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The Treaty of Versailles [i] was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers.
Location of Forest of Argonne in northeastern France Forest of Argonne in 1915 Forest of Argonne in a valley near Chatel-Chéhéry, France, where Sgt. Henry Johnson, known after his heroic battle as the Black Death, and Sgt. Alvin C. York fought in World War I U.S. soldiers in the Argonne Forest resting in a trench, 1918
[77] [80] In Speeches to the German Nation (1808), written amid the First French Empire's occupation of Berlin during the Napoleonic Wars, Fichte called for a German national revolution against the French Imperial Army occupiers, making passionate public speeches, arming his students for battle against the French and stressing the need for ...
Black political power was eliminated in the 1880s, and in the 1890s new laws effectively blocked over 90% of the Black people from voting (with some exceptions in Tennessee; Black people did vote in the border states).
By that time, Mao had begun saying that the "continued revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat" stipulated that class enemies continued to exist even though the socialist revolution seemed to be complete, leading to the Cultural Revolution in which millions were persecuted and killed. [36]
Gavrilo Princip was born on 25 July [O.S. 13 July] 1894, [1] [2] in the remote hamlet of Obljaj, near Bosansko Grahovo, in western Bosnia. [3]At the time of his birth, Bosnia was administered by Austria-Hungary, while still formally a province of the Ottoman Empire. [4]
It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The main organization ceased operations on 18 April 1946 when many of its components were relocated into the new United Nations. As the template for modern global governance, the League profoundly shaped the modern world.
Stephen Lucas called the Declaration of Independence "one of the best-known sentences in the English language." [7] Historian Joseph Ellis has written that the document contains "the most potent and consequential words in American history". [8] The passage came to represent a moral standard to which the United States should strive.