Jan Zizka was born in 1370 and is known as the commander of the Bohemian military as well as the spearhead leader behind the forces that led against Hussite forces during the anti-crusades of Roman Emperor Sigismund. Before Jan Zizka became a commander and conquer, though, he served under many other lords. For example, in 1410 he fought with the winning Polish in the battle of Tannerburg, having defeated the Teutonic Knights there. It wasn’t until the Hussite Wars, however, that Zizka’s military
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of the Soviet Union while under Stalinist rule. Stalin managed to transform Russia into a major military and industrial power, however, he faced significant civil unrest, economic instability, and massive peasant casualties. Stalinist rule stripped the Russian people of their freedoms, punished transgressions harshly in order to keep people in line, and sacrificed the lives of millions of peasants in order to force Russia to evolve into a major military power. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Joseph Stalin’s motives for his genocidal tendencies came from the Country’s need to be strong and unified. In order to put forward a plan of being strong and unified Stalin starts a mass genocidal famine that killed many people and nearly destroyed Russia. Stalins collectivized farms and the famines that were caused by it created genocide rivaled by few tyrants before and even after. The main topics we will be going over will be Collectivized Farms; Deportation of Farmers; The mass Famine; Response
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Sputnik was a satellite launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. It was the first artificial satellite launched into space. Sputnik was a small satellite, only being 22 inches in diameter and weighing 184 pounds. The launch of the satellite marked the beginning of the space race between America and the USSR. The Soviets claimed Sputnik was used to study the Earth’s atmosphere and the solar system. However, many Americans believed feared the Russians’ new technology. AMerican scientists
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Based off of my knowledge in world history the US is more of an empire than a superpower. An empire is an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority formerly an emperor or empress. A superpower would act as if it were a very powerful and influential nation. Totalitarian government had three basic characteristics one of the rules was ruled by a single ruler with instructed power . The second used violence and also intimidated to maintain power. Finally, third people were
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style and the special way he wrote especially about emotions and the feelings surrounding characters as is the story of his upbringing, the people that influenced him and his life. Anton Chekhov’s family can be traced back to at least the 1600’s in Russia and they were all in the lowest class of people, they were serfs through the lifetime of Anton’s Great-grandfather, Mikhail Chekhov who live from 1762 until 1849. Mikhail Chekhov was a hard man who even as adults required his five sons to call “him
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Today I was going through the attic in my house and I found this old trunk with the name Alexi Iavok painted on the side. When I opened up the trunk I found several pages written by Russian peasant living in St. Petersburg during the Russian Revolution. This man was there to experience the March Revolution, the attacks in Petrograd, and the beginning of War Communism by the Bolsheviks. I was amazed by all of the things he lived through and what he experienced, and how lucky I was to find these. I
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Just to Keep an Eye on the British Imagine a place with freezing weather, no shoes, eating gross food, if any, and rooms with so much smoke even the doctors are half blind. This terrible place is Valley Forge. At Pennsylvania in the winter of 1777 Washington's army marched into Valley Forge to keep an eye on the British, not knowing that this would be one of the worst mistakes of our lives. Many people are asking this question, if I were a soldier at Valley Forge would I have re-enlisted? I would
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period of the 19th century (New World Encyclopedia). Being the most popular Russian composer of all time, Tchaikovsky’s music appealed to the public and evoked an emotional response due to its tuneful, open-hearted melodies, impressive harmonies, and picturesque orchestration (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky). Additionally, he is recognized as one of the world’s most renowned classical composers in regards to his distinct Russian character
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Two million Cambodians died in the war, and Dara the main character in the book had to witness it and experience the troubles of the war.In the book The Clay Marble by: Ming Fong Ho, Dara and her family are in a war stricken Cambodia, and are trying to find a safe place to live and get food after their town was set to rubbles and destroyed and they decided to go to the refugee camp at the border where they were provided with safety and food, but also had to experience some troubles along the way
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