By: Brett Reder Anti-Vietnam Movement in the U.S. The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965-1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. The United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950 when President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of France's war against the Vie...
The French Socialist Party (PS) was established by the conversion of the Section francaise de l?internationale ouvriere (SFIO) in to the PS in 1969. However it wasn?t until 1971 at the Epinay-sur-seine conference, when Francois Mitterrand emerged as leader that it began its transformation into France?s leading political party. In order to under...
The rise of in post-WWI Germany is an understandable reaction to the problems of the Versailles Peace Treaty, considering the German attitudes and beliefs at the time. These attitudes and beliefs were the result of generations of Prussian militarism, extreme racist nationalism, and, most importantly, the failure of the Treaty of Versailles signed...
J.J. Augusta The effects of the collapse of the USSR were felt through out the world in many aspects of peoples day to day life but it also impacted hugely upon Western countries foreign policies in ways such as; defense spending in key countries such as the USA went down in certain areas and also because a huge threat had been erased, many countr...
Introduction ' "The monarchy I thank God, yet had had no dependency on Parliament nor on nothing but god."'(1) James's like his brother Charles, was determined to rule without the consent of Parliament and to reintroduce Roman Catholicism, which made King James Stuart II the cause of the Glorious Revolution. The Revolution of 1688 was also...