... would rise from about 100,000 to almost a million, and the number of local branches would increase tenfold. The new members included working-class people, farmers, and middle-class professionals. They were both better educated and younger then the Old Fighters, who had been the backbone of the party during its first decade. The Nazis now presented themselves as the party of the young, the strong, and the pure, in opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly, the weak, and the dissolute. Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy, he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to Vienna ...

... for a year. A friend convinced him to apply for U.S. citizenship, and he eventually decided to remain in America. Elie has written more than thirty-five books, including Night, The Accident, A Beggar in Jerusalem, The Forgotten and From the Kingdom of Memory. His wife, Marion, has translated most of his books into English. His books have won numerous awards, including the Prix Medicis for A Beggar in Jerusalem, the Prix Livre Inter for The Testament and the Grand Prize for Literature from the City of Paris for The Fifth Son. Wiesel's most recent books published in the United States are A Passover Haggadah, Sages and Dreamers. The first volume of his memoirs, "All ...

... Fathers such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Paine, and Benjamin Rush, who felt that slavery infringed on the concepts of the Declaration of Independence. Most northern abolitionists were religiiously inspired, such as the Quakers, and felt that slavery was a sin that must rectified immediately. The abolitionist cause was one a moral argument. They felt that the majority of slaves were being treated inhumanely and tortured. This disgust of southern slave-owners compelled a few abolitionists to act out in extreme measures, but the majority used peaceful protest methods. They used different methods to fight for their cause; fanatics went to ...

... and harassed by the "jocks" (the social elite of the high school). Eric Harris had a web page that detailed how to make pipe bombs and told of how he wanted to place bombs over the entire town, not caring if he lived or died. Harris and Klebold were said, by friends, to pass time by playing extremely violent videogames, including Doom II. Both had previous criminal records for breaking into a van and stealing electrical equipment. Many things can be attributed to this massacre. This nation has many aspects contributing to the early loss of children's innocence, which in turn cause adolescents to develop earlier and which, in this case, can have grave conseque ...

... the eldest, Atlas, first King of , being given control over the central hill and surrounding areas. At the top of the central hill, a temple was built to honor Poseidon that housed a giant gold statue of Poseidon riding a chariot pulled by winged horses. It was here that the rulers of would come to discuss laws, pass judgments, and pay tribute to Poseidon. To facilitate travel and trade, a water canal was cut through of the rings of land and water running south for 5.5 miles (~9 km) to the sea. The city of Atlantis sat just outside the outer ring of water and spread across the plain covering a circle of 11 miles (1.7 km). This was a densely populated area ...

... underwent revolutions in transportation and farming methods that gradually lead to the creation of a national market economy. At the close of the Revolutionary War, the states found themselves in urgent need of manufactured good. War-born shortages of goods quickly brought about a revival of foreign trade. After the signing of The Treaty of Paris, American and British merchants were free to resume trade between the two countries. America also expanded trade to other countries. During the colonial period, Britain did not permit the colonies to transport any goods directly to the European continent north of Cape Finisterre. The Navigation Act also prohibited t ...

... and Law Enforcement Study Commission from 1987 to 1988. He was also the Majority Whip from 1986 to 1988. In 1989 Canady got smart and switched his political party from Democrat to Republican. In 1992 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He promised during his campaign in 1992 to serve no more than four consecutive terms in the House. was first elected to represent the people of Florida's 12th District in the U.S. House of Representatives on November 3, 1992; this district includes most of Polk county, portions of Hillsborough, Highlands and Pasco counties. One of Rep. Canady's greatest accomplishments is the lobbying disclosure reform. It is the f ...

... Alliance. Not all Eastern European countries are at the same level of economic, military and democratic development. The four countries expected to join NATO first are: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. A good relationship with Russia is essential for the NATO countries. Russia does not see NATO as its potential adversary, but Russia is looking for a new role: keeping the status quo or returning to a system of 'spheres of influence'. Germany, after unification, plays an important role in Central and Eastern Europe. Germany's foreign policy towards these countries ('Ostpolitik') is discussed in chapter 5. In the end, I will give a person ...

... carpetbagger, a greedy money lender, hoping he would earn enough money to pay back the carpetbagger(this is how he got all the supplies needed). Then the sharecropper plowed the land and performed all nessessary operations to make the land crop-worthy. He planted the seeds, harvested the crop, and gave land-owner part of the harvest. Therefore sharecropping replaced slavery, and most freedmen and poor whites went to this act, and remained under control of landowners. Last but not least, carpetbaggers, from the North, setup public schools in the South. This effected the Southern lifestyle in that all people would have an opportunity to learn. Being educated meant ...

... Marshall planned some important strategies against the Japanese. He was born on December 31, 1880, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and was educated at Virginia Military Institute. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry in 1901 and served in the Philippine Islands from 1902 to 1903. During World War I he served as chief of operations with the U.S. First Army in France. He became a colonel in 1918 and received wide military recognition for his handling of troops and equipment during the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne operations. From 1919 to 1924 he was aide to the U.S. commander in chief, General John Pershing, and during the next three years he saw ser ...