… how Soviet government policies aimed to integrate the northern peoples of the USSR in reality helped the groups to maintain their identities as they defined themselves in opposition to one another. According to Kerttula, "in Sireniki, the very system…

… dies, and King James VI of Scotland ascends to the throne, uniting England and Scotland under a single British monarch. The daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth succeeded to the throne in 1559 upon the death of her half-sister Queen…

… the Hudson Motor Car Company approved the proposed merger of the two firms. The companies would form the American Motors Corporation (AMC). AMC is recognized as the most successful postwar independent manufacturer of cars. It owed its success in large…

… to gain power. The depression which occurred in 1929, the support which he gained from those who dreaded communism and the 1933 elections and Enabling Act which he soon passed allowed Hitler to gain power by constitutional methods. When the New York…

… in 1922 was aided both by conditions in post war Italy and the threat that the fascists would use violence to seize power. At the start of World War I Italy remained neutral however after the Treaty of London was signed she joined the war on the…

… Weimar Republic, was faced with a number of crises which weakened it. These problems were caused mainly as a result of the war and although any government would have had difficulties in solving them the people saw democracy as weak. This public oppositio…

… America, they had, had a positive impact upon Canadians, but over the years, they had an ultimately negative impact on Canadians in British North America. By bringing over disease, introducing the fur trade, and beginning religious conversion, the…

… in 1412 in Domremy a small villige in northern France. As a daughter of a farmer she herded cattle and sheep. Joan never went to school so she did not learn how to read or write. Joan also was a very religious girl going to church and praying to statues…

… HITLER Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. The town is near to the Austro-German border, and his father, Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother, Klara, had previously given birth to…

… the concentration camps and ghettos of Poland and occupied Europe were horrific and disgusting. The Jews were treated like this because the Germans believed that they were biologically inferior to them and believed they were racial parasites. The Jews…