Alexander II of Russia

move to the prison in Siberia city. This is presented as an interesting contrast to St. Petersburg. Siberia city is presented by Dostoyevsky as holy and natural; which is completely untouched by the vice and pollution in which St. Petersburg city of Russia was drowning. Fyodor Dostoyevsky representation of prison in Crime and Punishment is quite ironic. Fyodor Dostoyevsky has shown prison not as a continuation of suffering, but as a hospital of criminals. The place where criminals wound can be…

him the importance of the U.S. researching them as well in August of 1939. (Energy.gov) (U.S. History) (Atomic Archive) (Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.) On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland officially beginning World War II. (Energy.gov) (Atomic Archive) Alexander…

Pogroms by the "White Army" in Siberia and Mongolia (1919). 5) Pogroms by anti-Soviet bands in the Ukraine (1920-21), in which thousands of Jews were killed. 1919 Abolishment of community organization and non-Communist Jewish institutions in Soviet Russia. 1919 Pogroms in Hungary: c. 3,000 Jews killed. 1920 Adolf Hitler becomes Fuehrer, of the National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), later known as National Socialist. 1920 Henry Ford I begins a series of anti-Semitic articles…

and immutable with all its ordered numbers and letters marching along in dependable patterns. More than one hundred years ago in Imperial Russia, the name Dmitri Mendeleev would call to mind séance scandals, economic tariffs, hot air balloon rides, a nationwide push for the metric system, bigotry charges, and student protests. This was the Mendeleev that Russia knew and (mostly) loved. The periodic table was just a particularly prescient project tucked away in an introductory chemistry textbook,…

present. Currently, there is a debate on whether immigrants belong in America. The United States of America, also known as the home of the brave and free have encountered this question time and again. In 1919, under the Woodrow administration, Alexander Mitchell Palmer was the Attorney General of the United States. An Attorney General oversees the United States’ citizens. They are known as the “People’s Lawyers”. In 1920, Palmer oversaw the implementation of the mass deportation of…

In a history-making action, Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman imposed death sentences yesterday on two spies convicted of stealing the atomic bomb secret for Soviet Russia and sentenced a third spy to thirty years in a Federal penitentiary. Julius Rosenberg, 32 years old, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Ethel, 35, received the death penalty. They are parents of two sons, Michael 8, and Robert, 4. Morton Sobell, 34, an electronics expert, escaped death penalty only because his complicity was…

He tried to restore the reputation of communism in the world, and showed how Stalin had been to oppressive. He wanted the world to know that the USSR was not evil, and that they did not agree with what Joseph Stalin had done. He had de-Stalinized Russia, which allowed people to be liberated from the chains that Stalin had put upon them. He was a major part of the beginning of the international space program and pioneered systems of communication that we still use today. He attempted to restore…

& Howley, 2011). Dr. Sargent was one of the first creators of systematic methods for mechanized physical training. He helped make possible the quantum advances in athletic performance that have resulted from twentieth-century machines such as the SB II racing bike or the Cybex training system (De la Peña, 2003). Currently, there are machines with the pulley system and adjustable weights, thanks to his inspiration. For example, Dr. Sargent's basic chest-weight machine simply consisted of stacks…

Lenin (Russia) 1917-1924 Lenin was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Russia. He was the third of six children. His parent were well educated, and he also attended high school. During the high school, he showed a particular gift of Latin and Greek. When he was a boy, his father was threatened with early retirement by a suspicious government nervous about the influence public school had on Russian society. In 1887, his big brother, Aleksandr, was arrested and executed for being a part of a…

Globalization of technology in warfare Greek philosopher once wrote “war is the father of all things.” Leadership, tactics, and fighting spirit were all key elements to winning a war at one point in time. However the history of the warfare changed when the United States entered the war. It wasn’t about tactics and leadership it became about who could build the best technology and making it better. Technology that we come to know today has evolved and has been used since World War I. Before…