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Elizabeth 1

... 3rd Duc de Guise refused to recognize him and persuaded Henri III to send an army to force his conversion. In the resulting "War of the Three Henries," Henry de Navarre defeated Henri III at Coutras (1587) but came to the king's support in the troubles of 1588, and after Henri III's death (1589) defeated the League forces at Arques (1589) and Ivrey (1590); he was unable to enter Paris until 1594, after he had abjured Protestantism -- allegedly with the remark, "Paris is well worth a Mass." His war with Spain, the ally of the League, ended in ...

Number of words: 2050 | Number of pages: 8

America The Great

... was a group of rebels in Panama. These rebels used guerrilla warfare trying to gain control of the Panama Canal. President Reagan finally decided to attack the rebels and wiped out their group. When asked about his actions he stated, "Today, we did what we had to do .... He counted on America to be passive, he counted wrong," It helped to earn him the nickname, Superman. Then, vice-president Bush, would soon have to face terrorists also. When Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, decided to invade his neighboring country of Kuwait. Pres ...

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The Great Depression

... fixed, but he was wrong. was a lot longer than a brief period. No date has ever been set on the start of , but all say that the news from the Great Crash was the start, and the United States would not be in a better state until the demands of the second world war. For more than ten years, the American people faced a condition in which they had no clue on how to face, or how to fix it. The responsibility for solving this crisis was greatly on the President. He, who had saved European countries from starvation during the Great War of 1913 t ...

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Referring To The Spanish Civil War

... of Spain during the Civil war and post civil war periods. Left-winged radicalism and nationalistic movements, such as the Catalan movement frequently came into conflict with the central government, which lead the government to use corruption more and more frequently as a form of control. The result was a military coup in 1923 lead by Miguel Primo de Rivera. Rivera preferred a more direct way of governing, with a strong Christian base and a very anti-communist attitude. He did not like party politics, preferring to govern pragmati ...

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Reasons For The Fall Of Socialism/Communism In Russia

... the Soviet economy, rather than follow Lenin's revolutionary goal of dominating the world. In order to obtain the immense amount of money needed to maintain his militia, he began a series of five year programs which would force the average farmer to meet a quota by the end of the harvest and then have the state subsidize all of the production. This system, aptly named collectivization, reprimanded all of the average worker's liberties and created great suffering during the Stalin regime. Such suffering was magnified during an anti-war treaty ...

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The Boston Massacre

... the British Parliament had planned to use colonists’ salaries to pay British soldiers, they only upset the colonists even more. Their actions based on their anger led to what is know as . By 1770, the British had stationed near four thousand soldiers in Boston.4 When the soldiers were off duty they took side jobs in the town to earn some more money. This meant that they were taking away jobs from the people living in Boston, which only upset them more. Some of the Patriots would taunt the soldiers and throw stuff at them, like eggs ...

Number of words: 976 | Number of pages: 4

Auschwitz

... actually three camps fused into one. The most potent and efficient way of mass murder was the gas chamber. That is if you lasted the trip there. But the most insulting part of the whole ordeal to the Jewish was being burned in one of the many Crematoriums. The Nazis established in April 1940 under the direction of Heinrich Himmler, chief of two Nazi organizations-the Nazi guards known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), and the secret police known as the Gestapo. The camp at originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and from conce ...

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Generation Ecstacy

... sociological outsider to trace the development of dance music’s "rhythmic phsycadelic," Reynolds, finds two predominant, contrasting strains: the search for gnosis, or spiritual revelation, and the desire to get completely out of it at the weekend. Setting these timeless traits in the context of the up-to-the-minute technology that made rave emblematic of its era—the fragmentary, fast-forward aesthetic, the flexible production and distribution network, the avoidance of personality and narrative in favor of sensation—he comes up with a ...

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A Piece Of My Heart (book)

... understand just how the Vietnam War affected women. Working in places like evacuation hospitals exposed women to the endless flow of casualties from the battlefield, and these experiences took major mental tolls upon the minds of the women who had to assist them, especially in their considerations for the value of human life. Women experienced other problems upon returning home such as the same PTSD and outlashes by anti-war protesters. Women were veterans of Vietnam just like the men, and they experienced many of the same problems as a re ...

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The 1960s

... was he in accomplishing his goals? I wasn't really interested nor paid much attention to politics, therefore I cannot answer this question. What things did you want to see changed by the government? What sort of problems did the government face and how were they solved? I wanted to see the government have more concern for the poor people. Things such as Medicare, OHIP, and pension plans. The government faced many problems, one of the most toughest, I think, was the deep recession occurring in the 60's. What special events or figures were ...

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Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts & The 60s: Years Of Hope - Comparison

... they all refer to includes the diminished placement of trust in America, the rising problem of drugs, and the overall havoc created throughout the country. Therefore, the authors give two very different descriptions of the era of which they were all a part. Even in the beginnings of the works, the differences are very noticeable. Collier and Horowitz begin by trying to describe a "summary moment" (Collier and Horowitz 11) of the decade. This "moment" involves a revolutionary group known as the Black Panther Party. The authors se ...

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Albania

... all of their lives, one can easily understand why such importance is placed on maintaining social and cultural integrity. The ns have lost land, money, religious freedoms and lives in their continuing struggle against tyranny. Through all of ’s domination, it has been able to maintain certain culture mannerism. These cultural mannerisms have given the n people something in common, as well as something to be identified by. Origin of the n People ns are believed to be the descendants of the Illyrians. Although there is no conclusive ev ...

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