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navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

is evidence that the U.S. actually supported the revolution. Supposedly, President Kennedy uttered words which would be aligned wi...

remained "destitute of hope" (Meyer and Sherman 464). The Mexican Revolution began in the spring of 1910, with the presidential c...

the effect that the U.S. supported Castros revolt. After all, at least on the surface, it seemed as if he was the lesser of the ev...

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

of poverty lived on. In the early twentieth century, there was a significant depression and French farmers were hit hardii. One c...

its many treasures. Not only were their cultures tremendous varied, so too were the various regions that they called home and the...

(increases in drug use) (Garrett 288). A prominent feature of the decade is that young people became alienated from the traditiona...

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

The circumstances behind this revolution are interesting to say the least. By the twentieth century the discontent was at an...

to love scholarship and excelled. Though John did love the church as well, he found there was far too much controversy taking p...

for new ideas to flourish. The two aspects of developing civilisation - socio-historical change and the growth of scientific thoug...

However, as Childe (2003) points out, adopting cultivation did not mean that the communitys lifestyle became sedentary,...

was elected by a coalition of five political parties; the Communists and Socialists were the mainstays of this group, which "elect...

were taken without what was now a deeply ingrained sense of restraint. Revolutionary warfare was simple and to the point....

could have joined forces with another expatriate, Edmund of Gloucester, much like Fidel Castro did with the revolutionary Che Guev...

to by separate from Catholicism is a significant development in human history. The Counter-Reformation, as its name implies, was ...

the 17th century, a time when religion was a powerful force in society, and when going against church teaching was considered here...

Iranian Parliament authorizing the nationalization of property belonging to foreign oil companies; at the time, the Anglo-Iranian ...

to the following conclusion: "Almost at a stroke the Revolution destroyed all the earlier talk of paternal or maternal government...

wherein people began to argue that logical and scientific thinking were the answer to lifes questions. It was a form of thought th...

battles of Lexington and Concord: the famous midnight ride is therefore presented in the wider context of the American struggle ag...

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

1969). When news of the executive of the tsars family reached London, there were "few tears shed" (Dukes, 2003, p. 9). However, wi...

centuries. It was an autocracy with Tsar Nicholas II of the Romanov dynasty in command. However, Nicholass reign was beset by in...

and Ren Wanding. Despite these accomplishments many continue to fixate on that fact that although Jan Wong looks the part to cove...

had on the rural peasants, and his social reforms introduced the hitherto unknown concept of womens rights. The propaganda of the ...

World War II, since 1936.4 The modernization that had been occurring for quite sometime accelerated under this new leadership. Wit...