World War I

While serving during World War I, he reached the rank of captain but was wounded several times. In 1916, he was captured by the German Army at Douaumont in the Battle of Verdun. He was released after the Armistice. He received in July 1919 “la Croix de Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur”. After the war,he continued to serve in the army. He participated in the war between Poland and Communist Russia. He married Yvonne Vendroux on 7th April 1921.They had three children. When World War II broke out, de

life’-and ‘all for just a word, neutrality, just a scrap of paper!’ ». Certains dirigeants d’Angleterre ne voulaient pas aller en guerre : « He through himself on the sofa and, with his head in his hands, said : ‘I have just resigned from the chairmanship. A man who has opposed our entrance into the war cannot lead a party that is going to support it.’». L’Allemagne a envahit la Belgique pendant le matin du 4 août 1914. Les soldats allemands ont commis des crimes de guerre atroces sur la population belge

were executed in the World War One. You can see that these crosses are arranged in arcs of circle and that in the middle, there is a statue witch represents a soldier. This statue is modelled on the Private Herbert Burden who was court-martialled for desertion. - In fact, my name is Herbert Burden. I was enlisted at the age of 16. I lied on my age to serve my country. So, I could join the Northnumberland Fusiliers and fight in the War. I was executed for desertion because I was leaving his past

terrorism ever be justified? I-When a message must to passed, it’s must to be radical. II-the terrorism it’s the new style of war. In the History, a lot of people must resist to an aggressive idea, an aggressive organisation or state. As an example, during the World War Two, according to the French government of Vichy, the Resistance fighters were terrorists. In order to oppose to the oppression, they sabotaged rails, destroyed building, killed people, … I- First of all, the terrorism

Andrew Cohen – While Canada slept: How we lost our place in the world Andrew Cohen is journalist and professor. He worked for the Financial Post and for the Globe and Mail. He is now teaching journalism and international affairs at Carleton University. In his 2002 book While Canada slept: How we lost our place in the world, he describes the decline of Canada in the world and its challenges for the future. He thinks today’s Canadian international Policy is to be reviewed. Its budget shall be raised

of fascism was its character as a secular religion which affirms the primacy of the nation understood as an organic and ethnically homogenous community. Moreover, this nation was to be hierarchically organized in a corporativist state endowed with a war-mongering vocation that searches for a politics of national expansion, potency and conquest. Fascism, in short, was not a mere reactionary ideology. Rather, fascism aimed at creating a new order and a new civilization.3 The word fascism derives from

Once before the war, Eric had just arrived home, heavy heart, full of ideals, appalled that the world was collapsing before his eyes. Father sat down on the big Victorian sofa, offered a cigar to Eric who refused and lit his Lucky Strike: “- We got to talk about the future. - Yes, there will be a war, definitely. - I meant: your future. It stares you in the face: that’s not what you wanted to be: a hobo. You are intended to make big things, you know it. I moved heaven and earth to make you

Acc World 2009-2010 Mr. Burrell The Interwar Era of the 1920s & 1930s Objective: 1. Understand the economics and political disorder that resulted from the end of World War I 2. Describe the Rise of the Soviet Union and Stalin’s policies 3. Explain the rise of the Nazi party and Hitler’s domination of Germany 4. Describe Mussolini and the Fascist takeover of Italy 5. Understand the shifts in governmental policies of France and Britain 6. Detail the causes and effects of the depression in Europe

1930s to the 1940s he worked with Robert Piguet until being called up for military service. In 1942, having left the Army, Dior joined the fashion house of Lucien Lelong, where he and Pierre Balmain were the primary designers. For the duration of World War II, Christian Dior dressed the wives of the Nazi officers and French collaborators. On 16 December 1946 Dior founded his own fashion house, backed by Marcel Boussac, the cotton-fabric magnate. The actual name of the line of his first collection

The rise and characteristics of totalitarianism in Nazi Germany in the inter-war period Come to power thanks to the support of the Germans and to the context of crisis, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party quickly set up a dictatorial regime turned towards the preparation of a new European war and the implementation of the theories exposed in Mein Kampf. To realize these objectives, the Nazis create a State at the same time totalitarian and racist. How did Hitler succeed in making of Germany a totalitarian