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    ADOLF HITLER AND THE 1930’s Was Adolf Hitler a bad dictator? Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889, in Austria. Hitler as a child wanted to be an artist and professionally play instruments. He also had seven siblings, five didn’t make it through childhood, two were step-siblings, and he only had one biological sister. Hitler had trouble in school, so his mother started giving him piano and violin lessons to try and help him with school. Hitler grew quite fond of this and went to the Academy of…

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    dairy operations in the Northeastern United States, operating about 8,000 acres (10 sq mi) with over 1,000 Jersey cattle. In 1907, the farm moved to Pine Plains in New York's Dutchess County, and it was purchased by New York banker Oakleigh Thorne in 1918, who developed it into an Angus cattle farm. After Thorne's death in 1948, the farm changed…

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    The Great Depression is known to have many origins, including the “Great Crash”, the credit structure of the economy, and a lack of diversification in the American economy. The American economy was involved in most of the causes of the Depression. The most often believed cause of the Depression was “The Great Crash”, which occurred in October 1929. In the Great Crash, the market fell apart, destroying the gains from stocks of all previous years. People established the stock market crash as the…

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    In this time, white people were super against the blacks that even polices and the people that are supposed to protect people from getting hurt were taking sides and being unfair. The tension started to rise when World War I ended in the late 1918s. At this time African Americans were migrating from the South to the cities in the North. When the war ended thousands of servicemen had arrived to see that warehouses and mills had been full of African Americans, because of this the white people…

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    he tried boston but did not end up like he wanted it to happen. He received his law degree from north carolina central university.His one of his main big effects he had on the civil is calming his city down after mass murders of children in 1979-1918 he had worked to calm down the citizens wayne williams was caught with all the crimes.…

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    There were many causes for the Russian Revolution to occur. With the revolution Russia became the Soviet Union. The Emperor Nicholas II and the Tsar's regime were brought to an end and replaced by the provisional government and later by the dictatorship of Lenin. It was a beginning of era for Russia and other countries in the world. It all started with the revolution that occurred in 1905. Russia was ruled by Nicholas II, a Tzar. The Tzar had the total power over Russia and its people, commanded…

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    Dorothea Lange was in Hoboken, New Jersey on May 26, 1895. Her maiden name was Dorothea Nutzhorn. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a stay at home mom. Her mom helped take care of Dorothea and Martin, her brother. Dorothea was diagnosed with polio at the age of 7. Her polio impaired her right leg and her foot noticeably. After being diagnosed with polio, 6 years later her parents divorced. She put the blame of the divorce on her father and took up her mother’s maiden name as hers.…

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    After the revolutions of 1917, Stalin continued to gain prominence within the party. In the Spring of 1918, Stalin’s assignments “confirmed his high status in the ascendant party leadership. In internal and external affairs, he had stuck by Lenin…Stalin fought his corner in the Central Committee and dominated his People’s Commissariat” (Service, Stalin 161). He was given important assignments such as procuring food supplies which had run desperately low. With each opportunity that presented to…

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    In 1965 Robert Wise, an American film director, presented to the world The Sound of Music which was about romance, music and family. The Sound of Music was based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, originally Maria had never planned to write anything about her life. However, a friend begged Maria not to let her story be forgotten. In a way, Maria von Trapp's story has been forgotten because Wise took artistic license when he was making The Sound of Music.…

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    World war 1 is a war that started in 1914 and ended in 1918, it was a war fought in Europe by France, Great Britain, Russia, Germany, The United States, Italy and Austria-Hungary. It was a very violent war and one of the major wars of history. Many expected the war to be short but it lasted for four years and took the lives of millions of people. There are many different events and causes that led to World War 1, there was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the rise…

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