on France‚ Britain declares war on Germany‚ Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia. • Immediate: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Assassinated by a member of the “Black Hand”‚ a Serbian nationalist group‚ Austria declared war on July 28‚ 1914‚ causing Russia to declare war on Germany since they agreed to help Austria in the event of war. After that a web of alliances began to tangle bringing in more countries to the war then required.) • Long: Militarism (Glorifying ones military‚ building
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that happened more than once was illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is crossing over a border‚ disregarding the immigrations laws of the designated country. East Berliners were fleeing over into West Berlin to live‚ in a way‚ a more free life. The statistics show that by “...August 1961‚ approximately 2.2 million citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had left their country without official permission” (“Berlin Wall”). The communist reign of the GDR was failing with their citizens
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stalemate on the Western Front: * Failure of the Schlieffen plan – Whilst the Schlieffen plan dealt with war on two fronts‚ its failure was instrumental to the stalemate on the Western Front. Germany fell short of achieving a quick and decisive victory over France and Britain in which they had hoped for. The German Army’s initial advance was halted by Belgium‚ who allowed Britain and Russia to mobilise their troops. * The Battle of the Marne – German attacks on Paris was resisted by France
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Racism and divorce rates. 1961 was a difficult time due to high divorce rates and segregation of whites and blacks. Stan Lee‚ the author who created the Fantastic Four had seen the issues and put this group of heroes together to battle the rival Justice League in the battle of Popularity. (Linder‚ Vital statistics of the United states‚ 1961)‚ (St. James Encyclopedia of popular culture). The company that created the Fantastic Four was Marvel and the main creator was Stan Lee. The Fantastic four were
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Gallaudet University was the starting grounds for a protest now known as Deaf President Now (D.P.N.) in 1988. DPN was a gathering of deaf people and their beliefs to make a clear goal and protest it. DPN wanted a deaf president to run the only school for deaf people. The protest was the response to the single hearing abled person who ran‚ being elected. The rights of deaf people were made more prominent to america due to this movement. As deaf people knew they could achieve as much as they wanted
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After one hundred years when the Emancipation Proclamation was written‚ African Americans were still fighting for equal rights in their everyday life. Their first success during this movement did not come until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was then followed by many boycotts and protests. The largest of these protests was the March on Washington. On August 28‚ 1963 more than 200‚00 people gathered together at the Lincoln Memorial in order to take part in the black
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Jazz develop and revolutionize the music we hear on the radio today. Jazz began in the south. “The migrants from the South brought with them new ideas and a new kind of music called jazz.” (10) It slowly entered the north‚ spreading diversity. “ It started with the african American musicians and its appeal quickly spread to large section of society.” (Pop culture pg24). It became a popular form of music and entertainment. The smooth‚ soothing tunes traveled across the entire country as more people
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dark practice in history‚ and nothing more. While slavery certainly was cruel‚ its existence did end up playing a major role in the young nation’s history. Slavery was common throughout the American colonies since 1619‚ when the first slaves arrived‚ and continued to prevail for the next two centuries. Since the colonies were near the coast and relied heavily on agriculture‚ “the demand for labor far exceeded the supply‚ and slavery was an obvious solution to the problem” (Cunion 1). Slavery helped the
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How far was Britain a democracy by 1918? At the beginning of the time period‚ 1850‚ Britain was not democratic. There was not a lot of choice concerning the political parties‚ there were only two parties: The Liberals and the Conservatives. Woman did not have any right to vote and were considered second class citizens. In England and Wales only one million and five men could vote and some men could vote twice. The distribution of seats did not take into account the migration of Britain. The House
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A revolution is a complete overthrow of an established government or political system‚ which means that the events occurring in Germany in 1918 didn ’t constitute a revolution. Groups changed in and out of power‚ but in the end it was always one group ruling over the people‚ just as the Kaiser had. The Social Democrats‚ a right-wing political group‚ eventually took his place‚ using the Freikorps to control people. The Spartacists wanted a revolution exactly like that in Russia in the previous year
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