In Castro’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly‚ Castro attacks the U.S. by saying that Cuba was turned from a Spanish colony into a American colony because the U.S. introduced the Platt Amendment‚ which gave the U.S. the right to have military bases in Cuba‚ the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and granted the U.S. concessions to the best agricultural lands‚ resources and mines‚ and public utilities. Castro was infuriated by the U.S. exploitation of the Cuban economy because he noticed
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a black n white photograph Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)‚ the ’Nightingale of India‚’ is remembered as a leading woman nationalist leader of India’s political struggle for independence. Born in 1879 as Sarojini Chattopadhyay and one of the brightest students in school‚ she blossomed into a writer of passionate verses on a variety of themes. Her works on poetry are The Golden Threshold‚ published in 1905; The Feather of the Dawn; The Bird of Time‚ published in 1912‚ and The Broken Wing‚ published
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The basis of the civilians’ perceptions of soldiers is derived through overriding nationalist and patriotic ideals of a nation. According to civilians‚ these soldiers are seen as “young heroes.” They believed the driving principle for joining the war was out of glorified honor of being a soldier sacrificing their lives. The soldiers themselves originally went into the war celebrating this nationalist fervor and were described to be “crammed full of vague ideas which gave to life‚ and to the
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The European powers were motivated by their own strategic defence and economic needs. In consolidating their dominance over the necessary resources and assets they unwittingly sparked the forces of nationalism. These nationalist forces‚ however‚ tended to have their roots in western liberal ideals of sovereignty and equality as seen in the cases of Turkey‚ Iran and Egypt. This sparked backlash from Islamist elements of society against these western ideals as seen in Iran
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During the 1916 Congress session at Lucknow two major events occurred. The divided Congress became united. An understanding for joint action against the British was reached between the Congress and the Muslim League and it was called the Lucknow Pact. The signing of the Lucknow Pact by the Congress and the Muslim League in 1916 marked an important step in the Hindu-Muslim unity. The Home Rule Movement (1916) Two Home Rule Leagues were established‚ one by B.G. Tilak at Poona in April 1916 and
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hitler History Intro In 1933 Field marshal Hindenburg‚ the president of Germany‚ established a cabinet with Adolf Hitler as chancellor and other Nazis and nationalists in positions of power. This followed after von Scheichers government failed to conciliate centre and left political interests. Hitler ’s rise to power was a consequence of a number of contributing factors‚ including resentment at the loss of World War One‚ the weaknesses in the Weimar republic exploited by using propaganda‚ the
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Legislative Assembly for help with immigrating back to Africa. Likewise in the first two decades of the 1800s‚ the successful Boston merchant Paul Cuffee supported the repatriation of a least two groups of emigrants at his own expense. Prominent African Nationalists of that time include Henry Sylvester Williams‚ Edward W. Bylden‚ Benito Sylvain‚ Orishatukeh Faduma‚ and Mojola Agbebi. A good article to read about this subject is “Pan-Negro Nationalism in the New World Before 1862” by Hollis R. Lynch. But aside
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all the states to restrict the subjects which their assemblies could discuss. This stunted unification because it made the liberalist and nationalist ideas hard to spread. Another way in which Metternich was responsible for the lack of change in Germany was that he attacked the nationalist ideas himself; Unification of religion was a main focus for nationalists‚ yet in Germany the north was protestant‚ and the south and west were
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Mohandas Gandhi was a nationalist Indian leader that waged a campaign of nonviolence against the colonial British government that took over India in order to help achieve its’ independence. Mohandas Gandhi was among the greatest political and social reformers of recent times‚ he is best remembered for his later campaigns to overthrow British rule in India‚ which led to India’s independence in 1947. He was born in the second day of October in 1869 Gandhi placed himself at the heart of the world-encircling
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What was the main reason for Italian Unification? In 1815 after the battle of waterloo and the end of the Napoleonic wars‚ the victorious powers met to discuss what to do to at what became to be known as the Congress of Vienna. To ensure that war on the same scale never broke out again they decided to make very little changes to the current map of Europe‚ except strengthening all of France’s neighbours. I was agreed at the conference that the ruling powers should meet in the future whenever
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