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… Spanish Civil War is often ignored by many nations, for the simple reason of them supporting those who would eventually declare war on them. In the early 1930’s, a miniscule republic emerged in the country of Spain. At this time most of Europe was alrea…

… WAR TWO In June 1931 the Republicans called for a parliamentary election to be held and the Cortes elected Niceto Alcola Zamora, a leading liberal, as the first president of the Republic; a Republican government was formed in Spain. However, political…

… conflict there were three types of governing: Right-wing, Left-wing, and Center. Each of the groups in these classifications was a little more or a little less extreme than the next but each side had common goals. On the right side there were Landlords,…

… Spanish Inquisition began as a quest to purify Spain of heretics, but it soon became much more than that. There are two very distinct views of what really happened during the time of the Inquisition. One longstanding belief is that of the terror of…

… examined factors which he cited as influential and determinative in what he teams variously the “Victory of Christianity over other results and philosophies” with which it competed in the Graeco-Roman world. There were a number of factors Latourette…

… Russia as a utopian ideal. The promise of the elimination of classes, of guaranteed employment, “The creation of a comprehensive social security and welfare system for all citizens that would end the misery of workers once and for all.” Lenin’s own inter…

… post war conferences of World War II after the death Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi superiority group of the late 1930’s to the first half of the 1940’s. “The Big Three” which were the three most powerful leaders of the world met with each other…

… Anybody can place bets by buying and selling stocks. In the stock market the goal is to buy a stock at the lowest price possible and when it is at its highest price possible,to sell it. Stock is purchased and sold through stockbrokers who in turn…

… when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found there. It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island from any…

… as one of the most important dates in the history of France, enough to merit it the national holiday of the country. Although regarded with symbolic historical importance, the viewpoint of those included in the storming of the Bastille and some…