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Red Guards: Mao’s China

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

In the summer of 1966 there was a new effort on the part of the head leaders in China to further control the actions and thoughts of the people in China. The Red Guards were the force to do it all. A group of kids who mostly in their teens and some in college were…

Nicaragua: History & Liberation (1900-1970)

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

The area of Nicaragua is 50,193 sq. mi.  The Nicaraguan highlands, with an elevation about 2000 ft, cross Nicaragua from the northwest to the southeast.  Several mountain ranges, the highest of which, the Cordillera Isabelia, reaches an elevation of more than 6890 ft, cut the highlands from east to west.  In the west is a…

Nelson Mandela: Biography & Political Leadership

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is judged to be one of the greatest political leaders of modern times.  Among his many accomplishments are the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa and establishing democracy there and becoming the president of South Africa in 1994 following their first multiracial…

Napoleon Bonaparte: Biography & Revolution

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 and died in 1821.  Napoleon was a military genius for the loyalty of his troops, and for his spectacular victories.  The many change of the government in France, against the background of war, made possible the rise of a military dictator.  Since childhood, Napoleon was taught strategies and tactics…

NAFTA: History, Facts, Problems

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

What does NAFTA mean? A Free Trade Area is, by definition, an area where all barriers to trade are lifted.  This is not the case with regards to NAFTA at this point.  Currently most of the trade barriers between the United States and Canada are lifted but those with Mexico have largely been kept in…

Benito Mussolini: Biography & Leadership

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 20111 Comment

Benito Mussolini was the founder of Italian Fascism and premier of Italy ruling as a dictator from about 1925 until his dismissal in 1943.  Mussolini was born to a socialist blacksmith.  As a child he was unruly and undisciplined.  He shared his father’s views picking up other ideas from authors of the time.  Mussolini became…

Michelangelo: Biography & Art

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in 1475.  He was born in a small town called Caprese, in Tuscany, Italy. Michelangelo was one of the most famous artists of the Italian Renaissance. According to Charles de Tolnay Michelangelo’s three greatest works of his later life, were the Tomb of Pope Julius II, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and…

Marie Antoinette: Biography & Queen

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

Marie Antoinette was the wife of King Louis XVI of France.  She was born in 1755 in France and was the daughter of the Great Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa of Austria. Because her parents came from two countries at war with each other, their marriage formed a peace treaty.  Marie was very spoiled…

The War at Gettysburg: Summary & Important People

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 28, 2011Leave a comment

Getting There On the way to Gettysburg was tough. It was a long hard and tough journey getting there because there was no other way to get there for the army besides walking. It was so hard that some people died, and some got sick. The trip there was very long. Only about half all…

The Equal Rights Amendment (1923)

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 28, 2011Leave a comment

In 1923, this statement was admitted to Congress under the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).  The ERA was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution granting equality between men and women under the law.  If the Era was passed, it would have made unconstitutional any laws that grant one sex different rights than the other. …

Disaster at Hillsborough: Summary & Critique

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 28, 20111 Comment

Summary The movie “Disaster at Hillsborough” showed the complexity of a stampede. From the build-up of people outside the gate, to the disaster that ended in the death of 95 people. The stadium was not equipped for the masses of people to show up all at the same place at the same time. According to…

Deng Xiaoping: Biography & Communist Commissioner

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 28, 2011Leave a comment

Deng Xiaoping was a loyal communist who sacrificed his own life so his people could have a better one.  During his long political career, he served as a Communist political commissioner of the 129th Division (Liu-Deng Army) from 1929 to 1949.  As political commissioner he bravely and successfully fought the Nationalists.  In 1945, he was…

Ernesto “Che” Guevara: Biography & Revolution

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 28, 2011Leave a comment

Ernesto Guevara was born in l928. When he was two, he moved to Cordoba, Spain, because of asthma. As a young child, Guevara became interested in reading Marx, Engels, and Freud found in his father’s library. As he grew up, he watched the Spanish refugees from the Spanish Civil War fight against the fascist dictator,…

Date Rape: Crime & Explanation

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 27, 2011Leave a comment

When people hear the word “rape” they might imagine a stranger leaping out from the shadows of a dark alley and attacking someone. Although this is partly true, most rapes are committed by people who know their victims. When intercourse is unwanted and forced upon by someone you know, it is known as “date rape.”…

Apartheid in South Africa: History, People, Events

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 27, 2011Leave a comment

Apartheid is the political policy of racial segregation. In Afrikaans, it means apartness, and it was pioneered in 1948 by the South African National Party when it came to power. Not only did apartheid separate whites from non-whites, it also segregated the Blacks (Africans) from the Coloureds (Indians, Asians). All things such as jobs, schools,…

Winston Churchill: Biography & Leadership

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 27, 2011Leave a comment

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace on Nov. 30, 1874.  His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, who descended directly from the 1st duke of Marlborough, of whom Winston was to write a biography.  His mother was Jennie Jerosme, an American. Churchill’s childhood was unhappy.  He spent most of his time at…

Whiskey Rebellion: Summary & Analysis

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 26, 2011Leave a comment

On August 1, 1794, President George Washington was once again leading troops. Only this time Washington was not striking out against the British but rather against fellow Americans. The occasion for this was the Whiskey Rebellion. Various efforts had been made to diminish the heated opposition towards the tax on distilled liquors. However, there was…

The War of 1812: Summary & Analysis

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 26, 20111 Comment

The United States of America began to see the effects of the Anglo-French War by the early 1800s. This European quarrel began affecting the United States shipping industry. Britain and France were violating the neutral shipping rights of American merchants. They thought of America as weak due to the inadequate time the nation had to…

Harry S. Truman: Biography & Presidency

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 26, 2011Leave a comment

Harry S. Truman. ”Early Life Harry S. Truman, the oldest of three children born to Martha Ellen Young Truman and John Anderson Truman, was born in his family’s small frame house in Lamar, Missouri, in 1884. Truman had no middle name; his parents apparently gave him the middle initial S. because two family relatives names…

The Titanic: History & Tragedy

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 26, 2011Leave a comment

Titanic was the largest ship in the world, built by a workforce of 17,000. The ultimate in turn-of-the-century design and technology. First-class suites ran to more than $ 55,000 in today’s dollars, and when she sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on route to NY , she held among her 2,227 passengers. The…

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