John II of France

campaign he was assigned to help figure out a plan an allied invasion. During this he commanded the western take force that consisted of around 33,000 men. On March 6 1943 He replaced Lloyd Fredendall as the commanding officer after the defeat of the U.S. II Corps by the Germans. After he took charge of the Corps they were ordered to go into action in 10 days after the loss. He quickly made changes. He made every soldier wear clean, and complete uniforms. He also made strict schedules, and also went around

missionary died, with her final words spoken as a prayer asking for God’s help. Only recently canonized in 2000 by Pope John Paul II, Agnes is among the great martyrs of the church and a hero for her perseverance, even as one of the more obscure Catholic

How far was Adolf Hitler the cause of World War II World War II (WWII), the deadliest conflict of human history, stems from the following major causes—Adolf Hitler, appeasement, the Treaty of Versailles, the weakness of the League of Nations, and world economic depression. All of such factors stand amid heated historical debates between two sets of conflicting schools of thought—structuralism, otherwise known as functionalism, against intentionalism, and orthodoxy against revisionism. Although all

French Revolution. Although all revolutions started from different systems and had different outcomes, they all have similar ideas that resulted in documents with similar points. In England, King James II assumed the throne in 1685. Under his reign there were new bouts of constitutional unrest. King James, a devout Catholic, tried to secure toleration and acceptance of Catholics in England at

CHAPTER 1: THREE OLD WORLDS CREATE A NEW, 1492-1600 GUIDED READING QUESTIONS 57 terms Introduction Know: Old World, New World Are the terms old world and new world biased? Old World : Europeans fleeing poverty & religious persecution. New World: North America 1. What conditions existed in what is today the United States that made it "fertile ground" for a great nation? Abundant natural resources Prior inhabitance & cultivation of the land by the Native Americans The Shaping

so I had my mother, my grandmother (on my dad’s side) and myself take a dna test on ancestry.com. If you ask my mother’s side of the family (specifically her dad’s side) where they came from they tend to guess Germany because of their looks, and France because of their name, Larew. However, when we got the DNA results back my mom showed up as being 43% genetically from Great Britain as well as 13% Irish (making her a total of 56% British Isles) while only identifying as 28% “European West” which

conquest of Africa provided clearest example of the “new imperialism”, also King Leopold took over Africa to benefit his country by expanding wealth. Another resource we can look at is Doc. #3, (The Rhodes Colossus). It shows the caricature of Cecil John Rhodes, after he announced plans for a telegraph line and railroad from Cape Town to Cairo. This matters because in the eyes of imperialists like Cecil Rhodes, he brought nothing but wealth and fame to European countries and money into the pockets

exquisite movies to show World War II. Unlike most war movies Saving Private Ryan does not show what we want to see but what we need to see. The graphics used to show the horrific effects on war can drastically put an deep impression in your heart. The movie includes actors such as Tim Hanks, Matt Damon, and Vin Diesel. When Steven came up with the idea for the movie he showed interest in the Niland brothers four siblings who all served in the army during World War II. Brothers Robert, Preston, and Edward

later evolved to mass automated moving assembly lines, large-scale factories, and mass production of automobiles. The Second World War heavily pushed the Second Industrial Revolution and by the 1970s, the Digital Revolution was well underway. World War II ended the Great Depression and created many jobs all over the world. It sparked a massive intervention amongst state planners and by the war’s end, Canada was at full employment. Industrial work peaked in the 1950s and deindustrialization began to occur

(Backman 366). However, within the document there was “one important innovation-an explicit recognition that the king is not above the law” (Backman 366). In the year 1215 King John, the ruler of England from 1199 to 1216, found himself both unpopular and still reeling from the loss of most of his inherited lands in France in the year 1204 after a failed military campaign. He had spent the decade since in a struggle to recapture said lands and, in an effort to do so, sought out a means of financing