What was the first world war fought over? What war was called the Great War? Which country began the attacks in the Six Day War? What two countries were weakened by the Napoloeonic Wars? What was the Seven Years' War? Who was involved in this war and what were they fighting over?
The Opium War of 1839-1842 resulted in what? What was a result of the Second Opium War? What weapons were used in the Opium Wars? What two countries fought in the Opium Wars? Who won the Opium War? Who did Russia side with in the Opium Wars?
When Charles IV, King of France, died in 1328, the King of England Edward III held claim to the throne because his mother was the sister of Charles IV and because Charles IV had no sons. Another claimant (要求权利的人) Philip VI, the head of the Valois House (瓦罗亚王室),gained the...
As one of the earliest major cases of military intervention, theOpium Warswere two wars waged in China between theQing dynastyand forces of Western countries in the mid-19th century. The first Opium War (1839 to 1842) was fought between Britain and China, while the second Opium War (1856 ...
It was here that Lin Zexu, a famous patriot, the loyal minister of the imperial court in Qing Dynasty who fought the opium trade, lived in exile after being sacked. Lin left to us the famous poem that “I shall dedicate myself to the interests of the country in life and death, irresp...
But the grey man could also be the Prussian solder in Tommy's visions. He was Tommy's first kill, and can very well be seen as a symbol for the retribution Tommy has had coming for a while. As Ruby draws images of the man with the green eyes from her first vision, Tommy tells Ja...
Rahman. The film is an adaptation of the movie The Golden Child and has borrowed subplots from Bloodsport and The Blind Fury. It was mostly shot at Palakkad in Kerala and Nepal. A sequel titled Yodha 2 has been planned, which hypes A.R. Rahman's second venture in the Malayalam film ...
theworld.From1931to1945,whentheSecondWorldWarbrokeout,JapaninvadedChinaagain.AndtheChinesepeoplefoughtbloodybattlesandlaunchedanationalwaragainstJapaneseaggression.After14yearsofanti-Japanesewar,Chinawonavictory,andthePeople'sRepublicofChinawasfounded,whichopenedChinesenewchapter.Thinking1:ReadthebriefhistoryofChinaand...
And while America remained racked by the Great Depression under Franklin Rosenfeld, part-Jewish via both his father and mother (she was the daughter of Warren Delano, a descendant of sephardic jews and an opium dealer), under Adolf Hitler Germany began eliminating the Jewish middle man, and tur...
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757, under the leadership