This began the start of the nationalist movement in Burma. The movement emerged amongst the university students in Rangoon. ... Despite the nationalist movement already emerging, there emerged another group. ... Aung San would become one of Burma's first leaders after they gained independence. Aung San was involved with the nationalist movement started at Rangoon University. ...
Many new political pressures arose during the rise of the New Social Movements and the level of comfort that the world had gotten used to by living under the old world order would be drastically changed by new social reformatory ideas with radical and lively leaders steering them into the 21st century. ... Also, democratic leaders with democratic ideals ruled Britain, France, and the USA while Germany and Italy were led by military dictatorships that placed the constitutional leaders in the sidelines. ... It is a situation like this that will foster, nurture, and raise a new leader among a ...
Adolf Hitler was born and reared in Germany. He was just like any other man, de-voted to his country. Hitler served as a soldier and a statesman. He gained the trust of mil-lions that fought and died in his name. We must understand how he gained and abused power. ...
Sukarno was one of the leaders of the Bandung Conference in the mid fifties that brought together newly-independent Third World nations for the first time, in order to reject the Cold War, started by Churchill after World War II. ... By the end of the sixties, America's involvement in Vietnam was at its height, and so was the counterculture movement, created and directed from top-down, by Kennedy's assassins, in order to effect a post-industrial shift in the outlook of the American people. As a result of the Vietnam War, and the post-industrial shift, brought about by the coun...
The most powerful and therefore, most important such institution, the United States Supreme Court, was no exception, and in fact, was the leader of such legal change. ... The Civil Rights movement, encouraged by the goals of WWII, which sought to destroy the racist policies of Nazi Germany, came to prominence during Eisenhower's administration and made tremendous strides toward equality. ...
He quickly became one of the main leaders of the North, and was elected to be the head of several different political organizations (Lee 2001:34-35). ... This decision was only advocated by Syngman Rhee, most of the other Korean leaders did not approve of only having elections in the South. ...
The country needed a leader to rally behind and promise to "restore" Germany to the previous power before the war. ... " (Eastwood, 2010, 1297) It should also be mentioned that Streicher was the leader of the "Hitler Youth" movement, and by 1939 the vast majority of eligible youths in Germany were part of this movement, making it the largest youth organization in the world. ...
The United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all too often acted in its own interests and has allied itself with some very unsavory characters to promote such interests. The 1800s Even in 1820, when America was a fledgling nation still insignificant in the eyes of world-class powers such as Britain and France, it still dreamed of an overseas e...
As countries began to meet the Great Depression, powerful leaders arose from the cloud caused by it. One leader was Benito Mussolini, a fascist dictator of Italy. ... Fascism became an organized political movement through Mussolini's powerful writing and grasping articles, and because of this, Mussolini entered Parliament. ... The leaders of the allies drew up this treaty to purposely revenge and weaken Germany. ... After becoming the leader of the Nazi party, he set his sights on overall power of Germany. ...
Like the other victim his eyes were swollen, his face puffed up.....This wounded and shaken corporal would fifteen years later be the leader of the Reich not yet aware of the magnitude of Germany's defeat. ... The views of the Roehm and the other right winged groups seemed to be winning; Hitler in turn tried to regain control of his movement by staging the Beer Hall Putsch of November 8-9 , 1923. ... Consequently, the Bavarian government was able to suppress it and jail sentences were issued to Hitler and other leaders of the movement. ... Much like the fascist leader Mussolin...
For example, if we take a look at World War I, the only reason why it ended was because many of the countries that fought were exhausted and begged their leaders to call for a ceasefire. ... He was seen as a harsh leader and many Liberians did not want him governing their nation. ...
Adolf Hitler joined the committee of the German Workers' Party in 1919 and by the summer of 1920 he had become their leader. ... Adolf Hitler, who was the leader of the Nazis, was born in Austria just across the border from German Bavaria. ... This war experience gave Hitler what he needed to one day be a successful military leader. ... To gain their trust, he gave them a list of 500 to 1000 SA leaders, which they could dispose of. ... To everyone in Germany he was now Der Fuhrer, the leader (John). ...
Another young imperialist leader was Sir Alfred Milner appointed High Imperial Commissioner of South Africa, who is said to have contributed significantly to the war with the Boer republics. ... Milner, Chamberlain and other leading Liberals created a anti-Boer movement within the Britain by focusing great attention on the treatment of English subjects residing in the Boer republics. ...
Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. ... Until the last years of the czarist Russia, Stalin was more an up-and -coming follower than a leader. ...
To solve Italy's problems Benito Mussolini became dictator of Italy and built the Fascist movement . ... On November 1, 1941 the Japanese leaders met to plan an attack on the US. ... - asked a leader named Kaya. Another leader, Negano responded, "The time for war will not come later."" ...
This slowed the movement of German support and allowed the fangs of Cobra to sink deeper into the Germans hold of France. ... Patton may have a great battlefield leader, but his inability to cooperate with other leaders compromised the mission at times. ...
The story is also heavily influenced by the impressionist movement. This movement is characterized by an "incessant appeal to the senses, or rather to the sense of imagination."" ... The impressionist movement greatly inspired Conrad and led to the vivid language used to create the deeply disturbed tone of the novel. ...
The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ... Economics and society factored in the conflict, as well, with the hardness of the taxes and the settler's need for a fair leader. ...
It was this initial vision and the positive reception to Earl's Cadillac that began the automotive culture movement. ... After tail fins established the movement towards garishness, many other styling efforts also contributed to the tremendous success of the automobile during the 1950's. ...
In 1940, people in the United States felt that they were isolated from the war in Europe. This feeling of isolation soon faded. On December 17, 1941 the Japanese attacked the United States naval base Pearl Harbor. The United States was forced to join the war in full force. Young men just starting their lives or preparing to by studying at university knew that they were now likely to be drafted into the armed forces. ...
These groups were known as The Peace Pledge Union, The Peace Society and the No More War Movement. ... As it became evident that the policy of appeasement had failed in 1939 and that Britain would in fact go to war, the Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair expressed his feelings on the achievements of appeasement We have eaten dirt in vain This statement is clearly expressing the fact that Britain has tolerated the deceitful acts of Germany to no avail or successes. ... Francisco Franco assumed the leader of the revolt, a quick victory was anticipated however the eventual outcome s...
The leaders of the nations specifically, the United states and Russia - realized that measures had to be taken, to ensure that no such war would ever happen again. ... The present world, the way we see things today, is founded on the principles that the various leaders of the two superpowers believed in. ... Another way of looking at it the underlying motive behind it was that NATO- guided by America- was trying to prevent the uncontrollable rise of a new Adolf Hitler, a leader who took a weak shattered country and made it more powerful than anybody could have expected or even imagined, anothe...
Fighting on the other side was a coalition of forces including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front, a communist-led South Vietnamese guerrilla movement. ... On November 9, 1989 East Germany's Communist party leader Gunter Schabowski, said that the Berlin Wall's border would be opened for "private trips abroad". ...
After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the word "terrorism" took on a new meaning. Before the attacks, terrorism was certainly taken seriously but after the tragedy on 9/11, the term became synonymous with fear and anger. The word "terrorism" is reflected in the free world's attitude...
