Between 1961 and 1989, a few managed to escape to west Berlin, but at least 80 people died that tried to cross the border. In the summer of 1989 the Berlin wall became irrelevant when Hungary allowed east Germans to pass through their country on their way to Austria . ...
During this bombing about 40 thousand people died, and 150 thousand injured. ... Over 91,000 men were captured and a further 150,000 had died during the siege. ... Over 91,000 men were captured and a further 150,000 had died during the siege. 2. People and Ideas In the summer of 1942, German forces pushed through the south-western front pushing back soviet troops. ...
He married his first wife Yekaterina Svanidze, in 1904, but she unfortunately died in 1910, only after six years of marriage. ... By the summer of 1938 millions were arrested and sent off to prison or labor camps. ... Somewhere between 21 and 28 million soviet civilians and soldiers died in the war. ...
She died in 1907, just after she gave birth to Stalin's first son: Yakov. ... She is dead and with her have died my last warm feelings for all human beings." ... During the summer of 1918, Stalin's operations came under military attack by Cossacks and anti-Bolshevik forces from both the Caucasus and the Donets basin. ... Vasily, an alcoholic and a chronic failure at nearly everything, died in 1962. ...
Introduction Recent history has certainly provided us with many examples of powerful, mutually beneficial alliances: France/England/US in WW I, Germany/Italy/Japan in WW II, just to name a few. These countries conglomerated to not solely for economic or military reasons, but for ideological reas...
Margaret Bourke-White was born on June 14, 1904 in The Bronx, New York. As A child, she had dreamt of becoming a great biologist. She studied Herpetology (the study of reptiles) in high school and had hopes to become good enough to go on an expedition. She attended many universities where she began...
But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda (there existed no real difference between these "wealthiest" peasants and all other peasants), and collectivization reaped disaster--the government persecuted and killed the peasantry, famine swept the country, and as many as ten million may have died. ... He seems to have been contemplating further anti-Semitic measures, and possibly a purge of his associates in the Party, when he died on March 5, 1953. ...
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov was born 1896 in a small village of Strelkova south of Moscow, Kaluga Province, and like an immense majority of the peasant population his family were desperately poor. He lived in an old house, in the middle of the village, with one room and two windows, he also was ab...
LENIN"S ROLE IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known famously as Lenin, died on the 21st of January in 1924 after having suffered many strokes. The sweeping state funeral followed in Moscow where his embalmed corpse was laid to rest in a mausoleum built outside the Kremlin's wa...
Nuclear Weapons in Asia Nuclear weapons are used for many different reasons. Some countries develop nuclear weapons and sell the information to other countries. Nuclear weapons can be used for a country to gain recognition. Still other countries use them to present a threat to another country or to show their power. Four countries in Asia: China, India, North Korea, and Pakistan either use nuclear weapons for one of these purposes or could in the future. ...
