Colonial History Timeline
Worksheets - 7 pages - Modern history
Key dates in colonial history, including the Berlin Congress, Fachoda Crisis, and conquest of various regions.
The Gilded Age (1870-1890s)
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
This document is a concise fact sheet on The Gilded Age, covering such topics as the status of women at the time, political parties and immigration.
The Great Depression and the New Deal
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
This document is a course material on The Great Depression and the New Deal.
The end of WWII and the Cold War
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
This document is a course material on the end of WWII and the Cold War.
The Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Worksheets - 2 pages - Modern history
This document is a worksheet on the American Reconstruction, which happened between 1865 and 1877, after the Civil War.
Early Modern History
Worksheets - 21 pages - Modern history
Contrary to the contemporary definition, the cities of the early modern era were not defined only according to a threshold of number of inhabitants, continuity of buildings, or command functions. During the Old Regime, a city was certainly a densely populated space, but it was also surrounded by...
The invention of the telegraph
Worksheets - 1 pages - Modern history
Today, I'm going to tell you more about the invention of the telegraph. For ages, people has always tried to find ways to communicate. The point was to accelerate the information transmission to remote places. The first methods as the distance increased were probably the human shout, then...
Stalin's legacy.
Worksheets - 6 pages - Modern history
Cette dissertation de niveau 3eme année de licence vise à montrer que la mémoire dont Staline fait l'objet en Union Soviétique puis en Russie s'articule autour de deux éléments contradictoires : il est évidemment considéré comme un tyran sanguinaire, responsable de famines et...
The United States from 1918 to 1945
Worksheets - 15 pages - Modern history
This is a study of the social, political and economic scenario in the U.S. in the crucial period from 1918 to 1945, when it faced new challenges. It gained an important role on the world stage at all levels, but at the same time experienced divisive forces and had to overcome internal...
Financing of the war (1914 - 1918)
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The issue of funding does not arise at the beginning of a conflict, during a war,the people live on rations. Belligerents merely suspend the convertibility of their currencies into gold (except England where the pound is convertible), with the idea of restoring them when the war is over. It is...
The Victorian Period (1837-1901) - published: 29/09/2010
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
The adjective ‘Victorian', often appended to words to describe a way of life, thought, culture and politics, sprang from the reign of Queen Victoria, who ruled over Great Britain from 1837 to 1901. She was the longest reigning monarch in British History. The Victorian period was a prosperous...
Malcolm X: a revolutionary Afro-American at home and in the rest of the world
Worksheets - 4 pages - Modern history
Malcolm X was an Afro-American revolutionary. He dedicated himself to explain the world and find ways to change it. Who was really Malcolm X? What was his impact on the Civil Rights Movement? Malcolm Little is born in 1925 in Omaha (Nebraska). His father, Earl Little was a Baptist priest, a...
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz steps down as Cuban leader
Worksheets - 1 pages - Modern history
Castro, who is 81, announced on 19th February 2008 that he would not accept another term as The President when the National Assembly meet on Sunday 24th February. Cuba's leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday the 19th February, after nearly half a century in charge. To start with, Fidel...
Blacks in the United-States (1865 - today)
Worksheets - 4 pages - Modern history
Before the 1940s, there were two schools of thought: the integrationists, who favored the economic and civic equality of the Whites and the separatists, advocating separation of the Blacks from the White community, and even suggesting a return to Africa. The Civil Rights movement that took place...
Truman and the post-war years
Worksheets - 6 pages - Modern history
During and due to the War economy, the American factories had been very active. They bustled with triple shifts. The US had eventually absorbed one of the most severe attacks launched on its values. However the role of the family and women within, it highlighted the uncertainties facing the...
The Cold war and the Cuban missile crisis
Worksheets - 7 pages - Modern history
Understanding the Cold War, it is central to understand the history of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Between 1945 and 1991, there were lots of casualties in more than 100 wars that took place in the 3rd World in that period. Moreover, most of the crisis that threatened to escalate into a...
The civil rights movement
Worksheets - 5 pages - Modern history
At the beginning of the 1950's, in the Southern states, fewer than 5% of the prospected black voters were allowed to vote. Shrewd Southern politicians set up new means of perpetuating the black's powerlessness. Ever since it's founding in 1909 as a voluntary interracial organization, the...
The American way of life in the fifties
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Between 1947 and 1960, the average real income for American workers increased by as much as it had in the previous half-century. Over the same period, the GDP soared 220%. Consumption of personal services increased by 3 times. In 1960, per capita income was 35% higher than even the boom year...
British society and the economic context: Richard Cobden
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
Richard Cobden was much involved in politics. In Great Britain, after Napoleonic wars, Corn Laws were passed. In Cobden's opinion the policy implemented in these famous bills needed reasoning. Indeed, Frédéric Bastiat's close friend devoted his entire life to free trade and pacifism....
How did the nazis gain and keep popular support ?
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
If dictatorships often are the consequences of revolutions or coups, like that of Hitler's access to power, then they are absolutely not democratic. When the dictator tried to become the leader of Germany by undemocratic ways, he failed. Thats what happened in Munich in 1923 when his Putsch...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Worksheets - 16 pages - Modern history
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York in 1882. He was born into a well-to-do family of Dutch origin, President Theodore Roosevelt's cousin. The name 'Delano' was the maternal branch of the family which was descended from a Huguenot named Philippe de La Noye who...
The Victorian Period (1837-1901)
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
The adjective ‘Victorian', often appended to words to describe a way of life, thought, culture and politics, sprang from the reign of Queen Victoria, who ruled over Great Britain from 1837 to 1901. She was the longest reigning monarch in British History. The Victorian period was a prosperous...
The Russian Revolution: Nestor Ivanovich Makhno and the Makhnovschyna
Worksheets - 5 pages - Modern history
Nestor Makhno, who led the libertarian rising in southeastern Ukraine, was one of the most fascinating and heroic figures of the Russian Civil War. His movement was the only peasant uprising of the 20th century which succeeded to create a libertarian society when the tsarist one was dying. But,...
North Britons : Patriotism and identity in Eighteenth-century Scotland
Worksheets - 6 pages - Modern history
From the Wars of Independence and the exploits of William Wallace (and even before) to the debates about the Act of Union and the fierce opposition of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, it is needless to say that Scottish and English histories have been most closely linked. Though, their relationship,...
