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The Reichstag Election May 1924
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The Reichstag Election May 1924
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Known as the ‘inflation election’, the second Reichstag elections of 4 May 1924 resulted in a minority coalition, composed of the DVP (German People’s Party), Centre (Zentrum) Party and DDP (German Democratic Party). The election came in the wake of a period of intense hyperinflation (1921–23), when the German mark... More
The Reichstag Election May 1928
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The Reichstag Election May 1928
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Four years of economic recovery consolidated the position of the democrats in the Reichstag elections held on 20 May 1928. The SPD (Social Democrats) were the clear victors, with 29.8 per cent of the vote and 153 Reichstag seats. By aligning with the Centre (Zentrum) Party, the DDP (German Democratic... More
The Reichstag Election November 1932
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The Reichstag Election November 1932
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Chancellor Franz von Papen, who was governing by legislative decree, dissolved parliament in September 1932 in order to pre-empt a motion of no confidence from the Communists, which would have been supported by the National Socialists (Nazis). The elections of 6 November 1932 were the last democratic national election until... More
The Reichstag Election September 1930
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The Reichstag Election September 1930
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The Great Depression of 1929 had led to widespread poverty and hardship throughout Germany, resulting in the radicalisation of the electorate. The cabinet of Heinrich Brüning was governing by emergency presidential decree and the elections of 14 September 1930 were called in the hope of gaining parliamentary backing. However, the... More
The Right to Vote in the USA 1958–1967
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The Right to Vote in the USA 1958–1967
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (1870) asserts a citizen’s right to ‘vote... cannot be denied… on account of race, colour or previous condition of servitude’. Almost a century later, this was still ‘honoured more in the breach than the observance’ in the American South. Despite Civil Rights Acts... More
The Rise of Prussia 1411–1618
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The Rise of Prussia 1411–1618
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The Prussian state, which would dominate 19th-century Europe, had its origins in some mutual diplomatic backscratching in the Holy Roman Empire, over 400 years earlier. In 1411, Frederick VI of Nuremberg was rewarded with the plum seat of Prince Elector of Brandenburg for supporting Sigismund of Hungary in obtaining the... More
The Schleswig–Holstein Question 1864
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The Schleswig–Holstein Question 1864
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The duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were located between Denmark and Prussia and had, for much of their history, been dynastically interlinked, and within the gift of the Danish Crown. However, the rules of succession in Schleswig prescribed only male heirs could inherit. When the childless Frederick VII became king... More
The Second Macedonian War 202 BCE
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The Second Macedonian War 202 BCE
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The Second Macedonian War in 202 BCE was between Macedonia and Rome. Philip V of Macedonia began laying siege to the Greek city-states in the Aegean, having formed an alliance with Antiochus III of the Seleucid Empire. Both Philip V and Antiochus III were keen to expand their empires and... More
The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe 1949–68
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The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe 1949–68
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Stalin demanded a Soviet ‘sphere of influence’ in eastern Europe at the 1945 Yalta Conference and, thereafter, set about the systematic imposition of Soviet control through Communist one party rule, economic integration (via the institution of Comecon), and military integration (through membership of the Warsaw Pact). In practice, subservience to... More
The Spread of Jim Crow Laws in the South 1890–1909
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The Spread of Jim Crow Laws in the South 1890–1909
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W.E.B Dubois wrote of the post-Reconstruction South, ‘the slave went free, stood a brief moment in the sun, then moved back toward slavery’. The ‘Redeemer’ Democrats enforced their monopoly of political power with batteries of laws designed to suppress black voting. In Alabama, for instance, the black electoral roll reduced... More
The Strikes from 1887–1984
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The Strikes from 1887–1984
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The railroads were the crucible for organized labour in America: before the advent of the automobile, they afforded the only sizeable workforce with the mobility to orchestrate action at a regional or national level. The Great Railroad Strike (1877) resulted in over 100 workers’ deaths through violent suppression by militias... More
The Successor States of Gran Colombia 1830-1907
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The Successor States of Gran Colombia 1830-1907
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The State of Gran Colombia was proclaimed at the Congress of Angostura in 1819 and Símon Bolívar, "The Liberator", was made its President. The ensuing Congress of Cucuta in 1821 promulgated the new state’s constitution. Ten years later, Gran Colombia was dissolved due to the political differences that divided the... More