.S.
Although the residents of Mozambique, Eritrea, Mali, and Ghana are nations with high poverty rates, much illiteracy, much mortality, few jobs, few schools, few hospitals, and no money, they have been able to strive to overcome the obstacles in front of them. They each have ...
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