Modern History: Essay/Film Response From an historical perspective‚ David Leans’ film‚ Lawrence of Arabia was flawed with inaccuracies of both characters (especially Lawrence) and events‚ but it was truly an epic film that has been rightly seen as a classic. The crumbling Ottoman Empire of the 19th century was put under pressure by the expanding imperial powers of Britain‚ France and Germany‚ each wanting territory in the Middle East. For example‚ Britain’s interest in the land was for oil
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Czar Nicholas II was at the front in February 1917‚ rallying his troops in World War I‚ when word arrived of a strike in Petrograd. (Russia’s capital city‚ St. Petersburg‚ was renamed Petrograd in 1914.) The czar’s aides in Petrograd assured him that the incident was minor and would end when the bitterly cold weather sent the protestors home. Instead‚ the strike spread‚ filling the streets with thousands of angry men and women. The Duma‚ Russia’s legislature‚ wrote to the czar that the situation
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At 5:00 am‚ October 26‚ the manifesto legitimizing the creation of a revolutionary government was voted on and passed by an overwhelming margin. The Russian revolution of 1917 saw the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy in February and the seizure of power by the Bolshevik party in October.The Bolsheviks proceeded to establish the world’s first Communist state on a territory covering one-sixth of the globe. A series of events and ideas led to the October revolution‚ each significant in its own
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ensure their rule was reinforced. In my opinion‚ the Bolsheviks treatment of their opposition was the main reason their rule was consolidated. The Bolsheviks were determined to quell all opposition. A formidable secret police was set up in November 1917: Cheka. They rooted out political opponents and had them exiled or executed. Censorship was invoked. This guaranteed that nothing negative was portrayed about the Bolsheviks. To insure that there was no political alternative to the communist rule‚
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Dylan Hearn 2nd 9/24/14 Animal Farm 20 Questions Webquest Directions: Please use the suggested links to find answers to each of the questions below. Be sure to paraphrase (not copy) the answers/information you find on the internet. All these questions will have parallels in Animal Farm‚ so be sure to pay careful attention! For questions #1-2‚ please refer to your copy of the novel and to this website http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/opinion/essays/rhodi.html 1. What was George Orwell’s
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Americans moved northward‚ lured by the opportunities presented to them in cities such as Chicago and Detroit. As the U.S. geared for the first World War‚ African Americans filled the labor shortages created in the North. The U.S. entered the Civil War in 1917. Thousands of Black soldiers enlisted. They believed President Woodrow Wilson when he said "out of this conflict you must expect nothing less than the enjoyment of full citizenship rights - the same that are enjoyed by every other citizen." For the
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1900: New Orleans‚ Louisiana The New Orleans Race Riots of 1900 were sparked after African American laborer Robert Charles shot a police officer‚ which led to a manhunt. Twenty-eight people were killed in the conflict‚ including Robert Charles himself. Many more people were killed and wounded by riots stemming from the manhunt. 1900: New York City‚ New York 1906: Atlanta‚ Georgia[35] On September 22nd‚ 1906‚ Atlanta newspapers reported four alleged assaults on local white women. Soon‚ some 10
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Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on November 7‚ 1879‚ in what is today known as Ukraine. He was the fifth child of a wealthy farmer‚ David Leontyevich Bronstein‚ and Anna Bronstein. The family was ethnically Jewish but not religious. At the age of nine‚ Trotsky was sent to Odessa to attend school‚ and as Deutscher points out in his biography‚ ‘Odessa was then a bustling cosmopolitan port city‚ very unlike the typical Russian city of the time. This environment contributed to the development
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Sedition Act of 1918 Steven Gilbreath HIST 2020 Darryl Austin March 31‚ 2014 On April 6‚ 1917 the U.S. declared war on Germany. According to the University of Houston’s Digital History site‚ Woodrow Wilson stated‚ “there were ‘millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathy who live amongst us‚’... ‘If there should be disloyalty‚ it will be dealt with a firm hand of repression’”. Within three weeks Congress began debating the issue of espionage during wartime. President Woodrow
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Lenin established the Cheka‚ the Bolshevik secret police and “the main agency of terror‚” in late 1917. This force was responsible for the undertakings of the Red Terror. First‚ there was an “abolition of law‚” with it being replaced by “‘revolutionary conscience.’” Further‚ Lenin decided to have Tsar Alexander II and his family executed in the summer
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