Politics
Blog posts about events or people associated with political agitation, political parties, and policies.
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Book Review: Review of “Recasting Bourgeois Europe”
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War I was written by historian Charles S. Maier and was first published in 1975. This…
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The Equal Rights Amendment
Overview The battle over equality of the sexes is one that has permeated the 20th century. The 1920s were a turbulent and successful decade for women’s rights, signaling a dramatic…
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Lenin’s Testament
Biography of Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born on April 22, 1870 in Streletskaya Ulitsa, Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk, Russia to Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov and Maria Alexandrovna Blank. Lenin was…
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Death of Liam Lynch
The Irish War of Independence Since 1169, Ireland was under the control of the British Empire with a few periods on independence. The Irish were not treated very well by…
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The Beer Hall Putsch
Overview Background Adolf Hitler was a German soldier during World War I. After the war, he remained in the army. In he 1919 was ordered to infiltrate a radical right-wing…
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The March On Rome
Overview Post-WWI Italy and the Creation of Fascism In the 1920s, Italy was still a new country, especially going by European standards. The various regions in the country all having…
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The Greco-Turkish War
Overview Background Following their defeat in World War One, the Ottoman Empire had been reduced to a shell of its former self. The only territory they held on to now…
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Ford Signs Deal with the Soviet Union
Overview By the start of the new decade, much of Russia had been destroyed and devastated by the Russian Revolution. Therefore, when the party that had supposedly fought for the…
