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The Road To World War II
<view this essay>.... side, against Britain, violated pledges for the waters when it began U-boat attacks. This campaign was extended over many years. The two countries of Germany and England were desperate for the western giant’s support that would threaten American neutrality. The American people, however, would rather stay of war, and lose their right to the seas. Both sides became increasingly angry with the American position of neutrality. England publicly declared, “Anyone who talked of peace was a friend of Germany.” This created only hostility towards the British, but continued diplomacy with Germany. The underlying cause of this friendly nature was not to remain neutral. Wi .....
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Eleanor Aquitaine
<view this essay>.... was a man of extraordinary complexity, alternately idealistic and cynical, ruthless but impractical. He was no statesman, though aggressive and pugnacious.
His most livid affair was when he stole and seduced Dangerosa of Châtellerault. He then kept her in a tower of his palace at Poitiers. She then became known as La Maubergeonne. William died excommunicated in 1127. Eleanor took very much after her grandfather's sarcastic wit and humor in the frivolity of her early years, although never making a clown of herself.
A holy hermit came to Williams IX protesting in God's name at the rape of Dangerosa, and after being received by the dukes usual mocking banter, the .....
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Falkland Islands War Paper
<view this essay>.... a sequence of events that would end nearly 150 years later in war. Shortly after the invasion, the Argentine government set out four arguments in favour of their ownership of the Falklands:
1. Argentina ruled all land in the region formerly held by Spain.
2. Spain had purchased the islands from France.
3. Britain had abandoned its claim to the Falklands in a “secret” 1771 agreement.
4. Britain had abandoned its settlement in West Falkland in 1774.(4)
No matter how well formed these arguments may have been, they fell on deaf ears in Britain. Lord Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary, simply asserted that the Falklands had been British since the init .....
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Causes Of The Revolutionary Wa
<view this essay>.... they will be pleased to relieve us....". This is a very strong dictum, that in 1764, the colonists were of a submissive nature, and were weakly pleading for self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly nullified; therefor, a revolution was viable.
On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body .....
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Attempts To End Slavery
<view this essay>.... beginnings of the antislavery movement were evident right after the revolution. Every state except for Georgia and South Carolina had outlawed the slave trade. Then, in 1782 Virginia passed a law that stated that owners must free their slaves. Consequently, by 1790, over ten thousand slaves had been set free. Ten years later, antislavery societies were forming from states ranging from Virginia to Massachusetts. Gradually, other northern states had followed, providing for the abolition of slavery. However, after the cotton gin was introduced to the economy, instead of eliminating the need for slavery, it actually had the opposite effect—the south now n .....
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Age Of Discovery
<view this essay>.... ever to live. His pursuit of the spice trade routes led him to a completely new continent. While he first thought it was Asia, later explorers found it to be a new continent. It was very likely that someone other than Columbus would have eventually found the New World, but he was the first, which makes him the most important.
The New World proved to be a blockbuster as far as the other “finds” during this time period. The impact, both directly and indirectly on the lives of the Europeans was tremendous. It promoted wealth and it led to a desire for more explorers. The competition of the countries was amazing. There was always a race to see .....
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Alexander The Great
<view this essay>.... father, Philip II, had conquered Greece too. Beginning his voyage in
334, at the age of twenty, Alexander crossed the Hellespont into Asia. The Persian
offered Alexander battle at the Granicus River on the coast of Asia Minor. Alexander led
a cavalry charge across the river into the teeth of the enemy. His courage, inspired his
soldiers, and the victory opened all of Asia Minor to conquest by the Greeks.
In 331 B.C.E. Alexander marched into Mesopotamia to meet an army Darius III,
Persia’s king, had assembled. Once again Alexander and his army broke the Persian line
and Darius was forced to flee. Eventually in 330 B.C.E., in a series of br .....
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A Consise History Of Germany
<view this essay>.... Protestant Reformation.
1555
The Peace of Augsburg recognized the right of princes to choose Lutheranism or Catholicism for their lands.
1648
The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War.
1740
Frederick the Great became king of Prussia and began building Prussia into a great power.
1806
The Holy Roman Empire came to an end with the establishment of the Confederation of the Rhine.
1815
The German Confederation was formed at the Congress of Vienna.
1848
Revolutions swept across Germany. The first German national assembly met at Frankfurt in the hopes of creating a more united country.
1871
Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck realized h .....
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