Why was Stalin able to defeat his political rivals so easily in the years 1924-1929? Stalin started his prominent rise in the leadership of the Soviet Union in 1924 after Lenin died of Neurosyphilis and a Stroke. During Lenin’s final years as leader of the Bolshevik party‚ Stalin was one of the main men to take care of him‚ which is one of the reasons why Lenin made him the General Secretary in 1922‚ a job which later on in his career greatly helped Stalin further his cause to become the dictator
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The Luddites were British textile workers and weavers who boycotted the growing use of automated knitting frames and looms. The reason being‚ most of them were trained craftspeople who had spent years learning their profession. They feared that untrained machine operators were robbing them of their subsistence. When their appeals for government aid were ignored‚ a few hopeless weavers began breaking into factories and destroying textile machines. I believe that Owen would have sympathized with the
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The Loyalists were the people who didn’t want to be divided from the Britain. The Loyalists were loyal to the Britain although they weren’t being treated as a human‚ by the Patriots. If you were a Loyalist you would be hanged or immediately sent to jail. And families that were patriots and loyalist would be separated. The patriots stayed in the thirteen colonies and the loyalists came to what is known as Canada now. Loyalists ancestors descend from places like England‚ Scotland‚ and Ireland. The
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Britain’s relations with the American colonies was destined to collapse‚ since the British lacked much respect for the colonies and the unequal mistreatment. During the French and Indian war their relationship altered drastically politically‚ economically‚ and ideologically. This war would soon lead to the American colonies revolting against Britain. Since the start of the war the Americans were eager to help Britain in winning the war‚ the Americans believed by doing this they would get respect
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Advantages and reasons why the American colonists won over the British in The American Revolution During the American Revolution‚ The British and the American colonists had many difficulties and challenges to overcome. Both sides had great disadvantages and advantages‚ but the in the end the colonists had the most advantages and won their independence from the British. Some of the most important reasons the colonists won was that they were fighting on their own continent and knew the land better
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Were there endemic weaknesses which explain the defeat of the Third Reich? In the aftermath of the Second War‚ historians- their judgement clearer with the benefit of hindsight- have clamoured to give their accounts of why Hitler’s Third Reich was defeated‚ often pointing to structural failings within the state. Nazi Germany’s downfall was not inevitable‚ though‚ and indeed for over two years‚ between the summer of 1940 and autumn of 1942‚ the outcome of the war was far from certain. Yet‚ just
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Defeat is a difficult feeling to cope with. In sports games‚ it is always difficult to lose. All people respond to defeat differently. Most people will give up and go home‚ but very few will refuse to be defeated and keep fighting even after the battle is over. In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway‚ the character Santiago is an excellent example remaining undefeated and enduring to the end. For eighty-four days‚ Santiago had set out to sea and returned empty-handed. On the eighty-fifth day
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Hong Kong was a colony of British in the past. Under a British education system‚ the English we learnt in school are supposed to be British English. But nowadays‚ more and more Hong Kong people start to use American English in their daily conversions. Some people think that using both British and American English may prove bad influences to English learning. Another group of people claim that it is good to familiar with the usage of both British and American English. Noah Webster Before we investigate
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There are many British words which are different to American words. For example: • A lorry is a slimmer truck. • A lift is an elevator. • A fortnight is two weeks. • A chemist is a person who works in a drugstore. • A dual carriageway is a freeway. Lisa and Sofia Efthymiou‚ an American mum and daughter‚ have listed below a few of the differences between British and American words. Visit also our Glossary of British Words We have arranged the words in categories to make
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outcomes‚ and modern-day consequences of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). A Glorious Defeat is organized around two central questions: why did Mexico go to war with the United States in 1846 and why did the war go so badly for Mexico? Henderson does provide the answers to these questions‚ based on the reader having some knowledge of the expansionist history that the US partook in with its southern neighbors‚ but who are “far less certain why Mexico went to war with the United States” (xviii).
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