Philip II of Spain The son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Queen Isabella of Portugal‚ Philip II was a strong catholic King of Spain who led the inquisition against the protestants‚ and attempted to take over England with his great fleet of ships called the Spanish Armada. Philip II was born on May 21‚ 1526 and was the only legitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (2). He ruled from 1556 up until his death in 1598. Philip tried to keep Spain as the leading power in Europe and the
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The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in 1917 was a major event in Russian history. This was caused by a variety of reasons‚ including appalling conditions suffered by the people‚ the Tsar’s weak autocratic rule and the revolution of March 1917‚ which ended with the Tsar being forced out of power. The abdication of the Tsar also had several consequences‚ which changed the course of Russian history. Firstly‚ the newly formed Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet vied for power for several months
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World War II is the greatest international conflict to ever occur; not because it was good‚ but because of its scale. It consisted of most‚ if not all of the world’s major powers of the time. Fighting took place from the beaches of Normandy in France to Midway Atoll in the pacific. There were many causes that led to this extensive war‚ one being the failure of the League of Nations to stop the aggression of the Third Reich‚ and another being the policy of appeasement‚ which failed to satisfy Hitler’s
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D-day In May 1940‚ Germany invaded and occupied Northwestern France which had started World War II (1939-1945). America had entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. After entering the war and forming the Allied Forces the British and Americans were planning on an invasion across the english channel. The name for the invasion was Operation Overlord and would be later known as D-Day (A&E par. 1-2). The term D-Day and H-Hour represents the day and hour for an operation. The plus or
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Cited: Perry‚ Marvin‚ Myrna Chase‚ James R. Jacob‚ Margaret C. Jacob‚ and Theodore H. Von Laue. Western Civilization Volume II. 2004. MA: Houghton Mifflin‚ 2004.
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Birkenau was the biggest of the more than 40 camps and subcamps that made up the Auschwitz complex(Auschwitz II-Birkenau / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau). Amid its three years of operation‚ it had a scope of capacities. At the point when development started in October 1941‚ it should be a camp for 125 thousand detainees of war(Auschwitz II-Birkenau / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau). It opened as a branch of Auschwitz in March 1942‚ and served in the meantime as a middle for
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US ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR II US ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR II The United States entered the war for one main reason the attack on Pearl Harbor but a number of events led the United States to ally itself indirectly with Britain before the attack on Pearl Harbor despite its initial convictions to stay neutral. Events Before US Entry The United States ADOPTED POLICIES TO KEEP ITSELF FROM BEING FINANCIALLY and militarily INVOLVED WITH THE war. Since loans they had made to countries in Europe during World War
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World War II was a war spanning from 1939-1945 in which the Canadian army fought battles worldwide and contributed greatly to the allied victory in the war. Many Canadians fighting in the war were part of a gruelling Italian campaign. The army first landed on the Italian island of Sicily‚ where they then made their way deeper into Italy‚ fighting battles in Ortona‚ Cassino and Rome. Secondly‚ some soldiers who were part of the Canadian army went to Hong Kong to fight the Japanese. The Canadians were
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Japan’s development after the Second World War. 1. The real situation after World War After the World War II ended‚ Japan was one of the defeated countries. She was left with a lot of damages‚ especially the two cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki which suffered serious atomic bombing. Severe food shortages were common; the economy was almost totally paralyzed from wartime destruction‚ rampant black marketeering and runaway inflation; few Japanese had any money but there really wasn’t anything to
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March 14 1917‚ Nicholas II fell from power‚ there was lots of reasons but my three main reasons are; The State of the Army and how they weren’t ready for war‚ The Role of the Duma and how they wanted the Tsar out of power‚ and Rasputin how he had control over Nicholas’s wife Rasputin was a peasant from Siberia‚ he was a holy man that clamed he had the power to heal the sick and predict the future. This came in handy when he found out that the Tsar’s son Alexis has hemophaelia‚ that’s a disease
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