World War II: A Continuation of The Great War When the Great War came to an end with the signing of an armistice in the fall of 1918‚ the European counterparts of the Allied forces sought only to punish the German Empire to the harshest degree. With their determination to substantially debilitate Germany‚ The Treaty of Versaille decimated its army to an almost humiliating number‚ decreased the size of Germany‚ and forced the empire to pay an insurmountable amount in reparations for damages from the
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution or the Cultural Revolution (1966 -1976) was one of the most dramatic and bleakest periods in the history of the People’s Republic of China. The roots of the Cultural Revolution date back to the late 1950s to the early 1960s when the Great Leap Forward ended in catastrophe. The leader‚ Mao Zedong lost a lot of his influence among his revolutionary comrades‚ supporters and eventually‚ he was removed from actual powers by the members of the party. During his
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The American Revolution was fought for the grand causes of national rights‚ liberty‚ and economic control and resulted in freedom and unlimited trade. Like many revolutions‚ the Revolutionary War was an example of the outbreak of violence‚ which most often responds to heightened repression or extraordinary demands from the government against their people. The Revolutionary War was the first anti-colonial‚ democratic revolution in history. Americans insisted on representation‚ and‚ when the British
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1866 Mendel’s paper is published: units of inheritance in pairs; dominance and recessiveness; equal segregation; independent assortment. These ideas are not recognized for 34 years. 1869 DNA (first called "nuclein") is identified by Friedrich Miescher as an acidic substance found in cell nuclei. The significance of DNA is not appreciated for over 70 years. 1900 Mendel’s experiments from 1866 are "rediscovered" and confirmed by three separate researchers (one Dutch‚ one German‚ one Austrian). A
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BookRags Literature Study Guide The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell For the online version of BookRags’ The Great War and Modern Memory Literature Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-great-war-and-modern-memory/ Copyright Information ©2000-2012 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting
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Russian formalism. A school of literary theory and analysis that emerged in Russia around 1915‚ devoting itself to the study of literariness‚ i.e. the sum of ’devices’ that distinguish literary language from ordinary language. In reaction against the vagueness of previous literary theories‚ it attempted a scientific description of literature (especially poetry) as a special use of language with observable features. This meant deliberately disregarding the contents of literary works‚ and thus inviting
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CULTURE/PERIOD PHILOSOPHY ACTIVITIES/PRACTICES MUSICAL INSTRUMENT PROPONENTS/COMPOSERS Medieval Ages Music Timeline (500-1400) Believed that music should make a listener receptive to spiritual thoughts and reflections They allowed music in Christian churches in the form of medieval music that involves chanting Their characteristic of music as based on plainchant improvising with parallel melodies Medieval singers continued experimenting with melodies and polyphony became more elaborate
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The Seven Years’ War also referred to as the French and the Indian War was battled between France and the Great Britain within the span of 1756-1763. The battlefield was in North
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Global History Timeline 7800 BCE First traces of agriculture found along the Jordan River Valley‚ plants had adapted to agriculture (Traces of cultivated rice found in China around the same time) 5500 BCE First origins of Chinese Civilization‚ centered along the yellow river. Cultivation of soy beans and domestication of pigs by the local population 5000 BCE - First agriculture in Mexico‚ corn and beans. - Domestication of the donkey in Egypt. 4500 BCE First agriculture along the eastern
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JEL : 1 Was the Great War a Watershed ? The economics of World War One in France Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Matisse) and DELTA (joint research unit CNRS-EHESS-ENS) This paper has been prepared for a book edited by M. Harrisson and S. Broadberry on The Economics of World War One‚ forthcoming at Cambridge University Press. Abstract This paper presents a broad‚ quantitatively documented‚ overview of the French economy during World War One‚ trying to answer
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