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1044 matches to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Sinai Campaign. 1956. Israeli preemptory attack takes Sinai. UN peacekeeping force in Gaza.
Taylor, Richard. 1826-79. US Confederate general. Red River Campaign.
Three-Anti Campaign. 1951-2. Chinese communists try to eliminate fraud, mismanagement, corruption after revolution.
Truth, Sojourner. c1797-1883. US freed slave, evangelist, abolitionist, woman rights campaigner.
Vicksburg Campaign. 1862-3. Major Union victory for Grant on Mississippi.
Wilberforce, William. 1759-1833. English campaigner vs slave trade.
Abel, Rudolf. 1902-71. Russian spy traded for Powers.
Abstract Art. 20C. Color, line and form without subject. Begun by Cezanne.
Achaean League. 5-4C BC. Greek towns in common defence against pirates in Gulf of Corinth. 280-146BC. Model for federal government. Created to fight Macedonia. Dissolved by Romans.
Achilles. Greek hero of Trojan Wars, invulnerable except for his heel, subject of Homer’s Iliad.
Acropolis. Elevated portion of Greek cities for protection and worship. Athens 2000BC.
Actaeon. Mythical Greek hunter, turned into a stag for watching Artemis bathing.
Addams, Jane. 1860-1935. US social reformer. Founded NAACP, Hull House.
Adlerian Psychology. Man is driven to attain power to compensate for “inferiority feeling”. Can lead to “Overcompensation”, e.g. short dictators. Neuroses are illnesses as an excuse for underachievement.
African National Congress. ANC. 1912-. Organization for black rights in South Africa outlawed to 1990. 1994- Ruling party. Mandela.
Aggression. 1974 UN Definition-Use of armed force against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another state.
Agnosticism. Huxley’s term for not knowing whether God exists or not.
Agricola, Johann. 1494-1566. German Protestant reformer and Antinomianist.
Alaric II. -507. King of Visigoths 484-, beaten by Clovis, 507. Law code 506 for Roman subjects.
Alaska. 1741 Bering explores. 1799 Russian America. 1867 US buys for $7.2M. 1959 State.
Albert, Prince Consort. 1819-1861. Married Queen Victoria, 1840. Responsible for International exhibitions 1851, 62. Moderated Trent Affair.
Albion. Ancient Greek, Roman name for Great Britain, probably from Gaelic.
Alcazar. 14-15C Moorish fortresses in Spain. Seville 1364. Toledo, Segovia.
Aldrich, Henry. 1647-1710. English composer/architect: Peckwater Quad, Oxford, 1707-14.
Alexander I. 1777-1825. Russian Czar, 1801-. Liberal reformer. Defeated Napoleon. Holy Alliance.