CHRISTOPHER SHEA
1919 The Treaty ofVersaillesends World War I 1929 USstock market crashes, initiatingthe Great Depression 1931 The Empire State Building is completed 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes thefirst woman to fly solo across theAtlantic Ocean 更多全部 音频列表 ...
'I FEAR THERE WILL COME a time when the only people Germany can rely on are the Christians. And there are only a few of those', wrote my grandfather in despair, seventy years ago. Where were the Christians during the Third Reich? remains a burning question. My grandfather, Dietrich Karst...
He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a non-fission nuclear reactor in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb. Szilard initially attended Palatine Joseph Technical ...
Over the next 6 years, Hitler undertook a series of measures to rid Germany of its obligations that were put in place by the Treaty of Versailles (imposed on Germany after World War I), he would try to restore the economy, which had been devastated by the Great Depression, rearm the cou...
Within a year of its publication in 1920, Keynes’ book became a bestseller that strongly influenced public opinion that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair. As the political and economic turmoil of the 1930s fueled the rise of fascism that exploded into World War II, Keynes’ early warnings ...
1919 The Treaty ofVersaillesends World War I 1929 USstock market crashes, initiatingthe Great Depression 1931 The Empire State Building is completed 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes thefirst woman to fly solo across theAtlantic Ocean 更多全部 音频列表 ...
That year, Marie was on the verge of making history—again.She was nominated to become the first woman member of the French Academy of Sciences. Was France ready to treat women equally? There were strong feelings on both sides. Many newspapers wrote angry articles about it. They thought ...