Eleven people were killed and the radicals were given a huge propaganda boost by referring to the event as ‘Peterloo’, in a grim analogy with the Duke of Wellington's famous victory over Napoleon at Waterloo four years earlier. This shows that the government did think Britain was on the verge of a revolution if they had to have authorities to disperse the crowd by force. This also shows the unrest Britain had as a whole, to the way Britain was governed. In response to the Duke of Wellington’s return to government, reform leaders made plans to bring the country to a halt by having their supporters withdraw funds from the banks, using the slogan: ‘To stop the Duke, go for Gold’. The crisis was averted.
The Profmo Affair was a political scandal that occurred in 1963 when Conservative MP, John Profumo, was accused of having an affair with Russian model, Christene Keeler. The Daily Express broke the story in an indirect way, due to the libel law preventing them from doing so directly. The newspaper published a photo of Keeler, who was missing at the time, on the front page, next to an article reporting that John Profumo had resigned as Secretary Of State For War. This was an attempt to get the people reading the newspaper to put the pieces together and come up with a conclusion. In March 1963, when rumours were being spread about Profumo’s relationship with Keeler, he was summoned to questioning by parliament.
He was just as unsuccessful and by the time of the October election of 1964 Britain was in debt to the tune of £750 million. A second main reason for Labour’s victory was that the Conservative party leadership was in disarray after the resignation in October 1963 of Harold ‘Supermac’ Macmillan. Macmillan had been
They raised taxes from 10-50% and starved the populace to get the maximum profits. Nevertheless, the company continued to suffer financially, and influenced Parliament to pass the Tea Act in 1773 to lift import duties on tea shipped to the American colonies, which ultimately lead to the American War of Independence in April 1775. John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of Massachusetts. Hancock began his political career in Boston as a protégé of Samuel Adams, an influential local politician, though the two men later became estranged.
In order to do this Stalin instituted a party purge to silence the opposition of Riutin and his supporters, the assassination of Kirov, executed delegated party congresses, The trial of the twenty-one and general Purges. Between the years 1929-34 Stalin faced opposition from within the communist party A purge was the systematic elimination of opponents by Stalin, The assassination of Kirov allowed Stalin to use it as an excuse to begin the purges. In 1932, Kirov had helped to defeat Stalin on an important issue concerning Mikhail Riutin, who had circulated a document that was highly critical of Stalin. Stalin was furious and demanded Ruitins execution. However the central committee and the politburo refused to order Ruitin’s execution, Stalin viewed this as a betrayal.
The UK democratic system has many flaws which have been criticised for numerous reasons. Firstly, the UK holds elections every 5 years to elect a new prime minister. Lord Hailsham criticised the electoral system as "elective dictatorship" due to domination of single party over number of years as once the new prime minister is appointed to power he no longer considers the views of the people and makes the changes which he thinks are needed. An example of this is when the previous Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed to send British soldiers to fight in Iraq. Another example is when Britain joined a referendum by becoming a part of the E.U.
Russian Revolution -Terms Czar Nicholas II- last Russian czar; clumsy and ineffective leader; bad at decision making; abdicated the throne; July 1918 executed by the Bolsheviks along with his family; tried to hold back cultural changes; Economic developments Encouraged growth of industries by investing national funds Ordered tariffs to protect Russian products from foreign trade Encouraged foreign investment Bloody Sunday-January 22, 1905 massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia; unarmed demonstrators trying to get better working conditions, more personal freedom, and an elected national legislature; provoked a wave of strikes across the country; Imperial Guard open fired when they went to Nicolas’s palace; By October 1905, Czar promised parliament and more freedom Abdicate- to resign as a ruler VI Lenin- founder of Bolshevik party organizer of October Revolution armed workers, soldiers, and sailors stormed Winter Palace (headquarters of provisional government) bloodless Menshevik and Socialist Revolutionary delegates withdrew from Congress Made Russia into a Communist
Why did the crown and parliament fall out in 1625? In March 1625 Charles father, the King dies leaving only Charles to succeed the throne of the Three Kingdoms. Charles falls out with parliament for three main reasons, finance, foreign policy and favorites, all had previously harassed James, and were now passed on to Charles. Although not yet coronate, only a few months later he assembles Parliament for the first time, meeting against the background of the outbreak of plague in London. His main objective for calling Parliament was to raise money to go to war with Spain, which he believed would indirectly help his sister Elizabeth and brother-in-law to regain the Palatinate.
A tough federal response smothered Klan terror in a wave of prosecutions. Martial law and the suspension of habeas corpus were necessary to remove the threat from South Carolina. In 1915 the Hollywood spectacular Birth of a Nation reframed historical events to give credence to the Klan’s conspiratorial interpretation.38 As the economic order changed, different visions of the future battled for power. Conspiracy was a prominent theme in the competition. Capitalists denounced radicals for scheming to overthrow the government and cited as proof events like the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing that left seven policemen dead.
Soon after, a man, John Dean was subpoenaed and was to testify. Dean did not approve of President Nixon’s actions and admitted that he even discussed cover-up of the scandal with him. The Senate Watergate committee had been notified by Alexander Butterfield that there were taping devices in the Oval room in the White House (U-S-history.com). The Senate finally got their lead on the real evidence of what could solve the scandal, but the President refused to hand over the