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275 matches to Lebanese National Pact
Gold Standard. 1821-1937. Definition of national currencies in terms of gold purchasing power. Ended: 1931 Britain, 1933 USA, 1936 France. Friedman. Bretton Woods.
Goncalves Dias, Antonio. 1823-64. Romantic “National” poet of Brazil.
Granados, Enrique. 1867-1916. Spanish Nationalist composer. 7 Operas. Set of Tonadillas. Dances. Goyescas 1911-13.
Halifax, First Earl of. 1661-1715. English Whig statesman. Started National Debt. Established Bank of England. 1694.
Harris, Paul. 1868-1947. US lawyer. Founded Rotary International 1905.
Harris, Roy. 1898-1979. US National music composer. Oklahoma flavour. Assymetric rhythms.
Herder, Johann von. 1744-1803. German Sturm and Drang Nationalist writer. Stimulated Romanticism.
Hess. Rudolph. 1894-1987. German Nazi leader. Flew to Scotland, 1941. Sentenced to life at Nuremberg.
Hillary, William. Founder of English Royal National Lifeboat Institute, 1824.
Hitler, Adolf. 1889-1945. Austrian/German Nazi Chancellor 1933-, dictator 1934-. Expansionist policies led to WWII. Mein Kampf 1925.
Holocaust. 1939-45. Nazi killing of of Jews, minorities, opponents and POWs in concentration camps. Final Solution. 5.8 million Jews and 5-11 million non-Jews.
Human Rights. Agreed natural rights for all mankind. Stoics. Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789. Bill of Rights 1791. Buisson. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. Amnesty International.
Hussite Wars. 1415-36. Huss followers vs HRE for religious reform and Bohemian nationalism. Utraquists.
ICFTU. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. 1949. Split from WFTU. Represents 70M workers in 89 countries. IFTU.
IFTU. 1901-40. International Federation of Trade Unions. WFTU 1945.
Indian National Congress. 1885-. Congress Party.
International. 1920-. Style of architecture. Glass and steel. Gropius. Le Corbusier.
International. Socialist revolutionary workers movements. First. 1864-76. Founded by Marx in London. Second. 1889-1914. Paris. IFTU. Revived in 1920s. Third. 1919-43. =COMINTERN. Stalin’s Vehicle for world-wide Communist Revolution. Fourth. 1938-53. Trotsky’s Transitional Program for reform.
International Brigades. 1936-9. 60,000 volunteers who opposed Franco in Spanish Civil War.
International Court of Justice. 1945-. UN appointed body to settle International disputes. World Court.
International Labour Organization. ILO. 1919- Agency of League of Nations, United Nations.

International Monetary Fund. IMF.1944. Bretton Woods. Lends money to balance foreign exchange deficits and stabilize exchange rates.
Internationale. Revolutionary song based on a poem by Pottier, 1871. Music by Degeyter.
Jingoism. Excessive nationalism. Originally for British who intervened in Russo-Turkish War, 1877.
Johnson, Pauline. 1861-1913. Canadian Nationalist métis poet. The song my paddle sings.