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Showing posts with label MILESTONES IN HISTORY. Show all posts
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Imagine going about your life knowing that, at any given moment, you and
everyone you know could be wiped out without warning at the push of a button.
This was the reality for millions of people during the forty-five year period
after World War II now known as the Cold War. Matthew A. Jordan explains the
history behind the peak of all this panic — the thirteen days of the Cuban
Missile Crisis.
LESSON BY MATHEW A. JORDAN, ANIMATION BY PATRICK SMITH.
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In which
John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American
Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two different things. John goes over
the issues and events that precipitated rebellion in Britain's American
colonies, and he also explores the ideas that laid the groundwork for the new
American democracy. Find out how the tax bill from the Seven Years War fomented
an uprising, how the Enlightenment influenced the Founding Fathers, and who
were the winners and losers in this conflict.(hint: many of the people living
in the Colonies ended up losers) The Revolution purportedly brought freedom and
equality to the Thirteen Colonies, but they weren't equally distributed. Also,
you'll learn about America's love affair with commemorative ceramics and what
happens when rich white guys take the reins from reins white guys, and put
together a society of, by, and for rich white guys.
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The Berlin
Wall stood from 1961 to 1989, dividing the city of Berlin. 30 years later, a
trip back in time exploring the division of East and West Germany when Berlin
was walled in.
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An investigation into the use of creativity, art and
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In our new
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between the British East India Company and the Nawab of Bengal. This battle
happened within the Seven Years' War and during the fall of the Mughal Empire,
and was decisive in terms of the British conquest of India.
Travel back
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The invasion
of Poland gave rise to modern warfare that was literally powered by the
internal combustion engine.Blitzkrieg
(German, "lightning war" listen is an anglicised word describing
all-motorised force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat
engineers and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to
break through enemy lines, and, once the lines are broken, proceeding without
regard to its flank. Through constant motion, the blitzkrieg attempts to keep
its enemy off-balance, making it difficult to respond effectively at any given
point before the front has already moved on.
During the
interwar period, aircraft and tank technologies matured and were combined with
systematic application of the German tactics of infiltration and bypassing of
enemy strong points. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Western journalists
adopted the term blitzkrieg to describe this form of armoured warfare
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What
rights do people have, and where do they come from? Who gets to make decisions
for others, and on what authority? And how can we organize society to meet
people’s needs? Tom Mullaney shows how these questions challenged an entire
nation during the upheaval of the French Revolution.
LESSON
BY TOM MULLANEY, ANIMATION BY SASHKO DANYLENKO.
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The
Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major, but ultimately unsuccessful, uprising in
India from 1857 –58 against the rule of the British East India Company
Sepoy
Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the Revolt of 1857, the Indian
Insurrection, and India's First War of Independence.
Causes
of the Revolt:
a.
Political Causes: Lord Dalhousie was the Governor-General of India till
1848-1856. Dalhousie through his policies had added considerable territories to
the British Empire in India.The policy of annexation reached its climax when he
implemented the policy of Doctrine of Lapse and annexed the Indian states on
charges of miss-governance and absence of an heir. Dalhousie annexed Satara
(1848), Sambhalpur (1850), Jhansi (1853), Nagpur (1853), Jaipur (1849).
As
part of the Doctrine of Lapse policy, the titles and pensions of some Indian
princes were confiscated.
b.
Economic Causes:The British exploited the economic resources of India to their
advantage. India turned into a colonial economy to serve the British capitalist
interests.
Heavy
taxation, evictions, discriminatory tariff policy against Indian products and
destruction of traditional handicrafts that hit peasants, artisans and small
zamindars.
c.
Social and Religious Causes:The social legislations on the evils as sati,
infanticide, re-marriage of widows, etc. The introduction of English education,
the propagation of the work of the Christian missionaries
d.
Military Causes:The high ranks in the army were exclusively reserved for the
Englishmen
The
immediate cause of the revolt was the introduction of the new Enfield rifle and
the greased cartridge. In loading the rifle the sepoy before inserting the
cartridge had to bite off its top.
Mangal
Pandey on 29th March 1857, killed senior officers on parade and started the
revolt.
Course
and Spread of the Revolt:
The
revolt spread to Berhampur in Bengal. On 24th April 1857 about ninety men of
the Native Cavalry stationed at Meerut refused to accept the greased
cartridges. On 10th May the revolt started at Meerut and the mutineers after
killing some of their officials marched towards Delhi.
Delhi:
On 12th May Delhi was seized and Bahadur Shah II was proclaimed the emperor of
India.
Kanpur:
Here the revolt was led by Nana Saheb who declared himself the Peshwa and
governor of Bahadur Shah. Tantya Tope did most of the fighting.
Lucknow:
The revolt was led by Hazrat Mahal, the Begum of Awadh
Jhansi.After
some initial vacillations, Rani Laxmi Bai assumed the leadership of the mutiny.
Bareilly:
Khan Bahadur Khan proclaimed himself as the Nawab and led the revolt there. The
other centers of the revolt were Banaras, Allahabad, Gwalior, and Nasirabad in
Rajputana, Indore, Aligarh and Kota.
At
all these places the sepoys killed the senior officers and other Europeans, in
many cases not even sparing women and children
However
the superior British forces soon suppressed the revolt. Bahadur Shah II proved
to be a weak leader 20th September 1857 by John Nicholson. Bahadur Shah was
arrested and deported to Rangoon where he died in 1862.
The
rebels were defeated by General Havelock in Kanpur. At Jhansi Hugh Rose
suppressed the revolt and Rani Laxmi Bai died on the battle field.
Benaras,
Bareilly and Gwalior were also recaptured by British officers.
Causes
of the Failure:
•
The revolt was highly localized and restricted to North India.
•
Scindia of Gwalior, the Holkar of Indore, the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Raja of
Jodhpur, the Nawab of Bhopal, the rulers of Patiala, Sindh and Kashmir and the
Rana of Nepal provided active support to the British.
•
The rebels lacked a common cause and had different goals.
Nature
of the Revolt: Some call it a sepoy mutiny since the initial thrust of the
revolt in the form of the cartridge episode was given by the soldiers.
Nationalists
as V.D. Savarkar opine that the revolt was the first war of independence. They
feel that the revolt sparked off the discontent of the Indians towards the
foreign rule and Hindus and Muslims participated equally in the revolt and
displayed a new bond of unity against the British.
Impact
of the Revolt:
(a)
Policy Change:
The
Queen’s Proclamation of November 1858 announced the policy of the British
government to be followed from now on in IndiaThe right of a ruler to adopt a
child in the absence of a natural heir was accepted.
(b)
Administrative Changes:January 1st 1877 Queen Victoria was proclaimed as the
Queen Empress of India and the administration of India was transferred from the
East India Company to the British Crown.
(c)
Reorganization of the Army:The army was re-organized to strengthen British
control over the country and avert any further rebellions in future.
(d)
Communal and Racial Bitterness:The revolt of 1857 created a big gap between the
different religious communities especially the Hindus and the Muslims as each
blamed the other for its failure.
