| | |Essay: Was the Treaty of Versailles too Harsh on Germany? | |Ms. McLean‚ IGCSE History | |
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Council of Women of Canada which improves the quality of life for women‚ families and society. She also published Canada’s first women magazine. Irene Parlby was an advocate for rural women in Alberta. She was elected to the Alberta legislature in 1921 and became the first female cabinet minister in Alberta. She improved the lives of women and children using her influence as a cabinet minister. They all came together to petition the ruling that women are not “qualified persons” in Section 24 of
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22) Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 Political Party: Democrat Main Issue: Dispute with Canada over fishing rights. Controversy over the back of money by either gold or silver‚ or the issue of bimetallism. Institutions accepted one or the other‚ causing havoc and inflation/deflation. 23) Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 Political Party: Democrat Main Issue: Pullman Strike .Harrison’s presidency is marked by the high McKinley tariff‚ higher than pre-civil war tariffs and the highest in American
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For the first three years following the Revolution‚ the institutions of Russian capitalism were smashed to pieces. Besides‚ in Russia agricultural production shrank‚ industrial production was paralyzed‚ and transportation was disorganized. The shortage in the Soviet economy first appeared in the form of hunger and absolute paucity. Everyday life was transformed into the struggle for existence‚ and people had to make tremendous effort to obtain foods‚ fuels and other necessaries of life through long
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During the middle Ages the British Crown controlled the eastern side of Ireland. They increased their control until 1603 when they achieved complete control of Ireland. The British remained in power by taking away the Irish people’s land and reallocating it to Scottish farmers. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was formed in 1801. The Irish people were upset by this and did not want to lose their independence. The Potato Famine that lasted from 1845 to 1848 took its toll on the population
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African Americans in the 1920s * “Cast down your bucket where you are. Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes…” – Booker T. Washington‚ 1895 Atlanta Compromise Throughout US history‚ there is an abundance of racism‚ segregation and discrimination towards the African American people. In 1619‚ the first African slaves were brought to Jamestown to produce tobacco‚ tea‚ cotton‚ coffee and other precious commodities. In this time period‚ 12 million Africans were forcibly transported
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Study Komatsu had its origin 1894 when the Takeuchi Mining Company was founded. A major expansion occurred in 1917 when the Komatsu Iron Works was established to manufacture mining equipment and machine tools. The name Komatsu came into existence in 1921 when iron works separated from the mining company to become KOMATSU ltd. Despite a name that means “little pine tree”‚ Komatsu produces line up of big equipment. The company is the world’s second largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment
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HL HISTORY INTERNAL ASSESSMENT To what extent did David Low’s cartoons accurately portray European Appeasement Policy towards Japanese aggression in the Manchurian Crisis? Name: Linda Brownwood Word Count: 1‚848 Number of Pages: 14 Section A: Plan of Investigation In 1931‚ a supposed Chinese act of aggression in Manchuria1‚ dubbed the Mukden Incident‚ led Japan to respond with a full invasion. By doing so‚ Japan had broken the oath of non-aggression that it had sworn to the League of
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The American Civil Liberties Union is an American non-profit institution that works to defend American rights and liberties provided by laws and the Constitution. They also use court cases and through documentation of verdicts and are a very important protector of liberties and rights of the American people. From its official start in 1920 from the former National Civil Liberties Bureau the ACLU has been focused on the secular rights not of one theme but of all groups‚ from Civil Rights‚ free speech
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The Past Is Myself My Great Uncle Squadron Commander Christoper Draper‚ DSC Croix de guerre‚ was an English flying ace of World War I. His penchant for flying under bridges earned him the nickname "the Mad Major." After the war he became a film star through his work both as a stunt pilot and as an actor. During the 1930s he worked for a time as a British secret agent‚ serving as a double agent to Nazi Germany. He returned to the Navy in World War II. During his flying career he logged over 17
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