Northwestern Europe but mainly the German Irish
His results gave the first evidence that atoms were made of smaller particles. Specially, he proved the existence of negatively charged sub-atomic particles known as electrons.
East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia resisted Soviet control despite being a communist nation
Explanation:
- Khrushchev's policy of "coexistence" with the West did not mean that he was willing to recognize the peace settlement in Germany.
- he was determined to change it in favor of the Soviet Union and its East German satellite
- The Western powers refused the plan because the abolition of the U.S. "nuclear umbrella" would not leave NATO forces.
- both the Soviet and East German governments still continued to achieve the goal of a united, Germany under communist control.
- there was also a significant increase in academic and cultural contacts with the West.
Answer:
(i) First, it is important to remember the context. America was in the midst of a bloody civil war. Union troops had only recently defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Gettysburg. It was a the turning point in the war. The stated purpose of Lincoln’s speech was to dedicate a plot of land that would become Soldier’s National Cemetery. However, Lincoln realized that he also had to inspire the people to continue the fight.
Below is the text of the Gettysburg Address, interspersed with my thoughts on what made it so memorable.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
“Four score and seven” is much more poetic, much more elegant, much more noble than “Eighty-seven”. The United States had won its freedom from Britain 87 years earlier, embarking on the “Great Experiment”.
(ii) The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment brought about by the Civil War were important milestones in the long process of ending legal slavery in the United States. This essay describes the development of those documents through various drafts by Lincoln and others and shows both the evolution of Abraham Lincoln’s thinking and his efforts to operate within the constitutional boundaries of the presidency.
