European creditors forced him to raise taxes to repay loans and this caused rebellion by Egyptian Army. Britain sent army and defeated Egypt and placed it under protectorate control. Belgian Congo -King Leopold II gathered explorers, geographers, and antislavery reformers and formed the International African Association. -Henry Stanley explored Congo area and made treaties with local rulers. - At the Berlin Conference in 1885 Leopold's claims were recognized.
Estimates of Iraqi military deaths range up to 100,000; coalition forces lost about 300 troops. The war also caused extensive damage to the region's environment. The Iraqi regime subsequently faced widespread popular uprisings, which it brutally suppressed. A UN trade embargo remained in effect after the end of the conflict, pending Iraq's compliance with the terms of the armistice. The foremost term was that Iraq destroys its nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs.”The 21st century was quiet with wars until the attacks of September 11th happened.
Katherine Biggers Jackson Period: 5B Imperialism and Human Brutality Imperialism and human abuse was horrible in the 19th century. It was taking place all over the world. It started in Africa around the mid 1400’s and still goes on in some parts of the world today. Some of the major offenses of human brutality and imperialism took place in Africa and Europe in the 19th century. The Berlin Conference was most likely the worst example of imperialism and racism.
The last reason that caused Rome to fall was the rulers. According to Document A, there were twenty-two rulers just during a fifty-year period, from 235 CE to 285 CE. Because there was a frequent change in rulers, the empire was instable, which was violent to the leadership. The empire could easily be conquered. Also, on the Background Essay, it said that the rulers became too worldly and lazy.
The CGP, 1994-2012 The Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, in which approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country's population), was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century. As in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian genocide, in Nazi Germany, and more recently in East Timor, Guatemala, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale. On July 18, 2007, Cambodian and international co-prosecutors at the newly established mixed UN/Cambodian tribunal in Phnom Penh found evidence of "crimes against humanity, genocide, grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, homicide, torture and religious persecution." Since 1994, the award-winning Cambodian Genocide Program, a project of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, has been studying these events to learn as much as possible about the tragedy, and to help determine who was responsible for the crimes of the Pol Pot regime. In Phnom Penh in 1996, for instance, we obtained access to the 100,000-page archive of that defunct regime's security police, the Santebal.
The Impact of Black Death & the World It Made Aaron Semkiw HIS: 103 World Civilizations I Instructor Kenneth Adderley April 9, 2011 The Impact of Black Death & the World It Made The Black Death was the world’s equivalent of an apocalyptic war, and it changed the lives of many people. It destroyed one-third of Europe’s populace, claiming somewhere around twenty million lives. And still, much of what we grasp about it is incorrect. The elements of the Plague defined in the imaginations of frightened school kids, the grotesque black bruises, the out of control state of high temperatures, and the unpleasant cessation by respiratory collapse, are just about conclusively true. But what this disease really was and how it made
About 42 percent of the amount of Agent Orange that we used was devoted to crop destruction; the products of hours of hard work were demolished within seconds. Agent Orange caused many people to starve to death. It has been reported, by the New York Times, that the herbicide destroyed 75 percent of the rice crops. Because people’s homes and crops were being destroyed, they were left homeless and hungry on the
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-
Joy Bassett English 102 April 4, 2011 Research Paper Women and Children of Darfur—Basic and Mental Health Needs The Darfur region has been under siege both by neighboring countries as well as the Sudanese government. They have cut off all attempts at restoring Darfur to a settled country. This civil war that has lasted for over 20 years saw a short reprieve in January of 2002 when a ceasefire was reached between the two sides. The conflict at hand started in 2003 and is increasing at an alarming rate. It is causing damage to both the mental and physical welfare of the population of Darfur.
Even more Cubans were killed by state forces when they tried to flee the country, which occurred during the 1980 Canimar River Massacre and the Tugboat Massacre of 1994.” Any person who kills others for his/her benefit is not a good person. “Fidel Castro’s 49-year reign was characterized by a ruthless suppression of freedom of expression”. So Castro ultimately left a legacy of failure. Castro held his power not by popular demand but through brutal dictatorship. A dictatorship in which executed and imprisoned thousands of