Seven hours into the London concert Geldof was told that the amount raised so far had been a mere £1.2 million. Later into the evening however, a video was shown to the audiences showing starving and diseased Ethiopian children which immediately saw the rate of donation rise. (This would also be shown at the London Live 8 concert in 2005.) The following day, it was announced that between £40 and £50 million had been raised. However, it is now estimated that around £150 million has been raised for famine relief as a
As a result of this the voice of a pressure group can be very loud as even if half of its members turn out to a protest or march they would have more than the total of political parties. Also there are many more pressure groups than political parties, as in 2010 there were only 398 registered parties but a much larger 7,000 organizations that could be classed as a pressure group. The figure of 398 political parties does include parties which have no influence at all due to be unable to win any seats in commons so losing a chance at a voice in parliament. Also funding is much higher for pressure groups as the trade union ‘unison’ has yearly subscriptions of 160m a year compared to 30-40m a year for cons and labs this means that pressure groups have a capability to buy more resources with which to gain their aims. On the other hand some pressure groups, in particular those classed as outsider, even with high levels of membership will struggle to get their view across as the government in power will simply not give into their pressure as it will look bad on them, especially if the group
Germany suffered 5 main territorial losses, which were: • Posen, the Polish corridor and Upper Silesia => Poland • Memel => Lithuania • Northern Schleswig => Denmark • Alsace-Lorraine => France • The Saar => League of nations (however it was returned to them after 15 years as the inhabitants decided to become German) Germany lost most of her empire at the end of World War One as well as part of her actual country. Germany’s army was reduced to 100 000 men and this meant they were not able to attack another country. However they got round this problem by training many young men on how to be in the army (for example how to use a gun) but didn’t actually call them up so they weren’t officially in the army. This meant that if they were able to enlarge their army again, they would have trained men ready to fight. Germany had to pay the total cost of the war which is estimated to be around £6.6 billion, this lead to the period of time which historians call the depression and this is when the mark got devalued.
Was the Labour 1945 election win a forgone conclusion. There are many different opinions as to why Labour won the nineteen fourteen five general election. A large amount of the opinion that the election was over even before it had begun however i do not think that this is true. In my opinion the main reason for Labour winning the 1945 election was not thorough the skill of the Labour and certainly not through the skill of their campaign of Atlee himself it was through the conservatives and in particular Winston Churchill shooting himself in the foot.The conservatives made many errors however the biggest of these was the comment than Winston Churchill made on the 4th of june 1945 in which he spoke about how no socialist government come survive without a Gestapo type presence, whether or not this is true this was not a quote which was thought through in anyway by the prime minister at the time or by any of his advisors the United Kingdom was just coming out of a long and hard war in which British propaganda had made the Gestapo out to be the ultimate enemy. For this reason the Gestapo was not something that the British people were very sympathetic towards and Winston Churchill by using this in is his speech made a large amount of the British people reconsider their views on him and it was around this time that the British people started to see Atlee as a serious option to lead the country.
Most people are unfamiliar with World War I impact on American society. $33 billion was wasted on the war, interprets the government to tax everything thin from tobacco to luxury goods. The Great Migration impacted African Americans where they moved from the South to the big cities where they faced negative and positive issues. Women in war changed how we women are today, back then women starting taking men's job. Initially, billions were wasted on war, bonds were a problem, and propaganda started to rise.
Wages rose how ever there were too few goods on which to spend money. Also the creation of collective farms essentially destroyed kulaks as a class and this disruption led to a famine. I think that over all the first five year plan was not a success in strengthening the soviet economy because a lot of the targets set were not achieved for example the production of coal were 35.4; oil was 11.7 and steel 4 million tonnes. The actual target of these was double the amount produced. I think it was successful in the sense it increased urbanisation, several gains were obtained in heavy industry and wages rose.
This ran alongside the blossoming industrialisation of Britain, areas such as Stockport and Cheshire undergoing radical change were often the strongest supports of Chartism. Most notably 400,000 weavers were laid off, so with so many people a desire for change is no doubt to be incredibly strong, Chartism encompassed this passion into an actual collection, albeit a dispersed one. Laughing in the face of Liverpool’s attempt to stop them and 1815 and 1821, the rebels were still running riot through the streets. Hunt and Cobbett amongst others continued demands for political and social change. And the new leaders didn’t stop coming, Feargus O’Connor one of the “Physical force” Chartist was new to the scene are ready for revolt.
From October of 2001 to May of 2012, 54,830 people have died or been wounded due to the current war on terror, and those that did die, their families and friends find it disrespectful because of their loved ones sacrifice. Polls indicate that at least 70 percent of the US people support bills preventing burning the US flag. On the other hand, the way that it is not antipatriotic is that it is symbolic speech. In 1989, the US Supreme Court ruled that the burning of the US flag was symbolic speech and that it fell under the First Amendment, the right to free speech. Newspaper editorials arguing against the bills said that “flag burning passé”, or out of date.
Conference of Catholic Bishops on January 30th, they forecast that nearly 60,000 unaccompanied minors from South and Central America will be entering the United States this year from the southern border. This has escalated from less than 25,000 the year before, and an even larger leap from a decade ago of just 5,800. Many of the minors who are caught, are released to their relatives already within the United States, who in many cases are themselves illegal immigrants (Millman). Many critics of immigration see this as a way for more and more illegal immigrants to flow in to the United States without and worry of deportation. Sadly, to some, many of the minors who cross over the border illegally are mashed through a mix of government agencies all with the soul goal of supervising the children and teens before deporting them back to their home country.
Over 3,000 ‘DMVs’ (Deserted Medieval Villages) have been discovered in England, with historians such as Chorpa attributing the reason for desertion to the plague. In perhaps the best known example, Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire, the surviving population is thought to have fled to York to avoid starvation as the village became unsustainable due to 85% of the population dying because of the plague. Some villages, including Kilkenny, saw total oblivoration and 100% death rates. However, perhaps the greatest impact was in the major cities, particularly London, England’s biggest city in the middle ages. London was described by contemporise