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Nicole Caspár

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/periodictable.html - 2 views

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    HL history: An interactive periodic table of the New Deal. 
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    What a GREAT find Nicole! HL students, this is very useful for you so check it out!
Erik Hado

Frank Dikotter - Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastroph... - 0 views

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    "Frank Dikotter discusses his book, "Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958--1962," presented by Harvard Book Store. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikotter's chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives had long been restricted. More lectures at http://forum-network.org"
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    Good stuff
sofiemsmith

Help and Advice for Students | History Today - 1 views

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    How to write history essays, lots of tips and ideas!
sofiemsmith

Marxist interpretation of Russian Rev - 0 views

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    "THE GARBAGE HEAP OF HISTORY.: The October Revolution: was it a coup?   Was the October Revolution a coup? In an attempt to discredit the Bolsheviks, no effort has been spared to falsify the historical record. The usual trick is to describe the October Revolution as a coup d'état, that is, a movement carried out by a small minority using conspiratorial methods behind the backs of the majority. The Bolsheviks, so the argument goes, seized power from the Provisional Government which issued from the February Revolution and which, supposedly, represented the democratic will of the people. If only Lenin's "conspiracy" had not prospered, the story goes, Russia would have entered on the road of Western parliamentary democracy and lived happily ever after. This fairy story has been repeated so many times that it has been uncritically accepted by many. Like any other fairy story its purpose is to lull the wits to sleep. And also like any other fairy story, it is convincing only to very small children."
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    "THE GARBAGE HEAP OF HISTORY.: The October Revolution: was it a coup?   Was the October Revolution a coup? In an attempt to discredit the Bolsheviks, no effort has been spared to falsify the historical record. The usual trick is to describe the October Revolution as a coup d'état, that is, a movement carried out by a small minority using conspiratorial methods behind the backs of the majority. The Bolsheviks, so the argument goes, seized power from the Provisional Government which issued from the February Revolution and which, supposedly, represented the democratic will of the people. If only Lenin's "conspiracy" had not prospered, the story goes, Russia would have entered on the road of Western parliamentary democracy and lived happily ever after. This fairy story has been repeated so many times that it has been uncritically accepted by many. Like any other fairy story its purpose is to lull the wits to sleep. And also like any other fairy story, it is convincing only to very small children."
Agnes Lidbrink Ekman

The Sukarno Era of Indonesian History - 0 views

  • The Independence Movement is almost synonomous with the political leader Sukarno.
  • In 1928 he helped found the Partei Nasional Indonesia (PNI), the Indonesian Nationalist Party
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      this is nice
  • Sukarno came to the attention of the Dutch authorities and he was arrested in 1931 and sent into exile to the island of Flores.
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  • Sukarno cooperated with the Japanese trying to get what assistance he could for the future independence of Indonesia.
  • After the surrender of the Japanese Government on August 15, 1945 Sukarno and Muhammad Hatta declared the independence of Indonesia on August 17th. It is notable that Sukarno and the other nationalists insisted that the new nation would include all the territories conquered by the Dutch, even those that had no cultural affiliation with the Javanese or other Malay peoples. This meant that Sukarno was not opposed to imperialism per se but only opposed to the Javanese being the victim of it.
sofiemsmith

BBC - History - World Wars: John F Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis - 0 views

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    Useful for Cold War, Paper 2
sofiemsmith

Past Paper Questions on Cold War for Paper 2 - 0 views

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    Very useful when you want past paper questions whne revising the Cold War for Paper 2
Johanna Sandels

Mwalimu Nyerere | Julius Nyerere; Life Times Legacy - 0 views

  • . Nyerere was the first African head of state to retire voluntarily.
  • stepped down because he realized that his socialist policies of communal ownership of farms and state ownership of services were not working.
  • Tanzania slipped from being the largest exporter of food in Africa to the biggest importer of food. However,
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  • made no attempt to cling to power or to influence his successors, who restored capitalism.
  • wanted to make Tanzania self-reliant,
  • he saw colonialism and capitalism as responsible for the subjugation of their people
  • e his policies may have proved disastrous for his country, few question his sincerity. Tanzania remains one of the poorest countries in the world, but its economy has grown since Nyerere's retirement
  • . For example, under Nyerere literacy and health care "surpassed anything most African countries
  • "rich and varied" and his intentions as always "noble."
  • He also battled the International Monetary Fund over the issue of Third World debt, a
  • "a genuine national entity out of a hotch-potch of some 120 ethnic groups"
  • "enduring achievement."
  • after the failure of his socialist experiment,
  • "worldwide moral authority."
  • University of Edinburgh
  • he obtained his Masters of Arts degree on economics and history
  • On his return to Tanganyika, Nyerere took a position teaching History, English, and Kiswahili at St. Francis’ College, near Dar es Salaam.
  • e colonial authorities,
  • "was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident.
  • his political activities and teaching.
  • Nyerere traveled throughout the country, speaking to common people and tribal chiefs, trying to garner support for the movement towards independence.
  • o spoke on behalf of TANU to the Trusteeship Council and Fourth Committee of the United Nations, in New York
  • His oratory skills and integrity helped Nyerere achieve TANU's goal for an independent country without war or bloodshed
  • e. Nyerere entered the Colonial Legislative council in 1958, and was elected chief minister in 1960. In 1961, Tanganyika was granted self-governance and Nyerere became its first Prime Minister on December 9, 1961
  • . Nyerere was instrumental in the union between the islands of Zanzibar and the mainland Tanganyika to form Tanzania, after a 1964 coup in Zanzibar toppled Jamshid bin Abdullah
  • Arusha Declaration
  • When in power, Nyerere implemented a socialist economic program
  • introduced a policy of collectivization in the country's agricultural system, known as Ujamaa, or "familyhood."
  • people truly become "persons" within community-starting with the family, then moving into an extended family,
  • Gandhi Peace Prize in 1995.
  • . Wealth would thus spread horizontally, not vertically
  • t Nyerere was first and foremost an African, and secondly a socialist. He was what is often called an African socialist.
  • s faith in rural African people and their traditional values and ways of life.
  • s. All that needed to be done was to return to this state and capitalism would be forgotten. He believed that this would be a true repudiation of capitalism, since his society would not rely on capitalism for its existence.
  • ujamaa system failed to boost agricultural output and by 1976, the end of the forced collectivization program
  • went from the largest exporter of agricultural products in Africa to the largest importer of agricultural products in Africa.
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  • Nyerere willingly announced that he would retire after presidential elections in 1985, leaving the country to enter its free market era under the leadership of Ali Hassan Mwinyi.
  • still recognized as the Father of the Nation
  • , he did not interfere in his successors policies, which reversed many of his own.
  • Nyerere was instrumental in putting both Ali Hassan Mwinyi and Benjamin Mkapa in power
  • From the mid-1970s, along with President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, he was an instigator and leader of the "Front Line States," which provided uncompromising support for the campaign for Black Majority Rule in South Africa
  • he led Tanzania into war against Uganda, then under the dictatorship of Idi Amin, resulting in the defeat of Uganda and exile of Amin
  • regarded to have set back development in the Seychelles for many years.
  • all emphasized neutrality in the Cold War, and under his leadership, Tanzania enjoyed friendly relations with both the West and the East.
  • e was a model to Walter Lini, Prime Minister of Vanuatu, whose theories on Melanesian socialism owed much to the ideas he found in Tanzania,
  • the 1977 coup d'etat that ousted the first president of the Seychelles, James Mancham, and replaced him with socialist France-Albert René
sofiemsmith

Fidel Castro History Archive - 1 views

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    SPS
Julia Järtby

Modern History Sourcebook: Juan Domingo Perón: Justicialism - 2 views

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    Juan Domingo Perón is among the most contentious figures in the modern political history of South America. On the one hand, many commentators are prepared to argue that he was a fascist, but others see in Perónism, which long retained the support of the Argentine working class, real elements of a social justice movement combined with severely compromised leadership.
Nicole Caspár

Pearson Education | Hotlinks - 2 views

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    Enter 4280P into the "enter search details" thing and then you'll get access to all links that are relevant to our Cold War history book. 
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