many people were saved during the Holocaust, but the death toll would have been much larger if people, like Raoul Wallenberg, did not help. Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman and diplomat who showed much moral courage by saving countless Jews during World War II. Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912 in Sweden. He was born into one of the richest families in Sweden, the Wallenbergs. Since his family was very wealthy, he had the opportunity to attend college abroad in another continent
Russian newspaper. Peter was a far-sighted and skillful diplomat who abolished Russia's archaic form of government and appointed a viable Senate, which regulated all branches of administration, as well as making, groundbreaking accomplishments in Russia's foreign policy. Peter acquired territory in Estonia, Latavia and Finland; and through several wars with Turkey in the south, he gained access to the Black Sea. In 1709, he defeated the Swedish army by purposely directing their troops to the city of
everything even though it wasn’t her fault and in the peoples rage, they started the French Revolution. After that, Marie’s reputation was ruined, and in the king and queen’s falling, they were sentenced to death. II. Background (3rd slide) a. Marie was born on November 2, 1755, in Vienna, Austria. She was the fifteenth daughter of Maria Theresa and Francis I. i. She and her sisters had an education in religious and moral principles, while her brothers where taught more academic studies. III. Marriage
The War Refugee Board worked with Jewish organizations, diplomats, and resistance groups in Europe to rescue Jews and provide relief to inmates of concentration camps. But the U.S. it’s self hardly did anything to stop the genocide. The U.S. didn’t bomb the tracks or crematorium at Auschwitz. Even with the Allied bombers had to fly over Auschwitz to bomb nearby factories. The largest rescue efforts were led by a Swedish diplomat out of Budapest, Hungary named Raoul Wallenberg, Wallenberg
world cup. The US struggled to have a good team for the World Cup because even though they had a really good league, the players from the league were from Europe and South America and for the World Cup a person can only play for the country he was born in. So even though the U.S. had one of best leagues in the world, the U.S still lacked the success at the international level. The league had Johan Cruyff at the height of his career and a couple other really good players from out of the country too
offer of a Bohemian nobleman named Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583- 1634) to raise an imperial army. Born a Lutheran, Wallenstein had become a Catholic to qualify for imperial favor. Certainly religion was not the motivating force in this tall, thin, forbidding man. It was to the stars that he turned for guidance when he doubted the conclusions reached by his own brilliant but undisciplined mind. He was born under the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. The great astronomer Kepler informed him when he cast
Biography of Marie Antoinette Born with the name Antonia, Marie Antoinette was born in Vienna, Austria on November 2, 1755. Marie-Antoinette was one of the 16 children of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa, queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She was the youngest and most beautiful daughter of all. Marie Antoinette was brought up believing her destiny was to become queen of France. Marie Antoinette's first child was Marie Therese Charlotte(Madame Royale). Unpopular Queen Marie
children. After Germany’s lost in World War I, they were embarrassed by the Versailles Treaty, which lowered its prewar territory and armed forces. The German Empire demolished, a new government of parliament called the Weimar Republic was born. The republic suffered from economic instability, which grew worse when the great depression was happening. The great depression was when the stock market crashed in New York in 1929. Adolf Hitler became leader of the Nazi(National Socialist
by Roman authorities. This wide-spread hatred of the Jews augmented the virulent mindset behind the Holocaust. On the night of January 30, 1933, an event occurred that spearheaded the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany. Born in Austria in 1889, Hitler served in World War I under the German army. Like many prevalent anti- Semites in Germany, Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany’s trounce in World War I in 1918. During Hitler’s imprisonment in 1923, he wrote a memoir
vibes. "Listen, it was a terrible trip, but I 'm in good form. The injury is gone. I 'll give it my everything." Guardiola looked as though he doubted me. I didn 't understand him, and afterwards I called Mino Raiola. I call Mino all the time. Swedish journalists use to say: Mino is bad image for Zlatan. Mino is this and that. You want the truth? Mino is a genius. I asked him: "What does the guy mean?" None of us understood. We started losing it. But I got to play from start and we scored 1-0