trail behind the rest of the world as it had done in the past. The Five Year Plan as it was called‚ would help Russia obtain authority and dominance over Europe. The first phase was to overhaul Russia’s heavy manufacturing and industry. This would include the production of steel‚ cast iron‚
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The Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment was a time of renewed ideas during the 18th century. Reason was the center of thought during this time and was the basis that brought the change of ideas that people had until then. The Era of Enlightenment began in many places simultaneously‚ places like Germany‚ Great Britain‚ Spain‚ Portugal‚ Italy‚ the American Colonies‚ the Netherlands‚ and France. The Enlightenment was a time of writings‚ art‚ music and ideas that were transformed during this period
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work because the pirates would use guerrilla tactics to destroy the pirate hunters. Therefore governors started giving pardons‚ however this did start to work as pirates could keep their wealth with no chance of it being taken. The Golden Age of Piracy only lasted for a decade‚ as the infamous pirates were either killed or got the king’s pardon‚ however this decade had a put such a strain on the economy of European countries that the West Indies and East Indies trade were almost destroyed due to the
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Eleanor Roosevelt is the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She is one of the most powerful women in the world. Eleanor dramatically changed the role of the first lady. She did not just content to stay in the background and handle domestic matters‚ she showed the world that the first lady was an important part of American politics. She was a leader in her own right and involved in numerous humanitarian causes throughout her life. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in a political family. Her father
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Continuity and Change in Chinese Nationalist Ideology WWI to Present Since the beginning of the First World War to the present‚ nationalist ideology within China has caused change and continuity in several aspects of this nation’s society. One major change in China from the First World War to the present is its foreign relations with other countries due to factors such as communism and neocolonialism. Although China has changed in this way‚ it has remained one united nation despite foreign
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technological fields. This can be attributed to specific choices and attitudes western nations took in three key points of world history: the fifteenth‚ nineteenth and twentieth century. One reason I believe that the West came to predominate over the rest of the world in the fifteenth century is the stagnation of innovative ideas in eastern countries due to isolation. In the early 15th century China‚ with its massive ships called junks‚ dwarfed the power of any western nations navy at the time. This
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significantly due to changes in policies‚ the influx of immigrants and refugees from war-torn countries and the significant increase in global movements of peoples. The conclusion of World War II brought about major change to Australia’s migration patterns‚ as well as contributing to the abolition of the “White Australia Policy” and the gradual decrease in the country’s discriminatory views against non-white immigrants. It additionally set in place a series of motions that would radically change Australia’s
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Television in Australia has evolved significantly and it has changed since it first came out in 1956. Channels were very limited like; you only had channel 10‚ channel 9‚ channel 7 and SBS. They were your big ones‚ but over the past 50 years television has changed so much. Instead of having analogue shows‚ now you have digital‚ which basically means more channels are opening up like GO‚ 7mate and heaps more. Another significant thing that has happened for television is Foxtel. This box allows you
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The Storming of the Bastille[change | change source] A sans-coulotte‚ a radical revolutionary‚ carrying a tricolor flag. In July 1789‚ after the National Assembly was formed‚ the nobility and the king were angry with Jacques Necker‚ the Director-General of Finances‚ and they fired him. Many Parisians thought the King was going to try to shut down the National Assembly. Soon‚ Paris was filled with riots and looting. On 14 July 1789‚ the people decided to attack the Bastille prison. The Bastille
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The three-decade period beginning in the 1940s and carrying over into the 1960s was a highly important era for the African-American Freedom Struggle. During this period‚ black Americans were living in a highly militant environment‚ not just in the Deep South but in the entire United States as a whole. The era was also defined by highly organized efforts by black Americans to defend their personal dignity‚ to achieve legal recognition of civil rights and to gain greater socioeconomic status. The importance
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