Ancient history. Prehistory. Classical antiquity.
Post-classical history.
Modern history. Early modern period. Late modern period. Contemporary history.
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"John (“Jack”) Reed wasn’t looking backward to the French Revolution or even the Paris Commune when he chronicled the seizure of power of the Russian Revolution of 1917. As a 30-year-old independent radical journalist, he was looking at it with fresh eyes. What he saw was not just the overthrow of a repressive monarchist oligarchy and its attendant bourgeois class, but a vast democratic, majoritarian movement based on “soviets,” or councils, made up of workers, soldiers, and peasants. Although he had been embedded in Pancho Villa’s rebel army in Mexico and covered Industrial Workers of the World strikes in New Jersey and miners’ struggles in Colorado, it was witnessing the cataclysmic events in Russia that confirmed him as a revolutionary."-Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
It was to pay down their war debts from fighting the French in the Seven Years' War.
It is the United States’ policy of asserting its full
authority over the American continent in 1823. It further states that any attempt
at colonization by European countries on lands in North and South America will
be viewed as an act of aggression by the U.S. government and will be a cause
for intervention.
