which the Nazis dealt with opposition. While all of them contributed to the defeat of the resistance‚ was the reaction against the youth the most important one? This will be analyzed in the following paragraphs. The Nazis were opposed by two groups of young people: the Swing movement and the Edelweiss Pirates. The Swing movement was composed of young middle-class people‚ including Jews‚ that went to parties with English and American music. They were open about sex and kept their looks untidy on purpose
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Imagine four teenagers who were determined to create a successful band regardless of the cost and work necessary to be successful. George Harrison‚ the lead guitarist‚ described this determination‚ "We’re going to do it. I don’t know why we were just cocky" (Spitz 120). These four teenagers who were determined to be successful‚ never even dreamed of how successful they were going to be. Six years after starting their band‚ they were not only successful‚ but they were loved by both England and
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The Communist Party of China (CPC)‚ also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)‚ is the founding and ruling political party of the People ’s Republic of China (PRC). Although nominally it exists alongside the United Front‚[1] in practice‚ the CPC is also the only party of the PRC‚[2] maintaining a unitary government centralising the state‚ military‚ and media.[3] The legal power of the Communist Party is guaranteed by the PRC constitution.[3] The party was founded on July 1st 1921 in Shanghai
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What problems did Tsarist Russia face at the turn of the century? Russia was a vast country and industrially backward. They were at a serious disadvantage as they were 40 years behind the rest of the world industrially. This was because although they had a lot of resources such as coal and oil‚ they could not get to it. The ground was frozen and Russia did not have the machinery or the experts to get to their resources. Therefore they had to seek foreign aid and employed experts to handle the machinery
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Columbus Columbus was an explorer that made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in 15th and 16th centuries. Columbus was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia‚ but he never did. Instead‚ he accidentally came across the Americas and not India. He did not discover the New World‚ because millions of people already lived there‚ but his journeys marked the beginning of explorations into the new world. In the 15th and 16th centuries‚ leaders of several European nations
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of it being a superior tactic‚ but because the Polish were unprepared. To what extent is this statement an accurate assessment of the success of ‘Blitzkrieg’ in Poland in WW2? Introduction Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (18889-1945)‚ the National Socialist German Workers Party‚ or Nazi Party‚ grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarianism‚ from 1933-1945. It was founded in 1919 as the German workers party‚ the party promoted German Pride and Anti-Semitism (Source 6). Adolf
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is it? By viewing this exhibition‚ it shall become quite clear that this country was not founded by and for all the people. Indeed‚ African Americans did not found this nation nor was it founded for their benefit. Their white counterparts founded it on their backs. And unfortunately‚ they are still looked down upon today. By whites castigating them as black or even by stereotyping themselves‚ it does still matter today if you are black or white. The following exhibition will show American art’s progressive
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INTRODUCTION “Mao’s beginnings were commonplace‚ his education episodic‚ his talents unexceptional: yet he possessed a relentless energy and a ruthless self-confidence that led him to become one of the world’s most powerful rulers”. Mao Zedong was the icon of the communist revolution and the founding father of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ which he governed as Chairman of the Communist party of China (CPC) from its establishment to his death. His influence is still a force to contend with
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fourteenth century‚ Europe faced problems after problems. Even though Europe encountered many different economic or social issues such as peasant revolts and upheaval from the nobles‚ I still believe those weren’t some of the major troubles at the time. In the fourteenth century‚ although they were experiencing many more problems‚ I think the European states’ major problems were relating to the people’s health‚ political instability‚ and the decline of papacy. “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone”
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of technology allowed them to fight against nature‚ provided food for the people‚ and control a population. They took knowledge that came with success and failure‚ and grew a successful Empire. The technology created by the Egyptian like‚ hieroglyphic‚ dams and the civilization’s application of the Nile played a role in the success of the Empire. The Egyptian using hieroglyphic
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