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235 matches to New Economic Policy
Kronshtadt Rebellion. 1921. Sailors vs Bolsheviks. Suppressed but led to New Economic Policy.
New Economic Policy. 1921-8. Russian economic program. Limited free enterprise. Replaced by Five Year Plans.
Aasen, Ivar. 1813-96. Developed New Norwegian language, officially adopted, 1907.
Abstract Expressionism. 1940s New York style of Pollock, Rothko. Spontaneous expression, free of traditional values. Expressionism.
Action Française. 1898-1945. French right wing political movement and newspaper.
Alexander VI. Pope. Demarcation Bull 1493 divided newly discovered land between Spain, Portugal. Tordesillas.
Antonine Wall. 142. Scotland. North of Hadrian’s. Abandoned ~196. Antoninus.
Antoninus, Pius. 86-161. Roman Emperor 138-. Built Antonine Wall.
ANZAC. Australian+New Zealand forces in WWI. Gallipoli.
Armstrong, Louis. 1900-71. US New Orleans Jazz trumpeter and band leader.
Ayala Plan. 1911. Zapata to renew Mexican Revolution, return land to communal ownership.
Bacon, Francis. 1561-1626. English chancellor and philosopher. First king’s counsel. Favoured inductive over deductive reasoning. Separated Science from religion. New Atlantis 1625. B. Scientific method: Novum Organum 1620. Essays 1625.
Baïf, Jean Antoine de. 1532-89. French Pléiade poet. New metrical forms. Founded Academy of Music and Poetry 1571, in Paris.
Baker, Herbert. 1862-1946. English architect: Pretoria government buildings; New Delhi.
Basil I. 813-886. Byzantine Emperor, 867-. Defeated Arabs. New Golden Age. Founded Macedonian dynasty.
Beaverbrook, Lord. (Maxwell Aitken). 1879-1964. Canadian/British newspaper magnate, politician. Advocated free trade within Commonwealth.
Beelzebub. New Testament prince of Demons. Satan.
Bellini, Giovanni. c1429-1516. Venetian Renaissance painter. New sensuous realism of form and color. Adoration of the Magi. St. Francis 1480.
Black Panthers. 1966-80. Revolutionary US political party. Bobby Seale. Huey Newton.
Blackstone, William. 1723-80. English common law scholar/jurist. Commentaries 1765-9.
Bowditch, Nathaniel. 1773-1838. US self-educated astronomer, mathematician. New American Practical Navigator 1802.
Boyacá, Battle. 1819. South American rebels win independence from New Granada from Spain. Bolivar. Santander.
Brains Trust. 1932. Roosevelt’s advisers on New Deal.
Breda Treaty. 1667. Ends Anglo-Dutch War. England gains New York.
Brute. Descendant of Aeneas, said to have founded New Troy at London..