Edwin Montagu, through his speech, condemns the method used by the British Raj in order to maintain control in India. Source P on the other hand praises Dyer’s actions and the methods used to control the Raj because his actions “preserved the honour and lives of hundreds of women and children”. Furthermore, Source R not only condemns the method that the British used to control the Raj but also condemns the British actions and their brutal ruling. Source M indicates that the British were not treating the Indian citizens as equals and as stated in the source, they were “enforcing racial discrimination”. In addition, Source M accuses the British of “terrorism, racial humiliation, subordination and frightfulness”.
The revolt led to massacres of thousands of unarmed Indians and bitterness on both sides. The British government improved India's economic development by installing telegraph lines, digging irrigation canals and establishing schools and universities. However they also discriminated against Indians, when forcing them to give up their traditional and ancient ways.
To what degree is the Indigenous rights movement in Canada unique to this country, and how is it connected to broader international protests and processes? In the aftermath of World War II as the atrocities of the Jewish genocide came to light, many peoples’ attitudes towards racial intolerance were severely altered. The hitherto held notion that civilized European nations were the standard bearers for acceptable principles of behaviour had taken a huge blow. Japanese violence against the Chinese and the brutal destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US did much to provide their citizens and politicians cause for rumination too. The culmination to all of this reflection was the United Nations and its consequent Declaration on Human Rights.
This suggests that Weimar Republic was recovering and was moving ahead of its time and this was very rightly known as the ‘Golden Age of Culture’. However, this inevitably attracted a backlash of criticism from both cultural and political conservatives from all parties and classes. The film version of Erich Maria ‘All quiet on the Western Front’ stirred up a bitter campaign by the nationalists and experimental operas such as Paul Hindemiths ‘News of the Day’ were highly offensive to many Germans. Due to this, Weimar Republic became all the more unpopular with the Germans as they had allowed
These conflicts occurred throughout the early years of the 1920’s. As a result Britain had to intervene and every time they did it made them more and more unpopular amongst both the Jews and the Arab. They were not wanted in Palestine. For instance in May 1921 a group of Jews were attacked in Jaffa, violence spread and the Haycraft Commission of Enquiry was sent to look into the Jaffa Attack. As a result the British Government published a White Paper in 1922, it declared that Britain did ‘not contemplate that Palestine as a whole should be converted into a Jewish National Home, but that such a home should be founded in Palestine’, it however reminded Arabs that the Balfour Declaration was ‘not susceptible to change’.
The main threat to the stability of the Weimar Republic in the period 1919-1923 came from violence of extreme right” How far do you agree with this judgement? During the period of 1919-23, the Weimar Republic faced many problems affecting its stability such as the weakness of the Weimar Constitution itself, opposition from the Left and the Right but it’s important to understand that the Republic was created out of defeat and it was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles. This arguably posed a bigger threat than political violence from the extreme right as it unleashed a wave of humiliation from the public and the German army felt they had been ‘stabbed in the back’. However, there are other factors to consider when discussing threats to the stability of the Weimar Republic such as economic and social instability . The threats to the Republic from the right and left forces were apparent almost immediately after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles as the reduction in army size was too much for a number of right wing nationalists who demanded the rejection of the Treaty and the Weimar state to be overthrown.
Having signed this treaty the Social Democrats gained the immediate dislike of German nationalists who quickly spread the myth of Germany being “stabbed in the back” by social democrats and Jews, hence creating great unpopularity for this new attempt at democracy. Therefore, emerging from a disastrous war, the newly formed Weimar Republic was forced to place its foundations on pillars of chaos. The general discontent
The western embassies viewed Mr Tshisekedi with suspicion because of his radical views and anti-western stand. As the Election Commission announced Mr. Kabila as winner of the election with 48.9%, Mr. Tshisekedi called for calm amongst his supporters. Meanwhile the police was
The Boston Massacre Although Bostonians tried to depict themselves as innocent victims of British tyranny, tensions between the people of Boston and the soldiers themselves led to the almost unavoidable event known as the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
The Europeans looked down on the Native Americans and referred to them as “savages” because their society did not match their own. The many different Native American tribes had their disagreements; however they all could agree that the arrival of the Europeans lead to the destruction of their people and cultures. In this essay, I will discuss the arrival of the three major European powers (England, France, and Spain), their different ways in colonizing, and how the conquering of the Americas destroyed Native American societies. I will use evidence from the textbooks, Indians in American History edited by Frederick Hoxie and The World Turned Upside Down edited by Colin Calloway to support my argument. The Natives in America possessed all of the aspects that human beings all over the world incorporated into their societies.