Tsarina Alexandra was influenced by Gregori Rasputin, an unpopular and scruffy “holy” man, who was supposedly controlling her son’s haemophilia condition. Nicholas’s decisions at the Eastern Front caused the country's military failures; by 1917 over 1,300,000 men had been killed in battle, 4,200,000 wounded and 2,417,000 had been captured by the enemy. First World War had a disastrous impact on the Russian economy; food was in short supply and this led to rising prices. By January 1917 the price of commodities in Petrograd had increased by six times. In an attempt to increase their wages, industrial workers went on strike.
Von papen arranged another election hoping to win more support from the reichstag, however, he fell short once more to the Nazis, obtaining an even fewer amount of seats. Von Papen out of desperate nature, asked Hindenburg to close down the Reichstag and rule by decree. Von Schleicer warned Hindenburg that Von papen government would lead to civil war and an increase of violence between Nazis and communists, so Von Schleicer instead, was appointed chancellor. This position didn't last even two months and Von Papen was furious, negotiating with Hitler to allow him position of Chancellor with Papen himself Vice Chancellor. Hindenburg refused a Nazi government once more.
On 23 March 1933 the Reichstag passed the Enabling Law by a two-thirds majority (444 out of 647 - only the SPD voted against (94)) and enabled the Chancellor to rule by decree without even the need for approval by the President. In effect, the Reichstag then dissolved itself. The first permanent concentration camp had been set up at Dachau the day before! The SA was unleashed on political opponents and several semi-official concentration camps were set up all over Germany. (Most of these were later closed).
I didn't know much about him back then, just that he was soft-spoken, exceedingly polite, always ready with a smile and a warm greeting. In 1983, when I first announced my intentions to seek an office in the state legislature, Mr. Savage stopped me in the second-floor rotunda of the courthouse and offered me his encouragement and good wishes. A few months later, on election night as the votes were tallied and the results announced to a rowdy throng camped on the courthouse lawn, it became apparent that I would win my race. Mr. Savage found me and expressed his congratulations. "The people have trusted you," he said.
He was able to successfully deflect the image of being "unflappable" against Gaitskell, in which he calmly mocked his policies in the run-up to the 1959 General Election. In addition, we can see that despite the opinion polls favouring Gaitskell over the previous Prime Minister, Eden, which had fallen over the mishandling of the Suez Crisis, Macmillan turned the image around for the Conservatives with the aforementioned qualities as media manipulation, which proved his success leading up to the 1959 General Election as he eventually won by a 100 seat majority. However, Macmillan could also be seen as an
How far do these 3 sources suggest that it was the sudden deterioration in the trade figures during the election campaign that explains labours unexpected defeat in the general election? Source 1 provides no direct evidence to show how labour was defeated in the 1970 election however economically in the 1960's, Labour and Harold Wilson had struggled. They inherited a large trade deficit and this became most apparent in 1966 once Labour had increased their majority. The problem was that to help ease the issue, Wilson would have to devalue the pound so that the UK's exports would be cheaper and therefore more competitive in price. However this was something that Wilson vowed he would not do.
However, Roosevelt was facing a much worse scenario with an unemployment rate of nearly 25% after the stock market crash of 1929. President Roosevelt not only passed one bill, but by March 9th, 1933 within his first hundred days in office he was able to
Rush Limbaugh’s First Address to the Nation (Rhetorical Analysis) On Feb. 28, 2009, Rush Limbaugh gave a speech self-entitled his “First Address to the Nation”. He spoke to all in attendance at the 2009 CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) and the nation as a whole as it was broadcast across the country on live national television. Instead of taking the expected logical approach, Limbaugh appealed more to the emotions of his audience. At the time, the Republican Party was in a kind of despair and didn’t quite know where to go from there (at least that was the feeling).This coming as a result of the then recent presidential election in which Barack Obama had been elected as President of the United States as a Democrat. As far as credentials, knowledge and just about everything else you might need to be a convincing speaker, Rush Limbaugh comes to the table with everything already.
As the ’60s came and went, war protesters were still looking to the politicians to right wrongs, fix social issues, and bring the boys home. The Watergate scandal was on the horizon and Richard Nixon would later be impeached. The mid ’70s were looking to be a continuation of the 10,000-day war, and this was unacceptable for the public. When “Peace Train” made it into the many homes of a country overwhelmed in never-ending commotion, a British-born activist was ready to speak to the American audience about ending social unrest and the ever-important need for change. Cat Stevens was a superstar in the ‘70s.
In 1999, Lego introduced a restructuring program that included cutting costs by $1B DKK, firing a significant number of executives, and laying off approximately 1,000 employees. While this move reflected management’s willingness to make large systemic changes, there were pieces that revealed Lego was not completely rehabilitated. For example, Lego frequently realigned the remaining managers every 6-12 months in an attempt to fill each position with the best possible employee. Creating a workforce that is well-rounded in operations, at this point, should not have