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MacKenzie McGaha
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Sinn Fein
Members of Sinn Fein--a militant group begun in 1905 by Irish Catholics--proclaimed Ireland a republic with themselves as its head, and Sinn Fein supporters and other Irish nationalists waged a guerrilla war against British troops. The passage of the Home Rule Bill divided Ireland into two sections.
Sinn Fein is the oldest political movement in Ireland!
Sinn Fein is a number of organizations that all share the same name. -
Women's Sufferage
Pankhurst's most important work began with this founding of the WSPU.She defied politicians by disrupting party rallies, marching and smashing store windows, and going on hunger strikes when jailed. In 1918, Parliament voted women age 30 or older the right to vote, and in 1928 voting age was lowered to 21 years old.
In 1999 Pankhurst was named one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.
Pankhurst was introduced to womens sufferage at only age 8! -
Trench Warfare
Since recent wars had been small-scale conflicts, a generation of patriotic young British men eagerly enlisted to fight Germany when war broke out; however, trench warfare was a new reality, and by war's end 908,000 men from the British Empire had been killed.
The defender almost always had the advantage.
Attacks often ended in severe casualty, even when successful. -
Mansfield
With the publication of this book, Mansfield achieved front rank among British authors. Exclusively a writer of short stories, Mansfield had a style that was unique at the time, emphasizing subtlety and small but telling insights over broad plot developments. Mansfield suffered several personal tragedies in her short, 35-year life, and her death from tuberculosis in 1923 silenced a potentially masterful hand. -
Art Deco Architecture
The term Art Deco derives from the name of a Paris exhibit: the Exposition Internatinale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes. This style is marked by geometric shapes and smooth lines suggesting elegance and sophistication. New York City's Empire State Building is a famous example of Art Deco architecture. What year is this?
Art Deco first appeared in France after WWI, it flourished in the 1920s.
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Edward VIII
Edward VIII became the subject of one of the most popular love stories of the 20th century. After becoming king in 1936, he announced his intention to marry an American divorcee. With the woman he loved, Edward VIII (1894-1972) lived out his days known as the duke of Windsor.
Edward was the eldest son of King George V and Queen Mary.
He served in the British Armed Forces and went on several oversea tours. -
Winston Churchill
To combat despair brought on Britons almost daily German air attacks, prime minister Winston Churchill used stirring words to rally the people to stand defiant. He declared that Britain would "wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all our strength that God can give us...against monstrous tyranny."
He was greatly regarded as one of the best war time leaders.
Churchill was the first person to be made and honorary citizen of the United States. -
Chinese Revolution
China's Qing Dynasty was slow to modernize and underestimated the nationalism sweeping China after the unsuccessful Boxer Rebellion against foreign interference in Chinese affairs. Sun Yixian and his revolutionary alliance threw out China's last emperor, and the country went through a prolonged period of political turmoil until the Communists achieved supremacy in 1949.
The Qing Dynasty ruled from 1644 to 1912.
It formed the basis for the modern Chinese state. -
T.S. Eliot
Eliot blurred his national identification by becoming a British citizen. However, the St. Louis-born, Harvard-educated poet early on "was English in everything but accent and citizenship" according to his college classmates. "He smoked a pipe, liked to be alone, carefully avoided slang, and dressed the studied carelessness of a dandy.
Eliot was born in Missouri to a yankee family.
He renounced his American Citizenship to be named a British subject. -
Cold War
Winston Churchill coined the phrase "iron curtain" as he warned of the threat posed by the Soviet Union, which a year earlier had been an ally in the defeat of Hitler. The United States quickly took the lead in containing communism's post-war expansion, and this Cold War became a fact of international life for the next 45 years.
It is called the cold war because there was no real violence between the two sides.
It spawned technological competitions such as the Space Race. -
George Orwell
George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Blair, carried a lifelong "horror of politics" and concern for human freedom. This was transferred in his writings into two landmark books, Animal Farm and 1984, the former bitterly predicting the downfall of communism and the latter warning of what he saw as a trend toward totalitarian dominance by governments.
George Orwell was a pen name, his real name was Eric Arthur Blair.
He is best known for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. -
Ulysses
Initially judged obscene, early editions subjected to confiscation and book burning, long banned in England and the United States, Ulysses found its exalted stature confirmed in controversy in 1998 when it was chosen the best English-language novel of the 20th century by an editorial board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House publishers.
Ulysses has been described as mad, but also as work of a genious.
The novel is about 265,000 words in length.
