To what extent metropolises were welcoming cities during the 19th century?
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
During the 19th century, the size of the cities in Europe changed dramatically. While in the 1800s, twenty-three cities in Europe could have been considered as major cities, one century later, the number of major cities reached one hundred and thirty-five. This evolution is curious when one...
Vichy's Responsability in the Holocaust : The Failure of the Integration of the Jews of France ?
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
On July 16th 1995, President Jacques Chirac officially recognized for the first time, the responsibility of the Vichy regime in the genocide of the Jews. This statement was heralded as a break from the past as it had been traditionally asserted that no French governmental authorities had taken...
The Dreyfus Affair.
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
Dreyfus is capable of treason, I conclude from his race', wrote Edouard Drumont, a notorious antisemit figure, in La Libre Parole. Such a statement is representative of the tone of a certain press, at the time of the Dreyfus Affair. In 1894, Captain Dreyfus was prosecuted and convicted guilty...
Great Britain during the Second World War
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Since 1933, the UK and France were not weren't ready economically and financially to wage war against Germany. In 1933, its leader Adolf Hitler, seized power lawfully, and wanted to take revenge after the humiliation of the Versailles Treaty. Indeed, after WWII, France, the UK and the USA decided...
The Brazilian Development
Essay - 11 pages - World geography
In the last few years, we assisted at the considerable development of Brazil. In fact, its economy is now considered as the ninth most powerful economy of the world and Brazil is now the leader in South America. It is now playing an important role in the international trade of goods and services....
Communism and Fascism : Two ideologies of the 20th century
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Communism and Fascism have both played a very decisive role in the 20th century. They had a big impact on all the major geopolitical issues of this century; the Russians Revolution of October 1917, the Spanish civil war, WWII, Cold War, Vietnamese's wars, Cuba's regime etc. It is commonly...
What is the most important event during the Cold War ? - Author's opinion
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
The Cold War is an ideological clash between the Western capitalist block - the "Free World" led by the USA- and the Eastern communist block lead by mother Russia USSR. The two blocks fought by proxy from 1947 to 1990, through violent crisis, such as the Korean War from 1951 to 1953, the Vietnam...
The Caribbean Islands
Worksheets - 3 pages - World geography
The Caribbean Islands are located in the southeast of Northern America, east of Central America, and in the north west of South America. This is commonly recognized as a sub-region of North America. It includes more than 7,000 islands, islets, and reefs, and 38 territories. This is composed...
To what extent was Paris considered as Enlightenment capital during the Eighteenth-Century?
Essay - 3 pages - Medieval history
The Eighteenth-Century is commonly considered as the century of Enlightenment. What sense could we give to that notion of Enlightenment? In the Seventeenth-Century, Enlightenment was linked with faith and fairness of spirit. In the Eighteenth-Century, that notion turned into fairness that should...
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America - publié le 12/05/2010
Text commentary - 1 pages - Modern history
In the 18th century, the ideas of modernity were spreading all around Europe, while at the same time a revolt is organized against the despotic control exercised by Georges III, the King of England in the British colonies of the New World. This rebellion resulted in the Declaration of...
The artists in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes
Essay - 1 pages - Modern history
Art has always provided an outlet to express feelings, creation or freedom, to denounce abuses, to throw light on human nature or natural phenomenon. That's why most of the time it gets controversial because it always implies subjective judgments and critical opinions. If we take the example...
Great Britain, the United States and the Commonwealth
Essay - 14 pages - Modern history
The aim of the lecture is to determine whether there is really a special relationship between Britain and the US. It was only in the aftermath of the Second World War that the term of special relationship came to be used to describe the partnership between Britain and America. Indeed, despite the...
Compare the contribution of Jews to metropolitan culture pre- and post-World War II.
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Second World War and the Holocaust altered in an irremediable way, the Jewish contribution to metropolitan culture. Before the beginning of the Second World War, Jews had had an extremely important part in the cultural life, with many contributions in the musical life, in literature, in...
Racial segregation in the United States throughout history
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
Sadly, racial segregation has a long history in the United States. The separation between the blacks and the whites is deeply-rooted in American history because of its constitution, which established in 1787 that the weight of a black man was three-fifths of a white man. It also marked slavery as...
Le projet Saône-Moselle
Essay - 1 pages - Geography
One of the most significant changes in river transportation, the oldest means of transport, could be the Rhine-Rhône ship canal. The completion of the construction is planned for 2010. Near this area, an important waterway which is the Saône-Moselle one is planned. This project liaises with the...
La participation des États-Unis à la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The beginning of the Second World War marked a change. The German victories in France and Poland, occupation of Belgium and still defying, but exhausted Great Britain led President Roosevelt to sign the Lend-Lease Act on March 11, 1941. It committed U.S. to supply Britain with military equipment...
Statistical Comparison of France and Turkey - Calculation and analysis
Course material - 13 pages - World geography
Data is most of the time considered as the plural of datum. Datum only constitutes of one element of the whole of data. Data or datum represents some information which can be quantitative or qualitative. Data represents accurate information. Mean can be defined as average, a collection of numbers...
The construction of 'territorial sovereignty' in France
Essay - 10 pages - Modern history
In 1797, after long negotiations, Bonaparte, then general of the French army, and Cobenzl, the Austrian representative, agreed on the following deal: Austria recognized France's rights on the Belgium territory and was granted in exchange the Venetian Republic. By selling Venice, Bonaparte did...
The US-Soviet conflicts in World War II
Essay - 1 pages - Modern history
There were many conflicts between the U.S. and the USSR during World War II as the alliance between the two countries was held together only by their common desire to defeat Germany and Japan, not by any common ideology. A new conflict arose from the question of security. At the Yalta Conference...
Who had the right to rule Vietnam?
Thesis - 1 pages - Modern history
After 1,500 years of foreign rule, a self-governing Vietnam began to look promising in the 1950s. With the objective of gaining independence and removing French occupation from Vietnam, a conflict began between the French and the Vietnamese nationalists, known as the Vietminh. When France...
France in World War II
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
France's lack of preparation for World War II led to 4 years of harsh occupation and memories that rather be forgotten. The French were ignorant in the years leading up to the war and the result was a quick victory by the Germans. The speed and ease in which the French were conquered and the...
Motivation for United States to enter the World War II
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
The intervention of the United States in WWII was not caused by the plight of the Jews interned in concentration camps or because of the threat of Japan, but for the purpose of defending Britain and France and stopping the spread of German dictatorship through Europe. The United States adopted...
The historiography of American history
Thesis - 3 pages - Modern history
The study of history can be divided into at least two areas, known as the historical narrative and historiography. The historical narrative describes the events of history themselves, whereas historiography is the study of why the events of the past occurred. Historiographers, or historians, have...
Colonial American history: 1763-1789
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
When studying history, two aspects of the subject are considered, the historical narrative and historiography. The historical narrative is simply the description of the events that occurred, and the historiography consists of the opinions and theories of historians about why certain events...
Was European expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth century motivated by purely economic concerns?
Essay - 3 pages - Medieval history
References are often made of the 15th and 16th century as 'The Age of Discovery'. It has been named like that because at that time, Europeans really started to discover and trade with the world overseas. Indeed, it was during this period that they expanded to areas all over the world as...
Farkas Molnár: Functionalism and socialist architecture
Thesis - 2 pages - Modern history
Budapest following World War I was a very different place than it had been only fifteen years before. With its crippling military defeat, the loss of some of its most productive and resource-rich land to the new Trianon borders, and a cycle of radical, ineffective and brutal regimes, the sense of...
Russian symbolists in the face of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917
Thesis - 4 pages - Modern history
“I believe that we are not only entitled but indeed obliged to consider a poet linked to his time, ” Alexander Blok wrote these words in 1918, at the height of political and social upheaval across the Russian empire. It is important to study the works of the premier minds of a...
International Market Research:Trinidad-and-Tobago
Essay - 4 pages - World geography
Trinidad-and-Tobago is a island, positioned in the northeast of Venezuela. The country is ideally positioned between United States, Europe, Africa, and South America. This position can be an advantage to export to or to import from South America. However, despite the fact that temperatures in...
The period from 1948 to 1953 was a phase of high intensity in Cold War history and decisively shaped the future of the European continent. Analyse the events in Europe in this period and their meaning for European integration.
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
After World War II, Europe was destroyed and two superpowers emerged; the United States and the USSR. The United States was the only state to have the atomic bomb and used the massive weapon against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and the USSR was important because of the fight against Nazi...
Orientalist Scholarship, the Conquest of India and the Events of 1857
Thesis - 4 pages - Medieval history
Britain's conquest of India was not an occupation in the conventional sense. Although England did have a military and economic presence on the sub-continent for over 200 years, the source of their power lay in a control of India's knowledge. England came to dominate the country through the...
