Henry II of France

soldier I have ever known." This quote was spoken by Henry Stimson, Secretary of War from 1940 to 1945. This man who is communicated so remarkably of, is known by as George Catlett Marshall. After the antipathy of World War II had passed through the world, many nations are left with gaping holes in their economies. George Marshall brought upon a plan that would help to distinguish any problems that had arisen through the turmoil of World War II. George Marshall had such an influence on the…

Iceland. He sailed west from the Snaefellsnes Peninsula with a crew in 982 and found Gunnbjorn’s islands. He then landed on and explored Greenland, which he named to make it sound nice and encourage settlement, for it was really covered in ice. Henry Hudson: Hudson was an (yet another) English explorer who lived from 1565 to 1611 and explored in the early 1600s before his death. He had two unsuccessful sailing explorations for an ice-free route to Asia. In his later voyages he discovered…

Ages. Very popular in Medieval Times, jousting tournaments spread quickly all over Europe from its place of origination in France. Jousting was important in history, it was played as a tournament, and required various kinds of equipment to be played (“Jousting”). First, jousting was important in history. Jousting was founded in France and the first…

impact on America mostly because the industry which processed towards the Great Depression. Jobs given to woman which helped pass the nineteenth amendment and a new kind of diplomacy and antiwar sentiment that affected America’s entrance into World War II (Strauchan 251). American public felt these effects, but they also lost many soldiers in the war and affected all of United States. America felt bad effects during the war but it wasn't like Europe. Their nations were divided and their entire…

notes and works cited. King Leopold’s Ghost, is focused mainly in the Congo of Africa, in the late 1800’s, it is focused around King Leopold II, the king of Belgium, and his desire to create a colonial to help expand, and make Belgium an even high power. Along with his success and what he did after creating the colonial in the Congo. Using the help of Henry Morton Stanley, along with many political and businessmen from Belgium and many…

Ever since I was a little girl I have had a strong connection to ballet. When I was in elementary school my mom put me in ballet classes because she saw my connection to ballet. I loved ballet and I enjoyed learning the movements. Unfortunately, as I grew older I suffered from severe stage fright, so I stopped dancing. Although I did not stop admiring ballet, I decorated my room in a ballerina theme, I went and watched many performances as well. From my admiration of ballet, I have learned…

painting could not handle that, and let the paint flow over the plaster. Frustrated with his failure, Da Vinci gave up. Michelangelo however was appointed to paint the Battle of Cascina, not getting further then some preparatory drawings, for Pope Julius II called on…

largely a matter of theory. Post WW I, twenty years of inadequate funding and bare bone units had made the U.S. Army little more than a token establishment. On 1 September 1939, the day that Germany's attack on Poland signaled the beginning of World War II, the U.S. Army ranked approximately seventeenth in effectiveness among the armies of the world, just behind that of Romania. The Regular Army totaled less than 190,000 personnel. Of 174,000 enlisted men, 45,300 were stationed overseas. The…

permanent, though it was repealed in 1943. Laws similar to Jim Crow laws were put in place preventing Chinese from doing things like marrying caucasians and owning land. They were also unable to earn citizenship. Acts were put in place after World War II that restored original rights to Chinese Americans. Japanese faced much of the same discrimination as the Chinese, and were affected by many of the same laws. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, racism against Japanese increased exponentially.…

Herero, eliminating them as a threat to order within the colony. Differences in German behavior extended beyond their treatment of colonial rebellions. In territories where there was effective rule before colonization, the Germans coopted local power structures in order to administer through them in a form of indirect rule. In Kamerun, the Germans ruled the country be enabling local chieftains through military support to administer broad swaths of territory. This allowed them to avoid heavy…