History Essays

 “The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts, the responsibility of Germany and her Allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of a war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her Allies”.

Early feminists wanted to be treated equally to men. They sought equality in matters like the right to vote and property right. In the 1960s, began what is called the Second wave of feminism. Wikipedia defines this period of feminist thought as mainly concerned with independence and greater political action to improve women's rights.

resulted in millions of casualties in the war. Events prior to World War-I, appear quite intriguing to historians with Sir Winston Churchill, recalling in 1920s, that 'the spring and summer of 1914 were marked in Europe by an exceptional tranquility' (Henig, 2002).

The author states that Japan restored the emperor during the Meiji Restoration in 1868. There was a widespread belief that the emperor was a divine and strong sense in Japan of national identity built on the belief of Shintoism, of ancestor worship. During the Meiji Restoration, the focus had been on transforming the nation that could compete with west.

The Paris peace conference began on January 18, 1919, with 21 nations’ attendance. The representatives of Germany and other defeated central powers were not allowed to sit at the conference table. The “Big Four”- President Wilson of the USA, Prime Minister Lloyd George of the UK, PM Clemenceau of France, and PM Orlando of Italy – dominated the conference and made the important decisions.

The level of aid granted to the individual European countries under the Marshall plan was severely inconsistent with the degree of devastation in a particular country. Britain was the largest receiver of funds and grants, whereas the destructs of war had stricken Germany more than any European country.

The course of the American Revolution was peaceful as compared with the developments of the French Revolution. The military history of the Revolution began in 1775 in Boston, held by British soldiers but surrounded by militia from neighbouring colonies. The Colonists led by George Washington forced the British out of the city in March 1776.

Recent studies of Aethelred show that he does not deserve to be an inefficient leader as is considered today in history; he was an able administrator and was constructive in dealing with legal and financial matters of government. That is one of the main reasons why he offered an adequate amount to its opponent leaders.

The Sharpeville Massacre catastrophe occurred on 21 March 1960, when a panicked South African police opened pre-emptive fire on a crowd of innocent black protesters killing 69 people, which included women and children as well. The confrontation occurred in the township of Sharpeville, in what is now Gauteng province.

It has often been said that the modern American Constitution along with the Declaration of Independence is a result of Lockean Ideals of Liberalism(that is John Locke’s Concepts based on liberty, freedom, instituting government, and the right to alter that government.).

In one of history’s most cruel ironies, the three amendments to the American Constitution which were to emancipate the blacks and give them all the rights and privileges of citizenship led to one hundred years of hardship and terror, led to newer and more devious ways of humiliation and segregation and created an institution, the Klan, that was responsible for the deaths and mutilation of thousands of Black Americans.

The author explains that Reza Pahlavi and Ayatollah Khomeini have written their name down in the history of Iran as very prominent people. And they will be remembered in good words and bad for a very long time. The United States and Britain have been greatly involved in the revolutions and coups carried out in Iran.

The author states that it is supposed to be the most horrible of such an act of violence in modern Latin American history. It all started on the afternoon of December 10, 1981. Groups of the Salvadorian armed forces Atlacatl Battalion reached the distant village of El Mozote after a conflict with guerrillas in the surrounding area.

In fact, the relations of America and the Soviet Union even during the war were marked by an undercurrent of mutual distrust and jealousy. The delay in the opening of the second front, the secrecy over the Atom Bomb, and the refusal to invite the Polish provincial government to San Francisco made Soviet Russia suspicious of America.

The author states that the stamp Act, adopted by Congress, was created as a document of highest legal power, as Congress intended to gain additional benefits from British colonies. Nevertheless, as the law declares, the main reason for adoption is the alleged need for handling problems of the whole American continent.

Therefore, the focus should not only be on preventing such happenings but also on minimizing the potential adverse effects thereof. There are several techniques, procedures and instruments available which can mitigate the probability of occurrence to negligible prospects.

J. Michael Hagopian has been researching on the Armenian people’s history for over twenty years. After completing four hundred interviews of those who survived through 1915 genocide, he developed it in the form of a documentary. This documentary provides the accounts of those who witnessed the genocide themselves.

The author concludes that though there have been difficulties for historians in writing women of the past due to somehow unavailability of distinctive documentations on women involvement in history, available records played a significant role in shaping the historians in writing women of the past. 

The city emerged as the theater for a series of major battles known as the New York Campaign during the American Revolutionary War. New York City was the capital of the United States until 1790.In the early 1800s, New York City was thriving due to economic power; the state soon acquired the nickname, "The Empire State."

Las Vegas has no downtown, no central business district. Residents shop at a few grand-scale shopping plazas and any one of a hundred strip malls scattered about the valley. There are two upscale retail centers on the Strip--the Fashion Show Mall and the Forum Shops at Caesars--but these depend on visitors for most of their profits.

The author states that no other revolution that occurred either in Europe or in Americas during that period could be compared to the French Revolution in terms of violence. The American Revolution that began in 1776 and pursued the same principles of the natural human rights was over in 1787 without leaving any disgraceful legacy of terror.

People as diverse as the Phoenicians, the Scandinavians, the Irish, the Welsh, the Chinese, the Romans, the Greeks, the Celts, the Basques, the Ainu, the Egyptians, the Norse, the Arabs, the ancient powers of India, the Polynesians, and every other sea-faring culture before that most certainly got to North and South America were actually in the New World, in some cases, way before 1492.

The Western presence, in different forms and by different nations representing the West, has deep roots in the Middle East and the Gulf region. To be sure, the Western presence today is more of a continuation of these older precedents than a novel or unique circumstance.

Some knowledge of Chinese culture is necessary to understand the argument this paper proposes.  To support the argument, I will investigate period-specific literature as well as modern reinterpretations.  It is important to note that during this investigation more questions arose and were addressed.  This paper represents a study with old findings confirmed and new findings explored.

In the Italian peninsula it has the same climate as the Mediterranean climate. Mild, rainy, winters and ht, dry summers. The climate in the nrth is cler, rain is plentiful. Italian peninsula is an ideal place fr farming. Rmans grew lives, grapes and wheat.

Perhaps Charles Dickens' images from A Tale of Two Cities are the most gripping: poor men, women and children greedily scooping red wine off the filthy streets, even from the gaps between cobblestones, when a cask falls off a cart and bursts; the semiconscious, primeval rapture of the Carmagnole, as it rolled through the streets of Paris

Robert Redford along with Dustin Hoffman played the roles of Woodward and Bernstein, two Washington Post journalists, who brought President Richard Nixon down when he was found involved in Watergate scandal.

Mesopotamia was the region in within the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, where the ancient Mesopotamia existed during the "Bronze Age" which was ruled by the Assyrian empire. The region is believed to be one of the four valleys accredited as the cradle of civilization where the first writings were found.

Main objective of these reforms package and creation of international financial institutions was to revamp the failing economies of Latin America, Africa and south Asia in 1980s. Free market economy was supposed to give a strong boost to the economies in the developing world.

Mathematics is arguably one of the most perplexing subjects but the students who get engrossed in it start liking it very much. If the etymology of the word mathematics is to be tracked, it will be found that the word came from the Greek word mathema which means learning and studying science.

Pursuing the unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch which was held in 1923, the Hitler Youth was apparently separated but a lot of factors cleanly went mysterious, working secretly in small divisions under unspecified names. It was officially begun in early 1926, the year after which the Nazi Party itself had been restructured.

London won the battle for hosting Olympic games after a close competition with Paris.  The 6th July , 2005  announcement about the selection of London as the host city of 2012  summer Olympic Games, lead to  one of the biggest construction and regeneration initiatives in the world .

The author states that the Greek Dark Ages are known for the striking ages that made a marked difference from the era that had passed before it. The construction of enormous and beautiful centers, remarkable stone buildings, and wall paintings all came to a standstill. This included a fall in population.

The author states that nearly all political factions, both Federalists and Republicans, agreed that a strong economy was in the best interests of everyone. Yet two powerful figures, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson disagreed on where the political power should reside. Jefferson saw the country as a system of rural individuals.

The author thinks it is important to note the developmental force upon these societies that technology brought to bear. Certainly, for many, the pace of advancement in technology had to be overwhelming; as the ability to do more things was moving faster than the societal awareness of its ultimate consequence.

To first understand how slavery became a part of life in colonial America, one must first examine the history of slavery. The Portuguese first utilized the slave trade around 1562. The prime area for slaves was on the west coast of Africa called Sudan. The peoples inhabiting Sudan and surrounding areas were known for their skills in agriculture.

The proof that Egyptian women were entitled to this legal and economic independence was acquired during the Ptolemaic period. The Greeks ruled Egypt around 300 B.C. though each had their own separate laws and social economic traditions.

The Soviet Union underwent a rapid collapse in the late twentieth century which was inevitable due to the policies and conditions that Russia was undergoing in these times. After the World War II the Soviet Union turned out to be a super power which was becoming a threat for the United States

Urbanization in ancient Greece Culture refinement, law, and emergence of government closely followed social stratification. The earliest settlements were mainly villages, which remained so for several millennia. They were usually small with very small variations in terms of their sizes.

The author states that the Erlkönig by Franz Schubert narrates a beautiful story through its emotionally-filled lyrics and sounds. It also brings the listeners to different levels of emotions through the varying tempo across the whole song. There is a part in the song where the tempo is fast and the singing is full of emotions through the high notes.

The annexation of Texas and the subsequent westward expansion of slavery were the major catalysts of the racial conflicts that led to Civil War. Manifest Destiny is not a coherent ideology; it is often self contradictory. It has no single source of origin as well. The ideals of Manifest Destiny were not pursued in the same way.

It had not acquired a clear and stable normative content in contemporary international law until the Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal after the Second World War. Historically, the question arose in practice for belligerent States to determine the acts committed in time of war for which they could try the combatants or civilians belonging to the enemy, or possibly to a third, neutral State.

The splendid white structure is actually a tomb built by Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife Arjumand Banu Begum, dearly referred to by his subjects as Mumtaz Mahal. She was the second wife of Shah Jahan, who married her in 1612 and they became inseparable until she dies of childbirth in 1629 on a campaign with her husband in Burhanpur.

She was born in the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia, in 1932. She had a short but prolific music career and she had created some remarkable contributions to the music arena of the period before she was murdered, along with three other Grand Ole Opry stars, in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee in 1963.

The man was Napoleon Bonaparte, the republic's former general and this time the First Consul of the new regime and soon to be France's first Emperor. In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte had a great personal reputation and popularity. No one but the beaten politicians much regretted it when Bonaparte swept them aside and assumed power.

The word "fascism" is traditionally associated with Germany of 1933 – 1945. This is due to the traditional point of view that the regimes of Hitler and Mussolini represented a single force that appeared to withstand communist ideology in the European countries.

When young soldiers from the Confederate Army returned from war, they realized they had nothing to do; jobs were literally non existent. James Crowe, Richard Reed, Calvin Jones, John Lester, Frank McCord, and John Kennedy met in the house of Colonel Thomas Martin in Giles county, and formed what first they called “the circle” which when translated into Greek is kuklos.

The author states that the king was weak and not able to protect its land from outsiders. The neighboring kingdoms became stronger. The elements of the feudal system include; vassal, who is a warrior and places himself under his lord accepting all the terms of loyal service; military aid, grief, which is the land given to the vassal.

The abovementioned old and new forms share different similarities, as well as, differences with each other, which results in the renewal of earlier histories, rather than their expunging from the historiography of the British. Thus, a closer relationship has been observed in American and British history in this context. (Joyce, 1998)

The author states that the plain one is of clay, and is dark red in color; it has rudimentary molded decoration and is orangey-red. If a technological explanation were to be sought, the explanation goes like this: in making black wares, pots would first be fired, before a reducing atmosphere was introduced into the kiln, thus making them turn black.