1336 résultats pour "war"

• Enyo (1) Greek A goddess of war, specifically known for sacking cities and towns of the enemy; daughter of Zeus and Hera; depicted as the sister, daughter, or mother of the war god Ares, often included as a companion of Ares when he went into battle.

• Star Wars :

  twins and dies on board Bail Organa's ship. The twins are a boy, Luke, and a girl, Leia. Later, Luke learn by Darth Vader that he is his father. At the end, the dark lord attempted to kill Luke with Force lightning, a sight that moves Vader to turn and kill his master, suffering mortal wounds in the process. Redeemed, Anakin Skywalker dies in his son's arms.  

• American Civil War

  Virginia, Richmond became the Confederacy capitol. However, in June, inhabitants of the West of Virginia created a new state called Western Virginia because they didn’t want to secede so they joined the Union. Moreover, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky, decided to join the Union e ven if they were slave states. The second important battle of this war took place in July 1861 and is the battle of Bull Run. It was a complete success for the Union before the reinforcement of the Conf...

• Odyssey Greek The epic poem by Homer that describes the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

  turn his men back into their human forms. Under her spell, he dallied for a year on the island of the sorceress, who gave him warnings about the perils he would encounter on his way home. Odysseus in the Underworld - Mythology. After suffering under the spell of the witch-goddess Circe for a year, Odysseus and his crew grew restless and wanted to leave. On the advice of Circe, Odysseus and his crew visited the Underworld (1) to consult the ghost of the blind seer Tiresias. Tiresias had many wa...

• Priam Greek King of Troy during the Trojan War, though too old to take an active part in the war.

• Reasons of the first wolrd war

• The New World Order and the first Iraq war

  conduct of nations. When we are successful -- and we will be -- we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.»   Who is the NWO?   The corporate portion of the NWO is dominated by international bankers, oil barons and pharmaceutical cartels, as well as other major multinational corporations. The Royal Family of England, namely Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Wi...

• Berlin, a crucial issue for the USA during the Cold War

  control of the city. The United States responded with an airlift that went on for 300 days, with nearly 2 millions of tons of supplies until Stalin finally backed off and signed an agreement with the other three powers, guaranteeing 3 Western airlifts and roads access to the enclave. Over the 50's decade, West Berlin had grown free and prosperous while East Berlin had stagnated under the Soviet boot. Easterners were emigrating to the West in droves, using West Berlin as their transit point....

• George Lucas George Lucas, born in 1944, American motion-picture director and producer, the guiding force behind the Star Wars movie series.

• Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein (1937-2006), former president of Iraq (1979-2003), who led Iraq into two devastating wars.

• Mars Roman The god of war who, in his earliest forms, was a god of agriculture and prosperity.

• Nerio (Nerine; Neriene; Nerienis; Valor) Roman A traditional and legendary wife of the war god Mars.

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Wars of Religion

• LORD OF WAR (film)

• Fight against war in Vietnam

• World War

  World War One (1914 – 1919) “The Great War” Militarism Imperialism (Competing to build bigger and better armies and navies than rivals) (Getting involved politically and economically in other countries in order to gain wealth and power). European nations had submarines, tanks, gasses, machine guns and airplanes that made warfare more deadly. European nations, in need of raw materials, fought for colonies in Asia & Africa. The MAIN Causes of World War One...

• War Requiem [Benjamin Britten] - analyse de l'oeuvre musicale.

• WAR GAMES

• Vietnam War

  At the beginning, Vietnam had been a French colony before it was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two. After World War Two, it was returned to French control, but many Vietnamese people wanted independence. As a result, in the 1950s, the French found themselves fighting a war against the Viet Minh, an organization dedicated to getting rid of foreign imperialist powers from Vietnam. Worried about the spread of communism in South East Asia, the USA began to financially support the...

• Carol found employment in the bureau of War Risk Insurance

  1. Commentaire dirigé 1) Do you think that Carol's job justifies the phrase': "She felt the whole of a human t?eing" in the last sentence? 2) Are y ou in favour of women working? Why or wh y not? 3) Should ali kinds of work be accessible to women? 2. Version Traduire depuis : "She perceived that she could ... " jusqu'à la fin. 1) Do you think that Carol's job justifies the phrase: "She felt the whole of a human being" in...

• Une courte resume sur l'oeuvre Regeneration ecrite par Pat Barker (TPE)

  -Being emotionless -Hallucinations -Homosexuality -Phobias All of those diseases were treated by a treatment named 'shell-shock' Most of the shell-shock in all wars were used in the World War First. The main idea of this treatment is to cure the soldiers easily and make them return to the war. But how Barker know all of this? How she found all of this ideas and facts? But why this novel is consumed so much? What is the nature of this book? First of all is a truly realistic novel, characters are...

• "Aux vainqueurs la spoliation" - Critique (Anglais)

  Decided by the Allied troops (so de facto by the World War I victors) without consulting Germany, it has heavy consequences on the shaping of a new post-war Europe. Indeed, its article 231 4 held Germany accountable for the war and the country was consequently forced to pay for the reparations caused by the conflict. On top of that, Germany saw its influence limited while its territory was partitioned: in 1914, Germany had...

• irak

           After   the end  of the 1    st      Gulf  War      a mandate  was sent,  it was called  the “United   Nations Security Council Resolution”. This mandate stipulated that all Iraq weapons:   missiles, chemical, biological and nuclear weapons were destroyed. In 1998 the US signed  a political act where  they asked  for a change  in government   in   Iraq.   With   the   Act   the   CIA   spent   8   million   dollars   per   year   to   try   to   remove   Saddam Hussein from power. When ...

• USA in WWI

  II) The United States’ entrance in WWI as decisive fact of the Allies’ victory A] The US in war: role of the US power Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in 1917 by promising peace, but he supported the need for American military engagement in Europe. The United States had already invested materially and financially with the Triple Entente, and its defeat would have cost them dearly. The president was also very attached to democracy, and that is why he opposes the Central powers alongside th...

• Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now, motion picture about the Vietnam War (1959-1975) patterned after Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness (1902).

• Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech In this famous speech, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt lists the unprovoked attacks by Japan and details America's reasons for declaring war.

• Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind, motion-picture epic about a tempestuous Southern belle and the changes in her life due to the American Civil War (1861-1865), based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Mitchell.

  Isabel Jewell (Emmy Slattery)William Stack (Minister)Robert Elliott (Yankee major)George Meeker, Wallis Clark (His poker-playing captains)Irving Bacon (Corporal)Adrian Morris (Carpetbagger orator)J. M. Kerrigan (Johnny Gallagher)Olin Howlin (Yankee businessman)Yakima Canutt (Renegade)Blue Washington (His companion)Ward Bond (Yankee captain Tom)Cammie King (Bonnie Blue Butler)Mickey Kuhn (Beau Wilkes)Lillian Kemble-Cooper (Bonnie's nurse)Si Jenks (Yankee on street)Harry Strang (Tom's aide) Award...

• Winston Churchill I INTRODUCTION Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945, 1951-1955), widely regarded as the greatest British leader of the 20th century.

  sufficient tools to break the stalemate on the western front and he worked on developing armored fighting vehicles (tanks) to break the deadlock and end theslaughter. As the lines hardened on the western front, Churchill focused on a campaign to force open the Dardanelles Strait, controlled by the Ottoman Empire, to give the Allies adirect route to Russia through the Black Sea. Such a move would bring much-needed supplies to the Russian armies and eliminate the Ottomans from the war. Whenthe nav...

• Winston Churchill.

  sufficient tools to break the stalemate on the western front and he worked on developing armored fighting vehicles (tanks) to break the deadlock and end theslaughter. As the lines hardened on the western front, Churchill focused on a campaign to force open the Dardanelles Strait, controlled by the Ottoman Empire, to give the Allies adirect route to Russia through the Black Sea. Such a move would bring much-needed supplies to the Russian armies and eliminate the Ottomans from the war. Whenthe nav...

• Winston Churchill .

  sufficient tools to break the stalemate on the western front and he worked on developing armored fighting vehicles (tanks) to break the deadlock and end theslaughter. As the lines hardened on the western front, Churchill focused on a campaign to force open the Dardanelles Strait, controlled by the Ottoman Empire, to give the Allies adirect route to Russia through the Black Sea. Such a move would bring much-needed supplies to the Russian armies and eliminate the Ottomans from the war. Whenthe nav...

• All but war !

• Sir Robert Borden.

  of the British Empire, Laurier proposed creating a Canadian navy that in case of war could be incorporated into the British navy. The plan was opposed by theConservatives, who thought that Canada should simply provide ships for the British navy. The Québec nationalists also opposed the plan because they did not wantCanada either to participate in the British navy or to have a navy of its own. At the last moment before election day in 1911 it looked as if the Liberals might win. The government ne...

• Sir Robert Borden - Canadian History.

  of the British Empire, Laurier proposed creating a Canadian navy that in case of war could be incorporated into the British navy. The plan was opposed by theConservatives, who thought that Canada should simply provide ships for the British navy. The Québec nationalists also opposed the plan because they did not wantCanada either to participate in the British navy or to have a navy of its own. At the last moment before election day in 1911 it looked as if the Liberals might win. The government ne...

• Bosnia and Herzegovina - country.

  Serb military campaigns in 1992 and 1993 and Croat campaigns in 1993 and 1995 were aimed at expelling others from areas claimed by these groups. By the end ofthe war almost all non-Serbs had been expelled from Serb-claimed lands in eastern and northern Bosnia, and non-Croats from Croat-claimed lands in southwesternBosnia. In turn, most non-Muslims had left land under Muslim control in northwestern Bosnia. The largest cities had mixed populations in 1991, but the war and its aftermath made them a...

• Arab-Israeli Conflict.

  the Suez Canal and in 1951 blockaded the Strait of Tiran (Israel’s access to the Red Sea), which Israel regarded as an act of war. In June 1956 Egypt nationalized theSuez Canal, which had been jointly owned by Britain and France. In late October, Israel invaded the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, defeating Egyptian forces there.Britain and France attacked Egypt a few days later. Although the fighting was brief and Israel eventually withdrew from the Sinai and Gaza, the conflict furtherexacerbate...

• Arab-Israeli Conflict - History.

  the Suez Canal and in 1951 blockaded the Strait of Tiran (Israel’s access to the Red Sea), which Israel regarded as an act of war. In June 1956 Egypt nationalized theSuez Canal, which had been jointly owned by Britain and France. In late October, Israel invaded the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, defeating Egyptian forces there.Britain and France attacked Egypt a few days later. Although the fighting was brief and Israel eventually withdrew from the Sinai and Gaza, the conflict furtherexacerbate...

• Russische Revolution (1917) - Geschichte.

  Befehl Nr. 1. Dieser Befehl wies die Soldaten und Matrosen an, sich in allen politischen Angelegenheiten dem Sowjet und seinen Ausschüssen unterzuordnen, nur die Befehle zu befolgen, die den Weisungen des Sowjets nicht widersprachen, und Ausschüsse zu wählen, die die ausschließliche Verfügungsgewalt über die Waffen hatten. DieDisziplin der Truppen sollte natürlich gewahrt werden; aber die bislang übliche harte und erniedrigende Behandlung der Mannschaften durch die Offiziere wurde verboten,die...

• Vladimir Lenin I INTRODUCTION Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

  with Japan ( see Russo-Japanese War). A string of military defeats and the strains placed on society by the war made for a tense atmosphere in Saint Petersburg, and by the beginning of 1905 various segments of Russian society, including students and liberal members of the nobility, were calling for political reform. When an unarmedcrowd of workers marched to the city’s Winter Palace on January 9 (or January 22, in the Western, or New Style, calendar) to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas II,s...

• Vladimir Lenin.

  with Japan ( see Russo-Japanese War). A string of military defeats and the strains placed on society by the war made for a tense atmosphere in Saint Petersburg, and by the beginning of 1905 various segments of Russian society, including students and liberal members of the nobility, were calling for political reform. When an unarmedcrowd of workers marched to the city’s Winter Palace on January 9 (or January 22, in the Western, or New Style, calendar) to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas II,s...

• Vladimir Lenin .

  with Japan ( see Russo-Japanese War). A string of military defeats and the strains placed on society by the war made for a tense atmosphere in Saint Petersburg, and by the beginning of 1905 various segments of Russian society, including students and liberal members of the nobility, were calling for political reform. When an unarmedcrowd of workers marched to the city’s Winter Palace on January 9 (or January 22, in the Western, or New Style, calendar) to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas II,s...

• Kommunismus - Politik.

  Entwicklung des Kapitalismus abgewartet werden müsse, bevor der Aufbau einer sozialistischen Gesellschaft beginnen könne, die später in den Kommunismus übergehe.Sie gingen davon aus, dass die Zeit für eine kommunistische Revolution reif war, die sich über die ganze Welt ausbreiten würde. Diese Revolution sollte den Kapitalismusaufheben und in einen sozialistischen Staat münden, keinen kommunistischen, der ja nach Marx einen Widerspruch in sich selbst darstellen würde. Aus diesem Grundnannten sic...

• British Empire .

  B1 The Seven Years’ War During the Seven Years’ War in Europe (1756-1763), Britain made large imperial gains at the expense of France. The North American segment of the Seven Years’ Warwas known as the French and Indian War. It was launched by the British against French possessions in North America in 1754, and in 1758 the British captured theFrench fortress of Louisbourg, which gave them access to French territory in the St. Lawrence Valley. In the following year Québec was captured, marking t...

• Army. I INTRODUCTION Army, military land forces of a nation, assembled, drilled, disciplined,

  disappearance for several centuries of large standing armies in Europe. A Middle Ages Feudalism was based on a concept of local defense, each baron or landowner governing land that had been given him by the king, and each lord having his ownpersonal protective forces recruited from among men who worked for him. In return, each lord and his men were pledged to annual service to the monarch and couldbe called on in special instances, as in the defense of Christendom during the Crusades. National...

• Renaissancekunst.

  2.3 Die zweite Künstlergeneration In den folgenden Jahrzehnten wurden die für die Renaissancekunst typischen Neuerungen wie perspektivische und Landschaftsdarstellung, neue Figurenauffassung undminutiös geplante Bildkompositionen weiterentwickelt und verfeinert. In Florenz beschäftigten sich Künstler wie Antonio Pollaiuolo und Andrea del Verrocchio anhand vonStudien am lebenden Modell mit der komplizierten Anatomie des Menschen. Sie fanden ihren Niederschlag in Bildern wie Pollaiuolos Martyriu...

• Civil Rights Movement in the United States - U.

  The Great Depression of the 1930s increased black protests against discrimination, especially in Northern cities. Blacks protested the refusal of white-owned businessesin all-black neighborhoods to hire black salespersons. Using the slogan “Don't Buy Where You Can't Work,” these campaigns persuaded blacks to boycott thosebusinesses and revealed a new militancy. During the same years, blacks organized school boycotts in Northern cities to protest discriminatory treatment of blackchildren. The bla...

• Warfare.

  organizations as the League of Nations in 1920 and the United Nations in 1945, and détente (suggested for scaling down the cold war). See Arms Control. Modern antiwar sentiment and organized peace movements are derived in large part from the beliefs of religious sects such as the Society of Friends and the MennoniteChurch. The first peace societies in history were established in the U.S. in 1815, and since then pacifists have actively opposed wars and conscription, and promoted thecause of con...

• American Revolution.

  C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...

• American Revolution - U.

  C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...

• Österreichischer Film.

  6 DER NACHKRIEGSFILM Am 27. April 1945 bekam Österreich seine Selbständigkeit zurück. Auf die wiedererlangte Freiheit reagierte das österreichische Kino jedoch nicht mit neuen Ideen. In denNachkriegsjahren wurden vor allem Reise- und Heimatfilme produziert, durch die sich die Bewohner der zerbombten Städte an einem Stück heiler Welt erfreuen konnten.Als erster Wien-Film nach dem 2. Weltkrieg wurde 1946 unter der Regie von Geza von Cziffra Glaube an mich gedreht, eine sentimentale Liebesgeschi...

• Richard Nixon.

  As President Eisenhower neared the end of his second term, his vice president emerged as his logical successor, and the president endorsed Nixon in March. Nixonreceived an impressive vote in party primaries, and at the Republican National Convention, held in Chicago in July, he received all but ten of the delegates’ votes on thefirst ballot. Nixon chose as his running mate the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. An unusual feature of the campaign wasa serie...