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Papers on History
Timeline History Of Russia 1533-1991
Number of words: 1221 | Number of pages: 5.... changes to the economic system. With
the development of the American, French and Spanish constitutions, the
serfs now demanded the abolishment of the monarchy dictatorship, communal
ownership of land and many other civil and social reforms. Unfortunately,
their rebellion was quickly dismantled by the Czar's military faction and
the system remained in tact.
1861-1905
Czar Nicholas II finally realized that his current economic monarchy
was holding back the development of the empire. He therefore created a
parliamentary system in 1905 which would decrease the number of strikes
and violent outbursts generating from the peasant .....
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Holocoust
Number of words: 1615 | Number of pages: 6.... incendiary path.
After World War I, the social climate in Germany was dismal. The German people were humiliated by their country's defeat and by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The economic depression that resulted left millions of individuals out of work. The German government was weak, and the people sought new leadership. These conditions provided an opportune setting for a new leader, Adolf Hitler, and his party, the National Socialist German Workers Party. Hitler, manic and charismatic, was able to fan the flames of an ancient hatred into a wild and out of control conflagration (Altman 12).
As with most hatred an .....
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The Rebellion Against Victoria
Number of words: 908 | Number of pages: 4.... social institution of
marriage. The first of these new women were out only for fun. The
second was the concept of an asexual being who did not need a man.
These women owned their own flats and had various jobs usually
secretarial in nature.. The book expressed an uncomfortable period of
transformation. Working women were not completely accepted by English
society at this time. The book portrayed different lives and how they
coped with their situations.1
The male character was also in a state of change. This change
brought about the term "new men". These new men were classified by a
"sexual anarchy". This .....
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Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising
Number of words: 842 | Number of pages: 4.... to the way history has been written in Thailand.
Activist leader's general opinion was that it was about time that Thailand as a society, introspect. They insisted Thailand needed to stop being fearful about their past and must come to terms with their own history, both modern and pre-modern.
Taking a lead in exposing the gaps in official history is the Thai media, which in the past decade has grown more prolific and independent than its counterparts in much of South-East Asia.
An example of its role was early in 1996, when a mob attacked the house of Saphin Kaew-Ngaarn-Prasert in north-east Thailand's Nakhon Ratchasi .....
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General Denis Sassou Nguesso And The Congo-Brazzaville Conflict
Number of words: 2199 | Number of pages: 8.... 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 Congo.
WFP estimates that before the Cobras' last advance, there were some 60,000 .....
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Causes Of The Civil War
Number of words: 1950 | Number of pages: 8.... and canals. The South, on the
other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted
to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer.
It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade
its cotton for foreign goods.
The North also wanted a good banking and currency
system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements. The South
felt these were discriminatory and that they favored Northern commercial interests.
Now the main reason for the South’s secession was the Slavery issue. Basically
the South wanted and needed it .....
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Kurds Vs Turks
Number of words: 4645 | Number of pages: 17.... displacing the Turks. Furthermore, if present demographic trends hold, as they are likely to, in about fifty years Kurds will also replace the Turks as the majority ethnic group in Turkey itself.
There is now one Kurdish city with a population of nearly a million (Kirminshan), two with over half a million (Diyarbekir, Kirkuk), five between a quarter and half a million (Antep, Arbil, Hamadan, Malatya, Sulaymania), and quarter of a million people (Adiyaman, Dersim [Tunceli], Dohuk, Elazig [Kharput], Haymana, Khanaqin, Mardin Qamishli, Qochan, Sanandaj, Shahabad, Siirt and Urfa).
The Turks’ Vicious Approaches:
The Turks have had no .....
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The German-Great Britain Trade Rivalry In Comparison To The U.S.- Japan Trade Rivalry
Number of words: 544 | Number of pages: 2.... was large
and arrogant and refused to believe it could face competition from Japan. Like
Britain, U.S. industry believed that they could hold onto markets and would not
face competition. British and U.S. industry were startled by the fast rate of
growth and industrialization that allowed Germany and Japan to transform
themselves quickly into trading rivals. This fast rate of growth also caused
friction between both sets of countries. Relations between Germany and Great
Britain were damaged as they bickered over markets in particular colonies in
Africa . This is similar to the friction between the U.S. and Japan unfair
trading pra .....
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People And Events Of World War II
Number of words: 2255 | Number of pages: 9.... the war. He died in 1943, shot down by the U.S. 13th Air
Force in a surgical assassination strike.
The last, Tojo Hideki, was born in 1884, and was the most violent of the
three. He was the leader of the militaristic party that controlled the
government from 1926 to 1945, and the one who commanded the Japanese invasion of
Manchuria in 1937. He controlled all government and military campaigns until
1944, when, as a result of bad military defeats, he resigned as Prime Minister.
Tojo was later arrested, tried, and convicted by an international military court
for conventional war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against huma .....
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The Unification Of Europe Under The Maastricht Treaty
Number of words: 620 | Number of pages: 3.... in mind will disregard the
treaty. For example, during the last several weeks in defiance of the
treaty Britain lowered it interest rates while Germany raised theirs. Both
to accommodate their own separate economies! This sort of unity does not
seem to me to set an example from which to abide by in the future.
Under the Maastricht Treaty one body will govern and regulate both
economic and political concerns. I find it hard to comprehend how one
governing body can do the work of twelve individual governments in a
continent whose culture and society are so diverse. If the nations now are
incapable of settling their int .....
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