WORLD WAR ONE FIRSTS First war to be fought on 3 continents. First industrialised conflict. First use of chlorine & mustard gas. First use of the flame thrower. First tank battle. First use of mass airplanes. First use of x-ray in the military. First use of a blood bank. First use of guide dogs by blinded soldiers. First four-star general‚ General John J. Pershing First use of trillion in estimating war costs. First commissioning of war art for propaganda. First use
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1. Describe the political beliefs of Vladimir Lenin. * Lenin was a Marxist. He preached that private property should be abolished and that everything should be owned by everyone. He also believed that anybody making profit was abusing everybody else and that the Russian government supported a system that kept the huge majority of Russian people in misery and therefore it should be overthrown. 2. What did Lenin promise the people of Russia in order to gain their support for the Revolution
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Few people in history deserve sole credit for changing the fate of an entire nation. One of them is Mao Tse-tung‚ the man who rose from the peasantry to become the pre-eminent revolutionary theorist‚ political leader and statesman of Communist China (CNN‚ 2001). Mao Tse Tung was born on December 1893 in a village of Shaoshan in Hunan Province (China ’s south). His family is wealthy peasant farmers. He has one sister and two younger brothers. Mao lives with his mother ’s family in a neighboring village
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Elpidio Quirino Philippine President (1948-1953) 6th President of the Republic of the Philippines Vice-President: Fernando H. Lopez Assumed the remaining term & re-elected From The liberal party (LP) Also known as "apo lakay QUIRINO‚ ELPIDIO [Quirino‚ Elpidio] ‚ 1890-1956‚ Filipino statesman‚ b. Ilocos Sur prov.‚ Luzon. After he was admitted (1915) to the bar he became a law clerk in the Philippine senate. For many years he was Manual Quezon ’s political aide. Quirino was elected (1919)
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In this report I will identify what information children should be given at schools about type 2 diabetes to reduce their chance of getting type 2 diabetes in the future. I have chosen this question because Type 2 diabetes is becoming a big concern in New Zealand as we have one of the highest rates in the world that has type 2 diabetes. Also‚ this ailment is a concern to me personally because my family has a blood line of type 2 Diabetes. In this report‚ I will be thoroughly explaining the ideas
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Have you ever wondered how much money is spent on illegal drugs annually? So far over $352‚492‚916‚346 has been spent on drugs worldwide. Drug trafficking is a business that just keeps on growing. Many attempts have been made to control global drug production and supply resulting in the current form with the 1961 UN single convention on drugs. These attempts include harsher laws regarding drug trafficking. Government uses the police and military for the enforcement of laws‚ and to punish users.
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Country selected The city and country that we have selected is Santiago‚ Chile. The Republic of Chile is a South American country occupying a long‚ narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It has a population of 17.46 million and majority speaks Spanish. Out of the 13 South American countries; we have chosen Chile after evaluation of the PESTE model. It has a high efficiency government due to its low corruption rate. That not only facilitated
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In another words‚ witnesses like Fu Gui and his fellows see things historians can not find in any document. Both books describe what happened in Civil War‚ when Chiang Kai-shek assigned "non-Manchurians to key posts…in Heilongjiang‚ Jilin and Liaoning" (Spence 495). Many officials he assigned "abused their powers" (Spence 495) and forced random people from the streets into troops. Yet the historical description
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Name__________________________________________ Per____ Date_____________________ Chapter 28 Study Guide- Crisis of Imperial Order 1900-1929 Directions: Using complete sentences‚ answer the following questions. Use the question as the stem of your response. Page numbers provided. 1. Who fired the shots that ignited WWI? p.736 2. Give at least one example of Europeans meddling in Ottoman affairs. p.736-7 3. In what 3 empires/regions was nationalism a dividing force? p.738 4. List the members
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How did the Sino Japanese war weaken the KMT? The second Sino-Japanese War weakened the inner mechanisms of the KMT so far that by the time 1945 came around it was strategically disadvantaged and vulnerable to the CCP. The Sino-Japanese War was a war between the Japan and China this started from July 7th 1937 – September 9th 1945. This led to a full-blown war‚ japan then ended the war by surrendering. When Japan attacked china people’s army and KMT they decided to discard their bad blood and that
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