The two major imperial powers that will be discussed are Britain and France. ... France has been involved with issues in Vietnam for a long period of time. ... These rebel groups did not have the manpower nor arms to go up against the French. ... During his time with 'Dobama Asiayone', he organized a countrywide strike known as Revolution of Year 1300. ... At the end of 1946, he became deputy chairman of Burma's Executive Council with the help of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL). ...

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Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. ... As Hitler rose to power in Germany, Stalin first contemplated forming a defensive alliance with Britain and France against the Nazis. ... It was the end of any trace of "normal" family life for Stalin, and witnesses saw tears in his eyes at her funeral--the only report that we have of the great dictator crying. ...

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At the end of World War One, Germany had many problems. ... Hitler shot his pistol in the middle of Kahr's speech and shouted, "The national revolution has begun." The "revolution" began when Hitler lied to the people saying the Bavarian Trumimvirate, Kahr, Lossow, and Seisser had joined forces with him. ... Speaking to his Generals in October 1939, Hitler said, "If it becomes clear that Britain and under its leadership France also, are not prepared to end the war I am determined to go on the offensive without delay." ... After the French surrender, Hitler attempted to end the war with Br...

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Like many other great rulers like the Austrian born German Hitler and the Corsican born French leader Napoleon, Stalin was an outsider in the empire he came to rule. ... As the bourgeois became more wealthy the working class would grow ever more impoverished leading to a revolution and the establishment of what is called the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ... It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. ... Revolution Stalin played an important, but not vital, part in the revolution. ... But by the end of 1922, Stalin's growing ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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The Treaty of Versailles, signed on 1871 at the end of the Franco-Prussian War by Bismarck. France was forced to give up most of Alsace and Lorraine, pay a large indemnity, and accept a German army of occupation. ... The Treaty of 1763 was signed by Great Britain, France, and Spain. Together with the Treaty of Hubertusburg it ended the Seven Years War. ... Below his country, the Mexican Revolution was in full swing. ...

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While Britain and France were constantly in quest of expanding their empires at the cost of their adversaries, the United States was not in the war for Empirical gains. ... Some liberties were not even introduced until after the war such as all women being able to vote in Britain; or in France the discontinuation of the constant persecution of pacifists. ... One difference was the remobilization of the French and British people to war by using democratic ideals to rally support for the war. ... Out of these collapses rose many new social movements that were shadowed by the aftermath of the Fir...

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After this incarceration ended, Stalin was sentenced to three years exile in Siberia, from which he managed to escaped in 1904. ... Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October...

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The Novels of Virginia Woolf: From Beginning to End. ... The industrial revolution started the bringing of change, but by the mid-1910s much of the change was negative. ... Although England was on the "winning side- at the end of World War I, its soldiers had suffered much on and off of the battlefield. ... The Germans unloaded 168 tons of chlorine on French, Algerian, and Canadian divisions, leaving many men in a comatose or dying state instantly (Gilbert 144). ... At the end of World War I, Europe was devastated, physically and emotionally. ...

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The French Union (the new name for the Empire) of 1946 is a clear example of desperation to keep the Empire together with its indissoluble unity.1 The matters of France, its overseas territories, and associated states and territories, which was the new concept for Indochina (simply because they underestimated the ongoing insurgency to French imperialism), were mostly now part of metropolitan France. ... The French control was assured through the President of France being the President of the Union, and a significant French representation in the Supreme Council and the Assembly of the Union. Pe...

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With the return of his sight ended the depression and mental instability Professor Edmond Foster believed was caused by the blindness. ... A short while later on November 9, an elderly pastor announced the news of an all out revolution broken out in Munich. " It became impossible for me to sit still one minute longer. ... The end of the war and Germany's defeat disappointed and frustrated Hitler greatly. Thus , he turned against the revolution in Germany and the Weimar Republic that he blamed for his misfortune. ... When the French occupied the Ruhr in January 1923, Germany natio...

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The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. ... As troops returned to their native countries following the end of the war, many were greeted with thoughts of displacement and unemployment. ... Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a wo...

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Then would come the subjugation of France in the west, to protect its rear. ... In 1920 Hitler's greatest enemy was France, but Germany in its miserable position, was in no way able to tackle the strongest military power on the continent. ... And on August 1st of the same year "we must use everything we can, especially the differences between France and Italy, in order to win Italy over to our side." ... First, Hitler still considered France Germany's primary opponent, realizing that its position on the continent meant immediate danger. ...

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The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ... However, the predominant reason behind the Revolution was political. ... In the end all of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War. ... But after the American Revolution slavery really died it the North, just as it was becoming more popular in the South. ... This division in views led several of the southern states to succeed from the union and form the Confederate States of America and so the Civil War began as a necessary evil to end slavery in ...

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Also, during the Crimean War (1854-1856), France sided with Britain against Russian aggression in the Near East. ... The seeds of hostility between the United States and the U.S.S.R began near the end of World War I. ... The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. ... At the end of the war, the U.S.A and U.S.S.R were clearly masters of the world. ... As soon as the war ended, the relations between America and Russia cooled. ...

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Also through some very crude tactics the Nazi party showed its readiness to end the turmoil in the streets and bring about an ordered social and political system. ... If we protest against them with every means in our power, then we find ourselves on the path of revolution." ... The French wanted reparations for damage in World War 1 and wanted Germany also to be stripped of wealth. The French also didn't want to pay tax and believed it should come out of the Germans pocket. On 11 January the French forced their way into the Rurh to get the reparations. ...

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In the end, according to Joll, in July "events were moving too fast for the diplomats because the decisions were now more and more being taken by the soldiers." ... France and Russia had their own pact. ... The British were involved in the usual strategic planning aiming at securing their access to the Empire and, in the end, the arms race "contributed to the feeling that war was inevitable." ... Although economic interest had often lead to strategic frictions between the Great Powers, in the end "economic interests were not too much [ ] in the minds of the politicians" in July 1914. ... In th...

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Since the revolution, trade with the outside world had been severely reduced and the U.S.S.R had to rely almost entirely on its own resources to industrialise. ... The proletariat was seen as the backbone of the revolution and so to continue the revolution the proletariat had to be increased. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a revolution from below. ... The Nepmen were prime targets, but Kulaks, the richer farmers, and bourgeois experts were seen as contrary to the claim of revolution. ... In ad...

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Total war marked the beginning of a revolution in thought and ideas, where turmoil, uncertainty, and pessimism replaced the cherished values and beliefs of peace, prosperity, and progress. Men and women in the West felt "increasingly adrift in a strange, uncertain and uncontrollable world.""5 In his essay "The Crisis of the Spirit- written in 1919, Paul Valéry, one of France's most outstanding poets, wrote that Europe "doubted itself profoundly.""6 This is certainly true since the terrible trauma of total war left deep scars in the European "spirit."" 7 The people were so devasta...

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On July 18, 1941, Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin requested that the allies create a second front by invading German-occupied France. ... The American presidents military advisors soon made it clear to him that an invasion of France during 1942 was out of the question. ... The Americans attempted to compromise by proposing to send small contingents of troops to the French coast in order to test Germanys strength. ... In the end, the assault of Northern France codenamed Operation Overlord did not begin until June of 1944.1 Perhaps the most significant dilemma facing the Allies following t...

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The possibility of the end of the Cold War for so long seemed out of the question. ... "(2) Brezhnev believed that eventually, the capitalist West would experience revolution and would turn towards their socialist brothers for support. ... It was going to take two nations working towards a similar goal in order to bring an end to the Cold War. And so ended the 1970s. ... This 'New Thinking' offered an entirely new attitude to Leninism-Marxism and all the policies upon which the Soviet Union had existed since the Revolution of 1917. ...

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Eventually with the breakup of the Soviet Union and the attempt to make it a democracy, the Cold War ended. ... The four major powers in Europe, Britain, France, America and Russia decided to divide Germany into four different parts. Germany's divisions consisted of, Britain controlling the Northwestern part, France controlling the Western part, and The United States controlling the Southern part. ... Japan had ruled Korea from 1910 until August of 1945 at the end of W.W.II. ...

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The controversy surrounding the armistice was centered around ROK president Syngman Rhee, who despite all attempts by the United States, stood firm in his belief that his country would not end the war until all of Korea became a unified nation. ...

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The controversy surrounding the armistice was centered around ROK president Syngman Rhee, who despite all attempts by the United States, stood firm in his belief that his country would not end the war until all of Korea became a unified nation. ...

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Through much of history, the strength of a nation has been determined by the strength of its leader. Despite the appearance of holding power, leader's often are undermined by their own subjects as the case of Emperor Hirohito of Japan. It is true that during his reign Japan has seen a territorial...

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