The Pocket Guide to World HistoryPotato War. =Bavarian Succession. [Read more ...] Potemkin. Russian battleship, 1905 mutiny. [Read more ...] Potemkin, Grigori. 1739-91. Russian Field Marshal. Supported Catherine II. [Read more ...] Potidaea. 432BC. Revolt vs Athens. Second Peloponnesian War. [Read more ...] Potsdam Agreement. 1945. Truman, Stalin, Attlee agree to draw up peace treaties, reduce German industrialization, restore democracy in Europe after WWII. Outlawed Nazism. Divided Germany. [Read more ...] Pottawatomie Massacre. 1856. John Brown’s abolitionists kill 5 pro-slavery settlers. [Read more ...] Potter, Beatrix. 1866-1943. English children’s story writer. Peter Rabbit 1900. [Read more ...] Poujadism. 1954-8. French extreme right-wing political movement founded by Poujade. Gained tax concessions. [Read more ...] Poulenc, Francis. 1899-1963. Modern French composer. Les Six. [Read more ...] Pound, Ezra. 1885-1972. US poet/translator of Oriental and Provençale poetry. Pisan Cantos. Pro-Fascism led to incarceration in an asylum 1946-58. [Read more ...] Poussin, Nicolas. 1594-1665. French Neoclassical painter. Strong pictorial emotional works. Arcadian Shepherds 1638/55. Rape of the Sabines 1636-7. [Read more ...] 631 © Copyright 2007 PocketHistory.com Hosted by BenLo Park |