Australia boasts of today. Although at first resistance to the war was limited‚ although the Australian Labour party(in opposition for most of this period) steadily opposed conscription. Anti war sentiment escalated rapidly in the late 1960s as more and more Australian soldiers were killed in battle. The introduction of conscription by the Australian government during the war also enraged some‚ and groups of people resisted the call to military service(which was punishable by a jail sentence) by burning
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First off Napoleon conquered his age more thoroughly than anyone I have ever heard of so that shows he was powerful. One problem was he was a lot like adolph hitler charismatic‚ psychologist‚ politician‚ and ambitious to the point of self-destruction. They both started wars that they could not finish will out thousands dead. They both were what shaped their ages with their power. Napoleon created a massive more mobile army than anyone else had in that time. In that time France had went through
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William Lyon Mackenzie King William Lyon Mackenzie King Quick Facts William Lyon Mackenzie King William Lyon Mackenzie King served as Canada’s prime minister three times between 1921 and 1948‚ holding office for a total of 21 years during that period. He worked to improve Canadian cooperation with Britain and the United States. Encarta Encyclopedia THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Full Size W. L. Mackenzie King (1874-1950)‚ tenth prime minister
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Confederation 1. manifest destiny 2. the north south pull 3. legislative grid lock 4. rep by pop 5. the great coalition Why did Canada become a country? • Pressure from American and Britain • Political issues Manifest Destiny • 1830’s divine destiny • 1830’s manifest destiny • Fear that while pushing with detour North South Pull • Strong trading routes ran north-south‚ not east-west • Happened organically
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sufficient male labour should again be available. The government also set up its own munitions factories‚ employing largely women. January 25th – First Military service Bill introduced conscription of all single men aged 18 – 40. May 16th – Second Military service Bill extended conscription to married
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helped to reform the war department at a time when the confederate capital at Richmond was threatened by union general George B McClellan’s peninsula campaign in 1862. Randolph helped to improve procurement and authored the confederacy’s first conscription law‚ having already done the same for virginia. His independence and focus on the strategic importance of the west put him into conflict with confederate president
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while the other was suffering. On one hand many people did benefit from Nazi rule. Firstly‚ workers. Nazi rule saw the return to full employment – rearmament boosted domestic production and industry which created jobs as did public work schemes and conscription. Unemployment fell from 6 million in 1933 to 300‚000 in 1939. This was very good for the ‘average’ working class German and it made the Nazi regime popular with them. The widely perceived threat of a Communist seizure of power and Nazi propaganda
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responded by joining together to propose amendments to the Constitution in the Hartford Convention in 1815 that favored strict constructionists. Also Daniel Webster‚ a Federalist‚ argued against expansion of the governmental powers by opposing military conscription‚ (Doc. E). Another loose constructionist’s act was the Protectionists Tariff of 1816‚ which aimed to promote American manufacturing‚ (Doc. D). It placed a tariff not specified in the constitution and was advocated by the supposedly strict constructionist
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“MEIJI ERA’s (1868-1912) IMPORTANCE IN JAPANESE MODERNIZATION.” Japan is a country that has never been colonised and was never colonised during the colonial period. It was governed by the Emperors‚ Shoguns‚ Daimyos and the Samurais through the feudal structure of governance with the Emperor as the head of the hierarchy. It maintained its isolationist policy and never opened-up to the outside world for centuries and was in a stagnant stage in terms of development. However‚ in the 19th Century it dumped
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Chapter 21: The Age of Napoleon I. From Robespierre to Bonaparte a. Relatively secure after the military victories of 1793-1794‚ the National Convention repudiated the Terror and struck at the leading terrorists in a turnabout known as the Thermidorian reaction. b. During the four unsteady years of the Directory regime‚ French armies helped bring revolution to other parts of Western Europe‚ only to provoke a second anti-French coalition. 1. The Thermidorian Reaction (1794-1795)
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