1) Irish Potato Famine. 1845-1849. Called the Great Famine. In the early 19th century‚ Ireland’s tenant farmers struggled to provide for themselves and to supply the British market with cereal crops. By the early 1840s half the Irish population‚ mostly the rural poor‚ became to depend almost exclusively on the potato for their diet. The rest of the population also consumed it in large quantities. A heavy reliance on just one or two high-yielding types of potato greatly reduced the
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not and ithe election was therefore a defeat for the Conservatives. However‚ the Liberals no longer had an overall majority in the commons so they could only get their bills passed if they got the support of the Labour party and Irish Nationalists. The Irish Nationalists would only give their support in return for granting of Home Rule for Ireland‚ so the Liberal party had to include Home Rule in their policy. The Liberals were reliant on the Labour Party as Labour would only support them in return
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Benito Mussolini‚ the leader of Italian authoritarian nationalists‚ seized power in the early 1900s. A former social journalist‚ Mussolini first coined the term fascism. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917‚ Mussolini’s fascism represented a counterrevolution. His fascist ideas aligned with the authoritarian of modernity‚ combining mass movement with the aggression of authoritarian nationalism‚ antisocialist‚ and anti-liberal values. Mussolini contended that everything an individual did‚ needed
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Nigeria gained its independence on October 1‚ 1960. In 1963 it became a Federal Republic and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa‚ with about 140 million people (2006 national census) and the largest concentration of Black people in the world. One in five Africans is a Nigerian. There are about 250 ethnic groups‚ with three major tribes constituting over 40 percent of the population: the Hausa‚ Ibo and Yoruba. Other major ethnic/linguistic groups
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The Russians provided support for the Communists‚ while the USA wanted establish peace after they dropped atomic bombs in Japan to stop their expansion in China. With Japan defeated‚ the USA provided aid to the Nationalists after attempts at forming a coalition failed. The Nationalists however failed when they were outmanouvered by the CCP forced who had support of ex-GMD members and peasants. Their Guerrilla tactics proved extremely important‚ and despite GMD’s support from the USA‚ the communists
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John C. Calhoun was born on March 18‚ 1782 and died on March 31‚ 1850. He was an American Politician and a political theorist. He began his career as a nationalist‚ modernizer‚ and a proponent of a strong national government. Over time his views changed and he became a greater proponent of states’ rights‚ limited government‚ nullification and free trade‚ he saw this as the only way to save the Union. He was very well known for his intense defense of slavery as a positive good his distrust of majoritarianism
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British arts administrators like E. B. Havell‚ the principal of the Government College of Art‚ Kolkata from 1896; eventually it led to the development of the modern Indian painting.[1][2][3] History The Bengal school arose as an avant garde and nationalist movement reacting against the academic art styles previously promoted in India‚ both by Indian artists such as Raja Ravi Varma and in British art schools. Following the influence of Indian spiritual ideas in the West‚ the British art teacher Ernest
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the nationalistic views of the Serbian people. The conflict that occurred on the 28th June 1914 was the assassination of the Austrian Archduke‚ Franz Ferdinand. While he and his wife were visiting Bosnia‚ they were both shot dead by Serbian nationalist‚ Gavrilo Princip‚ On this day nationalism was running high through Serbian and Bosnian people‚ as it was the anniversary of the Battle of Kossovo when Serbia first lost her independence. Nationalism influenced Gavrilo Princip to first throw a grenade
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Cambodian resistance did not develop as much as the others • the Laos did not allow for the growth of nationalism • in Cambodia the king was the main attractions and held all the people’s faiths • in 1927 a group formed called the VNQDD which was a nationalist group full of educators‚ journalists and educated elite
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However‚ there were a few clearly defined differences. Nationalists were primarily concerned with cultural heritage as a unifier above that of simple geographic location. They desired for each cultural group to have its own political autonomy. Intense pride was held in heritage‚ and the different European cultures
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