There were many factors that lead to the Iranian revolution of the 1970s‚ and it had a lasting impact on the Middle East as we know it today. The revolution showed the world what could happen when a nation is fed up with a leader who’s been‚ from the people’s perspective‚ ‘bought’ by the western world. Revolutions have happed all throughout history‚ but the revolution in Iran was unique‚ because it was the first one where a leader who was backed by the West had been defeated. Key sources for this
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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing process that occurred in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. Men‚ women and children suffered in harsh conditions. There was long working hours in factories that had machines that were unsafe. Sometimes a worker could lose their arm if they weren’t careful. The worker also became sick because of the unsanitary conditions and the dust down in coal mines. Women were hired more than men because they could be
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I believe the Mexican revolution of the 1910s was a war of the people‚ against the harsh rule of dictatorships. The role of Mexico’s leader quickly changed hands from Porfirio Diaz (1876-1911)‚ to Francisco I. Madero (1911-1913)‚ to Victoriano Huerta (1913-1914)‚ and finally to Venustiano Carranza (1914-1920). It all started due to Diaz and his hunger for power and unwillingness to let go of it; he went as far as blaming the people by claiming the indigenous and mixed people were “practically subhuman
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Evaluate the role of Islamic fundamentalism in the 1979 Iranian revolution (1200) Various factors influenced the 1979 Iranian revolution‚ but at the core of this significant event was Islamic fundamentalism. The Iranian religious leader‚ Ayatollah Khomeini‚ led this movement to end the thirty-seven-year reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi‚ also known as the Shah of Iran (Diller 1991‚ p.152). The revolution was a combination of mounting social‚ economic‚ political and religious strains. The nation
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CAUSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1. Describe the leadership of Louis XVI (16th) of France. indecisive leader/ easily persuaded put off financial problems. French support for the colonists in the American War of Independence had brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy agreed to summon the ’estatesgeneral’ (a form of parliament‚ but without real power) in order to try and raise taxes. people were angered by Louis’ refusal to allow the three estates the first (clergy)
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"Son of the Revolution" Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro’s "Son of the Revolution" is a comprehensive story of Liang Heng’s life on growing up during the chaotic times of the Chinese revolution. The purpose of this novel was to depict the horrors and hardships of life during the revolution period in china during Mao Zedong’s reign. In the beginning of the book‚ the author portrays that news and ideologies always stated that the government was working for the good of the people of the country. However
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or St. Domingue as it was formally known‚ had a population of about 520‚000 people with 450‚000 or 86.7 percent being slaves and the rest being the whites and free coloured or (mullatoes) “as stated by Patrick E. Bryan in his book‚ “The Haitian Revolution and its Effects”. As time went on‚ issues arose about slavery and the slaves wanting freedom because they were being overworked and ill treated. In 1660‚ the French settlers came to Hispaniola‚ after being driven by Spaniards from Tobago. They
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The Indutrial revolution (bbc youtube documentary) until The Indutrial revolution most people lived an agriculture existance defined by the harvest and the seasons and ruled by a small political and social elite. Sea cult- from north sea coal kick started The Industrial revolution in Britain. Until then wood had been the main source of energy in britain ‚ it supplied the fuel for homes and small industries ‚ but as populaion grew so did the demand for timber‚ as forest were cut down ‚wood had
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In the Industrial Revolution‚ humans—western Europeans at first—learned to exploit coal and steam energy to mass produce goods with machines and to sell them worldwide. The Industrial Revolution began with production of textiles and eventually spread to other areas of manufacturing‚ as well as to farming and food processing. In the later nineteenth century‚ industrialization occurred on a large scale in metallurgical‚ chemical‚ and electrical industries. Once begun‚ it could not be stopped. The Industrial
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Mao Ze Dong started the Great Cultural Revolution in 1966‚ in what appeared to be a massive cleansing policy to ensure the final victory of Mao and his supporters over the rest of the Chinese Communist party. Mao Zedong officially launched the Cultural Revolution at Eleventh Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee. Over the next decade‚ literally millions of people were destroyed‚ imprisoned and blamed for previously hidden ’bourgeois tendencies’ while tens of thousands were executed. Mao Zedong
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