... were offered help in doing so. Robespierre, as a leader of the Jacobins, was passionate and he demanded power throughout the Reign of Terror. He defended this by saying a revolutionary government has the right to “summon extraordinary activity”. He felt he literally had the right to make up rules as needed, as there were no established rules during that time. This was to rationalize the atrocities he felt necessary and justified. This was a repressive environment, unbending and too rigid for the French People. Innocent people could be accused of being “outside the sovereign” and executed. Robespierre’s position became precarious, and the people of the Natio ...

... up in the ranks. After this, Napoleon started becoming a recognized officer. In 1792 Napoleon was prompted to the rank of captain. In 1793 he was chosen to direct the artillery against the siege in Toulon. He seized ground where he could get his guns in range of the British ships. Soon after that Toulon fell and Napoleon was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. When Napoleon was made commander of the French army in Italy. He defeated four Austrian generals in succession, and each army he fought got bigger and bigger. This forced Austria and its allies to make peace with France. During this campaign the French realized how smart Napoleon was. He developed a ...

... war, saving thousands of lives. Among the many reasons for Japan's aggression are its ancient culture and its lack of natural resources. Japan's geography, which lacks many vital natural resources, has forced Japan to look to other countries for their needs. Instead of taking an honorable road, Japan rashly used unnecessary force to steal the resources of China and other nations. A second incentive for Japanese aggression is the mentality of the Japanese people, passed down from their ancestors. The Japanese have believed themselves to be superior to all other races, and that all whites will eventually serve Japanese masters. This aura of superiority ins ...

... Many believe Kennedy made the right decision, I ! stand with that group; Others believe we should have conducted surgical strikes against the bases to show we would not tolerate a threat that close to our own shores. Kennedy was probably cautious about strikes because of the Bay of Pigs invasion which had failed so miserably just a year before. The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt by the U.S. to remove Castro from office. We armed and trained about 2000 Cuban exiles for this job. The hope was that a general uprising would begin, and Castro would be removed from office by his own people and not by any United States personnel. What cost the success of t ...

... Taiwan tried to create domestic markets for its goods. During the period from 1960 to 1973 Taiwan pursued export expansion in the area of industrial goods. During this period U.S. aid directed at Taiwan declined as did the islands geopolitical significance. To make up for this decline Taiwan focused on increasing its exports. The growth of the Taiwanese economy during this period according to Gold laid the ground work for the growth of opposition movements and loosening of the KMT"S grip on power. According to Gold this was because the changes in the Taiwanese economy brought about a middle class, a better educated populace, and a dispersion of industry through out ...

... innocent victims. Michael Berenbaum, a survivor of the Holocaust believes, "Age-old prejudice led to discrimination, discrimination to incarceration, incarceration to annihilation" (Altman 1). Thus, the progression of prejudice in the Holocaust began as a flicker of hatred in the heart of a leader and became a blazing inferno consuming the lives of the men, women, and children who crossed its incendiary path. After World War I, the social climate in Germany was dismal. The German people were humiliated by their country's defeat and by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The economic depression that resulted left millions of individuals out of work. The Ger ...

... more profitable trade routes overseas. Inspired by the Renaissance idea of humanism, which promoted human achievement, merchants were now self-confidant and a new class of commercial entrepreneurs erupted. Later in the 17th century as the Scientific Revolution popularized the idea that the world is a knowable place, people were confidant that they could prosper on their own, and therefore Britain was full of entrepreneurs out to make money. Before the Industrial Revolution, Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776, which encouraged individual accomplishment as well. The entrepreneurs took advantage of the trade routes' expanding. Because of the Agricultural ...

... may not have been better than the old government, and they could have created a great depression in their country. George Washington believed that there was not enough planning of the revolt against the government. They needed a new one and they didn’t plan their revolution good enough to build their new government, which is what their main purpose was, but they used their revolution for vengeance.service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated- of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace- appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining ...

... Amozonia is a bustling boomtown, a dynamic and sometimes short-lived frontier settlement. The change of the region’s landscape occurs in the social area of conflicts involving Indians, agricultural colonists and activists clergy, cattle ranchers miners, timber interest, governmental agents and others. These conflicts are dangerous and sometimes deadly. The North region of Brazil encompasses the states and territories of Para, Ampa, Amazonas, Roraima, Acre and Rondonia. This section of Brazil has had the highest rate of urbanization than the rest of the country in recent years. This article examines the nature, causes and durability of frontier urbanizatio ...

... Mein Kampf some 17 years earlier where he stated: 'We terminate the endless German drive to the south and the west of Europe, and direct our gaze towards the lands in the east...If we talk about new soil and territory in Europe today, we can think primarily only of Russia and its vassal border states'i Hitler wanted to exterminate and enslave the 'degenerate' Slavs and he wanted to obliterate their 'Jewish Bolshevist' government before it could turn on him. His 1939 pact with Stalin was only meant to give Germany time to prepare for war. As soon as Hitler controlled France, he looked east. Insisting that Britain was as good as defeated, he wanted to ...