Grace Strandoo Language Arts, 10-2 January 22, 2013 Sacrifices Made by Las Mariposas Rafael Trujillo, commonly nicknamed El Jefe (The Boss), governed the Dominican Republic from 1930 up until his assassination in 1961. Trujillo was only formally president from 1930 to 1938 and from 1942 to 1952; he sustained unqualified power as a military strongman, with puppet presidents taken from his ring of family and close friends. During his regime, Trujillo authorized the killing of thousands of Haitians, who were trying to cross the border. In a time of such darkness for this country an underground revolution was started. The Mirabal sisters played a prominent role in the revolution.
Preceded by the presidential election, it was annulled and a riot took place resulting in violence and death. In the late 1990's in order to curb corruption and inflation, petrol was raised by 38%. In the end of the 90's, finally, all parties agreed on a president, General Sani Abacha. Ironically, he died of an unexpected heart
General Juan Alvarez launched a coup and after capturing the capital named himself president and made Juárez the Minister of Justice. He passed laws limiting the church’s power and in 1857 he became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. That same year a new constitution was passed. This new constitution created a war between the liberals and conservatives and in December, conservative general Felix Zuloaga overthrew the government. Juárez was arrested and when he was released from prison he went to Guanajuato, made himself president and declared war.
Then in 1930 Trujillo ran against Horocio Vasquez for presidency, and fraudulently claimed ninety five percent of the votes. Once he was placed in power in 1931, he used The National Guard to terrorize and banished all civilian opponents (persons who were against him). Although the was a dictator, the also made some good changes to the country like, an increases on exports , the abolition of the 1905 treaty which gave the U.S control of the Dominican custom houses, and also, by 1947 the
Arnaud Vidricaire 6285138 TERM PAPER OUTLINE Submitted to Professor Joshua Kilberg For the course SCS 1150 N University of Ottawa February 13, 2012 Outline · Introduction (250 words) Background: (1) The Khmer Rouge's Ideology of one single working class was achieved, but through violence so excessive that their success was short lived; (2) Terrism is defined as the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion (Webster) (3) Khmers Rougesis a radical communist movement that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 after winning power through a guerrilla war. An estimated 1.5 million (and possibly up to
The U.S. decided that Diem's actions could not be tolerated and Diem was killed on November 1st, 1963 by his own military generals. Then, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and Lyndon B. Johnson took his place. When Ngo Dinh Diem was alive the South was unstable, until June 1965 when Nguyen Cao Ky became president. President Lyndon B. Johnson raised the level of U.S. involvement in the war. On August 7th, 1964, the U.S. Senate approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave President Johnson the choice to escalate U.S. involvement in the war for what happened to the USS Maddox, w. America needed to act fast, but by 1965 Viet Cong controlled about 60 percent of South Vietnamese land.
And after gaining the capital, Pol Pot declared “Year Zero.” Pol Pot created the Cambodia Genocide, to help create his new society. The people that were targeted were: members of the former government, Buddhist monks, Muslims, educated people including university students and teachers, people in contact with Westerners or Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge started out with rejecting higher education, and was purging those who were. And by
The RPF were military trained Tutsis who had fled to Uganda back in 1959 during the riots. The way that the RPF took over Rwanda was by first entering the country, and then slowly taking over it and its government. In conclusion the Rwandan Genocide was a mass killing spree mainly led by the Hutu to completely kill out the Tutsis ethnic group. In the end the genocide lasted for 100 days, and in those 100 days approximately 800,000 Rwandans were killed. Work Sited "Genocide Facts."
COLUMBIA COLLEGE ATILLA THE HUN A TERM PAPER SUBMITTED TO MR. DENNIS GEISLER FOR THE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS OF A BACHELOR OF ARTS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION HISTORY 101: Western Civilization I BY 14 APRIL 2010 Attila the Hun Attila the Hun was he a ruthless and uncivilized Barbarian, or one of the greatest leaders of his time. He was known by many as “The Scourge of God” by the way he sadistically instilled terror in the cities he attacked. Attila was born in approximately 406 BCE to the ruling Hun family. His father Mundzuk was the brother of the ruler of the Hun tribe Rua. At twelve, Attila was sent as a child hostage to the Roman court of Honorius.
In 1966, the dream of flourishing democracy was diminished when a series of massacres occurred, inter-country arguments came about, and a military coup started the first of a series of military governments. As a response to this take over, the Ibo seceded and declared the independent republic of Biafra. This secession began a civil war that lasted for almost 3 years. Nigeria won the war and the military government controlled both regions. BIBLIOGRAPHY: http://www.southernct.edu/organizations/hcr/2002/nonfiction/colonialism.htm http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0860005.html http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=99387 http://www.khilafah.com/index.php/analysis/africa/10451-nigeria-50-years-of-