Teaching
History Online
Number
73: 23rd February, 2003
Introduction
1.
Cold
War Encyclopedia
2.
Polish
Resistance in the Second World War
3.
African-American
Veterans
4.
Germany
1933
5.
Naval
History
6.
History
of the Labour Party
7. History
of the Conservative Party
8. History
of the Liberal Democrat Party
Introduction
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Cold
War Encyclopedia: As
well as 68 biographies there are articles on the
Atomic Bomb, Berlin
Wall, Bay of Pigs, Comintern, Cuban Missile Crisis, Domino Theory,
Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Hallstein
Doctrine, Hungarian Uprising, Korean War, Marshall Aid, McCarthyism,
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Nuclear Arms Race, Ostpolitik,
Perestroika, Prague Spring, Solidarnosc, Schuman Plan, Truman Doctrine,
U-2 Crisis, Vietnam War and the Warsaw Pact.
Polish
Resistance in the Second World War: The Polish Home Army was the
largest underground resistance army during the Second World war. 300,000
strong at its peak it is credited with supplying the Allies with constant
intelligence information about the eastern front, providing information
about the V-1 rocket in Peenemunde, the sending over to Britain of
the V-2 rocket, the sabotage and destruction of German supply trains
and communication centres. It carried out the war’s largest uprising
(the Warsaw Rising) which lasted 63 days.
African-American
Veterans: Lisa Daniels is conducting research for a book on African-American
world war veterans and would like to conduct interviews with those
(vets and their families) willing to share their experiences. Please
contact Lisa Daniels at (916)455-5816 or e-mail her at sweetiepiepress@yahoo.com.
Germany
1933: Gareth Jones’s articles were written and published
following his visits to Germany in February and June 1933 and in August
1934. Titles of the articles that appeared in the Western Mail and
the Financial News includes Germany Wants a new Frederick the Great,
German & Slave, Workless Millions in Germany, How Germany Tackles
Unemployment, Storm Over the Polish Corridor, Germany Awake, Impressions
of Germany and Fascist Dictatorship in Germany.
Naval
History: A large collection of articles on Naval History. Subjects
covered include Franco-Prussian war, Baltic and the Russian Revolution,
British-Bolshevik Navy Actions (1918-19), Dardanelles & Gallipoli,
North Russian Expeditionary Force, Great War at Sea, Dreadnoughts,
Royal Navy and World War 2, Service Magazines in the Second World
War, Thames Barges and D-Day, Aircraft Carrier Warfare, Amphibious
Operations and British Submarines at War.
History
of the Labour Party: The Labour Party was established in 1900
- originally as the Labour Representation Committee - to fight for
representation for the Labour movement – trade unions and socialist
societies – in Parliament. Its first leader was Keir Hardie,
one of the earliest Labour MPs. Labour was in government for three
short periods of the 20th century and its achievements revolutionized
the lives of the British people. This brief history of this organization,
with an introduction by Tony Blair, is available from the official
Labour Party website.
History
of the Conservative Party: The origins of the Conservative Party
can be traced to the 'Tory' faction which emerged in the later seventeenth
century. This 'Tory Party' established a secure hold on government
between 1783 and 1830, first under the Younger Pitt and then Lord
Liverpool. However, after Liverpool's retirement in 1827 the unity
of the party was destroyed when the Duke of Wellington and Robert
Peel, were forced, largely as a result of events in Ireland, to concede
full political emancipation to Roman Catholics. The Tory collapse
opened the way for a return of the Whigs in the 1830s, and a series
of measures including the Great Reform Act of 1832 changed the political
scene. This history of the Conservative Party has been written by
Stuart Ball, Reader, Department of History, University of Leicester.
History
of the Liberal Democrat Party: Whilst the history of the Liberal
Democrats as a formal political party stretches back 150 years to
the formation of the Liberal Party in 1859, Liberal political thought
goes back at least a further 200 years. Liberal Political thought
in England grew out of the ferment of the English Civil War and the
reaction that set in with The Restoration in 1660. However, whilst
the philosopher John Locke started the long line of British liberal
thinkers, there was no organisation that could reasonably be regarded
as a political party, liberal or otherwise at this time. The Eighteenth
Century saw the establishment of relatively formal parliamentary groupings,
the whigs and the vtroires, but the very limited franchise meant that
they did not have to be engaged a great deal with the wider population.
The history of Liberalism has been produced by the Liberal Democrat
History Group.
Book
Section
What
I Saw: reports from Berlin 1920-33: Translated and collected here
for the first time, these pieces record the violent social and political
paroxysms that constantly threatened to undo the fragile democracy
that was the Weimar Republic. Roth, like no other German writer of
his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of
the city. Chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants - the
war cripples, the Jewish immigrants, the criminals, the bathhouse
denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues - as well as
the more whimsical aspects of the city - the public parks and the
burgeoning entertainment industry. Warning early on of the threat
posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and
debauched beauty, creating in the process a memorable portrait of
a city. (Joseph Roth,
Granta, £14.99, ISBN 1 86207 578 6)
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