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… attempted to assume control over India, they were met with the outrage of a people wronged. The citizens of India saw the British for what they were, white men with a superiority complex. Every attempt the British made to expand territorial control was…

… has been built by, and impacted by countless civilizations before us. Every aspect of our lives has been molded by the previous inhabitors of our world from whom we have gained the majority of our knowledge. Groups such as the Sumerians, the Phoenician…

… Americans in the first months of 1929 saw any reason to question the strength and stability of the nation's economy. Most agreed with their new president that the booming prosperity of the years just past would not only continue but also…

… urban proletariat in 1917 was arguably the single most important event in the history of Russia. But, as with many revolutions, it was in no way spontaneous. Since the inception of industrialization in Russia in the late nineteenth century a number…

… world's greatest nation was locked in Civil War. The war divided the country between the North and South. There were many factors that caused this war, but the main ones were the different interpretations of the Constitution by the North and South,…

… of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there…

… illuminated, with immense numbers of people walking up and down on this late February evening. Men, women, and children were rejoicing, as the terrible struggles of the day had ceased. Near the Hotel des Capucines there was a heavy force of…

… with no simple way to explain how it started, endured, or ended. There are many factors that surround each of these segments of the revolution, but the most important ones that need to be examined are always the factors that begin such an upheaval…

… conflict that lasted from1914 to 1918. It started off as a local European War between Serbia and Austria -Hungry, but expanded into a global war between 32 nations. (Microsoft Encarta, 1996) Twenty-eight of these nations were known as the Allies…

… the annexation by Austria-Hungary of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because one form of Panslavism was a Pan-Serbian or Greater Serbia movement in Serbia, which had as one of its objects the acquisition by Serbia of the southern part of Bosnia, the Serbs…