European History Essays and Term Papers

World War, United States went through a giant growth. The population doubled from 38.6 million to 76 million people. This happened because of the immigrants from Europe, and the enlarged birth rate. The United States had to take action. They adopted…

Union (CPSU), Vladimir Lenin, appointed Joseph Stalin as the General Secretary of the CPSU, which was a job that at the time no person with power wanted, so a not so well-known Georgian was given the position. In that same year, Lenin suffered a…

(England). Sir Francis Drake's father was a Yeoman (lumberjack). Sir Francis Drake was an apprentice to a captain of a ship, and in 1567 he went on one of his first sea voyage. His ship, the Judith, was one of a squadron of vessels led by a kinsman…

developed at dramatically different rates, as well as different times in history, and comparison is both difficult and easy. It is easy to compare Greece and Rome because both societies are in relatively the same area, situated on the same major…

do as they pleased and forget morals. During this time period, people did what they wanted not heeding to the concerns of others. They did what they wanted disregarding rules and regulations. On January 16, 1920, the 18th Amendment passed prohibiting…

great frauds in history. Moses, Jesus and Mohammed." Frederick II. All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven in his own way." Frederick II Frederick II was perhaps one of the most influential individuals of the period…

1917 At the beginning of 1917 most of the Bolsheviks were in exile but by the end of 1917 the Bolshevik party had not only consolidated control of Moscow and Petrograd, but they were also advancing on the rest of the country. This success was due…

Roman cities, Rome needed an alternate water source. Not only was the water supply no longer reliable for the growing Roman population, it was also possible that enemies of Rome could poison the supply. To solve this problem, they built aqueducts.…

is known as a rebirth of classical ideas and in all actuality, a celebration or rebirth of humanism. The middle ages had lasted for over a thousand years. It was during this time Christianity was spread. Christianity, along with the Germanic…

course with the precision and security of a sleepwalker." Even at that time it struck the world as an unusual statement for the undisputed leader of 67,000,000 people to make at the time of an international crisis. Hitler meant it to be a form of' reassu…