After the War

The “containment” policy was created by the Truman’s administration; it had been formulated in 1947 by George Kennan. It meant blocking the expansion of the East but not attempting to roll back its borders, which was what the USA tried later on. Kennan believed therefore that containment would be sufficient because he argued that time was on the side of the West, and that the USSR would one day self-destruct and collapse. Many examples of the policy of Containment can be observed during the 1940’s

Dalloway-Virginia Woolf. The author: Virginia Woolf is an English Novelist who was born in 1882 in an upper-middle-class family in London. she was educated at home and read books from her father’s library. But after her mother’s death, she suffered from severe depression for the rest of her life. Her first novel, The voyage out, was published in 1915. During the next few years, Woolf wrote several novels, a collection of short stories and essays. Woolf criticizes the realistic Victorian novel

Franco-British relationship During the first millennium there was little interaction between the two regions as both Britain and France were invaded by different Germany tribes. Mid eleventh century: French Normans invaded England under William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy and king of England from 1066 to his death) Victory of the William’s army against the Anglo Saxon army at Hastings in 1066. England was ruled from France, the language of the aristocracy was French; England was officially

WEAPONS. GIORDANO ERIC APRIL 2004 SUMMARY Introduction. Page 5 I) History of depleted uranium ammunition. Page 6 a) The birth of nuclear arsenal. Page 6 b) Origin of depleted uranium. Page 6 c) A solution to dispose of the stocks of DU. Page 7 d) The apparition of DU on the front. Page 7 II) Effects of depleted uranium. Page 8 a) Properties of depleted uranium. Page 8 b) Environmental risks.

Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen nous allons vous présenter une chanson de bruce Springsteen qui s'intitule born in the usa, publié en 1984 elle est la première chanson de son septième album qui connaitra alors un succès fou Bruce Springsteen est né le 23 septembre 1949 à Long Branch (New Jersey),enfant il découvre Elvis Presley et tombe fou amoureux de la musique il ne souhaite faire que cela, son entrée dans le monde du rock lui vaudra le surnom de the boss il révélera que Elvis Presley

which the means of production are privately owned and operated for a private profit; decisions regarding supply, demand, price, distribution, and investments are made by private actors in the free market; profit is distributed to owners who invest in businesses, and wages are paid to workers employed by businesses and companies. Cold war : Was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition existing after World War II (1939–1945) between the Communist

Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen I would like to present you the song Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen. Born in the USA was written in 1981 for a movie proposed by Paul Schrader. It's one of the most famous track of the artist. Bruce made this track just after the vietnam war to denounce the war and the Reagan's politic which ignores the American middle-class, first victims of the crisis. It has been composed by bruce springsteen in 1981 for the first time and published october 30, 1984

American author and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature, John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr., was born in Salinas, Calif., on February 27, 1902. He died on Dec. 20th, 1968. He based most of his novels on the American experience, often with sympathetic focus on the poor, the eccentric, or the dispossessed. Early Life and Works Steinbeck grew up in Salinas Valley, a rich agricultural area of Monterey County and the setting of many of his works, where he learned firsthand of the difficulties of farm laborers

India before the British colonization Portuguese India Vasco da Gama (1498) Vasco de Gama was the first to discover a sea road in 1498. He landed in Calicut in the present-day Indian state of Kerala. At that time there were already Arab merchants and they disagreed to let “Vasco da Gama” stay there. Francisco de Almeida (1505-1509) On March 1505, Francisco de Almeida was appointed “Viceroy of India”. There were only one condition for him, he would set up four forts in south India coast:

responsibility for the outbreak of WWI? At 11:15 am, on June 28th 1914 in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his morganatic wife, Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg were shot dead by a Serbian student called Gavrilo Princip. After sending a ultimatum, Austria-Hungry declared war on Serbia on July 28th . This event caused a series of war declarations. Russia, Serbia’s protector declared war to Austria-Hungry. Germany, Austria-Hungary’s ally went to war against Russia. Germany