Throughout history we have seen many tyrants create and even maintain conflict just to further their own ends, resulting in the loss of many innocent lives. The likes of Muammar Gaddafi, Joseph Kony, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. These self-obsessed leaders have only come to power by being corrupt and creating conflict causing thousands of innocent people to suffer, they have used their high authority to steal land, money and even force their religious views/options. Roughly 66,000 innocent children have been abducted and made to kill their parents by Kony; 20,000 people were killed during Gaddafi’s reign; 300,000 people were murdered by Benito Mussolini and 7 million were executed or worked to death by Hitler. In total, at least 7386,000 people were murdered all because tyrannical, self-obsessed leaders wanted to further their own ends.
Alexandra appointed Rasputin, who had saved her sons life, as her personal adviser. This outraged many politicians and nobles due to her letting a peasant into the winter palace. The Tsarina replaced many advisors and ministers with those who had a weaker political position due to her fearing that they could challenge the Tsars authority. These actions reflected badly on the Tsar due to many politicians losing power due to his actions. The Tsar made many failures as Commander in chief of the army especially at the battle of Tannenburg where the majority of the Russian second army was destroyed which forced the Russian army to retreat.
World War I began because of many obstacles that America would have to sustain in order for the war to diminish. On May 7, 1915, the German army sank a ship called the Lusitania. At this time, 1,198 people lost their lives and included 128 American people. This ship was carrying war shipments from the United States to England. The passengers on the ship knew there may be a possible attack on the ship but Woodrow Wilson condemned this attack as illegal and inhuman.
The demoralisation of the proud Russian peoples created dissent, and discredited the Tsar. In August 1915, the Tsar left Petrograd to command the Russian army. In August 1915, the Tsar left Petrograd to command the Russian army. He therefore received the blame personally for all their defeats and lost control of his troops as he left Rasputin and the Tsarina to rule Russia. His army also consisted of millions of poor, starving peasants with bad equipment, poor supplies of rifles and ammunition.
10th grade Social Studies assignment The failings of the democracy in Germany between 1918 and 1923 Why was the new democratic system in Germany unpopular by 1923, and how was Hitler able to take advantage of that unpopularity? After their defeat in the First World War, Germany and its government faced many harsh consequences which had a great impact on the entire country and its political system. Each consequence created a substantial change in German history which made a chain of events that led to the rein of Adolf Hitler. Because the new democratic system proved to be unsuccessful, the people of Germany blamed their government and after that, things began to get chaotic and everyone suffered. The problems began after the 1st World War, and after the German government signed the papers at the Treaty of Versailles, agreeing to its conditions and punishments, the government was very much resented by the people.
Kevin_Hilliard Reading & Literature Part II Section 3, lesson 1 assignment 1 3/5/2013 The Masque of The Red Death In the year 2023, there was a plague so devastating that the world could not bear. The “Red Death” was so devastating, it destroyed half the population. This horrific plague contained the most horrific manifestations. The manifestations consist of sharp pains, sudden dizziness, and profuse bleeding at the pores with disintegration. Anyone that the plague came upon, caused reddening stains on the face and the body would appear, which caused the individual to be thrown in a secluded quarantine factory.
The Red Scare 1. Introduction The Red Scare, a time of panic and trepidation. The fear of communism was at its highest point in history, with such things as McCarthy accusing people of communism and ruining many people careers. The nation was in a frenzy to find and terminate all of the communist and communist sympathizers, or in the very least to send them out of the country. Organizations such as the HUAC were corrupt and overflowing with power at the time, ruining lives for their own self indulgence.
Crusades essay The Crusades, the Great Schism, and the Hundred Year War all contributed to the downfall of the Middle Ages or the Dark ages in a very big way. They were all very expensive, they all had a lot of soldiers and people killed, and they all got the empires and countries nowhere. They were all dumb things that selfish kings caused to get more wealth. The corrupt church had a big part in this as well. The church was cause for some of this to because people killed and went to war because they felt it was their duty to the church.
Modernism confronts this idea, postmodernism confronts the aftermath of this idea. Like a sort of commentary on our inability to actually know the past, in the postmodern psyche there is no definition of reality, and the commonly conceived idea that we have of history, we have only because that is the way it has been represented to us in media. Modernism confronted the fact the society had come to a place where technological advances surpassed cultural adaptation and a philosophical question of “where do we
Candide’s misfortune starts when the bulgur army had attacked the castle. Hence he was going to encounter the whole world and start to make his own fortune. His beloved Cunegonde as well suffered a lot either from violence guided to her or her suffers from misfortune. Every step he took he discovered a horrible problem that affect his outlook for the world. So Candide and Cunegonde blamed Pangloss a lot for his meaningless philosophy about the optimism.