Essays Tagged: "Nationalist Movement"

Indonesia

in 1945 and fought the Dutch until 1949 when they gave up their control.At first, the Dutch allowed nationalist movement to delevope. In 1905, it had introduced municipal councils to govern the towns ...

(3 pages) 229 2 4.1 Nov/1992

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

An Informative Essay on the life and accomplishments of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Discusses also Civil Disobedience.

on. Nothing could change his convictions. This combination of traits made him the leader of India's nationalist movement. Some observers called him a master politician. Others believed him a saint. To ...

(3 pages) 106 0 3.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Origins of the First World War

e assassinated while on an official visit to Sarajevo. The group responsible for this was a Serbian Nationalist movement which had ties with the Serbian government. The Austrian government saw this as ...

(3 pages) 98 0 4.3 Oct/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Ghandi and the salvatage

Born in 1869 and raised in Gujarat, Mohandas Gandhi was one of the foremost men to help lead the nationalist movement. Gandhi is probably the best known proponent of passive resistance and this ide ...

(2 pages) 45 0 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

"Nationalism was probably the most important cause of unification". Discuss with reference to Germany.

federation of the Rhine and helped to promote among the Germans an idea of German nationality. This nationalist movement pushed the liberal-nationalists to do something for their country, and this cau ... nationalism, they laid the idea of a united state with persisted in the hearts and minds of liberal-nationalists.There are other factors that cause the German unification. The growth of liberalism ...

(3 pages) 92 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

The Domino Theory in Relation to the Vietnam War

The struggle for Vietnam in the middle of the twentieth century came from a long rooted nationalist movement that had Vietnam pitted against itself. The North Vietnamese led by Ho Chi Minh ...

(7 pages) 119 1 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

The Laurier Era

Alaska Boundary Dispute.The Boer War was the first event to, in reality, launch the French Canadian Nationalist Movement because Quebec was inherently against fighting a war for England. Troops were s ... nor national independence."The Bill was met by opposition from both English imperialists and French nationalists. The former, finding voice in Robert Borden, denounced it as a treasonable act to offer ...

(4 pages) 49 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Nationalism in Iran

eople. Some people resorted to violence but most of the conflict was political.A growing Iranian nationalist movement called for self-determination, control over Iranian oil, and fair elections. Th ... self-determination, control over Iranian oil, and fair elections. The most widely known lead of the nationalist movement was Iran's Prime Minister Mosaddeq, who attempted to seize control of oil produ ...

(2 pages) 102 1 4.8 Jul/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

Manchukuo and World War II.

rights and interests in Manchuria and other regions of China against a new, more aggressive Chinese nationalist movement. Because the Chinese nationalists cooperated for a time with the Chinese Commun ... e Kuomintang, refused to halt construction of railway and harbor facilities, referring Japan to the Nationalist central government. On September 18, 1931, officers of Japan's Kwangtung Army destroyed ...

(4 pages) 16 0 3.7 Jan/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Mahmood Mamdani - "When Victims Become Killers" - A discussion on identity in Rwanda

have a strong hold on the entire population. It was this class segregation that directly led to the nationalist movement between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda between 1959 and the genocide of 1994.Mahm ...

(2 pages) 20 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Race Matters Not

ists out of the blacks. He elaborates this point by critiquing Afrocentricism, a contemporary black nationalist movement which fails to discuss the right topics vixen. racial problems: white anxieties ...

(3 pages) 52 1 3.5 Aug/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

How did Hitler Gain Support Up to 1923?

taneously, he is viewed as the leader who led the Nazi party to victory and defeat, and brought the nationalist movement together. In today’s world, Hitler remains to be regarded as an enigmatic ...

(4 pages) 2979 0 3.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Early resistance to british na

also says that humanity is naturally divided into nations. But this concept is rather revealing the nationalist way of thinking because a quick look in the past is enough to show that the independence ... in a theory has proved to be a difficult task.An historical case of the nationalism problem is the nationalist movement in India. Indians celebrated 50 years of independence from British rule in Augu ...

(13 pages) 34 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Iran, Iraq and Nigeria Contrast

opinion I would say it was firstly “The Constitutional Revolution of 1906”, secondly The Nationalist Revolt of 1951-53, and lastly “The Islamic Revolution of 1978-79”. All these t ... uld be dictated (Wikepedia.org). Another step in trying to establish Democracy in Iran would be the Nationalist Movement in 1951-1953. Out of this movement a charismatic figure named Mohammad Mossadeg ...

(10 pages) 31 1 3.7 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Nationalism Leading To World War I - Faizan Sadiq

mericans dualism on the United Nations during the cold war. In Germany the old rulers repressed the nationalist movement ( mainly student and professors) after 1815. The German princes realized that n ...

(2 pages) 14 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Latin American History from 1950 Onwards: Focusing on The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara, and The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman

terate country in Latin America, however, as in other Latin American countries, it was witnessing a nationalist movement. Before in the 1930's the Argentine military controlled the political spectrum ... . The Peronist movement as it was known in Buenos Aires was a movement led by Juan Peron, who was a nationalist army officer. When he won power in 1946, the county rapidly unionized industrially due t ...

(7 pages) 20 0 5.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

'It was not the weakness of the nationalists but the strengths of the colonial rulers that led to the failure of the nationalist movements in SEA before WWII.' How far is this true?

On the eve of World War II, despite much effort, the nationalist movements were unable to make any headway and failed. The failure of the nationalist mov ... headway and failed. The failure of the nationalist movements can be attributed to various factors. Nationalist organizations were saddled by disunity and the failure to win mass support. On top of th ... eakness of the nationalists, external factors including the complex demographic makeup hindered the nationalist in achieving success. Most crucially, the colonial rulers proved to be a force too formi ...

(12 pages) 21 0 0.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History