1944

Guatemala doesn’t really start until 1523. This year dates the time the spanish adventurer Pedro de Alvarado defeats the indigenous Maya and turns Guatemala into a Spanish colony. Due to earthquakes, the capital was never really made until 1776 at Guatemala City. From 1524 to 1821, Guatemala was the center of government for the captaincy general. It was an agricultural and pastoral area where Amerindian labor served a colonial landed aristocracy. The social life was dictated by the Roman…

of the war? Why can’t people live peacefully together? Why all this destruction.” Those were the words of a child of war, Anne Frank. A child that had to grow up fast and have knowledge that she needed to hide because of the holocaust. This was in 1944, but it’s still happening in this present year, 2016. Many children are still facing these devastating wars. “Eighteen million children are being raised in the chaos of war. 6 million have been disabled, 20 million are homeless, and more than 1…

tremendous risk. In many places, providing shelter to Jews was punishable by death. The residents of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a Protestant village in southern France, helped thousands of refugees, most of them Jews, escape Nazi persecution between 1940 and 1944. Though they knew the danger, they were resolute, inspired by religious…

Scientific Advancements of the 19th and 20th Century and Their Impact Many important breakthroughs in the realm of science were made during the eighteen and nineteen hundreds; but not all of them had their predicted outcome. All scientific achievements have pros and cons; and these are no exception. Though created for the greater good, these scientific accomplishments did not always have their anticipated effect. A pristine example of this is Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. It was…

The Allies used a series of amphibious operations, like the Normandy Invasion of 1944 (Operation OVERLORD), which resulted in the Allies successfully invading German held territory in northern France and is one of the greatest amphibious attacks to date. Amphibious operations utilized land, sea and air all at once, allowing for troops…

Dunnes Stores  Company Profile. History. Dunnes Stores was set up by Ben Dunne in 1944. The first even shop was open on March 31st 1944 on Patrick Street Co. Cork. The first opening day was a major success as people were excited about the opportunity to buy quality goods at a pre war price. After such a successful opening more stores were opened around Ireland during the 1950s. The St Bernard brand the own brand label was founded in 1956. The combination of food, textiles and home wares all…

people on political, religious, or racial terms. (Spielvogel, 285) In 1945, Nazi Germany admitted total defeat. The Germans held out for as long as they could but knew that a defeat was inevitable. The German forces began to diminish in 1944. By the second half of 1944, there was no central…

Africa of 1994 to 1999, following the first nonracial elections of the history of the country. II-NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA AND ITS PRINCIPAL ASPECTS OF the LIFE political 1-Aspects Nelson Mandela enters to the African national congress (ANC) in 1944, in order to fight against the political domination of the white minority and the racial segregation carried out by celle-ci> become Lawyer, it takes part in the nonviolent fight against the laws of apartheid, installation by the government of…

About 2,000 African Americans were elected to public offices during that time. In Smith v. Allwright (1944), the Democratic Party of Texas deemed a “voluntary association,” allowed only whites to participate in Democratic primary elections. S.S Allwright was a county election official who denied Lonnie Smith, a black man, the right to vote in the 1940 Texas…

In 1944 he married Walter Sisulu cousin, Evelyn Mase, she worked as a nurse. They had two sons and two daughters, but later him and his wife divorced in 1958. Mandela would rise through the ranks for the ANCYL and through its efforts, the ANC adopted a more…