Gilles Delannoy
The Great Days of The Century - A Record of our Ti...
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was a country with a backward economy, dependent on agriculture. Rural workers lived in extreme misery and poverty, and yet they paid high taxes to maintain the absolutist monarchy of Tsar Nicholas II, which could only be maintained through a lot of viole..
The Great Days of The Century - Budapest - Communi...
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With the end of World War II and the redesign of Europe at the Yalta Conference, communism established itself in Hungary. The harshness of the regime, however, created a wave of discontent that materialized in an insurrection, which began on October 23, 1956, in Budapest. The USSR was no longer unde..
The Great Days of The Century - De Gaulle - France...
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After leading the French resistance against the Nazi invaders in World War II, Charles de Gaulle emerged as leader of the Provisional Government with great popularity. It was the first step in the political trajectory of the man who would become one of the great statesmen of the 20th century. With a..
The Great Days of The Century - Dictators - Raise ...
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The first fascist experience occurred in Italy, shortly after the end of the First World War. In Milan, in 1919, Benito Mussolini, a former socialist activist, created the “Fasci”, groups of fervent nationalists who systematically used violence to defend their values and weaken the State and democ..
The Great Days of The Century - Exodus - Birth of ...
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The Holocaust in World War II hastened the realization of what had been a utopia for the Jewish people for decades. Return to the Holy Land. Two waves of migration preceded the so-called Great Exodus, starting in 1945. When waves of Nazi survivors settled in Palestine. With the fait accompli, the pl..
The Great Days of The Century - Gandhi - End Of an...
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At the beginning of the 20th century, India, one of the most important British Colonies for His Majesty, experienced a phase of growing dissatisfaction with the arrogant English presence in the country. In the midst of this effervescence emerged Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or, as he would later be im..
The Great Days of The Century - The Spanish War - ...
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In February 1936, the Popular Front, a left-wing coalition, wins the elections in Spain. The conservative opposition is organized around the Falange. Thanks to the drive of Rivera's young cousin. On July 18 of that same year, General Francisco Franco led a military uprising that threw the country in..