Hitler invaded (or tried to) invade Stalingrad because it was a large factorial city near the Caucuses which had large oil fields. Capturing it would be a heavy blow to Soviet morale because Stalingrad was named after Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union.
January 1st, 1863. Title: President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. ... Summary: A print based on David Gilmour Blythe's fanciful painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. Contrary to the title, the proclamation was issued in 1862 and went into effect in January 1863.
A major difference is that many Asian nations went into isolationism so the Europeans couldn't spread Christianity to them, but the Africans sold people of kingdoms they had conquered as slaves to the Europeans.
<span>The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement, became one of the movement’s more radical branches. In the wake of the early sit-ins at lunch counters closed to blacks, which started in February 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Ella Baker, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), helped set up the first meeting of what became SNCC. She was concerned that SCLC, led by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was out of touch with younger blacks who wanted the movement to make faster progress. Baker encouraged those who formed SNCC to look beyond integration to broader social change and to view King’s principle of nonviolence more as a political tactic than as a way of life.</span>
