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Hans Dietrich Genscher
Hans Dietrich Genscher , 1927-, German politician; foreign minister (1974-92). A Liberal party member in East Germany, he left the East in 1952, joining the Free Democrats (FDP) in West Germany. Elected to the Bundestag (1965), he became the party's chairman (1974), and led it into a coalition... Read more |
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Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich , 1901-92, German-American film actress and singer, b. Berlin. Dietrich began her career as a violinist. She then studied drama, appearing on the stage in Vienna and Berlin before her great film success as the femme fatale Lola in The Blue Angel (1930). In the late 1930s, she... Read more |
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Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Christian Dietrich Grabbe , 1801-36, German dramatist and journalist. Critical of "Shakespearomania," Grabbe strove for a national German drama and wrote original, poetic historical tragedies. Hannibal (1835) and Hermannsschlacht [Hermann's battle] (1838) depict the genial individual... Read more |
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , 1925-, German baritone. Possessed of a sensitive voice capable of a wide variety of range and expression, Fischer-Dieskau is one of the foremost singers of German lieder, being particularly noted for his interpretations of the songs and song cycles of Brahms, Schubert,... Read more |
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer , 1906-45, German Protestant theologian. Bonhoeffer, influenced early by the thinking of the young Karl Barth , urged a conformation to the form of Jesus as the suffering servant in a total commitment of the self to the lives of others. His ethical thinking led him to become an... Read more |
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Wayland Smith
Wayland Smith A character in German mythological romance, father of Weltich, whom he trained in the art of warfare and sent to the Court of Dietrich in Bern. Wayland Smith gave the sword Miming to Weltich and told him of a mermaid to whom he was to apply when in difficulty. Wayland Smith is also... Read more |
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Child psychology
Child Psychology Although parents and students of human development have been observing children for millennia, researchers in America and Europe began to conduct systematic studies of childhood behavior around the turn of the twentieth century. Prior attempts to codify normal development had... Read more |
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Dietrich Buxtehude
Dietrich Buxtehude , c.1637-1707, Danish composer and organist. From 1668 until his death he was organist at Lübeck, where he established a famous series of evening concerts that attracted musicians from all over northern Germany. On one occasion J. S. Bach walked about 200 miles (320 km) to... Read more |
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Joseph Von Sternberg
Joseph Von Sternberg (Jo Sternberg), 1894-1969, Austrian-American film director and screenwriter. Von Sternberg, who worked in the United States from 1925, made films that were noted for their dazzling visual impact and attention to physical detail. His early works include The Salvation Hunters ... Read more |
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Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull Singer, songwriter Long before Madonna made reinvention her artistic byword, Marianne Faithfull had resurrected herself many times over. Yet the British singer-songwriter's endeavors have consistently been upstaged by personal scandal and vice. Her early years as a Euro-waif pop... Read more |
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UK
...expired and, for the second time in 21 years, the two countries...produced a situation in which appeasement of one or more of these ambitious...policy of arms limitation and appeasement. Both Stanley Baldwin (1867...1938—the high point of appeasement and the ... |
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Poland, Guarantee of
...autumn, and with it the western policy of appeasement. It also made Poland the obvious next...countries of central Europe. British appeasement of Hitler ended when, on 31 March 1939...minister, Józef Beck, had for some time made an alliance with Britain a central... |
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Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
...to May 1940. His policy of appeasement when dealing with Hitler—it...has been cogently argued that appeasement was essential to gain time for rearmament. In fact he...by pursuing what was at the time an almost universally accepted... |
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Britain, battle of
...bombers. The diplomatic requirements of appeasement had also favoured priority for bombers...formation in 1936, therefore had very little time to make his force ready. The technological...1940, their short range was to limit the time they could spend in British air space... |
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MacArthur, Douglas
...congressman Joseph Martin condemning Truman's policy in Korea as appeasement, an outraged president, supported by the JCS, removed...most military and diplomatic experts opposed his plan at a time when the Soviet Union in Europe was seen as the main threat... |
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Ukraine
...was once more proclaimed. The Red Army invaded again, this time with greater success. In 1921, Poland received w Ukraine...agricultural collectivization replaced Lenin's policy of appeasement. The programme caused 7.5 million Ukrainians to die of famine... |
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George VI
...worked hard. Prince Albert then spent time at sea on the battleship Collingwood...different class backgrounds.At this time he fell in love with Lady Elizabeth...supported Chamberlain in his policy of appeasement before 1939 but with the outbreak of...although Buckingham ... |
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Menzies, Robert
...his first administration and, having supported the policy of appeasement, reluctantly led Australia into the war against Germany a few...you gave,’ Churchill wrote to Menzies, referring to his time in London; ‘I am the gainer by our personal friendship... |
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Australia
...government of the late 1930s supported Chamberlain's policy of appeasement. The British declaration of war in September 1939 did not...of the largest political organizations in Australia at that time. Real industrial expansion was achieved in arms production... |
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Churchill, Winston S.
...Parliament, but he made his name once more as an opponent of appeasement of Nazi Germany, and again took charge of the navy in 1939. With...minister once more in 1951–55, he visited America three times and took a great interest in nuclear developments, reaching... |
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Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
...Benito Mussolini through a policy of appeasement, engineering the Munich Pact in 1938...proclaimed, “I believe it is peace in our time,” but his optimism had no basis and the failure of appeasement became obvious when Hitler invaded and... |
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Second World War
...freedom of action.In Britain, however, appeasement became unpopular. On 31 March 1939 Neville...his own bargain with Hitler, took up appeasement, and agreed to help Hitler to destroy...use of two atomic bombs, developed in time in the USA.In 1940 the United Kingdom... |
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Butler, Richard Austen, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden
...Secretary at the Foreign Office in 1938. Despite his support for appeasement and the Munich Agreement, he remained in government under...party, he lacked political killer instinct and failed three times to gain the Conservative leadership, losing it to Eden (1955... |
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Conservative Party, UK
...war, it rigorously pursued appeasement. When this failed, after...of which was complete by the time Douglas-Home left office...occurred (and did occur at this time e.g. in France).After a recuperative time in opposition (1964–70... |
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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
...the cinema industry, and the bootleg liquor industry at the time of prohibition. Joe Kennedy had presidential ambitions himself...in the New Deal era. He was, however, compromised by his appeasement tendencies towards the Nazis whilst ambassador to London between... |
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Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, 1st Earl of Stockton
...After service in World War I (in which he was wounded three times), he went into publishing, but was soon active in politics...elected in 1931. In the 1930s, he was highly critical of appeasement and government economic policies. He was influenced by the...grounds of ill health), and ... |
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Munich Agreement
...declared that he believed that he was bringing back ‘peace for our time’. In extended use (and allusively as Munich), it may denote an...held to resemble this pact in representing mistaken or dishonourable appeasement. |
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...was turning the committee away from appeasement. ∎ indicating the distance between...checkpoint. 2. indicating the point in time at which a particular process...were friends from that day on. from time to time occasionally. |
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World War II
...Union. Britain, which until 1939 had followed a policy of APPEASEMENT, now delivered an ultimatum to Germany demanding its withdrawal...Union emerged as the two largest global powers. Their war-time alliance collapsed within three years and each embarked on... |
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Foot, Michael
...writers of Guilty Men (1940), a devastating critique of appeasement. In 1945, he was elected MP for Plymouth Devonport, which...had become irresponsible and unfit to govern. At the same time, his opposition to European integration led to the defection... |
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Standing up for appeasement: Alexander Rose argues that appeasement is a mark...
...Indeed, the very idea of appeasement is the high-water mark...the river in his, at the time wildly popular, attempt...the Great War. New York Times-y liberal commentators...rejected leftist and liberal appeasement and resolved on firm retaliation...conflate ... |
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The Historical Argument for Appeasement
...common presumption against appeasement to be "far too strong...mistakenly declared "peace in our time" on September 30, 1938...COnvincing treatment of the pro-appeasement thesis, Paul M. Kennedy...University, established that appeasement has a long and ... |
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Appeasement: a new series profiles the issues raised by key A-level...
...judgement. The rationale for appeasement Once you are aware of what...quote General Ironside at the time of Munich insisting that...followed a more active brand of appeasement. You must be sure to avoid...draw up reasons explaining appeasement -- and even ... |
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The ghost of Munich: America's appeasement complex.
...politics. The reference to appeasement, of course, evokes the...he proclaimed that his appeasement policy had produced "peace in our time." Less than a year later...decades. "Munich" and "appeasement" have been among the dirtiest... |
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Neville Chamberlain and appeasement: Nick Smart scrutinises Chamberlain's...
...Chamberlain's Centrality Appeasement, the word can be found...appeaser There was a time in Britain, over the winter of 1938-39, when appeasement was not merely the name...patient non-provocative appeasement. In the months that... |
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Not the guilty men? Punch and appeasement. (how the magazine Punch portrayed...
...in 1939 - its opposition to appeasement calls into question the received...support all the phases of appeasement. In 1935 the Tory-dominated...public displeasure. At that time British public opinion became...support for Chamberlain and appeasement, was ... |
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The Spanish disease; Will the policy of appeasement spread?(OPED)
...Blankley, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The reign in Spain died mainly...nations of Europe to abandon appeasement and rally round the Union...underestimate the price of appeasement. They always assume that...verisimilitude of logic that appeasement offers the fearful ... |
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Uneasy rest of appeasements past; Specter of Munich has begun to haunt...
...Fields, THE WASHINGTON TIMES A familiar word is creeping...Iraq. The word is "appeasement," as in "Munich...Chamberlain a very hard time when it came clear that...provide Hitler with more time to do his very dirty...specificity for our own ... |
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Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second...
...another book on Chamberlain and appeasement? R. A. C. Parker gives no...for war, and alternatives to appeasement, the first of which summarizes...alternatives offered by critics of appeasement at the time. in a sense, this is old... |
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Appeasement; It won't work this time.(OPED)
...Blankley, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Last week, Secretary of...the history and meaning of appeasement both for those who hurl the...and trouble maker.) But, appeasement in and of its self is neither...theory of "one war at a time." Bravo Abe the appeaser...and ... |
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